August Capital

Tophatter (A.K.A. Blippy 2.0) Gathers a Lively Crowd for Live Auctions

Liz Gannes in Commerce on April 10 at 4:30 am PT

Blippy is now called Tophatter. It’s also a social shopping product, but it’s totally different.

Voices

Ten Years of Venture Capital Blogging

David Hornik, General Partner, August Capital in Voices on March 6 at 2:20 pm PT

It is hard to imagine that blogging was an innovation for the venture capital industry 10 years ago. But it was. The venture industry was a black box, and the VCs liked it that way.

News Byte

VMware to Acquire Storage Software Company Virsto

Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 11 at 3:49 pm PT

VMware said today that it reached a deal to acquire Virsto, a maker of software that specializes in optimizing storage in virtual and cloud computing environments. Financial terms were not disclosed. Virsto was founded in 2007, and had raised about $24 million in venture capital funding from August Capital, Canaan Partners, InterWest Partners, Southern Cross Venture Partners and Correlation Ventures. VMware shares fell more than 2 percent during the day, to $77.04 per share.

Urban Airship Nabs $25 Million in Additional Funding

Ina Fried in Mobile on February 6 at 5:00 am PT

August Capital is the latest investor in the Portland-based push notifications company.

Viral Video: “Lucky Ones” Tech Mashup for Hurricane Sandy

Kara Swisher in Media on January 23 at 8:03 am PT

Sing it, Silicon Valley.

Ditto Raises $3 Million for 3-D Tech That Lets You Virtually Try On Before You Buy

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 26, 2012 at 3:15 am PT

Ditto has raised $3 million from August Capital and other individual investors to continue developing a fairly spooky “virtual fitting” technology.

And It’s Off: Splunk Rockets 108 Percent in IPO Debut

Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 19, 2012 at 2:51 pm PT

To infinity and beyond, then?

Splunk, Big Data’s First IPO, Begins Trading on Nasdaq Today

Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 19, 2012 at 6:31 am PT

If you have a machine, you can probably use Splunk’s technology to measure what it does, and to make that data useful.

Seven Questions for Splunk CEO Godfrey Sullivan

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on September 19, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

Machines of every kind — from Web servers to thermostats — generate data that can be useful in ways that are hard to imagine until you start looking at it. Software start-up Splunk makes that process easy.

News Byte

RelayRides Tops Off the Tank to Fuel Car Sharing Service

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on August 17, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

RelayRides, a car-sharing service which connects people with available cars nearby, has added an additional $3.6 million to its first round of capital. It has now raised $10 million. Shasta Ventures and Lisa Gansky, author of The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing, are joining Google Ventures and August Capital in the round, which will pay for its expansion in San Francisco and Boston.