Riley Kennysmith | August 3, 2011 | 496 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Apple iPad, Inkling, JAFCO Ventures, Pearson Education, Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital, The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc.

Digital textbook startup Inkling has raised $17 million in funding to grow their company, which works with textbook publishers to create interactive iPad versions of their books. The funding comes from Tenaya Capital, Jafco Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Pearson Education. Inkling is already working with publishers like McGraw Hill and Pearson. [GigaOM]
Amit Chowdhry | February 13, 2011 | 587 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Accel Partners, DAG Ventures, Raptr, Tenaya Capital

Raptr is a social gaming company that allows players to track achievements and connect to friends on consoles. Raptr has raised $15 million in a round led by DAG Ventures with participation from Tenaya Capital and Accel Partners. Raptr has raised $27 million in total funding thus far. Raptr is seeing about 750,000 new users joining every month and has a total of 6 million users. [AllThingsD]
Amit Chowdhry | November 11, 2010 | 446 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Draper Fisher Jurvetson, myShape, Tenaya Capital

MyShape is a women’s fashion website that has raised $5.5 million in funding. Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Tenaya Capital are the two companies behind the funding. The funding will go towards increasing their operations team. MyShape sells bags, luggage, lingerie, shirts, golf apparel, plus size clothing, sleepwear, intimates, etc. [SoCalTech]
Amit Chowdhry | October 8, 2010 | 807 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under DAG Ventures, Eventbrite, Sequoia Capital, Tenaya Capital

Eventbrite is an online tickets website that has raised $20 million in Series D funding led by DAG Ventures. Tenaya Capital and Sequoia Capital also participated in this round of funding. Eventbrite is a 4 year old start-up based in San Francisco and raised a total of $29.5 million.

Amit Chowdhry | October 5, 2010 | 579 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under CM Capital, Tenaya Capital, ThreatMatrix, TVP, U.S. Venture Partners

ThreatMatrix has raised $12.1 million to help prevent fraud on social networks. This round of funding was led by Tenaya Capital. U.S. Venture Partners, CM Capital, and TVP was also a part of this round.

Amit Chowdhry | November 17, 2009 | 1,631 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under GGV Capital, GSR Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Qunar.com, Tenaya Capital

Qunar is a Chinese travel search engine company that has raised $15 million from GGV Capital, Mayfield Fund, GSR Ventures, and Tenaya Capital. This round of funding occurred shortly after TripAdvisor acquired Kuxun.cn for $12 million. Qunar will be using the funding for marketing, branding, and other developments.
Amit Chowdhry | August 27, 2009 | 1,230 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Barry Schuler, Ben Boyer, DFJ, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Emily Melton, Lehman Brothers, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, Louise Wannier, myShape, Tenaya Capital

According to a Form D filed with the SEC, MyShape has raised additional funding. MyShape designs custom online retail stores for you called myShop. myShop displays clothes that were made for your specific measurements.
The company raised funding in July 2007 and October 2008. In the Form D, MyShape claims to have sold $10.5 million worth of equity out of a total of $12.1 million available. Emily Melton of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tenaya Capital’s Ben Boyer, and former AOL CEO Barry Schuler both seem to have some sort of involvement in this round.
MyShape was started by Louise Wannier. This past October, MyShape raised about $12 million in funding from Lehman Brothers, DFJ, Pasadena Angels, and Tech Coast Angels.