Adams Street Partners led a $12 million fundraising through equity financing in Five9 Inc, the cloud-based contact center software firm. Partech International and Hummer Winblad Venture Capital also participated in the investment. To date, Five9, based in Calif., has raised $49 million. PRESS RELEASE: SAN RAMON, Calif., Apr 19, 2012 — Five9 Inc., the leading [...]

The venture industry is going through several transformations at once, so advice from experienced practitioners is worth the listen. That’s why I tuned in Tuesday morning as Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Managing Director Ann Winblad, Bridgescale Partners Managing Director Rob Chaplinsky and U.S. Venture Partners General Partner Paul Matteucci took the stage at the AlwaysOn [...]

OptiMine Software has raised $3.6 million in Series B financing led by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. OptiMine, which develops keyword bid optimization software for large paid-search advertising programs, will use the funding to bolster product development and sales efforts. The company is based in St. Paul, Minn.

6connect, a two-year-old Palo Alto-based startup that’s helping enterprises transition from the fourth revision in the development of the Internet Protocol (IP) to the sixth, has closed on a $2 million Series A round led by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Mark Gorenberg, a managing partner at the San Francisco-based firm, will join 6connect’s board as [...]

Omniture founder Josh James has wrapped up another $33 million in capital for his business intelligence company Domo (formerly known as Shacho). In May, James sealed $10 million in commitments from angel investors Marc Benioff and Ron Conway, and from Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Andreesen Horowitz. The company will sell its technology a cloud-based software-as-a-service, Reuters reported. Domo is based in Salt Lake City.

Brand-name angel investors Marc Benioff and Ron Conway joined venture firms Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Andreesen Horowitz in a $10 million round for Shacho Inc. Sacho, formed by Omniture founder Josh James, a working name for the business intelligence technology start-up, which has yet to launch. Other investors in the $10 million round include SuccessFactors founder and chief executive Lars Dalgaard; Akamai CEO Paul Sagan; Symantec Chairman John Thomspon; Facebook vice president Dan Rose; and marketing firm WPP.

It should come as little surprise to VC watchers that Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is often quoted and talked about in the media. The firm, which boasts such high-profile partners as John Doerr and Brook Byers in addition to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, also [...]