Capital Chaos

 Teneros (Mountain View, CA) has raised a staggering amount of money to make sure your email never goes down.  The company which had previously secured $44.5M over 3 rounds just pulled in another $40M led by Advanced Equities with participation from previous investors Goldman Sachs, Sevin Rosen Funds, New Enterprise Associates and Star Ventures.
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 Widgetbox (San Francisco, CA) added another $8M through the efforts of Northgate Capital, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital and private investor Michael Dearing to the list of returning investors into the company (The company had done a Series A back in February of 2007 for an undisclosed amount). 
Widgetbox operates the largest distributed community of […]

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 Visible Measures (Boston, MA) is the latest “eaves dropping” software company to garner significant funding.  Lead by Mohr Davidow Ventures, with participation from Series A investor General Catalyst, the company has now secured $18.85M in less than a year. 
Visible Measures has created a data-application software tool (VisibleSuite) that measures audience behavior for how users interact […]

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 Automattic (WordPress) is becomming one of the leading web providers online.  The company which runs WordPress (2.2M blogs) pulled in $29.5M led by Polaris Ventures and also included a strategic investment from The New York Times Co.  Polaris had participated in the previous round with True Ventures and Radar Ventures.  The move by the NYT is […]

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