Freshdesk Launches $10M Future Fund
Help desk SaaS provider Freshdesk announced today a $10 million fund to back online support companies. The company, which is fresh off of raising $5 million in Series B funding from Accel Partners and Tiger Global Management earlier this month, is teaming up with 500 Startups and other incubators and angel funds, including YouWeb, Tandem...
Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins Back Mobile Ad Startup Drawbridge
Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, a former lead scientist at AdMob and a onetime Google engineer, says that Drawbridge–the company she founded in late 2010–is solving a problem Google couldn’t: creating an advertising solution that bridges the gap between online and mobile. The company today announced it raised $6.5 million in Series A funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield &...
Cloud-Based Security Provider Appthority Raises $6.25M
Cloud-based security provider Appthority has raised a $6.25 million Series A round led by Venrock and U.S. Venture Partners. The company helps the enterprise identify and manage risks hidden in mobile apps, a growing concern as more employees bring their own tablets and smartphones to work. As part of the deal, Ray Rothrock, a partner...
Freshdeck Raises $5M in Fresh Funding from Tiger, Accel
Help desk SaaS provider Freshdesk has raised a $5 million Series B round of funding from Accel Partners and Tiger Global Management. The company raised a $1 million round from Accel late last year. PRESS RELEASE Freshdesk Raises $5M in Series B Funding from Tiger Global Management and Accel Partners to Reinvent Customer Support Company...
NVCA Awards Arthur Rock Lifetime Achievement; Recognizes Steve Fredrick for StartUpHire.com
Arthur Rock, an early investor in Apple, Intel and Scientific Data Corp., received the LIfetime Achievement in Venture Capital award from the National Venture Capital Association today for his five decades of work in the industry. At the second day of its annual conference in Santa Clara, Calif., the NVCA also honored Steve Fredrick, a...
NVCA Awards Arthur Rock Lifetime Achievement; Recognizes Steve Fredrick for StartUpHire.com
Arthur Rock, an early investor in Apple, Intel and Scientific Data Corp., received the LIfetime Achievement in Venture Capital award from the National Venture Capital Association today for his five decades of work in the industry. At the second day of its annual conference in Santa Clara, Calif., the NVCA also honored Steve Fredrick, a...
NVCA Names Venrock’s Rothrock Chairman, Announces New Board
The National Venture Capital Association ushered in a new era at its annual meeting in Santa Clara, Calif. Ray Rothrock, a partner at Venrock, was named chairman, as he takes the reins from Paul Maeder, co-founder and general partner of Highland Capital Partners, who finished his one-year term as chair after serving on the NVCA...
European Social Network Viadeo Raises $32M
Europe’s professional networking site Viadeo announced it has raised $32 million in a Series D round from the French Sovereign Fund and the Fonds Stratégique d’Investissement, among other investors. The Paris-based company, which focuses on the European and Chinese markets, previously raised about $18 million in funding from IDinvest Partners and Ventech. PRESS RELEASE VIADEO...
Earlybird Holds Initial Close on Fourth Fund
Earlybird Venture Capital, which relocated from Hamburg to Berlin in December, announced today it has held an initial close of $100 million on its fourth fund. The firm’s LPs are located in Japan, the Middle East and Russia, as well as in the United States and other parts of Europe. The fund is targeted at...
Li Ka-Shing’s Horizons Ventures Backs Mobile Seacrh Provider Everything.me
Everything.me, a provider of mobile search technology using HTML5, has raised a $3.5 million strategic round of funding from Hong Kong investment firm Horizons Ventures and return investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DFJ Tamir Fishman Ventures and BRM Group. The San Francisco-based company, formerly known as DoAT, has now raised $12.5 million in funding since it...
Li Ka-Shing’s Horizons Ventures Backs Mobile Seacrh Provider Everything.me
Everything.me, a provider of mobile search technology using HTML5, has raised a $3.5 million strategic round of funding from Hong Kong investment firm Horizons Ventures and return investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DFJ Tamir Fishman Ventures and BRM Group. The San Francisco-based company, formerly known as DoAT, has now raised $12.5 million in funding since it...
