Amit Chowdhry | January 26, 2011 | 377 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Crosscut Ventures, DFJ Frontier, Zadspace

Zadspace is an online mailing label advertising and packaging company that has raised $4.2 million. It is unknown who the investors are, but we do know that DFJ Frontier and Crosscut Ventures are existing investors in the company. Zadspace is led by Todd Outten.
Amit Chowdhry | November 19, 2009 | 640 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under DFJ Frontier, Lottay

Lottay allows users to create online gifts and other users can put money towards it. The company recently raised $475,000 from DFJ Frontier and hired former Evite executive Harry Lin as their CEO. This round of funding was the company Series A. Lottay collects money using the PayPal Adaptive Payments API. The gifts are sent via e-mail and Facebook. The receivers of the gift can buy the intended gift or anything else. Lottay raised a total of $675,000 thus far. The initial seed funding was also invested by DFJ Frontier.
Amit Chowdhry | October 23, 2008 | 867 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under AudioMicro.com, DFJ Frontier

AudioMicro is a music licensing website where users can upload their sound bites and share in revenue. AudioMicro uses a pay-per-download model rather than a monthly subscription model. AudioMicro has just announced that they have raised a Series A round of funding.
The Series A round of funding was led by DFJ Frontier. Through the funding, Scott Lenet, a managing director at DFJ will be joining the AudioMicro board of directors. Although the amount of funding was not disclosed in the press release, GigaOm reports that it was at about $500,000.
“AudioMicro is revolutionizing the micro stock music and micro stock sound effects businesses by connecting artists with clients in a truly unique way,” stated Lenet. “Like micro-stock photography did, AudioMicro is fundamentally changing the economics of the industry, benefiting every participant.”
AudioMicro was founded by Ryan Born. Prior to starting AudioMicro, Born worked at the PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Assurance and Business Advisory Services Practice in Atlanta. After that Born worked as the VP of Finance and Controller at MediaVast, a company that was acquired by Getty Images. Ryan is also the CFO of NewCondosOnline.com.