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| 22.07.2024 | Heeler: Application Security Company Raises $8.5 Million In Seed Funding | Application security company Heeler Security announced today the successful closing of an $8.5 million Seed Series funding round, led by Norwest Venture Partners with significant participation from Storm Ventures.
The growing challenges of ... |
| 17.07.2024 | Tekion Raises USD 200 Mn from Dragoneer Investment Group Tekion intends to leverage this new funding round to expand its market share and strengthen its position among automotive retailers and OEMs. | Tekion, the SaaS unicorn revolutionising the automotive retail industry, has secured USD 200 million in growth equity from Dragoneer Investment Group, boosting its valuation to over USD 4 billion.
Index Ventures, Advent International, Durab... |
| 18.03.2024 | LACERA decreases venture capital allocation range, but experts say it doesn’t signal a trend | The Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA) voted to decrease its allocation range to venture capital at a March 13 meeting.
The board of investments voted to decrease its allocation range to venture capital and growth ... |
| 30.01.2024 | What if Christensen was wrong about disruption? | Anshu Sharma Contributor
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| 17.11.2023 | Sofia Angels Ventures joins €9M round for German AI startup Retorio | Sofia Angels Ventures joins €9M round for German AI startup Retorio
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| 06.05.2022 | Contributed: How to find success as a medtech startup | Photo: Hero Images Inc./Getty Images |
| 26.10.2021 | Workforce Intelligence Contech Startup Bridgit Raises CA$ 24 Million Series B | Industrial technology concept. Communication network. INDUSTRY 4.0. Factory automation. getty |
| 29.07.2021 | Talview : Raises $15M to Revolutionize Talent Lifecycle | SAN MATEO, Calif., July 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Talview, a leading provider of an end-to-end, AI-powered hiring and proctoring solution, today announced it closed $15M in Series B funding led by Silicon Valley investor Eileses Capital with... |
| 27.05.2021 | Qualio Secures $50M for Quality Management System Platform for Life Sciences | What You Should Know:
– Qualio — the trusted cloud quality management system software for the entire life sciences ecosystem announced their $50M Series B funding round led by Tiger Global. Menlo Ventures also joined this round, alongside t... |
| 25.05.2021 | Vilnius-based remote interpretation platform Interactio raises $30 million in Series A round | Lithuanian interpretation startup Interactio has raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Eight Roads Ventures and Storm Ventures. Practica Capital, Notion Capital, Change Ventures, and Angel Investors Jaan Tallinn and Young Sohn also ... |
| 09.04.2021 | Carta Healthcare Raises $17.3M for AI-Assisted Data Abstraction | What You Should Know:
– Carta Healthcare, a provider of AI-powered clinical data abstraction technology and services, is pleased to announce a recent $17.3M Series A investment led by Storm Ventures. AI Digital Innovation Fund (affiliated w... |
| 27.02.2021 | Storm Ventures promotes Pascale Diaine and Frederik Groce to partners | Storm Ventures, a venture firm that focuses on early stage B2B enterprise startups, announced this week that it has promoted Pascale Diaine and Frederik Groce to partners at the firm.
The two new partners have worked their way up over the l... |
| 21.05.2020 | Skyflow raises $7.5M to build its privacy API business | Skyflow, a Mountain View-based privacy API company, announced this morning that it has closed a $7.5 million round of capital it describes as a seed investment. Foundation Capital’s Ashu Garg led the round, with the company touting smaller ... |
| 02.12.2019 | Storm Ventures Raises $130.4 Million For Sixth Fund | Menlo Park, California-based Storm Ventures announced it raised $130.4 million for its sixth fund, according to an SEC filing
Storm Ventures — Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm — has raised $130.4 million for its sixth fund,... |
| 30.11.2019 | Storm Ventures just closed its sixth fund with $130 million | Storm Ventures, a now 19-year-old, Sand Hill Road venture firm in Menlo Park, Ca., has closed on $130.4 million, shows a new SEC filing. The outfit began its fundraising late last year, according to an earlier filing. It had closed its prev... |
| 26.09.2019 | Honeycomb.io raises $11.4M to help developers observe and debug their apps | As companies continue to expand the number of cloud-based tools and apps that are used to run their businesses, DevOps continues to grow as a field of IT to help developers meet those demands. In one of the more recent moves, Honeycomb.io, ... |
| 13.09.2019 | Calculating sales efficiency in a startup: The magic number that will help you scale | Ryan Floyd Contributor
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| 29.11.2018 | Storm Ventures To Raise Sixth Venture Capital Fund | Storm Ventures, a Menlo Park, CA-based enterprise-focused, early-stage venture capital firm, is raising its sixth fund.
