Flash Sales Startup One Kings Lane Adds $40M
One Kings Lane has raised $40 million in new financing for its flash sales site for home décor and furnishings. New investors Tiger Global Management led the Series C round. Institutional Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Greylock Partners also participated. Lee Fixel, managing director of Tiger Global, will join Greylock’s James Slavet...
Institutional Venture Partners Hires Andrew Barr
Institutional Venture Partners has added Andrew Barr as an associate focusing on later-stage investments in the information technology and digital media sectors. Prior to joining IVP, Andrew worked at Qatalyst Partners, a technology-focused independent investment bank.
DoubleVerify Inks $33M in New Capital
DoubleVerify, a maker of verification technology for online advertising, has closed on $33 million in new capital. JMI Equity and Institutional Venture Partners led the round, which also included return backers Blumberg Capital and First Round Capital. As a result of the round, Bob Nye of JMI Equity and Dennis Phelps of Institutional Venture...
Personal Capital Seals $25M on Series A
Redwood City, Calif.-based Personal Capital announced Friday that it’s pulled in a total of $25 million in venture funding. Institutional Venture Partners led the Series A round. Venrock led the company’s Series B round, with participation from IVP. Specifics of the individual rounds were not disclosed. The firm, which says it has emerged from “stealth...
Buddy Media Raises $54M
Buddy Media, which helps advertisers and brands manage their presence on social networking sites like Facebook, has raised $54 million in new financing, the company announced Monday. Buddy Media sealed a $500 million valuation with the current round, according to media reports. GGV Capital, Institutional Venture Partners and Bay Partners, as well as new investor...
Tim Draper Backs Clearbridge Accelerator
Tim Draper, the founder and a managing director of venture firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, has invested in Clearbridge Accelerator, the Singapore incubation arm of Asian venture firm Clearbridge Partners. The incubator works with local and overseas research institutions to commercialize various technologies in sectors including biomedical devices, nanotechnology, advanced material sciences and computational algorithms, the...
Microsoft Management Discusses Q4 2011 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
Microsoft (MSFT)
Q4 2011 Earnings Call
July 21, 2011 5:30 pm ET
Executives
Bill Koefoed - General Manager of Investor Relations
Peter Klein - Chief Financial Officer
Analysts
Brendan Barnicle - Pacific Crest Securities, Inc.
Adam Holt - Morgan Stanley
Brad Reback - Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.
Brent Thill - UBS Investment Bank
John DiFucci - JP Morgan...
Has Facebook Missed Its IPO Window?
Here is an obvious truth overlooked by too many: Almost all companies die. They have a theoretically infinite lifespan, but eventually, their day in the sun passes, their parts are sold off for scrap, they fade into the dim dusty pages of history. Sure, Europe has centuries old breweries and specialty foods companies, but they...
Has Facebook Missed Its IPO Window?
Here is an obvious truth overlooked by too many: Almost all companies die. They have a theoretically infinite lifespan, but eventually, their day in the sun passes, their parts are sold off for scrap, they fade into the dim dusty pages of history. Sure, Europe has centuries old breweries and specialty foods companies, but they...
Shazam Raises $32M From KP, IVP And DN Capital
Shazam said Wednesday it raised $32 million in new funding in a round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Institutional Venture Partners. Existing investor DN Capital participated. The investment will be used to support the company’s continued growth and the development of Shazam’s app for mobile commerce as it expands...
KPCB, IVP Plow $32M into Shazam
Shazam has raised $32 million in a new funding round co-led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Institutional Venture Partners. Existing shareholder DN Capital also participated in the round. The money will help Shazam continue development of its real-time discovery and sharing application, with plans to expand into television with “Shazam for TV.”
Texan plays April Fool’s joke on SEC, investors with 999 billion shares
Footnoted regulars know that we don’t usually pay much attention to insider-related filings — those Form 3s,4s and 5s — which make up roughly 1/3 of all filings made to the SEC. Instead, we prefer to focus our attention on the roughly 400,000 other filings for a number of reasons, but mostly because we think...
