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Laura Hazard Owen
Aug 3, 2011 9:20 AM
Just in time for the back-to-school season, iPad interactive textbook publisher Inkling has secured $17 million in Series B funding from investors including Tenaya Capital, Pearson (NYSE: PSO) Education, Jafco Ventures and Sequoia Capital.
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Tom Krazit
Jul 13, 2011 2:04 PM
With more and more people accessing the Internet from multiple devices, central storage services that tie those devices together are becoming more important. One such service, Evernote, is receiving $50 million in additional investment in order to continue expanding its Web-based note-taking service.
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Robert Andrews
May 31, 2011 4:56 AM
So, is there a new tech bubble? One man who may know is Michael Moritz, the celebrated veteran Sequoia partner who invested in companies like Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and, oh, LinkedIn.
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Joseph Tartakoff
Apr 13, 2011 3:45 AM
Female-focused online media company Sugar has raised $15 million in a new round of funding led by Institutional Venture Partners; existing backer Sequoia Capital also participated. The company says it will use the new cash “for brand extensions, acquisitions, and international growth.” Its existing portfolio of sites, which includes flagship…
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David Kaplan
Mar 9, 2011 7:30 AM
Ad tech firm Flite (fka Widgetbox) has raised $12 million third round as it completes its rebranding from a community for widget developers to one that serves as a display ad platform.
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Joseph Tartakoff
Mar 8, 2011 4:30 PM
Three huge Silicon Valley names—Sequoia Capital, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Ventures, and Salesforce.com—are investing in HubSpot, as part of the startup’s $32 million fourth round of funding. HubSpot sells all-in-one software used by businesses to get online leads; it includes content management and SEO tools so that businesses can create and…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Dec 17, 2010 7:47 PM
Tumblr, which has become a favorite blogging tool for hip consumers and wannabe-hip media companies, has raised $30 million in a new funding round. The site, which is now home to 11 million blogs, says it’s “prepping some huge developments to show off soon,” although it does not specify them…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Oct 19, 2010 8:00 AM
Multimedia note-taking service Evernote has raised $20 million in a third round led by new backer Sequoia Capital. With Evernote, users can “clip” a range of files—including handwritten text, parts of web pages, and audio files—and store them online. Files can later be searched and shared from the web or…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Oct 6, 2010 8:00 AM
Eventbrite, which lets people set up pages to promote their events and also sell tickets, has raised $20 million in its fourth round of funding. The new cash comes as the company says it has already brokered the sale of 7.5 million tickets this year and expects more than $200…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jul 20, 2010 11:59 PM
Fast-growing Jive Software, which provides social networking tools that companies use to communicate internally and to build online communities for their customers, has raised $30 million in a funding round from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins. CEO Tony Zingale says it’s the biggest joint investment for those two venture capital…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Mar 15, 2010 11:14 AM
Mobile app startup Snaptu has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Sequoia Capital. Snaptu’s free app lets users access a series of services, including Facebook, Twitter, the weather, and a news reader. The selling point: It works on any phone that runs Java (which means most). So far, Snaptu…
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Tameka Kee
Oct 26, 2009 12:29 PM
Unity Technologies, a 3D game technology firm, has raised $5.5 million in a first round of funding. Sequoia Capital led the round, along with private investors including Atari CEO David Gardner, and VMware founder and former CEO Diane Greene. S.F.-based Unity Technologies developed the Unity engine, a game development platform…
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Tameka Kee
Jun 8, 2009 6:20 PM
With more people playing all types of online games (including social games on Facebook, casual games on sites like PopCap.com, and games on connected consoles), there’s money to be made from giving them a single space to share, store and socialize their game “data.” Which is likely why Sequoia Capital…
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Rory Maher
Mar 16, 2009 6:27 PM
There’s some life in the venture-funding world after all. Seed investment fund Y Combinator is starting a new fund backed by Sequoia Capital and angel investors Ron Conway, Paul Buchheit and Aydin Senkut. The fund will focus on the small bets Y Combinator specializes in—seed bets of about $5,000 to…
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Rafat Ali
Mar 11, 2009 10:50 AM
The deal activity in the content delivery industry continues to tick, as another new CDN gets funded, this time by two VC heavyweights: Cotendo has raised $7 million in its second round of funding, from Sequoia Capital and Benchmark Capital. It has been in incubation for a year, and received…
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Tameka Kee
Mar 3, 2009 2:04 PM
Search marketing technology firm Kenshoo has raised an undisclosed round of financing led by Sequoia Capital. Previous investor Arts Alliance also participated in the round, which the company is calling its second; Sequoia and Arts Alliance gave the S.F.-based firm undisclosed amounts of funding in late 2007 and early 2008.…
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Tameka Kee
Nov 10, 2008 12:14 PM
Guess the good times are still sort of rolling for some startups. Online media hosting service ImageShack has raised $15 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital, VentureBeat reports—citing a tip from a “reliable source.” Sequoia hit its startups with the now infamous “R.I.P. Good Times” presentation in October,…
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Rafat Ali
Sep 18, 2008 3:38 PM
Challenge Online Games, the developer of online fantasy game Duels and the new fantasy baseball and card collecting game Baseball Boss, has received $10 million in its second round of funding. The round is being led by Globespan Capital Partners with participation from previous investor Sequoia Capital as well as…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Aug 7, 2008 11:30 AM
TokBox, the provider of a simple video chatting service, has raised a $10 million second round led by Bain Capital Ventures, with participation from past backer Sequoia. The company was actually incubated out of Sequoia, which led the firm’s initial $4 million round last year. The SF-based firm allows users…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Jul 28, 2008 4:53 PM
PopularMedia, a developer of social media marketing tools, has raised an $8 million third round led by DAG ventures, along with past backers Sequoia Capital and Steamboat, reports VentureWire, via VentureBeat. The company raised $4.25 million last year, though its totals haven’t been publicly announced. Offerings include tools to make…
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