Tapetera said Wednesday that it has secured $2 million in Series A funding led by Silicon Valley investor Terence Garnett. Others participating included salesforce.com, as well as M.R. Rangaswami and David Murphy. San Francisco-based Tapetera develops Apple mobile enterprise apps.

Redpoint Ventures’ Menlo Park offices must be an awfully happy place to have been these last 12 months. The VC has racked up billions of dollars’ worth of IPOs, sales to strategic buyers and even launched itself into a handful of new investments as of late. Some of its deals—like eye-popping multiples on Cloud.com, or [...]

One can gauge the health of the startup economy by poring over venture funding stats. But a far more simplistic approach is to walk around the neighborhoods that startups favor, and see how much prime office space is still for rent. Based on a recent trip through San Francisco’s entrepreneur-heavy South of Market (SoMa) district, [...]

Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures and Salesforce.com joined a $32 million Series D round for HubSpot, the companies said Tuesday. The funding was the first time the three firms have invested together in a startup. The round brings to $65 million the capital HubSpot, a maker of online marketing and Web analysts software, has raised since [...]

Salesforce.com, the listed, California-based provider of enterprise cloud computing and customer and collaboration relationship management (CRM) applications, spent $31 million to acquire Dimdim, according to an announcement at the company’s Web site. According to the deal announcement, the deal will extend Salesforce.com’s Chatter collaboration platform with critical real-time communication technologies. Dimdim’s VC investors include Index Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners.