Episode

TWiVC May 12: Jason Calacanis

Our guest this week is Jason Calacanis.

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.

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Venture Financings

SocialVibe

$11.65mm in Series C

Investors: not announced; previous investors: Redpoint and JAFCO

Read more:  SoCalTECH

StackOverflow

$6mm in Series A

Investors: Union Square Ventures (Brad Burnham)(lead), Ron Conway, Chris Dixon, Caterina Fake, Naval Ravikant, Nirav Tolia, Joshua Schachter, Micah Siegel, Bob Pasker

Read more: VentureBeat

Invidi

$23mm in Series D

Investors: Google (Shishir Mehrotra, Director of Prod Mgmt for Google TV Ads, YouTube Ads)(lead), with GroupM, Motorola Ventures, Menlo Ventures, InterWest, EnerTech Capital, Westbury Equity Partners, BDC Capital

Read more:  VentureBeat, TechCrunch reports that addressable TV adverts are 65% more efficient and 32% more effective

Ad.ly

$5mm in Series A

Investors: GRP (Mark Suster)(lead), Greycroft Partners (Dana Settle), and Matt Coffin (founder of LowerMyBills)

Read more: TechCrunch, SoCalTech

Swipely

$7.5mm in Series A, following an angel round consisting of “millions” in seed capital

Investors: Index Ventures (Danny Rimer)(lead), Greylock Partners, with existing investors First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital (Chris Sacca), Keith Rabois (Slide), SV Angel (Ron Conway), Anton Commissaris (former VP at Mint)

Read more: TechCrunch, peHUB

Klarna

Rumored to be appox. $9mm

Investor:  Sequoia Capital (Michael Moritz)

Read more: TechCrunch, PaymentsViews

AdReady

$5.3mm in Series C

Investors: Madrona, Bain Capital, Khosla Ventures

Read more: TechCrunch

Criteo

$7mm in Series C; last round was in 2008; total $24mm raised

Investor:  Bessemer (Byron Deeter)(lead); previous investor included Index Ventures, did not participate

Read more: TechCrunch, peHUB

WordStream

$6mm in Series B; total raise of $10mm

Investor: Egan-Managed Capital, Sigma Partners

Read more: TechCrunch

Doxo (November 2009 financing, just announced in May 2010 as company exited stealth mode)

$5.25mm in Series A

Investors: Mohr Davidow, Bezos Expeditions (Jeff Bezos)

Read more: TechCrunch

  • http://twitter.com/udioz Udi Oz

    Yay! Jason is back. Suster & Calacanis, the best TWiVC casting ever!

  • http://www.twitter.com/michaeljung Michael Jung

    Great episode again!
    Lots of insights. Really appreciate it – every minute.