| Date | Title | Description |
| 27.06.2020 | Startups Weekly: US visa freeze is latest reason to build remote-first | Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7am PT). Subscribe here.
While the US tech industry relentlessly tries to do business with the rest of the world, this we... |
| 26.06.2020 | Tim O’Reilly makes a persuasive case for why venture capital is starting to do more harm than good | Tim O’Reilly has a financial incentive to pooh-pooh the traditional VC model, wherein investors gamble on nascent startups in hopes of seeing many times their money back. Bryce Roberts, who is O’Reilly’s longtime investing partner at the ea... |
| 02.05.2019 | Sight Machine Raises $29M to Connect Dots of Manufacturing Enterprises | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When it comes to manufacturing, production and quality is everything. Systems to monitor manufacturing have been around for decades, but they aren’t always complete, sometimes... |
| 05.08.2015 | Daily funding roundup - August 5, 2015 | Fastly raised $75M; LifeBond closed $27M; Ptengine closed $9M
Ptengine, which helps businesses see what visitors are doing, and allows them to turn those actions into actionable intelligence, closed a $9 million Pre-A series funding round. ... |
| 17.06.2015 | Daily funding roundup - June 17, 2015 | LeadPages secured $27M; Doctor On Demand closed $50M; Mapbox landed $52.6M
Doctor On Demand, a healthcare service that provides video visits with board-certified physicians on a patient's smartphone closed a $50 million round of Series B fi... |
| 06.05.2015 | Sherpaa tacks on $2.25M from investors for expansion of employer-enabled telehealth | In response to emailed questions, Swirnow said the funding would be used to continue to work on its processes and offerings in the New York area before expanding to sell in other states in 2016.
Last year Sherpaa raised $3.92 million to ram... |
| 09.02.2015 | Five reasons to come to Splash Health 2015 on 2/12/2015 | Learn why healthcare will be insanely different in 25 years
Healthcare as we know it will be dramatically different in a decade, and insanely different in 25 years. That's our prediction. It's not so bold really. Many people have the same v... |
| 19.11.2014 | Software startup that helps research become reproducible gets $1.8M seed round | Indeed, the company claims that at present scientific research can only be reproduced some 10 percent of the time. An article last year in The Economist says:
A rule of thumb among biotechnology venture-capitalists is that half of published... |
| 03.06.2014 | SeeMe, Which Lets Members Create T-Shirts With All-Over Designs, Launches Its First App | SeeMe, a design community that claims more than a million members, has launched its first mobile app on iOS, which can be used to take photos and turn them into T-shirts.
To be sure, there are tons of DIY T-shirt design companies out there,... |
| 05.05.2014 | Sherpaa Health has raised $3.92M to expand primary care services for employer plans (video) | The funding comes as it gears up for a national rollout and adds new tools for its primary care services platform to support employer plans.
Its blog highlighted some new developments at the New York-based company. An interface created thro... |
| 12.04.2013 | Foursquare Raises $41M in Financing | Foursquare, a NYC-based geo-location social app, raised $41m in financing.
Backers included the Silver Lake Waterman growth debt fund, as well as convertible debt from all existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures,... |
| 07.02.2013 | “In The Studio,” OATV’s Renee DiResta Reflects On Her Transition From Trading To Investing | Editor’s Note: Semil Shah is a contributor to TechCrunch. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil.
“In the Studio” opens up February by hosting a former Wall Street derivatives trader turned early-stage venture investor in San Francisco. Re... |
| 24.11.2012 | O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures Raises $85M Third Fund | According to a filing with the S.E.C. (read here), O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, a San Francisco, CA-based venture capital firm, has raised its $85m third fund.
Founded by Bryce Roberts, Tim O’Reilly and Mark Jacobsen, the firm makes seed in... |
| 19.11.2012 | [Update] Funding Daily: Social butterflies | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
When in doubt, put a “social” on it. Three out of... |
| 19.11.2012 | Seed Stage VC Firm O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures Raises $85M New Fund | Venture firm O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures has announced its third fund, raising $85 million (you can see the SEC filing here). The firm, which makes seed stage investments, says that OATV Fund III is the largest fund to date.
