49 posts and columns on Khosla Ventures

News Byte

Quote-Saving App Banters to Shut Down; Founders Jump to Betaworks

in Social on May 15 at 4:42 pm PT

After struggling to attract a significant user base over the past year, conversation-saving app Banters is closing up shop, co-founder Lauren Leto announced via company blog on Tuesday. Leto and partner Patrick Moberg had raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from the likes of Chris Dixon, Khosla Ventures and SV Angel. The two will join Betaworks — Leto as general manager of the firm’s Findings product and Moberg as a “hacker-in-residence.”

Sources: Google Is Close to Buying Meebo

in News on May 11 at 7:42 pm PT

Google is in talks to acquire Meebo, according to two sources close to the situation.
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News Byte

Viddy Raises $30 Million in Series B Financing Round

in Social on May 11 at 6:00 am PT

Social video application Viddy has raised $30 million in venture capital in a Series B round of financing, the company announced on Friday morning. Investors in the round include NEA Ventures, Battery Ventures, Goldman Sachs and Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures. The additional funds come after an initial $6 million Series A raised in February, which was led by Battery Ventures and included Qualcomm and Greycroft Ventures.

Big-Data Tracker Metamarkets Gets New Money to Back Its Newish CEO

in Social on April 26 at 4:00 am PT

Khosla Ventures leads a $15 million round for the three-year-old start-up, which swapped out co-founders a few months ago.
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Square’s Next Round Could Swipe a $4 Billion Valuation

in Commerce on April 18 at 4:00 am PT

Square is seeking to raise a fresh round of capital at a valuation of up to $4 billion, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.
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Yammer Lands $85 Million Funding Round From Draper Fisher Jurvetson

in News on February 29 at 11:58 am PT

The rumors are true. But, boy, were they ever off on the numbers.
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Fast-Growing Cloud Management Start-Up Okta Hires Two New VPs

in News on February 1 at 7:38 am PT

Customers are up threefold and end users are up by a factor of six. Time to put some more talent on the executive team? Yes.
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Miso Helps Watchers and Networks Annotate TV

in Social on December 14, 2011 at 9:28 am PT

The social TV start-up Miso today introduced a new iPhone app built to give added information, products, links and commentary while people are watching TV.
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eBay Buys Hunch

in Commerce on November 21, 2011 at 6:57 am PT

One of a string of pickups for eBay.
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Kaggle Solves Big Data Problems With Contests — And Now Has Big Funders and $11M on Board

in News on November 3, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

What if the Netflix Prize model — solving hard problems about big data sets using contests — could be applied to all sorts of other things? A remarkable start-up called Kaggle is doing just that.
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Khosla Venture’s $1.05 Billion Fund

in News, October 13, 2011 at 4:07 pm PT

What Bad Economy? Three Big Silicon Valley VCs Poised to Haul in $2B in New Fund Raising.

in News, September 8, 2011 at 6:15 am PT

Ness: The Latest, Smartest and Prettiest App to Help You Figure Out Where to Eat

in Social, August 25, 2011 at 1:22 pm PT

Skype Pays Around $85 Million for GroupMe

Jawbone Nabs $70 Million in a Jammed Box of Funding

in Mobile, July 12, 2011 at 12:30 pm PT

Former Top Editor Makes Another Talent Raid on AOL’s Engadget for New Competing Gadget Site

in Media, July 7, 2011 at 9:24 am PT

RockMelt Raises $30M More for Social Browser. But Could It Be More Than Social?

in Social, June 28, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

Former AOL Media Exec Marty Moe to Join Engadget Gang of Eight at SB Nation

in News, April 6, 2011 at 8:49 am PT

SB Nation Sacks AOL in Raid of Former Engadget Team for Competing New Tech Site, As AOL Zeroes in on New EiC

in News, April 3, 2011 at 7:34 pm PT

Video: GroupMe Dudes Talk Group Messaging Phenom (and Drink Beer at the Same Time)

in News, March 14, 2011 at 3:01 pm PT

MyLikes CEO Bindu Reddy on How Twitter is the New TV (Video)

in Social, March 1, 2011 at 7:30 am PT

Google and Khosla Ventures Back Former Googlers' Weather Insurance Start-up

in Social, February 28, 2011 at 2:42 pm PT

On Deck, Which Helps Small Businesses Get Capital, Lands Some of Its Own

in Enterprise, January 27, 2011 at 4:50 am PT

Square Confirms $27.5 Million in New Round of Funding

in Commerce, January 10, 2011 at 11:36 am PT

Lookout: Mobile Security Picks Up Funding Steam

in Mobile, December 22, 2010 at 5:03 pm PT