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Outbrain Raises $35M In Series D Funding For Content Discovery Platform
[12.14.11] Today, content discovery platform Outbrain is announcing it has secured $35 million in Series D funding in a round led by Index Ventures. [More >>]
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LightSpeed Venture Partners leads TaskRabbit’s $17.8 Million Series B Round
[12.14.11] TaskRabbit, the San Francisco-based startup that lets people outsource errands, announced today it has raised $17.8 million in Series B financing. [More >>]
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Ex-Apple Leaders Push the Humble Thermostat Into the Digital Age
[10.25.11] Tony Fadell, a former Apple executive who led iPod and iPhone development now working on a learning thermostat. [More >>]
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Facebook acquires Q&A startup friend.ly
[10.14.11] Facebook has acquired friend.ly, a Mountain View, Calif.-based startup that makes a Facebook app for asking and answering questions with other people on the social network. [More >>]
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Memoir Systems Introduces Groundbreaking Technology for Networking and Multicore SoC Products
[10.3.11] Newly introduced embedded memory IP solutions offer unparalleled performance for network processors, switches and multicore processor products [More >>]
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The clouds are breaking: The financier’s perspective of thin film post-Solyndra
[9.29.11] Peter Nieh, Managing Director of Lightspeed Ventures believes that the reaction to Solyndra’s bankruptcy was overblown – as their investment Stion goes from strength to strength. [More >>]
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Lightspeed Venture Partners Promotes Bipul Sinha and Arif Janmohamed to Partner
[9.13.11] Lightspeed announced the promotion ofBipul Sinha and Arif Janmohamed to Partner. [More >>]
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Investors make $20M bet on MapR to win Hadoop war
[8.30.11] MapR has raised a $20 million Series B round from Redpoint Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners & NEA. [More >>]
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Embrane Secures 18 Million Series B Funding
[8.25.11] Embrane, creators of the first distributed software platform for powering on-demand elastic network services, today announced that it has received $18M in Series-B financing, led by NEA. [More >>]
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Lightspeed Venture Partners Cashing In On Enterprise Flash
[8.8.11] Three enterprise flash start-ups have reached an exit in the last three months, and Lightspeed Venture Partners has been an investor in all of them. [More >>]
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Fusion-io to Acquire IO Turbine
[8.4.11] Under terms of the agreement, Fusion-io will pay up to approximately $95 million, subject to purchase price adjustments, for all outstanding securities of IO Turbine. [More >>]
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Fusion-io Prices Initial Public Offering
[6.9.11] Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) announced today the pricing of its initial public offering of 12,300,000 shares of common stock at a price to the public of $19.00 per share. [More >>]
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