Posted on: May 17, 2013 by Lawrence J. Aragon
Just since April, notable firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Google Ventures and Union Square Ventures have invested $9 million in three bitcoin-related companies: BitPay, CoinBase and OpenCoin.
Tags: Adam Draper, Andreessen Horowitz, bitcoin, BitPay, Coinbase, Department of Homeland Security, Founders Fund, Google Ventures, Mt. Gox, OpenCoin, Union Square Ventures
Posted on: March 12, 2013 by asormani
Domo, a new software-as-a-service venture launched by Omniture co-founder Josh James has raised $60 million in Series B financing. GGV Capital, Greylock Partners, Bezos Expeditions, the personal investment company of Jeff Bezos, Workday co-CEOs Aneel Bhusri and David Duffield, Founders Fund and Mercato Partners, amongst others, invested in this round.
Tags: Founders Fund, GGV Capital, Greylock Partners, Mercato Partners
Posted on: February 27, 2013 by Alastair Goldfisher
Electronic medical records management company Practice Fusion has made its first acquisition, scooping up 100Plus for an undisclosed amount. 100Plus, which was launched in Practice Fusion’s health tech incubator in San Francisco, previously raised $1.25 million in seed-stage funding from Founders Fund (which is also a Practice Fusion investor), Greylock Discovery Fund, Felicis Ventures (another Practice Fusion investor) and the Band of Angels. 100Plus was co-founded by CEO Chris Hogg, a health care data analytics expert formerly with Gilead Sciences, who will join Practice Fusion’s data and product development group.
Tags: 100Plus, Band of Angels, Felicis Ventures, Founders Fund, Greylock Partners, Practice Fusion
Posted on: January 30, 2013 by asormani
Ringadoc has raised $1.2 million in seed funding, led by Founders Fund‘s FF Angel. Based in San Francisco, Ringadoc is on on-demand medicine service.
Tags: FF Angel, Founders Fund
Posted on: January 3, 2013 by joanna
Though motion sensing technology is often touted as the most promising underdeveloped frontier in human-computer interaction, just a handful of companies in the space have raised significant venture funding. Leap Motion, with a fresh $30 million in the bank, is the latest.
Tags: Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Highland Capital, Leap Motion, motion sensing, SOS Ventures
Posted on: June 28, 2012 by Alastair Goldfisher
Practice Fusion, which operates an electronic medical record platform for 150,000 medical providers, has raised a $34 million Series C round of funding led by Artis Ventures. Other investors in the round include Felicis Ventures, Band of Angels, Founders Fund, Morgenthaler Ventures and SV Angel. among other institutional and individual investors. The company says it has now raised $64 million in total funding since it was launched in 2007.
Tags: Ali and Hadi Partovi, Artis Ventures, Band of Angels, Barton Asset Management, Felicis Ventures, Founders Fund, Ghost Angel, Glynn Capital, Morgenthaler Ventures, Practice Fusion, Scott Banister, SV Angel
Posted on: April 17, 2012 by Jonathan Marino
Shasta Ventures led a $4.5 million Series A round in San Francisco-based on-demand carwash startup Cherry, the company announced today. Founders Fund and a group of angel investors including Bill Lee and Shervin Pishevar joined prior investors David Sacks and Keith Rabois on the deal. The funds will be used to spread Cherry’s service to [...]
Tags: Founders Fund, Shasta Ventures
Posted on: January 11, 2012 by Alastair Goldfisher
San Francisco-based Practice Fusion, which provides Web-based electronic medical record management for physicians, has raised $2 million in funding from angel investors Jed Stremel (who formerly oversaw Facebook’s mobile strategy), Ali Partovi and Hadi Partovi. Practice Fusion has now raised more than $38 million in total funding since early 2009 from Founders Fund, Band of [...]
Tags: Founders Fund, Jed Stremel, Practice Fusion