U.S. Venture Capital News

Green Dot Corporation Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering of Class A Common Stock

July 22, 2010

MONROVIA, Calif., Jul 21, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Green Dot Corporation (GDOT 43.01, -0.14, -0.32%), a leading prepaid financial services company, today announced its initial public offering of 4,558,050 shares of its Class A common stock at a price to the public of $36.00 per share. The shares w… Read more →

Jive Closes $30M Investment from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

July 21, 2010

Palo Alto, Calif. – July 21, 2010 – Jive Software, the social business software leader, announced today that is has closed $30 million in Series C financing. The investment was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), with continued participation from Sequoia Capital, the only venture inve… Read more →

Nimble Storage Announces Industry's First Converged Storage And Backup Solution

July 15, 2010

SAN JOSE, Calif. – July 15, 2010 – Nimble Storage, developer of the first converged storage and backup solution, today announced the release of the Nimble CS-Series, the industry’s first converged iSCSI storage, backup and disaster recovery solution. Designed by former NetApp and Data Domain exec… Read more →

Smart Grid Leader eMeter Secures $12.5 Million in Latest Round of Funding

July 08, 2010

New Funding Enables eMeter to Leverage Increased Market Opportunities and Invest in New Products and Technologies

San Mateo, CA – July 8, 2010 – eMeter Corporation, a leader in Smart Grid management software, today announced the close of a $12.5 million round of private financing led by longti… Read more →

Google and ITA Software Sign Acquisition Agreement

July 01, 2010

Cambridge and Mountain View, Calif. (July 1, 2010) – ITA Software, Inc., a flight information software company, and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for Google to acquire ITA for $700 million in cash, subject to adjustments.

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SunRun Closes $55M Equity Investment to Advance Affordable Home Solar

June 29, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—SunRun, a leading home solar company, today announced it closed a Series C round of funding for $55 million led by Sequoia Capital and joined by existing investors Accel Partners and Foundation Capital. SunRun is redefining residential electricity by offering home… Read more →

Sencha Raises $14 Million in Series A Funding Round, Led By Sequoia Capital

June 24, 2010

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 24, 2010: Sencha, the leader in enterprise JavaScript frameworks, and with more than 1 million developers using its products, has completed a $14 million Series A round of funding. Sequoia Capital led the round, with the participation of Radar Partners. Sencha will use the… Read more →

Amazon Veterans Launch Company to Deliver Amazon EC2-like Services Behind the Firewall

June 23, 2010

San Francisco – June 23, 2010 – At the Structure 2010 conference on cloud computing, Chris Pinkham and Willem van Biljon, former Amazon executives who led the development of the Amazon EC2 public cloud service, today announced that they are launching Nimbula. Nimbula’s business and technology foc… Read more →

Zynga acquires Challenge Games

June 06, 2010

San Francisco, CA – Zynga today announced the acquisition of Austin-based social game company Challenge Games. Effective immediately, the Challenge Games office will become Zynga Austin, a game studio focused on product development. Today’s announcement expands Zynga’s studio operations adding to… Read more →

Google: We've officially acquired AdMob

May 27, 2010

Official Google Blog
Posted by Susan Wojcicki, Vice President of Product Management

Last Friday, we said that mobile advertising was moving fast. So are we! Today, we closed our acquisition of AdMob. Omar Hamoui has built a great team and great products at AdMob and we’re thrilled to official… Read more →