An SEC filing does not provide details related to the amount the fund, Storm Ventures Fund VI, L.P., is seeking to raise... |
| 07.05.2018 | Toward transitive data privacy and securing the data you don’t share | Anshu Sharma Contributor
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| 13.03.2018 | This Stanford grad went from living in motels to working in VC - here's his unusual path and how he wants to help others like him | Frederik Groce
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As an African-American, Frederik Groce, an associate at Silicon Valley's Storm Ventures, is a rarity in the venture capital world, where only 3% of all employees are black.
In addition to being an... |
| 21.02.2018 | Outsourcing management startup 4me announces $1.65 million seed investment led by Storm Ventures | 4me, a startup that helps companies organize and track their IT outsourcing projects, announced a $1.65 million seed investment led by Storm Ventures.
The company, which launched in 2010, would seem to be a bit long in the tooth to warrant ... |
| 06.02.2018 | The unbeatable advantage of Apple and Amazon | Anshu Sharma Contributor
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| 03.02.2018 | Storm Ventures brings on two new partners at enterprise-focused firm | In a town full of venture capital firms, Storm Ventures has made its mark with a singular focus on the enterprise. This week, the company announced it has taken on two freshly minted partners, Arun Penmetsa and Paul Willard, to continue the... |
| 29.01.2018 | Logikcull Raises $25 Million in 17 Days | Logikcull announced it has raised a $25 million Series B round in just 17 days so that it could get back to work on making discovery instant and accessible for everyone.
NEA, one of the oldest, largest, and most respected venture capital fi... |
| 08.06.2017 | French SaaS company Algolia raises $53 million led by Accel | French-founded web search infrastructure firm Algolia has raised $53 million in a Series B round led by Accel.
New investors that participated in the round include SaaStr, Intercom CSO Des Traynor, InVision CEO Clark Valberg, and AppDynamic... |
| 12.05.2017 | CORRECTING and REPLACING RedLock Launches with Comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure Security Offering | RedLock Cloud 360 platform makes major advancement with holistic visibility into public cloud infrastructure environments that helps truly assess and monitor risk
Dynamic startup raises $12 million in funding from Sierra Ventures, Storm Ven... |
| 25.04.2017 | An engineer’s guide to picking a startup | Anshu Sharma Contributor
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| 27.02.2017 | 16 early-stage healthtech startups you need to know | From online marketplaces to wearables for mothers, these are the fastest-growing healthtech startups
Editor's note: Our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables event is coming up on March 23 in San Francisco. We'll have Mario Schlosser (Found... |
| 14.02.2017 | Unpacking the Govtech market | Frederik Groce Contributor
Frederik Groce is an analyst at Storm Ventures.
The United States is on the cusp of a much-needed digital transformation. Current legacy systems, paper-based processes, and on-premise infrastructures have become g... |
| 10.02.2017 | Storm Ventures nabs Orange startup accelerator creator as new principal investor | 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!
Storm Ventures’ investment team is growing by one... |
| 10.02.2017 | Storm Ventures nabs Orange startup accelerator creator as new principal investor | Storm Ventures’ investment team is growing by one — the firm has hired Pascale Diaine as a principal. The founder of Orange’s startup accelerator starts her job as a venture capitalist on February 13 and plans to focus on artificial intelli... |
| 19.01.2017 | The Davos delusion | Anshu Sharma Contributor
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| 28.11.2016 | Startup Lexigram raises $2M seed round to add context to unstructured data | Year-old Lexigram is positioning itself as an “on-demand” software-as-a-service provider of natural language processing and machine learning, though it is launching with just the NLP enabled.
