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Liz Gannes in Social on January 17 at 6:00 am PT
SendGrid has raised $21 million in a Series B round of funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The Boulder, Colo.-based company sends 2.6 billion personalized emails per month to users of services like Pinterest, Airbnb and Path — with 26 billion total emails sent over the past two-and-a-half years.
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Liz Gannes in Social on January 6 at 6:00 am PT
Piazza, a Q&A service for discussions of college coursework with the approval and participation of instructors, has raised $6 million in a round led by Bessemer Venture Partners and including Kapor Capital and Felicis Ventures. The company said it has 100,000 users — many of them in computer science and math classes — and that its average daily login lasts four hours.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 5 at 3:23 pm PT
It’s the first player in the small, rapidly growing mobile ad business to go public instead of selling to a bigger fish.
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Ina Fried in News on December 7, 2011 at 4:30 am PT
Twilio, whose technology
lets developers build telephony and messaging into their apps, announced Wednesday that it has raised $17 million from Bessemer Venture Partners and Union Square Ventures — two of its existing investors. The San Francisco-based company, which has around 100 employees, plans to use the money to help fuel continued hiring and international expansion.
Peter Kafka in Commerce on November 21, 2011 at 6:57 am PT
One of a string of pickups for eBay.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on October 17, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Shopify has secured $15 million in a second round of funding — which might give it the extra padding it needs after eBay announced last week that it had entered the same space.
Pui-Wing Tam, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Social on July 19, 2011 at 11:31 am PT
Reputation.com has raised a $41 million round of funding, as the online privacy start-up aims to expand its business with new offerings.
The new round was led by venture-capital firm August Capital, with participation from Insight Capital and existing investors including Jafco Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Bessemer Venture Partners, said Reputation.com CEO Michael Fertik.
Alistair Barr, Reporter, MarketWatch in News on April 11, 2011 at 12:30 pm PT
The U.S. venture-capital industry had its best fund-raising start since 2001 as three firms dominated, Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association said Monday.
