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| Dec 23, 2015 | Pre-requisites to Attract Series B Funding and Beyond | Up until now, your idea was yours and a bunch of others. You have been able to convince some people about your vision, and they have believed in you, put in their money or given their services to building the foundation for your dream. Some... |
| Jul 10, 2015 | Y Combinator’s Big Future | There’s been a lot of talk in venture circles lately about “signaling risk” and seed-stage investments. The gist: When earlier backers are high-profile venture firms, and these firms decide not to participate in a startup’s next round, it h... |
| Jun 26, 2015 | Joe Scarboro: Four Weeks at Tech City UK | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
It’s the end of my fourth week at Tech City UK and it’s been a hectic start! I’ve done a lot of research on where we can be adding more value and I’ve been to a lot of events ... |
| Mar 15, 2015 | In Search Of European Unicorns | Fred Destin Contributor
Editor’s note: Fred Destin moved to London to join Accel Partners in September 2014 after 10 years at Atlas Venture in Boston.
When you look at the returns of a typical VC fund, they may appear somewhat evenly distri... |
| Jan 18, 2015 | Rebuilding VC, And Saving Boston Too | There is a tension at the heart of the startup ecosystem in Boston between glorifying the city’s past as a leader in the Industrial Revolution and acknowledging the city’s current status in the tech world behind Silicon Valley and New York ... |
| Jul 8, 2014 | WordStream’s $12M Round Highlights Dearth of Mid-Stage Tech Funding | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A search-marketing startup is making fundraising news, but there are larger forces at work in the tech ecosystem.
Boston-based WordStream has raised $12 million in new funding... |
| May 21, 2014 | Fred Destin Joins Accel Partners London As Partner | Accel Partners has appointed Fred Destin, formerly with Atlas Venture in Boston, as Partner. Destin has along reputation as an experienced early stage VC, first in Europe, then the US, and now he is returning. He will begin work after the s... |
| Apr 8, 2014 | Destin Out, Karlen In: What’s Next for Atlas Venture? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
There’s been a lot of personnel movement in Boston-area venture firms lately. On Tuesday, Dan Primack at Fortune reported that Atlas Venture partner Fred Destin is leaving the... |
| Dec 11, 2013 | Boston Roundup: FirstFuel, ownCloud, Lagoa, Novomer | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A quick trip through some cleantech, software, and materials fundraising news around the region:
—FirstFuel Software, which specializes in energy-efficiency analysis for comme... |
| Dec 10, 2013 | Montreal’s 3D Photoreal Rendering Startup Lagoa Raises $5.3 Million Series A Round | Today Boston-based VC, Fred Destin of Atlas Venture Partners, wrote a blog post that I believe was meant to be written in a cool way, announcing that Montreal’s Lagoa has raised over $5 million in funding.
Here’s a quote from the blog post:... |
| Dec 10, 2013 | Lagoa Raises $5.3M to Boost Marketing for Its 'Pretty Mind-Blowing' Visualization Software | Within the last decade, nearly all industries have undergone a significant shift from 2D to 3D design. Whether you're eyeing a new car or a new pair of kicks, chances are the product, down to its minute details, has been spun into a three-d... |
| Nov 18, 2013 | Atlas Ventures’ Fred Destin Believes Funding Seed Stage Companies Is Like Falling In Love | One of the best moments at our TC Boston Meetup + Pitch-off was an on-stage interview with Atlas Ventures’ Fred Destin, a Belgium native now living in Boston and investing in super early stage startups.
To Destin, investing in an early stag... |
| Jan 14, 2013 | The second generation of cloud startups is here | 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!
Fred Destin is a partner at Atlas Venture.
There’... |
| Nov 15, 2012 | TechStars Boston: 13 New Startups, from Super-Springs to Baby Makers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s no surprise to hear someone running a startup accelerator praise their latest flock for tackling a broad set of problems. But when TechStars Boston managing director Kati... |
| Jun 6, 2012 | Join Us for a Twitter Chat with Atlas Venture’s Fred Destin Today at 3pm ET | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If you’ve been wanting to ask Fred Destin something, here’s your chance.
I’ll be hosting a 30-minute Twitter chat with the esteemed VC from Atlas Venture today, starting at 3 ... |
| Nov 1, 2011 | Founders Brings The Crazy And The Foolish Ones To Dublin | Last year I attended a brand new event in Dublin called Founders (or F.ounders if you prefer the branding). I duly wrote it up here as an “overnight must-attend” and a welcome addition to the European tech events scene.