“It’s something that’s sorely needed,” CEO Paul ... |
| 01.09.2016 | Serverless is the new multitenancy | Anshu Sharma Contributor
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| 23.08.2016 | Logikcull raises $10M to let lawyers analyze documents at the speed of a thousand interns | As entertaining and interesting as made-for-TV lawsuits (like the O.J trial) are, they always leave out one key element. The hundreds of hours of research that goes on behind the scenes to prepare for an important trial.
Before any big tria... |
| 23.08.2016 | Logikcull Closes $10 Million Series A Round from OpenView and Storm Ventures | Legal Intelligence Platform Automates Costly and Complex eDiscovery and Legal Search Processes
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Logikcull, the legal intelligence company that is transforming everything from eDiscovery and inte... |
| 11.08.2016 | CareSkore Raises $4.3M for Predictive Population Health Management | CareSkore, a Y-Combinator backed startup has raised $4.3 million in seed funding for its predictive population health management platform that helps measure the clinical and financial risk of hospital patients based on their EMR and claims ... |
| 10.08.2016 | UPDATE: Twilio’s IPO and the rise of the next 100M developers | Anshu Sharma Contributor
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| 27.06.2016 | Jason Lemkin just raised a $70 million fund; here’s how he did it | Two-time entrepreneur Jason Lemkin just closed a debut venture fund with $70 million called SaaStr Fund. It’s an impressive feat and the latest in a string of interesting opportunities that Lemkin has created for himself since selling his m... |
| 25.06.2016 | The app boom is not over | Anshu Sharma Contributor
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| 01.05.2016 | The future of apps should be better apps | Anshu Sharma Contributor
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| 09.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 9, 2016 | Fuze raised $112M; Trifacta received $35M funding; Digital Shadows snagged $14M funding
Stash, an investment app for millennials, raised $3 million in seed funding to continue the company’s growth. The round was led by Silicon Valley-based ... |
| 20.01.2016 | Valley-based Storm Ventures launches $10m fund for Indian tech startups | Premium
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| 19.01.2016 | Storm Ventures Launches $10M Fund For Indian SaaS Startups | Earlier this week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced a set of initiatives, called Startup India, designed to help the country’s fledgling tech companies and their investors. One of the first Silicon Valley venture capital firms... |
| 18.01.2016 | Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy | Anshu Sharma Contributor
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| 05.01.2016 | Marketing automation startup Blueshift raises $8M from Storm Ventures, Nexus | San Francisco-based Blueshift Labs Inc, a Big Data-powered marketing solutions firm, has raised $8 million (Rs 53.2 crore) in a Series A round of funding led by Storm Ventures.
Existing investor Nexus Venture Partners also participated in t... |
| 05.01.2016 | India: Marketing automation startup Blueshift raises $8m from Storm Ventures, Nexus | Premium
San Francisco-based Blueshift, a provider of automation solutions for consumer marketing companies, has closed an $8 million Series A round of venture financing led by Storm Ventures, according to a statement.
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| 05.01.2016 | Blueshift Closes $8.0M Series A Financing | Blueshift, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of Segment-of-One marketing automation solutions for consumer marketing companies, closed an $8.0m Series A round of venture financing.
The round was led by Storm Ventures with participation fro... |
| 08.10.2015 | Daily funding roundup - October 8, 2015 | Oxford Photovoltaics hauled $19M; Hubba secured $11M; Reflektive raised $3.6M
Reflektive, a real time employee engagement and performance platform announced on Thursday that it has raised a $3.6 million seed funding round led by Andreessen ... |
| 06.08.2015 | Not Just An App: The Front End Of The Trillion-Dollar, Full-Stack Revolution | Anshu Sharma Contributor
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| 28.06.2015 | 10 Things That Can Derail A Round Of Funding | Jason Lemkin Contributor
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| 23.06.2015 | Daily funding roundup - June 23, 2015 | Credit Karma scores $175M; Crosscut Ventures raised $75M; Jelli landed $21M
Venture capital firm CrossCut Ventures raised a new venture fund, its third overall, worth $75 million, it was announced on Tuesday. While CrossCut was originally t... |
| 09.06.2015 | Daily funding roundup - June 9, 2015 | Blue Apron completes $135M; Outset Medical raised $91M; Rancher Labs landed $10M
As part of its co-investment activities, E.ON acquired a stake in the US start-up Enervee. Founded in 2012, Enervee provides a dynamic platform on which consum... |
| 24.02.2015 | GuideSpark Closes $22.2M Series C Funding | GuideSpark, a Menlo Park, CA-based provider of an employee communications and engagement platform, closed a $22.2m Series C funding round.
