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Google Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Salesforce Back HubSpot

By Joseph Tartakoff Mar. 9, 2011, 3:30am Comments Off

Three huge Silicon Valley names — Sequoia Capital, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Ventures, and Salesforce.com — are investing in HubSpot, as part of… Read More »

Google Ventures Backs Local Deals Aggregator Signpost

By Joseph Tartakoff Oct. 21, 2010, 12:40am Comments Off

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) VC arm Google Ventures has made an undisclosed investment in Signpost, a site that aggregates local deals in four major… Read More »

iPhone Developer Ngmoco Gets Google Ventures Backing

By David Kaplan Aug. 12, 2010, 4:52am Comments Off

Ngmoco, the games developer focused on iPhone platform and venture-backed by the iFund, has gotten some unspecified funding from Google (NS… Read More »

Search Ads Provider Trada Looks To Display Expansion With Google’s Help

By David Kaplan Jul. 21, 2010, 6:20pm Comments Off

Search ad optimizer Trada has raised a $5.75 million third round led by Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Ventures. The Foundry Group, a previous backer,… Read More »

Photo Ad Network Pixazza Raises $12 Million

By Joseph Tartakoff Jul. 19, 2010, 9:25pm Comments Off

Pixazza, the Google-backed photo ad network, has raised $12 million in a new funding round. Pixazza’s technology adds ads to photos which po… Read More »

Google Ventures Looks Beyond Strategic Investments

By Staci D. Kramer May. 4, 2010, 10:45am 1 Comment

We’ve been typing out a series of “Google (NSDQ: GOOG) acquires” stories of late, as CEO Eric Schmidt makes good on his promise to pick up a… Read More »

Another Language Learning Community Raises Funding: Busuu Gets ‘Six Digit’ Round

By Joseph Tartakoff Feb. 25, 2010, 2:10am 1 Comment

The streak of recent language learning fundings continues … Busuu, which claims more than 300,000 users, is set to announce Thursday that… Read More »

Google Ventures’ Rich Miner Not Favoring Android Or Mobile

By Dianne See Morrison Apr. 9, 2009, 5:37pm Comments Off

Now that Android Read More »