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