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Dan Primack

It’s Alive… Sequoia Capital’s Heritage Fund Returns

Posted on: February 12th, 2010

Sequoia Capital's Heritage program has had more stops and starts than a game of Mother May I. Now it seems to be taking another giant step forward. For the uninitiated, Sequoia Heritage is an outso...


Dan Primack

Is Sequoia Interfering with Portfolio Company Firesale?

Posted on: February 10th, 2010

Intriguing legal kerfuffle in Israel, involving Sequoia Capital and portfolio company SDT, a five year-old maker of what one report described as a “backpack-carried digital nose that sniffs out i...


Alastair Goldfisher

Kleiner Perkins In the Media Spotlight

Posted on: January 13th, 2010

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 D...


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Acton Pharma Raises $15 Million

Posted on: January 6th, 2010

Acton Pharmaceuticals Inc., a Marlborough, Mass.-based respiratory pharma startup, has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital. The company also announced that it has licensed th...


Alastair Goldfisher

Message Received: RingCentral CEO Likes Cloud Computing Phone Systems

Posted on: December 16th, 2009

VC-backed RingCentral was started on a shoestring, with institutional investors arriving relatively late in the game, according to founder and CEO Vlad Shmunis. The Russian-born Shmunis previously ...


Deborah Gage

Azure Made No Investments For Over A Year

Posted on: December 10th, 2009

It was between February of 2008 and May of 2009 that the venture firm completely pulled back, according to a couple of the partners -- not because they'd stopped looking for investments, but because t...


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Outright.com Raises $5 Million

Posted on: November 16th, 2009

Outright.com, a provider of Web-based bookkeeping services for small businesses, has raised $5 million in second-round funding, according to VentureWire. Sequoia Capital led the deal, and was joined b...


Deborah Gage

AdMob: What Internet Bubble?

Posted on: November 9th, 2009

Jim Goetz of Sequoia Capital -- who joined AdMob's board and led its Series A round in September 2006 -- says the company was not overvalued and there is no Internet bubble. "It's way too early to tal...


Deborah Gage

5 AdMob Questions For Linda Gridley

Posted on: November 9th, 2009

The whopping $750 million in stock that Google paid for AdMob today is 16 times the $46.8 million in venture capital that the mobile ad network raised. Gridley -- who heads the investment bank Grid...


Dan Primack

When VC and Buyout Firms Team Up…

Posted on: October 22nd, 2009

WSJ blogger Scott Austin is reporting that Sequoia Capital is a small part of the consortium that has agreed to buy private bank First Republic from Bank of America, for more than $1 billion. Don’...


Deborah Gage

Jive Software - A Sequoia Survivor

Posted on: October 20th, 2009

At least so far. It was a little over a year ago -- the week the stock market tanked --  that Sequoia summoned Jive and its other portfolio companies to a secret meeting so they could lay out how bad...


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Jive Software Raises $12 Million

Posted on: October 20th, 2009

Jive Software Inc., a Portland, Ore.-based maker of social business collaboration software, has raised $12 million in Series B funding from return backer Sequoia Capital. It previously raised $15 mill...


Dan Primack

Sources: Sequoia To Consolidate Fund Strategy

Posted on: October 8th, 2009

Sequoia Capital is holding its next annual LP meeting in China. The objective is to emphasize the Silicon Valley-based firm’s global reach, which peHUB has learned will include a planned consolid...


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Big Win for Sequoia Capital: Peak IPO Prices in Hong Kong

Posted on: September 29th, 2009

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Shares of Peak Sport Products Co (1968.HK) opened below the IPO price on Tuesday but Sequoia Capital, which has backed the strong local rival for Nike Inc (NKE.N) in China since ...
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