As one of the few wr... |
| Jul 18, 2011 | Destin: European VC Needs Revolution, Not Evolution | This is a guest post by Fred Destin, a Partner at Atlas Venture based out of Boston. Previously Destin was, for years, an active VC in Europe, working on DailyMotion, Seatwave, Zoopla and a number of other high profile European startup inve... |
| Jan 27, 2011 | Venture Café Finds Permanent Space Amid Comings and Goings in Kendall Square | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
‘Tis the season for moving in and moving out for the startup community in Kendall Square. This morning, we heard some news from Tim Rowe, the CEO and co-founder of the Cambrid... |
| Jun 17, 2010 | Bebo – The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle? Or AOL’s screw-up? | In January last year we predicted that AOL was listing a sale of Bebo as an option for the social network it had acquired for $850 million in 2008 and then effectively let languish. At the time three other sources intimately acquainted with... |
| Apr 25, 2010 | New EU rules could kill off European VC and screw startups – Let's stop them | The European Union’s proposed Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive sounds relatively innocuous. But its impact could have far reaching consequences for Europe’s emerging startup tech scene, imposing higher costs, red tape and put ... |
| Jan 25, 2010 | Deezer rides a doozy of a storm as CEO is ousted by investors | [France] Music search and discovering service Deezer is currently caught up in a storm of controversy: its co-founder and CEO Jonathan Benassaya has effectively been forced out by his investors. After Deezer faced mounting competition from ... |
| Oct 22, 2009 | DailyMotion raises €17 million, with French government help | The French-born version of YouTube, DailyMotion – which has now grown into a global site with 60 million users – has officially confirmed its latest fundraising of €17 million, which was early reported as €15 million earlier this month. The... |
| Oct 22, 2009 | DailyMotion Bags €17 million, This Time With The French Government | The French-born version of YouTube, DailyMotion – which has now grown into a global site with 60 million users – has officially confirmed its latest fundraising of €17 million, which was early reported as €15 million earlier this month. The... |
| Aug 12, 2009 | Food for thought from Fred Destin | Fred Destin, possibly the quintessential European VC (a Belgian living in Switzerland but traveling Europe looking for startups), has a must-read post on his blog about “the funding drought”. Here are a few highlights (quite a few, actually... |
| Jun 1, 2009 | Seatwave Scores $17 Million In Fourth Funding Round | Seatwave, the UK-based upstart behind the eponymous marketplace for secondary tickets, has landed $17 million in Series D funding led by Accel Partners with Atlas Venture, Mangrove Capital Partners, Fidelity Ventures and Adinvest joining th... |
| Feb 5, 2009 | Viagogo Raises $15 million Round And Signs Tennis Stars To Battle Seatwave | So Viagogo has raised another $15 million and hooked in former tennis champions Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf both as board members / investors as well as advisors to help it push its secondary ticketing market into Europe. The funding now g... |
| Jan 29, 2009 | Atlas closes $283m fund – less than hoped, but good for early stage | Atlas Venture has closed its eighth fund (Fund VIII), which comes in at $283 million. The bad news is it’s smaller than Fund VII ($385 million) and comes in well below their original target off $400 million. The good news is that it’s amazi... |
| Jan 27, 2009 | Updated: A Year Later, AOL Is Contemplating A Bebo Sale | I didn’t quite believe it when one of my most trusted sources told me that AOL was seriously considering selling Bebo, the social network it acquired for $850 million only a year ago. But I have now confirmed the rumor with three other sour... |
| Oct 5, 2008 | French Inspirational Stores inspires VCs for 10m Euros series B funding | Did someone declare that startups would have a hard time raising money? Not for some of them. Paris Based Inspirational Stores will announce tomorrow a 10 million euros series B round lead by Atlas Ventures and OTC asset Management. Inspira... |
| Apr 1, 2008 | One of our VCs is missing | People join organisations, people leave organisations. But some leave and are then literally air-brushed out of history. Just take Trotsky. One minute you’re in the photo with Lenin. The next minute you’re not (and you’ve got an ice-pick in... |
| Mar 13, 2008 | Bebo's VC makes $140 million after AOL sale | (No, that’s the not the VC, that’s the Bebo founders on holiday). As part of Bebo’s sale to AOL, Balderton Capital, the VC firm that invested less than two years ago in Bebo, is selling its 15.7 stake in the social net to AOL. It will reali... |
| Feb 11, 2008 | Seatwave wins $25m Series C funding to expand | Ticket reseller Seatwave has taken $25 million Series C in a round led by Fidelity Ventures that included Atlas Venture, Mangrove Capital Partners and Adinvest. Total funding for Seatwave to date is $36 million.
The London based Seatwave, l... |
| Jan 17, 2008 | Zoopla! launches property command and control system | Zoopla! is a new online real estate play which more closely resembles a missile guidance system than the usual run-of-the-mill property aggregators. It appears to be capable of zeroing-in on just about every aspect of property, from hard-co... |
| Dec 18, 2007 | 2008: VCs and startups get real across Europe | Over the last few weeks I have been going around talking to venture capitalists, mainly in London, with a view to trying to get some kind of forward visibility about the technology and startup market next year, especially the role of the VC... |
| Dec 7, 2006 | Metacafe May Be Sold For $200 Million | Metacafe, the video sharing site, is reportedly being sold for between $200-300 million. The buyer is currently unknown but there is speculation that it may be Yahoo.
In July, Metacafe recieved $15 million in funding from Benchmark Capital ... |
| Sep 25, 2006 | VoIP Sans The PC – Jajah, Rebtel Make Announcements | Lately there has been a lot of talk about new VoIP services that work without
needing to be on your computer. Tonight two announcements were made:
1) Jajah Mobile, which
claims to take the computer out of the Jajah equation. Now you can mak... |
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