Posted on: May 9, 2013 by Lawrence J. Aragon2 Comments »
Crocodoc, an angel-backed startup that offers document-viewing software to enterprises, announced Thursday that it has been purchased for an undisclosed amount by Box Inc., a venture-backed cloud storage company. An alumnus of incubator Y Combinator, Crocodoc has raised about $1 million in angel funding, according to Reuters.
Posted on: April 18, 2013 by Luisa BeltranNo Comments »
Box has hired three enterprise technology executives. Justin Somaini, Yahoo!’s ex-chief information security officer, has joined Box as the company’s first chief trust officer. Niall Wall, a Symantec veteran, has joined Box as their SVP of business development. And Jeff Mannie, an ex-PayPal executive, was named Box’s VP and controller.
by Mark Boslet
Posted on: December 6, 2012 by Mark Boslet6 Comments »
Call them the cream of the venture crop, the 472 high flying U.S.-based companies with valuations above $100 million and exciting businesses to justify them.
by Mark Boslet
Posted on: October 19, 2012 by Mark BosletNo Comments »
Venture capitalists remained cautious during the summer months of a presidential election year, reining in third quarter investments in the face of a slow economy and soft IPO market. Investments by U.S. firms came to $6.49 billion in the quarter down 11.6% from a year ago.
by Mark Boslet
Posted on: October 2, 2012 by Mark BosletNo Comments »
Intel Capital said Tuesday it invested about $40 million in 10 startups, including Box, Hungama.com and Jelli. The announcement was made at the organization’s two-day Global Summit in California. The focus of the companies varies from cloud collaboration and digital entertainment to mobile payments and device interaction. Along with Box, the new portfolio companies include LIFO Interactive, NewAer, PagPop, Tier 3, Transmension, FocalTech and UUCun. Individual deal details were not disclosed.
Posted on: February 6, 2012 by Alastair GoldfisherNo Comments »
Flowdock, which offers a subscription-based group chat service, was judged by a panel of VCs to be the best of 10 startups that competed at Vator Splash.
Posted on: January 25, 2012 by Alastair GoldfisherNo Comments »
Aydin Senkut, founder and president of Felicis Ventures, says that he has some 20 exits to his credit. But his investment in Milo.com wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for what he called “an epic game of pool” with Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie. Speaking at the Startup Exits event last week at RocketSpace [...]
Yahoo’s $1.1 billion planned purchase of blogging site Tumblr is the largest exit of a pre-public venture-backed New York-based company
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The surging popularity of bitcoin has some brand-name venture capitalists investing real money in the controversial virtual currency. Just since
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It’s that time of the year when every VC (or, well, most VCs) secretly pulls up Forbes’ Midas list and,
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The Michigan Venture Capital Association said 29 venture capital firms now do business in the state and contributed to the
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This week marks the one-year anniversary of Facebook’s public offering, one of the most highly anticipated market events in Wall
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