5 posts and columns on Atlas Venture

News Byte

Keas Uses Social Pressure and Teamwork to Improve Employee Health

in Social on December 20, 2011 at 8:06 am PT

Keas, a long-evolving online health site, now sells access to its Web-based social game to companies, including large concerns like Pfizer and Bechtel. Employees create Keas accounts where they form teams and compete to complete simple goals, like eating more vegetables and exercising more. Keas has now raised $6.5 million in Series B funding, led by Atlas Venture and Ignition Partners.

Venture Capitalists Actually (Slightly) More Active Than Angels on AngelList

in Social on February 15, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

AngelList ran the numbers this week and found that venture capitalists, including many top firms, are actually more active than angels on its year-old service.

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Funds Invest in Privacy Start-Ups

in News on June 21, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

As privacy snafus mount across companies such as Facebook Inc. and AT&T Inc., venture capitalists have spotted a new market opening and are pumping millions of dollars into privacy-related start-ups. This month, online privacy start-up ReputationDefender Inc. plans to disclose that it has raised $15 million in new venture funding–even though the company wasn’t actively looking for new cash.

Kara Visits Dailymotion in Paris

in News on November 14, 2007 at 1:07 am PT

After my visit to Netvibes, I also went over to another cool Web company here that I have been following for a while: Dailymotion. Based in Paris and funded with $32 million from Atlas Venture and Partech International, the video-sharing site positions itself these days as kind of an anti-YouTube–better at programming, easier to use [...]