O’Reilly AlphaT... |
| 27.08.2012 | With a mission to reduce employer health insurance costs, company raises $1.85M for expansion | “We are building our own dedicated technology you can describe as half [customer relations management] CRM and half customer support, but for healthcare issues. This should be launched in the next three to four months…”
“Our goal is to refi... |
| 19.02.2012 | The “Unhyped” New Areas in Internet and Mobile | Editor’s note: Legendary investor Vinod Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures. You can follow him on Twitter at @vkhosla. All Khosla Ventures investments, as well as ventures related to Vinod Khosla, are italicized.
We are in a whole new... |
| 25.01.2012 | Timehop Closes $1.1M Seed Funding | Timehop, a New York-based start up developer of a product that brings together all users’ content into a single re-experience destination, has closed a $1.1M seed funding.
The round was led by Bryce Roberts of O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (O... |
| 22.12.2011 | Codecademy Builds ‘Labs,’ A Web-Based Code Editor | Smoking hot startup Codecademy, a service which teaches you how to program online has launched its Labs feature today, as a sign of things to come.
Codecademy founder Zach Sims tells me that Codecademy, and specifically new hire Amjad Masad... |
| 21.11.2011 | RunKeeper Raises $10M in Funding | RunKeeper, a Boston, MA-based provider of a health and fitness platform, has raised an additional $10m in funding.
The round was led by Spark Capital, with participation from existing investor OATV, and new investor Revolution Ventures.
Led... |
| 27.10.2011 | Codecademy raises $2.5M to make you a coding master | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
There’s something about Codecademy that made inve... |
| 27.10.2011 | Codecademy raises $2.5M to make you a coding master | There’s something about Codecademy that made investors plunk down $2.5 million dollars today to help the Y Combinator startup teach more people to code online. Codecademy uses game mechanics to make JavaScript instruction fun and engaging f... |
| 01.08.2011 | Autodesk Buys Instructables; Design Software Giant in Consumer Marketing Push | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
San Rafael, CA-based Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK), whose 3D design, graphics, and engineering software is used by more than 10 million design professionals around the world, has ju... |
| 24.06.2011 | Check-in cha-ching: Foursquare raises $50M with a $600M valuation | Location-based social network Foursquare closed a new $50 million round of funding, the company reported today.
Foursquare said it will use the new funding to hire additional engineers, grow its merchant platform and expand internationally.... |
| 01.03.2011 | Meet Bryce Roberts: The Man Who Challenged AngelList | Bryce Roberts is co-founder of O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) and an investor worth paying attention to. Roberts is in the news this week because of his high-profile critique of Angellist, the hot new investment network Robert Scoble ha... |
| 26.02.2011 | What’s The Real Deal With AngelList? | Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at Bothsidesofthetable
There’s lots of discussion out there about a new and much-loved service called AngelList... |
| 05.01.2011 | Funding Lessons from a Successful Kickstarter Campaign | Crowdfunding your startup through sites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGO has become an interesting, and in many cases, quite viable way of financing your project. A number of individuals and companies have been able to raise pretty substantia... |
| 30.11.2010 | FitnessKeeper scoops up $1.1M to build out fitness app | Startup FitnessKeeper, the parent company of the RunKeeper smartphone app, has raised $1.11 million and will use the money to build out its nine-person operation and dive into the highly competitive world of now-fashionable mobile fitness a... |
| 29.11.2010 | OpenCandy Helps Software Developers Make Money And Reach New Users | OpenCandy is a well-funded, San Diego-based startup in the business of software recommendations. You know the drill, when you install software and it asks you questions as you go through the process and you keep clicking “next”? OpenCandy h... |
| 25.10.2010 | Tech World Welcomes Digg Refugees With Open Arms | This morning most of us woke up to the disappointing news that social news site Digg, once a promising destination for Silicon Valley talent, was losing 37% of its staff as well experiencing key executive departures.
