Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » Vertex Venture Capital http://pulse2.com Sun, 27 May 2012 19:13:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Waze Raises $25 Million http://pulse2.com/2010/12/08/waze-raises-25-million/ http://pulse2.com/2010/12/08/waze-raises-25-million/#comments Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:25:21 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=39194 Continue reading →]]>
Waze is a live social GPS map company that lets you announce when you run into issues on certain roads like traffic jams or a police officer giving away speeding tickets. Wave has about 2 million users and has logged over 250 million kilometers. Waze has raised $25 million in Series B funding.

This Series B round of funding was led by existing investor Blue Run Ventures. Other Existing investors Magma Venture Partners and Vertex Venture Capital was also a part of this round. And new investor Qualcomm Ventures joined this round. This round of funding will go towards talent growth and marketing. They are also moving their office from Tel Aviv, Israel to Palo Alto, California.

[TechCrunch]

]]> http://pulse2.com/2010/12/08/waze-raises-25-million/feed/ 0 WEbook.com Raises $5 Million From Vertex Venture Capital and Greylock Partners Israel http://pulse2.com/2008/09/17/webookcom-raises-5-million-from-vertex-venture-capital-and-greylock-partners-israel/ http://pulse2.com/2008/09/17/webookcom-raises-5-million-from-vertex-venture-capital-and-greylock-partners-israel/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:08:05 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/2008/09/17/webookcom-raises-5-million-from-vertex-venture-capital-and-greylock-partners-israel/ Continue reading →]]>
WEbook.com is a social network where users can collaborate on creating a book together.  Or users can review other people’s books and vote which ones are the best.  When the process is complete, WEbook can publish the book.  Recently the company completed their Series A in funding.  The amount was $5 million from Vertex Venture Capital and Greylock Partners Israel.  The 8 angel investors also participated in this round of funding.

Over 15,000 book projects have been worked on so far between all of the readers and editors on the site.  Authors share 50% revenue with WEbook after the book is published.  One example of a book that was collaborated between 30 authors is 101 Things Every Guy Should Know How to Do.

“WEbook.com now attracts more than half a million monthly unique visitors,
and the potential for the growth of the WEbook community is tremendous,” stated Sue Heilbronner, president of WEbook. “We are delighted to have the continued
support of Greylock as well as the addition of Vertex to our team of investors
and advisors as we continue to identify innovative ways to redefine the
publishing industry.”

Itai Kohavi founded WEBook.  The company is based in Bethesda, Maryland and the development team is based in Mountain View, Calif.

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