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Chippmunk Raises $750,000 in Seed Funding for Scaling & Product Development

Tech Zulu Event

The seed round was led by investments from Richard Chino, a key early member of GoTo.com and Smarter.com; Dan Murray, CFO of Machinima ; Derek Draper of Wildfire by Google; Nikhil Srivastava of KKR ; Angel Investor Andrew Schwartz and other angles from LA and Silicon Valley. 750,000 for Scaling & Product development.

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DFJ Co-Founder Jurvetson Exits Firm Amid Harassment Charges

Xconomy

Steve Jurvetson, co-founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), confirmed via a Twitter post Monday that he has left the Sand Hill Road firm, where he has long focused on emerging technologies, from genomics to space exploration.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

I just cover the companies that were funded that week. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Xobni’s main competitor that I know about is Gist, funded by Brad Feld at Foundry Group. It sucked.

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Interview with Julie Novack, PartySlate

socalTECH

I'd see these wedding blogs, but I thought, there has got to be more. He introduced me to Wavemaker, also in LA, and also Halogen Ventures, which is led by Jessie Draper, which invests in women-run technology companies. That is all gearing up for a Series A funding, which will happen in the summer of 2018.

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Trust & Will Raises $2M to Advance Digitization of Estate Planning

Xconomy

On Thursday, the company announced it closed on financing of $2 million—half a million in pre-seed funding and a subsequent $1.5 million in seed—in 2018 to advance its growing suite of products, digitized. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Equidate, Re-Named Forge Global, Boosts Series B to $85M

Xconomy

Equidate, one of the trading platforms that help employees sell their shares in pre-IPO unicorn companies, rolled out a new name today and announced a $35 million expansion of its $50 million funding round publicized in July.

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Off To SXSW, Our Schedule, And A Special Thanks

Tech Zulu Event

BuzzVoice makes your favorite news & blogs TALK - So you can listen to the stories you wish you had time to read - while you get things done! is funded by: Y Combinator, Alsop Louie Partners and Draper Associates. Mobile Roadie is a simple and inexpensive way for anyone to build and manage their own iPhone App. In Minutes.

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