Amit Chowdhry | October 11, 2011 | 839 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bessemer Ventures, Box.net, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, New Enterprise Associates, Salesforce.com, SAP Ventures

Cloud storage company Box.net has raised $81 million in Series D funding from Salesforce.com, SAP Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Andreessen Horowitz, and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Box.net has now raised a total of $162 million. This puts Box.net’s valuation at over $600 million.

Amit Chowdhry | September 28, 2011 | 473 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Aaron Levie, Andreessen Horowitz, Box.net, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Dylan Smith, Emergence Capital, Emergence Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Salesforce.com, Scale Venture Partners, U.S. Venture Partners

Box.net has raised a new round of $50 million in funding. Investors in this round include Salesforce.com, Andreessen Horowitz, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Emergence Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Scale Venture Partners, and U.S. Venture Partners. Box.net has now raised a total of $128 million. Box.net has 7 million users and 300 million documents are stored on their service. Box.net was founded in 2005 by Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith in 2005. About 77% of the Fortune 500 uses Box.net’s cloud storage solutions service. [TechCrunch]
Amit Chowdhry | July 24, 2011 | 546 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tango

Tango is a company that has produced mobile video desktop software. Tango has raised $42 million in Series B to take on competition like Skype and ooVoo. This round of funding was led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson. The company has raised a total of $47 million. Tango initially launched with a focus on mobile, but now they are switching gears and enhancing the strength of their desktop app. Tango currently has about 18 million users on their mobile device. Tango now has about 60 employees company-wide. [GigaOM]
Riley Kennysmith | June 21, 2011 | 671 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Appian Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, General Catalyst Partners, Ping Identity, SAP Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, Triangle Peak Partners, Volition Capital

Ping Identity has gained investors Triangle Peak Partners and Silicon Valley Bank, raising $21 million for their secure sign-in platforms. According to TechCrunch, the new investors join Appian Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, General Catalyst Partners, SAP Ventures and Volition Capital.

Amit Chowdhry | May 26, 2011 | 809 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Altly, DFJ, Dmitry Shapiro, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Facebook, Josh Stein, MySpace, MySpace Music

Dmitry Shapiro is the former MySpace Music CTO. Shapiro has raised funding from investors that include Draper Fisher Jurvetson to launch an alternative to Facebook called Altly. Altly will be a social network that has strong privacy controls and data ownership.

Amit Chowdhry | May 23, 2011 | 832 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Ami Ben-David, DFJ, Do@, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tim Draper
Amit Chowdhry | May 11, 2011 | 492 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Comcast Interactive Capital, DFJ, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, JiWire, Norwest Venture Partners, Panorama Capital, Trident Capital

JiWire is a mobile ad company that has raised $20 million in a round of funding made by Trident Capital, Comcast Interactive Capital, DFJ, Panorama Capital, and Norwest Venture Partners. JiWire has raised a total of $45 million in funding thus far. JiWire has a location-based ad platform that runs on WiFi through 40 public WiFi networks. Last year JiWire acquired location based mobile shopping company NearbyNow. [TechCrunch]
Amit Chowdhry | May 11, 2011 | 773 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under DFJ, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Eastward Capital, General Atlantic, Gilt Groupe, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Kevin Ryan, Matrix Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Pinnacle Ventures, Softbank Group, TriplePoint Capital

New York based discount flash sales website Gilt Groupe has raised $138 million in venture capital funding. Investors in this fifth round of funding include Softbank Group, General Atlantic, Matrix Partners, Goldman Sachs, NEA, DFJ Growth, Pinnacle Ventures, TriplePoint Capital, and Eastward Capital.
