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Lindzon Backs Discoverly

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Discoverly disclosed a seed round of funding worth $750,000 which included Salesforce.com, Bessemer Venture partners, Atlas Venture , Great Oaks Venture Capital, as well as Jim Patterson (Yammer), MJ Elmore, Howard Lindzon (Stocktwits), and Alchemist Accelerator.

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CapLinked, Startup America Tie On Startup Fundraising

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Jackson, and backed by such investors as Peter Thiel, David Sacks (Yammer), Joe Lonsdale (Palantir Technologies), and Dave McClure (500 Startups), as well as Hercules Technology Growth Fund, 7th Rig, and Wasabi Ventures. CapLinked is headed by Eric M. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Eric M. Jackson, CapLinked

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My cofounder and I know how hard it is to get a company up and running, and funded, to keep your investors in the loop. The company was about to close their Series B funding, and the company had just launched the website. This was back when you had to do a couple of rounds of funding to just get your product out of the door.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits.

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How Kaleo Is Tackling Enterprise Knowledge Sharing

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There were things like Yammer, Jive, and all that. I have never raised outside funding with those companies, and all those companies targeted an acute pain point, but those markets were not as massive. With Kaleo, I figured out from day one that we would need to raise outside funding.

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DataSift Announces Mega-Round. Apple Buys Topsy for $200 Million. Here’s What You Need to Know

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Considering our revenue is SaaS revenue this achievement is even more remarkable. and so on and we do private implementations with the likes of Yammer and others. If you want to read the company’s take on their funding their official announcement is here. And I believe we have as good a shot as anybody.