Draper Richards

http://draperrichards.com

Last activity: 02.11.2012

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Mentions in press and media 18

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Nov 3, 2010	Salesforce.com Reportedly Close to Acquiring WebEx Competitor Dimdim	VCCircle reports that Salesforce.com is close to acquiring India based web conferencing vendor Dimdim. Salesforce.com and Dimdim both declined to comment. Web conferencing would fit nicely into Chatter, Salesforce.com’s enterprise social ne...
Sep 2, 2009	Ooma dials up $18.3M for free landlines via VoIP	Ooma, provider of a voice-over-internet box that lets users make free land-line calls, brought in $18.3 million in a fourth round of venture financing, reports paidContent. It raised $14 million of this sum back in June. Based in Palo Alto,...
Sep 2, 2009	Web meeting startup Dimdim goes big with Dimdim Webinar	Dimdim, the startup taking on established web meeting providers with its low cost, open source meeting service, said today that it’s adding a service for webinars, big online events that could end up being quite lucrative for both the event...
Aug 7, 2009	RichRelevance snags $12.5M for e-commerce recommendations	RichRelevance, a company that provides consumers with e-commerce recommendations tailored to their preferences and interests, has brought in $12.5 million in second-round funding from Greylock Partners, Tugboat Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurve...
Jul 14, 2009	Nuance acquires Jott, the simple voice-to-text mobile phone service	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Speech recognition company Nuance has acquired Jott, a company that lets you use your voice to create notes, set reminders, send email ...
Jul 14, 2009	Nuance acquires Jott, the simple voice-to-text mobile phone service	Speech recognition company Nuance has acquired Jott, a company that lets you use your voice to create notes, set reminders, send email and text messages. We wrote about Jott when it first launched two years ago and praised it for its simpli...
Oct 3, 2008	Zimbio raises $6.8M for online magazines	Zimbio, a Redwood City, Calif.-based creator of online magazines, has raised $6.8 million in a first round of funding, according to VentureWire. Zimbio allows users to create “wikizines,” which the company says are interactive magazines. Th...
Sep 10, 2008	Nusym Technology raises a round for chip design verification	Nusym Technology has raised $8 million in a second round of funding for its chip design verification business. The Los Gatos company makes software for verifiying the functions of circuitry in complex chip designs. The company will use the ...
Aug 4, 2008	Ahead of deployment, Brilliant Telecom adds to its round	Sometimes a funding is all about timing. In Brilliant Telecommunications‘ case, everything it does is about timing. The Campbell, Calif.-based company makes timing devices for the telecom industry. Gearing up for its deployment of wireless ...
Jun 5, 2008	NileGuide takes another $8 million to enrich travel experiences	NileGuide, the online service that aims to help with every part of a trip, has raised a second round of funding. The company now offers comprehensive travel planning to over 75 destinations around the world and claims to be adding five new ...
Apr 28, 2008	NileGuide aims to own trip itinerary business	Online travel sites are an increasingly crowded space, so much so that it can be difficult to differentiate between them. NileGuide is attempting to offer something different, a full-service travel site that exists online. The site will hel...
Apr 15, 2008	Howard Hartenbaum, early backer of Skype, joins August Capital	Howard Hartenbaum, the earliest investor in Internet phone company Skype, has joined Silicon Valley venture capital firm August Capital as a partner. August partner David Hornik blogs about the move, and describes the hazing process of invi...
Feb 14, 2008	LiveUniverse rumored to purchase video site Revver	Online entertainment network LiveUniverse has purchased struggling video site Revver, according to NewTeeVee. The purchase price was substantially more than the $500,000 to $1.5 million Revver was supposedly asking for, says NewTeeVee’s unn...
Nov 16, 2007	The Funded, a site of contradictions	updated Last night, the founder of the TheFunded, the controversial VC-rating site, held a coming-out-of-the-closet event at Stanford University. We pointed to a Wired story last night, which first revealed the founder is Adeo Ressi. That a...
Oct 18, 2007	ShangBy lets you shop for jewelry in Shanghai, no travel necessary	If you’ve ever been about to buy an extravagant piece of jewelry at an American store and wished you had a personal shopper on the ground in China to buy it for you at a lower price, check out ShangBy. Prices for jewelry in Shanghai are bet...
Oct 9, 2007	VentureBeat points to VC firm reviews	VentureBeat is starting an experiment today: When we mention venture capital firms in our articles, we’ll also point to VC firms’ profiles provided by The Funded. When we write about VC firm Draper Richards, for example, you’ll see an Ajax ...
May 10, 2007	Jott raises $5.4M for voice-to-text	Jott, the convenient voice-to-text service we reviewed favorably in March, has raised $5.4 million in its latest round of financing. Jott, of Seattle, allows you to call a number, record a message, and then have that message translated into...

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Parsers VC has collected 18 articles mentioning Draper Richards, among them “Salesforce.com Reportedly Close to Acquiring WebEx Competitor Dimdim” (Nov 3, 2010) and “Ooma dials up $18.3M for free landlines via VoIP” (Sep 2, 2009).

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Draper Richards is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Nov 2, 2012.