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AUGUST 1, 2012

According to CapLinked, it will make its premium capital raising and investor reporting tools available to the more than 8,500 startups enrolled with Startup America. Los Angeles-based CapLinked , which operates an online platform for managing fundraising by startups, has linked with the Startup America Partnership. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 9, 2019

Craft Ventures is the investment firm run by former Yammer founder, David Sacks. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

Santa Monica-based Crew32 , a stealth startup founded by Docstoc founder Jason Nazar, Betterworks, Geni, and Yammer co-founder George Ishii, and InvestedIn and MySpace co-founder Yadid Ramot, has raised $5.2M, as part of an ongoing $6.0M funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm on Thursday.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2013

Jason Calacanis , the Los Angeles angel investor, podcast host, speaker, conference organizer, and CEO of Mahalo , is one of the angel investors in employee feedback firm 15Five. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 21, 2012

The new round included Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Andrej Henkler (formerly of Bertelsman), and early stage technology investor Joe Kalfa. The firm said the funding brings its total raised to $1.8M. CapLinked is headed by Eric M.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2011

Craig has recruited the co-creater of Zynga's Farmville game, Sizhao Yang, as well as George Ishii, who was co-founder of Geni.com and Yammer, as co-founders. BetterWorks said that it is focused on allowing business owners to "create rewarding work environments quickly, easily and affordably".

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JULY 5, 2012

The round was led by TomorrowVentures, the personal investment fund of Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, and also included David Hanna (CompuCredit) and Jim Patterson (Yammer).

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2011

OneLogin said its single sign-on software is being used by such partners as Yammer, Colby Community College and Transwest. The firm was co-founded by Thomas and Christian Pederson. Thomas Pederson was formerly VP Business Development at Zendesk. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2009

-The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars What Data Crunchers Did for Obama An Evaluation of Web Strategy (..)

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

For entrepreneurs raising capital, the tool makes it easier to be transparent and share information. We're building out the capital raising tools to help people raise money, and we want to make sure to get the word out about it to people interested in using it. Who would find this most useful? Thanks, and good luck! READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

million, brings the company’s aggregate amount of capital raised to $2.5 million which was raised from Thiel, David Sacks (CEO of Yammer), and Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir), 500 Startups and 7th Rig. At BigVisible, he coached teams at Capital Group as part of a large 1,400 person company-wide agile transformation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Current rount: $8.14mm in Series A from Redpoint (lead), Foundry Group, with previous investors, First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital (Chris Sacca), Ravi Narasimham. Go Boulder!

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JANUARY 22, 2013

Its investors include Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal), FF Angel, Siemer Ventures, 500 Startups, Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Joe Lonsdale (founder of Palantir Technologies), David Sacks (CEO of Yammer), 7th Rig, and Wasabi Ventures. Series A Round.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

In B-to-B marketing, it ends up that there were people at GE Capital doing the same jobs at GE Healthcare. There were things like Yammer, Jive, and all that. He had 5,000, B-to-B marketers across various divisions of GE, and they really never were able to help each other.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Geni.com beget Yammer. They came to me 2 years ago with their company, GumGum , and were trying to raise an A round of capital. They had also raised money from Howard Morgan at First Round Capital who if you check out his bio you will see is legendary. Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

If you’re Yammer , Mint or RedBeacon (all winners) you’re knighted with wonderful coverage. I became quite good friends with a journalist at the Financial Times and eventually helped her as she wrote a book on the venture capital industry. Many other great companies are not. - It started socially.

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MAY 22, 2010

This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. One of the companies that just announced $10 million in funding was a company I had never heard of called Huddle. “Huddle helps businesses connect, share and work better together.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The trailblazer in the category of course was Twitter and David Sacks quickly spotted the use case for enterprise and launched Yammer, which was purchased by Microsoft for more than $1 billion. Around that time Salesforce launched “Chatter,” which was led by Chuck — so it’s a space he knows well. And of course we welcome Microsoft Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

What results must you have in order to raise venture capital or garner good press coverage that helps drive customer acquisition (and also more funding!)? Phenomenal tech talent including the co-founder of Farmville- Zao Yang – AND ALSO the lead product designer – George Ishii – for Yammer & Geni. ON SUCCESS.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

But if you are growing uber fast, building for scale and have access to capital to fund your growth then it’s always the smart play. It’s no surprise that it has now become one of the most viewed networks of video programming in the world, achieving 500 million video views per month having only raised $3 million in venture capital.

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