The fundraise was led by Meritech Capital Partners with participation from existing investors New Ent... |
| 20.01.2015 | What does it take to get a true Series A round in 2015? | At Bullpen, Vator, Venture51's Post Seed Conference 2014, investors on how to land a 'true' Series A
Are you a Baby A or a Super-Sized A, and What’s Better? What are A Round Investors Looking for, and What are the Metrics? Check out the pan... |
| 24.12.2014 | Nubeliu Is Bringing The Private Cloud To Latin America | Private cloud enterprise solution Nubeliu has raised a seed round from Latin American powerhouse investors Kaszek Ventures in the “couple of millions,” according to a source close to the company.
Storm Ventures and MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MEL... |
| 17.12.2014 | Box Will Hit $1 Billion In Revenues Before You Know It | Jason Lemkin Contributor
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| 19.06.2014 | Algolia Closes $1.2M Seed Funding | Algolia, a San Francisco, CA- and Paris, France-based hosted search-as-a-service provider, closed a $1.2m seed funding round.
The round, which brought the total amount raised to $2.8m, was led by Storm Ventures with participation from angel... |
| 30.04.2014 | Selling Your Company? Prioritize Dollars Over Prestige | Jason Lemkin Contributor
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| 18.09.2013 | Pipedrive Closes $3.4M Seed Funding | Pipedrive, a Tallinn, Estonia- and San Francisco, CA-based provider of a cloud sales platform, closed a $3.4m seed funding.
The round was led by Rembrandt Venture Partners and Storm Ventures, with participation from:
– TMT Investments,
– Ta... |
| 27.08.2013 | GuideSpark Raises $5M in Financing | GuideSpark, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based provider of a digital employee communications solution, raised $5m in financing.
The round was led by Storm Ventures with participation from IDG Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to expand... |
| 26.06.2013 | Metacloud Raises $10M in Series A Funding | Metacloud, Inc., a Pasadena, Calif.-based provider of on-premise, private cloud as a service, raised $10m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Canaan Partners with participation from existing investors Storm Ventures and AME Cloud Vent... |
| 26.09.2012 | AdMobius Launches with $5M Series A Funding | AdMobius, a San Mateo, Calif.-based provider of mobile audience targeting solutions, has launched with a $5m Series A funding.
The round was led by Opus Capital and Storm Ventures.
In conjunction with the investment, Bob Borchers, general p... |
| 24.09.2012 | iAd Alums Launch Mobile Audience-Targeting Startup AdMobius, Raise $5M | AdMobius, a startup founded by team members from Apple’s iAd program, is coming out of stealth mode today, and co-founder/ CEO Dan Grigorovici says the company is tackling one of the biggest problems in mobile ads — helping advertisers reac... |
| 29.05.2012 | MobileIron Raises $40M in Series E Mezzanine Financing | MobileIron, a Mountain View, CA-based Mobile IT platform that provides multi-OS mobile application management, has raised $40m in Series E mezzanine financing.
The round, which brings the company’s total funding to $97m, was led by Institut... |
| 18.05.2012 | Cloudwords Completes Second Funding | Cloudwords, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based global translation management company, has completed a second funding of undisclosed amount.
The round was led by Storm Ventures.
The company intends to use the capital to continue to focus on inn... |
| 09.05.2012 | Flint Mobile Raises $3M in Series A Funding | Flint Mobile, Inc., a Redwood City, California-based mobile payments company that is launching in Beta an app for on-the-go small businesses to accept credit cards and to find new customers through social marketing, has raised $3m in Series... |
| 22.02.2012 | Restorando Raises $3.2M in Series A Funding | Restorando, a Brazilian and Argentinian online reservation platform for restaurants in Latin America, has raised $3.2m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Emergence Capital Partners, with participation from Kaszek, Atomico, and Storm ... |
| 16.11.2011 | Marketo lands $50M from Battery, IVP, InterWest to continue its marketing automation domination | 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!
