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
$11.65mm in Series C
Investors: not announced; previous investors: Redpoint and JAFCO
Read more: SoCalTECH
$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
$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
$5mm in Series A
Investors: GRP (Mark Suster)(lead), Greycroft Partners (Dana Settle), and Matt Coffin (founder of LowerMyBills)
Read more: TechCrunch, SoCalTech
$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
Rumored to be appox. $9mm
Investor: Sequoia Capital (Michael Moritz)
Read more: TechCrunch, PaymentsViews
$5.3mm in Series C
Investors: Madrona, Bain Capital, Khosla Ventures
Read more: TechCrunch
$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
$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
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