Two years ago, a couple of VCs from Shea Ventures, a 50-year-old, L.A. -based investment firm, banded together to create a Pasadena, Ca.-based early stage venture firm called Calibrate Ventures. Investors clearly like what they’re building. Firm founders Kevin Dunlap and Jason Schoettler are today announcing that they have closed their debut effort with $80 […]
View More L.A. gets more moolah, thanks to Calibrate Ventures and its new, $80 million fundCategory: foundry group
Foundry Group quietly announces a big fat $750 million fund
Foundry Group, the Boulder, Colo.-based venture firm co-founded 11 years ago by startup whisperer Brad Feld, has raised a $750 million seventh fund to target early-stage and growth-stage companies, as well as to invest in other venture funds. It sounds like — and is — a lot of money, though the firm notes that it encompasses all of its […]
View More Foundry Group quietly announces a big fat $750 million fundUrban Airship raises another $25M
Urban Airship has raised $25 million in Series F funding. The company started out as a platform supporting push notifications, but has since expanded to include other marketing channels like email, SMS, mobile wallets and voice assistants. The goal is to be the platform managing messaging and unifying customer data across all these channels. Altogether, […]
View More Urban Airship raises another $25MGolden Ventures has a new pot of new capital — $57 million — to invest largely in Canada
Golden Ventures, a seed-stage outfit with offices in Toronto and Waterloo, has closed it third and newest fund with $57.5 million ($72 million in Canadian dollars), up from the roughly $38 million ($50 million Canadian) that it raised for its second fund in 2014. The firm — which invests roughly 60 percent of its capital […]
View More Golden Ventures has a new pot of new capital — $57 million — to invest largely in CanadaGlowforge opens public orders for its desktop 3D laser cutter
Hardware startup Glowforge, which makes a desktop laser cutter and engraver for home or office use, has finally opened up sales to the general public. The maker-targeted device, which can ‘print’ (read: engrave/laser cut) a variety of materials including leather, wood, acrylic, glass, and even the metal surface of a Macbook, starts at $2,495 for the entry […]
View More Glowforge opens public orders for its desktop 3D laser cutterNift raises $16.5M for a new kind of gift card
Nift, which is giving local businesses a new way to promote themselves, has raised $16.5 million in Series A funding. The businesses that work with Nift (the name is short for “neighborhood gift”) can give special gift cards to their best customers. Those customers enter their codes on the Nift website, answer a few questions […]
View More Nift raises $16.5M for a new kind of gift card