Posted on: May 6, 2013 by Connie Loizos
Fastback Networks, a San Jose-based mobile infrastructure company, has closed a $15 million round led by the venture firm Matrix Partners. Existing investors, including Foundation Capital; Granite Capital; and Juniper Networks, through its Junos Innovation Fund, also participated in the Series B financing. Fastback Networks raised $11 million in Series A funding in 2011.
Tags: Fastback Networks, Foundation Capital, Granite Capital, Juniper Networks, Junos Innovation Fund, Matrix Partners
Posted on: April 14, 2013 by Luisa Beltran
Motif Investing has raised an additional $25 million in financing from a group of investors including Goldman Sachs & Co. and existing Motif investors Foundation Capital, Ignition Partners and Norwest Venture Partners. San Mateo-based Motif is an online broker. Darren Cohen, Managing Director of Principal Strategic Investments at Goldman, is joining Motif’s board as an observer.
Tags: Foundation Capital, Ignition Partners, Motif Investing, Norwest Venture Partners
Posted on: April 10, 2013 by reuters-news
Foundation Capital has unveiled its seventh fund, a $282 million pool of money that the venture firm plans on investing in early-stage startups, according to VentureBeat, writes Reuters. Menlo Park, Calif.-based Foundation Capital primarily invests in early stage companies and plans to focus this current fund on consumer technology, information technology, and clean technology.
Tags: Foundation Capital
Posted on: September 17, 2012 by Mark Boslet
Silver Spring Networks signaled its determination to complete an initial public offering by announcing a planned $12-million private placement with its largest shareholder, Foundation Capital.
Tags: Foundation Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Silver Spring Networks
Posted on: August 22, 2012 by asormani
Mobile ecommerce business Revel Touch has secured $10 million in venture capital financing. The series A round was co-led by existing investor Foundation Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners. PRESS RELEASE Revel Touch, a technology innovator in mobile ecommerce, today announced that it has secured $10 million in venture capital financing. The Series A round was [...]
Tags: Foundation Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Posted on: May 30, 2012 by asormani
MobileIron, a provider of mobile IT security and management for apps, content, and devices has secured a $40 million series E mezzanine financing round. The investment was led by Institutional Venture Partners which joined existing investors Foundation Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and Storm Ventures. The round brings MobileIron’s total funding to $97 million. [...]
Tags: Foundation Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Storm Ventures
Posted on: May 16, 2012 by Connie Loizos
SilkRoad, a Chicago-based company focused on online human resources and “social talent management,” has raised a $35 million Series C financing round. Investors in the round include new investors Keating Capital and NTT Finance. Existing investors including Intel Capital, Crosslink Capital, Foundation Capital, Azure Capital and Tenaya Capital also joined in the round. Since 2003, [...]
Tags: Azure Capital, Crosslink Capital, Foundation Capital, Intel Capital, Keating Capital, NTT Finance, SilkRoad, Tenaya Capital
Posted on: April 13, 2012 by Lawrence J. Aragon
Trending on peHUB this week: Facebook, Instagram, Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital, Foundation Capital, Fred Wilson, Mark Suster, Brad Feld, Oaktree Capital, Summit Partners, Q1 VC fundraising.
Tags: Bain Capital, Facebook, Foundation Capital, Instagram, Oaktree Capital, Sequoia Capital, Summit Partners
Posted on: April 9, 2012 by Lawrence J. Aragon
Foundation Capital has set out to raise $400 million for its seventh fund, considerably less than the $750 million it raised in 2008 for its sixth fund. The new fund also won’t include two GPs from fund VI: Rich Redelfs and Mike Schuh.
Tags: Bill Elmore, Foundation Capital, Fundraising, Mike Schuh, Rich Redelfs
Posted on: April 2, 2012 by Jonathan Marino
Depending on when private equity and venture capital firms made investments in the college textbook publishing space, they’re either hitting the books, or getting hit by them.
Tags: Apax Partners, Charlesbank Capital Partners, Foundation Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers