Posted on: March 22, 2013 by Connie Loizos
Earlier this month, venture capitalist Tim Draper announced he was launching “Draper University,” a boarding school for entrepreneurs aged 18 to 26, who will come to San Mateo for one of the school’s four eight-week-long sessions each year. Now, Draper University has announced a Heidi Roizen scholarship for female applicants. Roizen, a longtime venture capitalist and former Stanford classmate of Draper, will fund the scholarships. The “university” opens its doors April 17.
Tags: Draper University, Heidi Roizen, Tim Draper
Posted on: October 25, 2012 by Connie Loizos
Guanxi, a Cayman-based mobile social network services startup, has closed on an undiscloed amount of Series A funding led by SingTel Innov8 and venture capitalist Tim Draper. Guanxi recently completed its spin-off from mInfo, a Chinese mobile search and marketing provider.
Tags: Guanxi, SingTel Innov8, Tim Draper
Posted on: March 30, 2012 by Lawrence J. Aragon
Trending in the news this week: Audax Group, Canopy Financial, Chamath Palihapitiya, Eric Schmidt, Henry Ellenbogen, Identified, Indiana Public Retirement System, KPS Capital Partners, SecureNet, Sterling Partners, T. Rowe Price and Bill and Tim Draper.
Tags: Audax Group, Canopy Financial, Chamath Palihapitiya, Eric Schmidt, Henry Ellenbogen, HHI Group Holdings, Identified, Indiana Public Retirement System, KPS Capital Partners, SecureNet, Seed Investing, Sterling Partners, T. Rowe Price New Horizons Fund, Tim Draper
Posted on: November 2, 2011 by cnolan
San Francisco-based startup Rounds has added $3 million in financing to expand its interactive “live hangout” platform. Verizon Investments Inc. led the round, with additional funding from Rhodium and Draper Fisher Jurvetson founder Tim Draper.
Tags: Rhodium, Tim Draper, Verizon Investments Inc.
Posted on: August 2, 2011 by cnolan
Tim Draper, the founder and a managing director of venture firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, has invested in Clearbridge Accelerator, the Singapore incubation arm of Asian venture firm Clearbridge Partners. The incubator works with local and overseas research institutions to commercialize various technologies in sectors including biomedical devices, nanotechnology, advanced material sciences and computational algorithms, the company said. Terms of the investment were not released.
Tags: Clearbridge Accelerator, Clearbridge Partners, Tim Draper
Posted on: June 16, 2011 by Connie Loizos
Late last year, the alternative trading platform Xpert Financial made much of its approval from the SEC and FINRA to automate the business of providing liquidity to startups. It kind of had to. It had entered into direct competition with SecondMarket and Sharespost, both now 800-pound gorillas in the world of private placements. At the [...]
Tags: Thomas Foley, Tim Draper, Xpert Financial
Posted on: May 12, 2011 by cnolan
TOA Technologies, a provider of mobile workforce management software for businesses, has closed on $17.2 million in Series D financing. Sutter Hill Ventures led the round, which includes existing investors Intel Capital and Draper Triangle Ventures. Additional new shareholders include Draper Fisher Jurvetson founder Tim Draper and Fort Washington Capital Partners Group. Andy Sheehan, a managing director at Sutter Hill Ventures, will join the company’s board. TOA Technologies is based in Cleveland.
Tags: Draper Triangle Ventures, Fort Washington Capital Partners Group, Intel Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures, Tim Draper
Posted on: April 28, 2011 by reuters-news
(Reuters) – A group of Facebook shareholders is seeking to offload $1 billion worth of shares on the secondary market, a sale that would value the company at more than $70 billion, according to five sources with direct knowledge of the situation. It would represent one of the largest transactions of Facebook shares to date [...]
Tags: CMEA Capital, Digital Sky Technologies, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Facebook, General Atlantic, T. Rowe Price, Tim Draper
Posted on: April 14, 2011 by Alastair Goldfisher
Salt Lake City-based Instructure Canvas, a provider of a cloud-based learning management systems, plans to announce on Friday that it has raised $8 million in Series B funding from OpenView Venture Partners, EPIC Ventures, TomorrowVentures and Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurveston. As part of the funding, Firas Raouf from OpenView has joined the board. [...]
Tags: Education, Epic Ventures, Instructure Canvas, OpenView Venture Partners, Tim Draper, TomorrowVentures
Posted on: February 14, 2011 by Mark Boslet
If you counted the number of times William Draper III used the word “cooperation” at a public event last week…well, you might not think you were in Silicon Valley. But there you were – right at the heart of it – at the Rosewood Hotel on Sand Hill Road, next to where venture firms syndicate [...]
Tags: Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Buyers, Mark Heesen, Ted Schlein, The Startup Game, Tim Draper, William Draper III