U.S. Venture Capital News

Jive Software Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering

December 13, 2011

Palo Alto, Calif. – Jive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: JIVE) today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 13,439,600 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $12.00 per share. The shares are expected to begin trading on The NASDAQ Global Select Market … Read more →

Virident Closes Series C Funding of $21M, with Investments from Data Center Industry Leaders

November 10, 2011

MILPITAS, Calif, — Virident, Inc., a performance leader in flash-based Storage Class Memory (SCM) solutions, today announced it has completed a $21 million Series C funding led by current investor Globespan Capital Partners with strategic investments from Intel Capital, Cis… Read more →

Sencha Raises $15 Million in Series B Funding Led By Jafco Ventures

October 25, 2011

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[SenchaCon 2011 Developer Conference]: Sencha for desktop and mobile application developers], the leading provider of HTML5 frameworks and tools for desktop and mobile application developers, has completed a $15 million Series B round of funding. Jafco Ventures … Read more →

Dropbox Raises $250 Million in Series B Funding

October 18, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Dropbox, a service that lets people bring their documents, photos and videos everywhere and share them easily, announced today that it has completed a $250 million Series B financing. The company will use the funds to accelerate its rapid growth, make acquisi… Read more →

Achievers Raises $24.5 Million in Financing, Led by Sequoia Capital

September 28, 2011

San Francisco and Toronto: Achievers (formerly I Love Rewards), a global employee rewards and Social Recognition company, announced today that it has secured $24.5 million in a Series C financing, led by Sequoia Capital with existing investors, JLA Ventures, GrandBanks Capital and… Read more →

MeLLmo Secures $30M Funding Led by Sequoia Capital

September 15, 2011

SAN DIEGO (BUSINESS WIRE) – MeLLmo Inc., provider of innovative mobile applications that allow users to view and interact with critical business information on-the-go, today announced that it has secured $30 million through its first round of institutional funding led by Sequoia Capi… Read more →

Teradyne Announces Agreement to Acquire LitePoint, Leader in Wireless Product Test

September 14, 2011

NORTH READING, Mass. – (BUSINESS WIRE) -Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE:TER) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase privately held LitePoint Corporation, a leading provider of production line test equipment for wireless products including smart phones, tablets and W… Read more →

10gen, Sponsor of MongoDB, Announces $20M in Funding

September 12, 2011

NEW YORK, NY and SAN FRANCISCO, CA – (Marketwire – Sep 12, 2011) – 10gen, which sponsors leading open source non-relational database MongoDB, today announced it has secured $20 million in financing, led by Sequoia Capital and with participation from 10gen’s other existing investors Fl… Read more →

Flickme.com Brings the Power of 'Social' to the Streaming Movie Experience

August 30, 2011

SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug 30, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — —Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. are the First Major Studios to Supply Content for Flickme’s New Social Spin on Movie Watching

Silicon Valley start-up, flickme.com, launched its social streaming movie service today with initial l… Read more →

Hearsay Social Secures $18 Million From NEA and Sequoia Capital

July 28, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ – Hearsay Social, the enterprise SaaS company that empowers brands with local representatives or branches to successfully and compliantly embrace social media (www.facebook.com/hearsaysocial), a… Read more →