Marketing automation firm Marketo has raised a ma... |
| 16.11.2011 | Marketo Secures $50M in Venture Capital Funding | Marketo, a San Mateo, CA-based provider of Revenue Performance Management (RPM) technology, has secured $50m in new venture financing.
The round was led by Battery Ventures, with participation from existing investors Institutional Venture P... |
| 01.11.2011 | Appcelerator gets $15M for open source mobile platform | The company gets support from Mayfield Fund, Translink Capital, and Red Hat
Open source app development platform Appcelerator announced Tuesday that it has raised $15 million in a round of funding led by Mayfield Fund, Translink Capital, an... |
| 01.11.2011 | Modo Labs Closes $4M Series A, Looks to Take Education and Enterprise Apps by Storm | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Score one for open source startups. Modo Labs, a Cambridge, MA-based mobile software company, is announcing today it has closed a $4 million Series A round from Storm Ventures... |
| 08.08.2011 | Greenlight Technologies Raises Series A Funding | Greenlight Technologies, a Flemington, NJ-based provider of cross-system enterprise business control and transaction monitoring solutions, has raised an undisclosed sum of Series A funding.
The round was led by Storm Ventures. In conjunctio... |
| 06.05.2011 | What’s cooler than a million dollars? Changing a million lives | Henry Ford once said that a business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Impact investing takes that idea to a new level.
Impact investors look for businesses that have a positive social or environmental impact as well as the p... |
| 26.01.2011 | Opt-in ad tracking? Try Crowd Factory | The company closes a $6.5M round of funding
The advertising industry has had a tough time trying to convince the world that its practices do not amount to cyber stalking when a glimpse into the dark underbelly of behavioral targeting reveal... |
| 03.06.2010 | BookRenter raises $10M to challenge Chegg in textbook rentals | Textbook rental site BookRenter just announced that it has raised $10 million in a second round of funding.
Book rental sites promise to help students cut back on their textbook spending. Why spend hundreds of dollars on a book if you’re on... |
| 27.04.2010 | Marketo brings in another $10M for marketing automation | Marketo, a company selling web tools for salespeople and marketers, has raised $10 million in a fourth round of funding. The funds came from existing investors, led by Mayfield Fund and with participation from InterWest Partners and Storm V... |
| 23.11.2009 | BookRenter raises $6M to challenge Chegg in textbook rentals | Textbook rental site Chegg.com may be raising tremendous amounts of funding, but competitor BookRenter isn’t sitting still — it just announced a $6 million first round.
That number is dwarfed by the $84.2 million Chegg has raised (not count... |
| 14.08.2009 | Employee smartphone manager MobileIron raises $11M | MobileIron, a company that helps corporate IT departments manage employee smartphones, originally caught my eye because it had the backing of some impressive venture firms — Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Storm Ventures. Now... |
| 14.08.2009 | Employee smartphone manager MobileIron raises $11M | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
MobileIron, a company that helps corporate IT departments manage employee smartphones, originally caught my eye because it had the back... |
| 04.08.2009 | MobileIron gives enterprise IT more control over employee smartphones | 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!
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| 04.08.2009 | MobileIron gives enterprise IT more control over employee smartphones | Smartphones continue to proliferate in large, “enterprise”-size companies, but those phones aren’t well-integrated into enterprise IT, says Bob Tinker, chief executive of a startup called MobileIron. He thinks MobileIron (which boasts sever... |
| 13.04.2009 | SandForce emerges from stealth with new flash chip line | SandForce, maker of flash memory processors, has left stealth mode to release its first line of products tailored to enterprise applications like data centers and personal computers. The Saratoga, Calif. company says its SF-1000 model is mo... |
| 16.03.2009 | Transera raises $17M for on-demand call center technology | Transera, provider of software that lets its clients set up cost-effective call centers with agents (in-house or outsourced) all over the world, announced that it brought in $17 million in a fourth round of funding from Accel Partners, Apax... |
| 11.02.2009 | A-Team Update: Series A Funding Growth Is Strong | We first reported on VC Series A deals in the web-tech sector in October 2008, following the financial meltdown, and we updated our coverage in November, reporting some improvement. Now it is time for the good news from December and January... |
| 11.12.2008 | Bivio nets $15.8M for flexible networking systems | Networking systems developer Bivio Networks just took in $15.8 million in a round led by Silver Creek Ventures and including new Japanese investors Itochu Techno-Solutions Corporation and Cross Technology Partners, as well as existing backe... |
| 09.12.2008 | Appcelerator launches open source platform for desktop apps | Appcelerator, a Mountain View, Calif. startup that that builds open source tools to ease the development of web applications, is now offering a platform called Titanium for creating hybrid web/desktop applications for your computer and mobi... |
| 08.10.2008 | Kineto Wireless raises $15.5M for mobile base station technology | Kineto Wireless Inc., developer of software that lets mobile phones work on both cellular and Wi-Fi networks, brought in $15.5 million in fourth-round funding to advance the technology of wireless base stations — known as femtocells — which... |
| 22.09.2008 | 3Leaf Systems raises $35 million round for enterprise virtualization technology | Virtualization technology is still buzzing with activity, as its adoption by large companies remains one of the biggest trends in the economy right now.
