Capital Chaos

 Genius (San Mateo, CA) is a very creative sales tool that allows a company’s salesperson to track who is using their site and then ping them to open up an IM session in an effort to answer any questions about a product or service and try and close the deal.  Think of it is as […]

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 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.
Teneros believes, […]

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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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 St. Petersburg Times staff writer, Kris Hundley, is down at the 17th annual Floria Venture Capital Conference which is being held this week at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort.  The two-day event which kicked off yesterday has seen an overwhelming number of both participants (1,200) and VC firms (200) ready to be engaged. 
Kris reports that, “venture […]

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