This Week in Venture Capital #4 with Dave Travers

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This Week in Venture Capital #4 with Dave Travers

This Week in Venture Capital #04 with Dave Travers

Mark Suster hosts This Week in Venture Capital with guest Dave Travers, Principal at Rustic Canyon Partners

This Week in Venture Capital airs LIVE every Wednesday at 2pm PST / 5pm EST with Host Mark Suster.

Mark Suster, Investment Partner at GRP Partners. You can find Mark’s insights into issues facing entrepreneurs, technologists and the venture capital industry at Both Sides of the Table.

Mark is on several Boards including RingRevenue, GumGum, Ad.ly and Burstly. Mark is an Angel Investor in Affordit, ExpenseBay, EagleCrest Energy and several others companies. Mark founded Launchpad LA, a mentorship program helping LA based companies get funding. For more information on Mark you can visit his site, Both Sides of the Table.

VC Financings:

Zong

$15mm in Series

Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal)

Read more: TechCrunch

Blippy

$11.2mm in Series A, rumored pre-money of $35mm; $1.6mm angel raised in Jan 2010

Investors: August Capital (David Hornik) (lead) with existing investors Charles River Ventures

Read more: TechCrunch

In late April 2010, VentureBeat published that Blippy credit card numbers were published on Google search followed by Blippy’s response

Wildfire Interactive

$4mm in Series A

Investors: Summit Partners (lead), Jeff Clavier, Aydin Senkut, Gary Vaynerchuk

Read more: TechCrunch

ShoeDazzle

$13mm in Series B

Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners (Jeremy Liew) (lead), with existing investors Polaris Venture Partners, Crosscut Ventures

Read more: TechCrunch

OpenCandy

$5.0mm in Series B

Investors: Google Ventures

Read more: TechCrunch

M&A

Jigsaw (acquired by Salesforce.com)

$142mm plus earnout of up to $14.2mm

LabPixies (acquired by Google/iGoogle)

$15-$25mm (rumored)

Read more: TechCrunch

roberta
@js you can find the RSS feeds here http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-venture-capital/about/
js
Great show – though 4th mp3 downloaded by hand from the site.
Where is the mp3 rss for the trophy kids?
thisweek
@js you can find the RSS feeds here
http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-venture-capita…
http://www.domainnoob.com/blog/2010/04/naming-your-company-a-venture-capitalist-tells-you-how/ Naming Your Company – A Venture Capitalist Tells You How | DomainNoob.com
[...] company to Salesforce.com. He focuses on early-stage technology companies. He is also the host of This Week In Venture Capital, a new show on Jason Calacanis’s ThisWeekIn.com network of web shows. In the chat room [...]
scottknight
Can we get the audio version up in iTunes? Every other twin show has one except this. Thanks, great show!
thisweek
@scottknight – you can find TWiVC Audio in the iTunes Store, we'll add the
image to the website soon to make it easier to access
cgcardona
My second favorite show on the network after This week in startups
http://twitter.com/marks75 Mark Senape
Another great show from thisweekin.com. twist and twivc open up back round work that goes in to starting and funding a company which was not available just 2years ago.Great job again.
thisweek
@Mark Senape we appreciate your comment. Thank you for watching!
charles_shodijo
Excellent show this week, very interesting
jony
Holy Crap! this site has some Awesome content. Gj gw
http://twitter.com/AndrewKorf Andrew Korf
Wow. This was a great first show… great work you guys – network television and increasingly public tv/radio are becoming completely irrelevant for me with quality, sharp, insightful web based programming like this initial effort by @msuster and the @thisweekin crew. I hope you guys keep TWiVC rolling. Very solid. Easily could be best in class if not already.
http://skotzko.com AndrewSkotzko
Great episode! Like the emphasis on mobile here, hope to see more of that in the future. It's such an interesting space.