While the usual armchai... |
| 07.10.2010 | More money for short links: Bit.ly raises $10M | Updated
Bit.ly, the startup behind many of the shortened links you probably see in Twitter, just announced it has raised a second round of funding.
The New York company has endured repeated speculation that it will become irrelevant as bigg... |
| 22.09.2010 | Silicon Valley Angels Refute Arrington’s Claims of Collusion | Now and then a polarizing topic will make its way through the venture capital industry and several prominent investor/bloggers will chime in with their collective opinions in quick succession. Tuesday night TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington dr... |
| 14.09.2010 | Get Satisfaction raises $6M | The social customer support platform provides networks for over 200 companies
What I hate more than anything else in the world - more than freeway traffic, Thai food, and bad comb-overs -- is automated customer support voice messaging syste... |
| 15.07.2010 | Some thoughts on the seed-fund phenomenon | Will the seed market crash? I don't think so
There have been quite a few posts written about this meme in the past few weeks.
I think that Paul Kedrosky got the discussion started with this post. Chris Dixon wrote an interesting response. A... |
| 14.07.2010 | Some Thoughts On The Seed Fund Phenomenon | There have been quite a few posts written about this meme in the past few weeks. I think that Paul Kedrosky got the discussion started with this post. Chris Dixon wrote an interesting response. And yesterday John Boyd wrote a thoughtful pos... |
| 29.06.2010 | Foursquare Board Approves The "Wire Transfer Heard 'Round The World" | The long dalliance between investors and Foursquare appears to almost be consummated. According to a Tweet by Foursquare board member Bryce Roberts of O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, about an hour ago he was “approving the wire transfer heard ... |
| 04.03.2010 | Travel organizer TripIt raises $7M more | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
TripIt, the travel startup that consolidates all ... |
| 04.03.2010 | Travel organizer TripIt raises $7M more | TripIt, the travel startup that consolidates all of your travel information into a single itinerary, has raised $7 million in a third round of funding.
The idea behind San Francisco-based TripIt is to give travelers all the information they... |
| 04.09.2009 | Ball in Foursquare’s court with $1.35 million round | Location-based social network Foursquare, which has attracted buzz for making nightlife like a game, raised $1.35 million from Union Square Ventures and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.
Co-founder Dennis Crowley, who was also behind a similar s... |
| 04.09.2009 | bit.ly launches even shorter URL shortener j.mp | Name-shortening service bit.ly is Twitter’s default service for scrunching long Web addresses into short ones that leave more room for text in users’ tweets. Twitter switched from previous provider TinyURL.com in May. At the time, a New Yor... |
| 04.09.2009 | Ball in Foursquare’s court with $1.35 million round | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Location-based social network Foursquare, which has attracted buzz for making nightlife like a game, raised $1.35 million from Union Sq... |
| 23.06.2009 | TripIt ready to charge for real-time flight data and alerts | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
TripIt, an online service that consolidates your ... |
| 23.06.2009 | TripIt ready to charge for real-time flight data and alerts | TripIt, an online service that consolidates your travel info from various companies and web sites into a single itinerary, is ready to start charging its users for extra services and data. The pro service sounds like something that a big ch... |
| 14.01.2009 | Wesabe wants to help users cut back spending | The news is full of stories about consumers cutting back on spending — but if you’re anything like me, you’re rehashing your budget in the most disorganized and piecemeal way possible. Wesabe, a website that lets you manage and seek advice ... |
| 10.12.2008 | AMEE | As anybody who has looked into dieting or just improving their nutrition knows, there is a lot of conflicting advice on the impact of fats and carbohydrates on your body. But no matter what you ultimately conclude, you are now in the good p... |
| 22.08.2008 | VC Tip Of The Day | Last week I saw my friend Bryce, a partner at OATV in SF, twittering VC tips like this one:
vc tip-o-the day: if you’re not funny, don’t use humor in your pitch.
vc meetings aren’t the best venue for trying out new material.
