July 2007

VC Rating: Respectance gains $1.5 million for online memorial site [Posted on July 24, 2007 - 5:03 PM]

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Company: Respectance Description: Online memorials Competitors: Virtual Memorials Location: San Francisco Amount Raised: $1.5 million Round: First Date Announced: 7/23/07 VC Firms: Solid Ventures, Big Bang Ventures VC Directors:... Continue Reading

BO Chairman Liautaud on enterprise software design, delivery and changes [Posted on July 24, 2007 - 1:32 PM]

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Bernard Liautaud, founder, chairman and chief strategy officer of business intelligence software maker Business Objects, has spent a lot of time thinking about what enterprise software companies need to... Continue Reading

SecondSpace launches with unique consumer Internet business model [Posted on July 23, 2007 - 1:03 PM]

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SecondSpace is coming out of the shadows with a vacation home web portal one year after it raised $6.5 million from Ignition Partners. Today, it announced the launch of... Continue Reading

Bessemer opens to outside LPs and closes $1 billion fund [Posted on July 23, 2007 - 11:46 AM]

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Bessemer Venture Partners closed its seventh fund since it began enumerating them in 1981 and opened the fund up to about ten new limited partners for the first time.... Continue Reading

Peter Thiel says Facebook to delay IPO until 2009 or later [Posted on July 20, 2007 - 7:22 PM]

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In a wide ranging interview with The Deal, Peter Thiel --one of the three directors on Facebook's board and one of its earliest investors-- downplayed the likelihood of an... Continue Reading

Living the dream: From Bulgaria to Silicon Valley [Posted on July 20, 2007 - 3:57 PM]

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Emergence Capital Partners hosted a Hole in One Party on its San Mateo terrace yesterday. Putting greens, the Wii golfing video game, firm embossed golf balls and one of... Continue Reading

AdMob and MyWaves' misspent youths and promising futures [Posted on July 20, 2007 - 2:16 PM]

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Two of the fastest growing mobile application startups -- AdMob and MyWaves -- both began with completely different missions than the ones they are pursuing today. AdMob CEO Omar... Continue Reading

SVB closes Alliant six years after $100 million+ purchase [Posted on July 19, 2007 - 6:51 PM]

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Another boutique investment bank acquisition gone bad. It's the third time Silicon Valley Bank's parent has called off an investment banking initiative. Tech Confidential has the details. Days after... Continue Reading

Camp fires and Kumbaya at Sequoia Capital [Posted on July 19, 2007 - 4:24 PM]

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Sequoia Capital general partner Michael Moritz provided a simple but useful tip to fellow venture capitalists attending last week's iMeme conference in San Francisco. When asked how a venture... Continue Reading

Forget a PR firm, just provoke a lawsuit [Posted on July 18, 2007 - 3:16 PM]

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Lawyer ratings web site Avvo doesn't seem too concerned about the lawsuit it was slapped with only days after launch. Backed by Benchmark Capital and Ignition Partners, Avvo drew... Continue Reading

VCs gathered for the Digital Media Venture Summit [Posted on July 18, 2007 - 2:57 PM]

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The Deal's Olaf Domis was on hand at yesterday's Digital Media Venture Summit alongside venture capitalists from firms such as Mohr Davidow Ventures, Canaan Partners, Formative Ventures, Accel Partners and... Continue Reading

SunRocket collapse hits Mayfield and DCM hardest [Posted on July 18, 2007 - 2:37 PM]

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It's not as if I told you so. But, one of the analysts quoted in a story I wrote more than two years ago when SunRocket was trying to... Continue Reading

Michael Moritz compares venture capital to bird spotting [Posted on July 13, 2007 - 4:09 PM]

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Sequoia Capital general partner Michael Moritz doesn't play favorites. At least, in public. He made it through an hour long panel at this morning's iMeme conference without naming a... Continue Reading

Fred Wilson's VC firm sues rival over name [Posted on July 13, 2007 - 3:22 PM]

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During the introductions on the venture capital panel this morning at Fortune magazine's iMeme conference, moderator Adam Lashinsky asked Fred Wilson whether his firm's name is Union Square Ventures... Continue Reading

Jim Breyer on a Facebook sale [Posted on July 13, 2007 - 2:55 PM]

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Looking every bit the part of a 20-something hipster dressed in a grey CBGB T-shirt, a grey jacket and black jeans, Accel Partners general partner Jim Breyer said this... Continue Reading

VC Rating: Tvtrip raises $4.8 million to film hotel rooms [Posted on July 12, 2007 - 7:11 PM]

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Company: Tvtrip.com Description: Online hotel video library Competitors: Trivop Location: London Amount Raised: $4.8 million Round: First Date Announced: 7/11/07 VC Firms: Balderton Capital, Partech International VC Directors: Mark... Continue Reading

500 posts and counting... [Posted on July 12, 2007 - 7:09 PM]

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16 months and 500 posts later, I want to pause for a moment and thank you, my readers, for spending some of your valuable time on VC Ratings.... Continue Reading

TheFind.com overcomes crowded shopping market to raise $15 million [Posted on July 12, 2007 - 3:32 PM]

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There just doesn't seem to be a way to lose in the online shopping search space. Despite competition from Become.com, Shopzilla, Shopping.com, Smarter.com, Yahoo! Shopping, Google's Froogle, NexTag, and... Continue Reading

Zillow launches social networking features to catch up to Trulia [Posted on July 11, 2007 - 11:09 AM]

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With $57 million in venture capital raised, would you expect any less? Online real estate startup Zillow said today it has launched new features that aim to foster more... Continue Reading

Spot Runner invests its own first round money into startup 60Frames' [Posted on July 11, 2007 - 10:28 AM]

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Spot Runner, the Index Ventures and Battery Ventures portfolio company that makes it easy for small businesses to run television ads, isn't waiting to go public before launching a... Continue Reading

Ning's $44 million funding round gets dinged [Posted on July 10, 2007 - 3:12 PM]

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The love fest for Marc Andreessen's new blog has ended. The Netscape co-founder announced that his latest venture, white label social networking startup, Ning, has raised $44 million in... Continue Reading

Bay Partners' App Factory a boon to Accel and Greylock [Posted on July 10, 2007 - 1:20 PM]

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After a few months in the shadows, Bay Partners has decided to publicize its seed fund investment activities and focus its sub-$250,000 investments on companies that have developed applications... Continue Reading

10 exits in 18 months power Battery to its biggest fund yet [Posted on July 10, 2007 - 12:40 PM]

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