Foundation Capital

How to Avoid a VC Shotgun Wedding

Charles Moldow, general partner, Foundation Capital in Voices on December 13, 2011 at 1:43 pm PT

In venture capital — as in romance — playing it slow is the way to go.

Cloud Storage Start-Up Zetta Lands $9 Million Funding Round

Arik Hesseldahl in News on September 14, 2011 at 6:15 am PT

Cloud-based storage and backup is getting more attention these days. Zetta aims to bring it to midsized companies.

Airy Lands $1.5M for Educational Games; Peter Thiel Foundation Does a Happy Dance

Drake Martinet in News on August 3, 2011 at 5:01 am PT

Peter Thiel wanted to make a statement about the higher education bubble by paying kids to become entrepreneurs instead of going to college. The first funded Thiel fellow did both.

Pixazza Changes Name to Luminate, Launches Image Apps Platform

Kara Swisher in Media on July 27, 2011 at 3:00 am PT

Pixazza is dead. Long live Luminate.

No Longer a One-Man Shop, Read It Later Raises $2.5M

Liz Gannes in Media on July 26, 2011 at 12:00 pm PT

The informatively named content-saving start-up Read It Later, which for most of its four years has been a one-man labor of love and ramen, has raised Series A funding of $2.5 million from Foundation Capital, Baseline Ventures, Google Ventures, Founders Collective and various angels.

eBay, Others Trip Over Each Other to Define Social Commerce

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on June 15, 2011 at 8:45 am PT

On the same day a start-up is launching with the goal of being eBay with a social twist, the online auctions giant is also unveiling some of its own plans for social commerce.

Fired Facebook Acquisitions Exec Lands at Twitter

Liz Gannes in Social on May 2, 2011 at 10:02 am PT

Mike Brown, the former Facebook corporate development executive who was dismissed for buying its stock on secondary markets, has taken a similar job at Twitter.

InsideView, an Intelligence Dashboard for Salespeople, Raises $12 Million

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 24, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

A personal CIA for salespeople, InsideView aims to turn data from social media, financial databases and other sources into useful business intelligence.

Video: Pixazza's Bob Lisbonne Talks About "AdSense for Images"

Kara Swisher in News on March 22, 2011 at 12:50 pm PT

Recently, BoomTown took a walk down digital Memory Lane with Bob Lisbonne, CEO of Pixazza, the photo-tagging service that has nicknamed itself “AdSense for images.” That’s because Lisbonne used to be a big wheel at Netscape Communications. We talked about the old days, of course, but more about the new days and his business focused on putting all kinds of advertising within online images.

Transphorm Nabs $20 Million From Google Ventures, Kleiner

Kara Swisher in News on February 23, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

Yet another “stealth” start-up came out of hiding today with a big Silicon Valley funding. That would be Transphorm, a power conversion technology company, that has raised $20 million more in a Series C financing led by Google Ventures and including Kleiner Perkins, Foundation Capital and Lux Capital. That adds to $18 million already raised.