Being obsessed ... |
| 21.05.2008 | Startup Camp Is An Awesome Opportunity (And A Back Door Into Foo Camp) | On Thursday and Friday (July 10-11) before this year’s Foo Camp in Sebastopol July 11-13, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures will be hosting OATV Startup Camp for 6-8 startups.
The camp will focus on fundraising, PR and viral marketing, working wi... |
| 17.04.2008 | TripIt raises $5.1M to better organize your travels | As someone who has been home for one weekend of the past six, I know that traveling can be a real pain. While the Internet has eased some burdens such as scheduling and price hunting, it has also created new ones, such as organizing trip de... |
| 28.03.2008 | I Had A Great Day Yesterday | This Was The Valley We Skied Today
Originally uploaded by fredwilson.
This post is a follow-up to last week’s Working On Vacation. I had an amazing day yesterday. Bryce clued me into a snowcat operation caled Park City Powder Cats and I spe... |
| 16.01.2008 | OpenAds lets Web companies take control of ads, raises $15.5M | The online advertising world continues to get shaken up.
OpenAds, a company based in London, is the latest to drive change, undercutting the old guard with a low-cost offering. It offers Web site owners something called an “ad server,” a de... |
| 22.10.2007 | Roundup: Brightroll, Tumblr, Collective, Veeker, MobileEye, all raise cash | Here’s the latest action:
1) Brightroll raises $5M for video ads
2) LGC Wireless acquired for $169M plus
3) InterviewUp, answers for job interviews
4) Alibaba.com to go public
5) Yahoo’s CMO leaves, without explanation
6) Tesla’s shocking $... |
| 20.06.2007 | Wesabe Is More Than A “Personal” Financial Service | Last fall when we started looking seriously at personal financial services, we realized something important about that kind of personal productivity application and the web. When you move word processing from the desktop to the web not much... |
| 28.02.2007 | O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures raises $51M fund for hackers | O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, a venture fund affiliated with O’Reilly Media, said it has officially finished raising its first $51 million fund for early stage investing.
It is a small venture firm focused on the Internet, akin in some ways ... |
| 17.11.2006 | Roundup: Second Life, Snap, Zoo, Good’s $500M, exec shuffling & more | Updated
The latest round-up from tech-land:
Second Life hype continues — Sun holds a conference in the virtual world, and pisses off a journalist, who has a point. Why make it so tough for people to get to your message? But that hasn’t dete... |
| 19.10.2005 | Top Five Web 2.0 Venture Capitalists | Most venture capitalists don’t understand tagging, blogs, rss, ajax, or the two way web. They scoff at social bookmarking sites and think podcasting is a fad (maybe it is). They desparately “want in” to this renaissance of the web, but can’... |
| - | Software startup that helps research become reproducible gets $1.8M seed round | A Bay Area startup that streamlines the tech transfer process has raised $1.8 million in a seed round led by O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. Software company Riffyn helps build experimental process design and analytics software to make life sc... |
| - | Dizem que, no mundo das startups (4): tudo vai ser reinventado? | Para a série de comentários sobre leituras recomendadas: entendendo o futuro no presente, por meio das palavras de co-fundadores da O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures e da 37Signals.
Será que tudo vai ser reinventado?
Para Bryce Roberts, que co-fu... |
| - | Sherpaa tacks on $2.25M from investors for expansion of employer-enabled telehealth | Sherpaa, the New York-based telehealth business co-founded by CEO Cheryl Swirnow and CMO Dr. Jay Parkinson – a big naysayer of video conferencing for primary care — has raised an additional $2.25 million from investors to expand the busines... |
| - | With a mission to reduce employer health insurance costs, company raises $1.85M for expansion | A company seeking to reduce the cost of employer insurance has raised $1.85 million to install a development team and supplement a sales team as it gears up for a nationwide expansion.
Sherpaa Health, launched by primary care physician Jay ... |
| - | Sherpaa Health has raised $3.92M to expand primary care services for employer plans (video) | Health IT companies that can provide tools to help employers lower healthcare costs have attracted a growing amount of venture investment, not to mention at least one high-profile IPO. Sherpaa Health, a company co-founded by primary care ph... |