Virtualization grabbed headlines 13 months ago, when VMware raised nearly $1 billion in... |
| 19.08.2008 | DeviceVM’s ‘instant on’ software gets another $15M | DeviceVM, a company that allows you to use your computer while it’s booting up, has raised another $15 million in funding.
The San Jose, Calif. company’s software is called Splashtop, and it comes preinstalled on PCs and motherboards. When ... |
| 19.08.2008 | IDF: Intel gets behind start-up MetaRAM’s server memory solution | Silicon Valley start-up MetaRAM is announcing its second-generation chip set today with backing from Intel. MetaRAM’s technology can quadruple the memory capacity in a server, cutting the server costs as much as 90 percent. The Intel endors... |
| 21.07.2008 | Qumu raises $10.7M for enterprise video | Qumu, which provides the infrastructure for the use of video communication in a corporate environment, has raised $10.7 million in a third round of funding. The round was led by Advanted Technology Ventures.
The Emeryville, Calif. startup’s... |
| 13.06.2008 | Qumu raises $8.6M for enterprise video efforts | Enterprise video company Qumu has raised a $8.6 million third found of funding.
As Qumu says on its site “video plays an increasingly strategic role in the way enterprises communicate internally and externally.” Qumu customers including AT&... |
| 02.04.2008 | Some venture investors heading for the cellars, as larger economic problems loom | Despite a one-day rise in the stock market, the macro-economic outlook is stormy, and confidence is falling among venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.
Last fall’s housing slowdown has led to turmoil among Wall Street banks. Private equity... |
| 02.04.2008 | Battening Down The Hatches | Dean Takahashi, who I met yesterday, has a post that made techmeme about the numbers coming out on venture investing, IPOs, and M&A. To quote:
Successful venture exits are becoming scarce. Yesterday, the National Venture Capital Associa... |
| 12.03.2008 | Microsoft laying down $100 million for desktop virtualization firm Kidaro | Microsoft must be set on the idea of acquisitions as the major driver for growth and innovation in the company, because it’s adding to its lengthy list of recent acquisitions with a hefty offer for Kidaro, a desktop virtualization firm. The... |
| 10.02.2008 | Mobile coupon company Cellfire raises $12m | Mobile phone coupon company Cellfire has raised $12 million in a third round of funding.
The round includes a new investor, Silver Creek Ventures, and existing ones, including Menlo Ventures and Storm Ventures.
People who sign up for Cellfi... |
| 23.01.2008 | Ad Infuse takes on $12M more, builds market share in mobile advertising | This may well be the year that the leaders in the mobile advertising space emerge, and startup Ad Infuse has taken on another $12 million to try to ensure its place at the table.
As we reported in an October story, Ad Infuse is distinguishe... |
| 04.12.2007 | Adomo raises round to unify messaging at big businesses | For years, companies like Cisco, and all the little piranha start-ups nibbling at Cisco, have sought to make communications simpler for companies and their employees.
Adomo, of Cupertino, Calif., is the latest Silicon Valley start-up attemp... |
| 27.11.2007 | Qwaq, offering a 3D virtual workplace | Qwaq, a Silicon Valley company seeking to let company work groups collaborate in a 3D online virtual environment, has just raised $7 million in financing.
Virtual collaboration might sound fanciful, but increasingly experts are saying this ... |
