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Why Bill Gurley Believes Dropbox Is Disruptive
Benchmark Capital venture capitalist Bill Gurley recently wrote a blog post about why he thinks that Dropbox, a company that he invested in is disruptive. We all know that Dropbox has tons of customers and that they make file synchronization very simple. Nothing really disruptive there. So why is Dropbox being valued at $4 billion?
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Edmodo Raises $15 Million In Series B
Edmodo is an education social network for teachers and students K-12. The company has raised $15 million in Series B funding led by Greylock Partners and Benchmark Capital. Reid Hoffman (Greylock) and Matt Cohler (Benchmark) will be joining Edmodo’s board of directors as a result of this funding round.
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Categories Benchmark Capital, Edmodo, Greylock Partners, Matt Cohler, Reid Hoffman
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Car Request Servicer Uber Raises $32 Million From Menlo Ventures, Benchmark, Goldman Sachs, and Jeff Bezos
Yelp Files For $100 Million IPO
Yelp is a local business review website that has filed for a $100 million IPO. Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Jefferies are working as the lead underwriters. However the San Francisco based company has not selected an exchange to be traded on. Yelp is using multiple classes of shares for the public offering.
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Minted Raises $5.5 Million In Series B Funding
Minted.com, an e-commerce service for stationery and cars, has raised $5.5 million in Series B funding in a round led by Benchmark Capital, IDG Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Marissa Mayer, and Jeremy Stoppelman. Minted connects independent graphic designers to consumers looking for prints such as holiday cards, notebooks, calendars, and wedding invitations. The designer makes a percentage of every sale of their design.
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Social Learning Startup Grockit Raises $7 Million
Grockit is a social learning startup company that has raised $7 million in Series D. Current investor Atlas Ventures led the round. Existing investors Benchmark and Integral Capital also participated. New investors NewSchools Venture Fund and GSV Capital CEO Michael Moe participated in this round.
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Game Streaming Company Gaikai Raises $30 Million In Third Round
Domo Raises $33 Million In Series A
Domo is a software-as-a-service company that has raised $33 million in series A funding from Benchmark Capital. The company has raised a total of $43 million. Domo was founded by Josh James, who also founded and served as the CEO of Omniture.
Categories Benchmark Capital, Domo, Josh James, Omniture Inc.
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CloudPassage Raises $6.5 Million In Series A
CloudPassage is a cloud server security company that has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding led by Benchmark Capital. CloudPassage provides server security for cloud websites and services. A core competency that CloudPassage has is the Halo architecture, which can automate multiple server securities and allow enterprises to set up security across public cloud environments on a massive scale. One of their most well known clients is Foursquare.
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Zillow Files For $51.75 Million IPO
Real estate search engine company Zillow.com has filed an S-1, which means that the company is going public on the stock market. Zillow is aiming to raise $51.75 million. Currently this is a placeholder amount and is subject to change.
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