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From humble beginnings, 645 Ventures founders find validation in new $40...
Nnamdi Okike, a first-generation American whose parents emigrated from Nigeria and Germany, and Aaron Holiday, whose mother worked in the collections department of Sears and whose father was a...
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Playing the global game, Sequoia can cut checks for up to $1 billion
As the shadow of SoftBank (and its $100 billion fund) looms large over the investment landscape, Sequoia Capital is pushing the upper limits of the checks it’s willing to write to global growth-stage...
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2019 US VC funds take a more boutique approach
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor Big revenues, huge valuations and major losses: charting the era of the unicorn IPO Some reassuring data for those worried unicorns are...
View ArticleEnterprise healthcare platform Collective Health raises $205M led by SoftBank
SoftBank’s Vision Fund may be facing some challenges when it comes to restocking its massive reserves, but the firm famous for cutting big checks is leading a sizeable round for Collective Health. This...
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Splice gets $55 million for its software bringing beats from bedrooms to...
Splice, the New York-based, AI-infused, beat-making software service for music producers created by the founder of GroupMe, has managed to sample another $55 million in financing from investors for its...
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Shutterfly Buys Tiny Pictures For A Tiny Price
After raising a total of $11.2 million since its founding in 2005, Tiny Pictures sold to Shutterfly on Friday for $1.3 million in cash and another $1.3 million in restricted stock to employees, which...
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DFJ-Backed Clixtr Marries Photos With Location, Launches Website
Clixtr, a startup that first presented itself to a wide audience at this year's TechCrunch50 Conference (our take), kicked off things with a relatively limited offering - a paid iPhone app - but is...
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Remote Tech Support Company iYogi Gets A $15 Million Boost From DFJ, Others
iYogi, a company that provides remote tech support directly to consumers and small businesses, has raised a Series C round to the tune of $15 million. The round was led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and...
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Scientific Conservation Raises $15.6 Million To Help Cut Energy Waste In...
Scientific Conservation Inc. (SCI) — a San Francisco company that makes software to diagnose and help stop energy-wasting problems in commercial buildings — raised $15.6 million in a series B...
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Cleantech Investor Raj Alturu Moves From DFJ To Silver Lake Kraftwerk
On Thursday, Raj Atluru announced that he was stepping down as a managing director with Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where he served as a key cleantech investor since 2001. He will join a private equity...
View ArticleTango Takes $42 Million VC Round To The Bank And Its Mobile Video Calling To...
Mobile video calling app Tango is taking off, recently passing 17 million registered users in half the time it took Skype. It got that far with about $14 million in venture capital. Today, Tango...
View ArticlePersonalized News Radio App Swell Raises $5.4M
Swell, the app that brings a Pandora-like experience to news and talk radio content, is announcing that it has raised $5.4 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson,...
View ArticleOnline Lending Technology Company LendKey Raises $12.5M
LendKey, a cloud-based lending technology company, has raised $12.5 million in Series B funding. Led by Updata Partners and TTV Capital and joined by existing investor Draper Fisher Jurvetson and...
View ArticleDevOps Automation Service Chef Raises $40M Series E Round Led By DFJ Growth
The Seattle-based DevOps and IT automation service Chef today announced that it has raised a $40 million Series E round led by DFJ Growth, DFJ's fund for investing in $10 million+ rounds. One part of...
View ArticleUnder Tim Draper, Draper Network Extends Reach, Eyes New Funding Model
Over the years, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the 30-year-old Silicon Valley venture firm, famously created a partner network of independent but DFJ-branded venture firms around the world. It was one of the...
View ArticleLexumo Lands $4.89 Million Seed Round To Help Ensure Open Source Code Security
Lexumo, a Cambridge, Massachusetts cloud service that continuously checks open source code to be sure it has the latest security updates, announced a solid $4.89 million seed round today. The round was...
View ArticleDFJ Raises $350 Million For Its 12th Early-Stage Fund
Sand Hill Road venture firm DFJ is announcing a new, $350 million fund this morning — the firm’s 12th early-stage vehicle. We chatted with managing director Josh Stein yesterday about the effort, which...
View ArticleZoox raises $200 million at $1 billion valuation for its self-driving cars
TechCrunch has confirmed reports that auto startup Zoox is raising about $200 million at a $1 billion valuation. We’ve also learned that investors Lux Capital and DFJ are involved in the round. The...
View ArticleTesla and Uber have more in common than you might think
Elon Musk’s new master plan catapults Tesla into a new market; car-sharing. While the idea of Tesla car-sharing seems new, it is not the first time the company’s cars, coupled with autonomous...
View ArticleBoston Dynamics’ Handle robot dominates parkour on wheels in new footage
Boston Dynamics’ wheeled Handle robot received much fanfare earlier this month when DFJ partner Steve Jurvetson slipped us an early video from a company Keynote. Today we have more details on Handle in...
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