Sequoia Capital
Laura Hazard Owen
Aug 3, 2011 9:20 AM
Just in time for the back-to-school season, iPad interactive textbook publisher Inkling has secured $17 million in Series B funding from investors including Tenaya Capital, Pearson (NYSE: PSO) Education, Jafco Ventures and Sequoia Capital.
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
Media & Publishing, Books, e-readers, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Apple, iPad, inkling, jafco ventures, mcgraw-hill, pearson, sequoia capital, textbooks
Tom Krazit
Jul 13, 2011 2:04 PM
With more and more people accessing the Internet from multiple devices, central storage services that tie those devices together are becoming more important. One such service, Evernote, is receiving $50 million in additional investment in order to continue expanding its Web-based note-taking service.
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
Apps, Mobile, Search, Social Media, evernote, sequoia capital
Ingrid Lunden
Mar 30, 2011 2:55 PM
It may not be $41 million, but there are still serious funds flowing into the mobile sector at the moment, and the companies taking advantage of the loosened purse strings are all over the map in terms of what they’re doing to get investors’ attention. Today the white-label app store…
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
Apps, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, Google, Android, RIM, Countries, Asia, India, Japan, Philippines, Europe, UK, apperian, appia, bessemer venture partners, bubble motion, kleiner perkins caulfield byers, mobicart, north bridge venture partners, palomar, sequoia capital, singtel, sundrop mobile, venrock
Ingrid Lunden
Jan 11, 2011 7:09 AM
Bump Technologies, which makes an app that lets users share information with each other by bumping their iPhones/iPods or Android devices together, has picked up $16 million in funding in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, andreessen horowitz, david lieb, jake mintz, marc andreessen, sequoia capital
Ingrid Lunden
Jan 10, 2011 3:19 PM
Off the back of the strongest holiday season yet for mobile shopping, mobile payment startup Square has raised a round of funding worth $27.5 million. This brings the company’s total valuation to $240 million.
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, jack dorsey, keith rabois, khosla ventures, roelof botha, sequoia capital, square
Tricia Duryee
Aug 3, 2010 12:07 PM
Mountain View, Calif.-based MobileIron has raised $16 million in a third round of funding to help develop a platform that manages everything from iPads to smartphones in the enterprise. The round was led by Foundation Capital, reports peHUB. Also participating was its existing investors Storm Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture…
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, big basin ventures, foundation capital, mobileiron, norwest venture partners, sequoia capital, storm ventures
Dianne See Morrison
Jun 25, 2010 6:07 AM
Sencha, an application development platforms provider, has raised $14 million in a first round of funding led by Sequoia Capital and joined by Radar Partners, the company said Thursday. The three-year old Palo Alto, California-based company started out as a business application platform provider for the internet, but has since…
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
Apps, Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, radar ventures, sencha, sequoia capital
Joseph Tartakoff
Mar 15, 2010 11:14 AM
Mobile app startup Snaptu has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Sequoia Capital. Snaptu’s free app lets users access a series of services, including Facebook, Twitter, the weather, and a news reader. The selling point: It works on any phone that runs Java (which means most). So far, Snaptu…
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
Mobile, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, sequoia capital, snaptu
Tameka Kee
Oct 25, 2009 1:54 PM
Bump Technologies, the mobile app development firm behind the popular iPhone app that lets people tap their phones together to exchange information, has raised its first round of funding from Sequoia Capital, TechCrunch reports. Sequoia Capital Partner Greg McAdoo gave a presentation this weekend where Bump was listed as one…
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Technologies / Formats, Companies, Apple, iPhone, sequoia capital, y combinator
Tameka Kee
Aug 5, 2009 5:43 PM
MobileIron, a smartphone software firm that caters to business clients, has come out of stealth mode with $9 million in funding. Backers include Norwest Venture Partners, Storm Ventures and Sequoia Capital, per VentureWire. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup launched a data and content management platform that helps companies monitor their employee’s…
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
, mobileiron, norwest venture partners, sequoia capital, storm ventures
Dianne See Morrison
Feb 10, 2009 3:33 PM
Israeli marketing software provider Pontis has raised $19.65 million in funding from Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), which led the round, and its current backers Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and Evergreen Venture Partners. As part of the investment, NVP partner Dror Nahumi joins the company’s board of directors. Pontis’s main product…
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
Advertising, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Technologies / Formats, accel partners, evergreen venture partners, norwest venture partners, pontis, sequoia capital
Matt Kapko
Aug 8, 2008 1:13 AM
Updated: Globes Online reports that the round is a big one: $22 million, and includes all the names listed below. The company raised $5 million earlier this year and will have raised a total of $52 million when the present round is completed..this makes it among the most heavily funded…
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
Advertising, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Companies, Motorola, accel partners, amobee, cisco, globespan capital partners, sequoia capital, telefonica, vodafone
Tricia Duryee
Mar 26, 2008 10:52 AM
Bubble Motion, a Mountain View, Calif. company that allows users to send short voice clips to each other like text messages, said today it raised $14 million in venture funding. Investors participating in the round include existing investors Sequoia Capital, both from the U.S. and India, and new investors Comcast…
Keep Reading »
Posted In:
Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Technologies / Formats, bubble motion, comcast interactive capital, ncd investors, sequoia capital
Social Standing
Which media brands are getting a lift from Tweeters and bloggers right now -- and which are getting panned?
Show Me: