6 posts and columns on IVP

Eucalyptus, Creator of Roll-Your-Own Cloud Platform, Raises $30 Million

in News on April 18 at 7:08 am PT

It used to be a big headache to move workloads between a public cloud provider like Amazon and a privately operated data center. It no longer has to be.
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$20 Million Later, Voxer Raises Its First $30 Million in Venture Capital (Video)

in Mobile on April 12 at 3:55 pm PT

Building a good walkie-talkie app is harder than you might think, according to Voxer CEO Tom Katis.
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Why Groupon, Twitter & Other Hot Private Companies Are Cashing Out

in News on December 31, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Early shareholders in the hottest privately-held technology companies are increasingly finding liquidity without an acquisition or a public offering, with Groupon Inc. being the most recent example. The daily-deals company is using $344 million of a fresh $500 million funding round to buy shares from insiders.

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IVP Woos Hot Web Companies Before They Grow Old

in News on October 15, 2010 at 1:56 pm PT

If you think early-stage investing is the only place to be in venture capital, you haven’t been paying attention to Institutional Venture Partners. Although it’s a senior citizen in VC with 13 funds to its name, the late-stage investor is behind two of the Web’s hottest companies, Twitter Inc. and Zynga Game Network Inc.

There's No Biz Like No Biz at Twitter! (And Will Google Swoop In Before It All Comes Crashing Down?)

in News on February 13, 2009 at 2:41 pm PT

Since BoomTown constantly called the $15 billion valuation of Facebook “insane” when Microsoft forked over $240 million in 2007, and gave Slide’s Max Levchin a very hard time when his widget company got a $550 million valuation a year ago, it’s only fair that I say something equally appropriate about Twitter. The hot microblogging service just got its very own $250 million valuation, but without a dime of revenue in sight. (I know, Bijan, it’s coming, it’s coming!) After all, Facebook and Slide got their funding in boom times and here we are hurtling toward a possible Depression: The Sequel. But I am torn.

No Revenue? No Problem. More Money for Twitter on the Way.

in Media on January 25, 2009 at 9:21 am PT

Remember the good old days of Bubble 2.0? When a webby company with no real business plan could raise piles of money at an eye-popping valuation? Those days haven’t gone away for Twitter, which is raising another $20 million or so in a deal that will peg the company’s worth at $200 million or more.