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Glooko Raises $3.5M for Diabetes Logs

Liz Gannes in News on January 30 at 5:01 am PT

Mobile diabetes-management company Glooko has raised $3.5 million more in a Series A round from its impressive list of investors, which include Chamath Palihapitiya’s Social+Capital Partnership, Bill Campbell, Vint Cerf, Judy Estrin and Andy Hertzfeld. The Palo Alto, Calif., company sells a $39.95 cord that connects to blood glucose meters and feeds data to a free iPhone app. The promise of the company is to elevate the geek hobby of quantifying oneself to the next level — health care.

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Academic Social Network Raises Cash From Former Facebook Exec and Others

Tricia Duryee in Social on January 2 at 10:57 am PT

New York-based Coursekit, a social network for instructors to manage courses and interact with students, has raised $5 million in a first round. The round was led by Social+Capital Partnership, a firm started by former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya. Existing investor IA Ventures and new angel investors also participated. Coursekit, which became available in November, was founded by Joseph Cohen, 20, and two other undergraduate students at University of Pennsylvania.

Yammer Poaches Another VP From Salesforce.com

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 9, 2011 at 5:59 am PT

Once is a fluke, but two in as many months begins to look like a pattern.

The Facebook Phone: The “Slayer” That Wasn’t

Liz Gannes in Mobile on November 22, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

Before its current phone project, Facebook had a special ops team that explored building its phone with hardware tightly integrated with software. When it didn’t work out, many from that team left the company.

Former Facebook Exec Palihapitiya Adds Two Partners to His New VC Firm

Liz Gannes in News on October 23, 2011 at 9:04 am PT

Ted Maidenberg and Mamoon Hamid, who lead investments in LivingSocial, Yammer and Box.net for U.S. Venture Partners, will join the Social+Capital Partnership.

Airbnb, Investor Chamath Palihapitiya Settle Differences; Employees Will Get Liquidity

Kara Swisher in News on October 2, 2011 at 1:57 pm PT

The former Facebook employee is back in the fold for Airbnb’s financing, after further conversations with the apartment-sharing company regarding its upcoming financing round.

Email: Chamath Palihapitiya Decries Airbnb’s Recent $112M Funding for Founder Control and Cash-Out

Kara Swisher in News on October 1, 2011 at 1:39 pm PT

Here’s some electric weekend reading for those interested in the push-and-pull between venture investors and start-ups in the frothy Web 2.0 environment.

Wheelz Up: Another P2P Car-Sharing Service Launches

Liz Gannes in Social on September 28, 2011 at 9:33 am PT

Peer-to-peer car-sharing service Wheelz launches today at Stanford with a team that includes the former CEO of Mercedes-Benz’s North American R&D.

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SecondMarket Employees and Shareholders Sell $13M in Shares on SecondMarket

Liz Gannes in News on September 27, 2011 at 8:53 am PT

SecondMarket said today that it had used its own liquidity program to sell $13 million worth of employee and existing shareholder stock. The SecondMarket shares, which were sold at a valuation of $160 million, were bought by Chamath Palihapitiya’s The Social+Capital Partnership, A Grade Investments, Yuri Milner and others. A tech company might call this “eating our own dog food,” but SecondMarket CEO Barry Silbert more delicately called it “eating our own cooking” in a blog post this morning.

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