Sentences with phrase «lightspeed venture partners»

Investor and current board member Jeremy Liew from Lightspeed Venture Partners confirmed, «Blockchain was one of the first digital currency wallets, quickly grew to market leadership, and has only extended its lead since then.

The early years were all about setting up the digital infrastructure, but along the way, the system proved so successful that the venture has recently picked up serious funding from Andreessen Horowitz, FF Angel IV, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Vast Ventures, Google, and even the Bitcoin Opportunity Fund.

Startup LedgerX LLC has raised funding from Google Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners and brought on big financial industry names to its board of directors to add a dose of legitimacy to the virtual currency space as it attempts to set up what would be the first bitcoin options exchange.

In a statement, Swiss - based Saga said that, instead of an initial coin offering (ICO), the project is being financed by a USD 30 million seed round, supported by accredited investors, VC's and hedge funds, including Mangrove Capital Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, the Singulariteam Technology Group and Initial Capital.

The list of investors in OpenCoin reads like an internet who's who: Andreessen Horowitz (yes, that Andreessen), along with Ben Horowitz; Lightspeed Venture Partners; and the Founder's Fund, whose partners include PayPal founder Peter Thiel.

And one of them, Lightspeed Venture Partners» Jeremy Liew, is using the time to reflect on what made Snapchat worth investing in.

Lightspeed Venture Partners» Jeremy Liew explains Spiegel's game - changing insights into social media.

Founders Fund led, and was joined by return backer Lightspeed Venture Partners.

In just the second venture - backed tech IPO of the year, eyes are on Zscaler, which raised $ 148 million in capital from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dell, Google Capital and TPG ahead of its IPO.

Jeremy Liew, an investor with Lightspeed Venture Partners and a board member at Intermedia Labs, the company behind HQ, also heard from investors concerned about Kroll's behavior during the fundraising process.

Lightspeed Venture Partners is having quite a year, between the sale of AppDynamics to Cisco for $ 3.7 billion on the eve of its IPO (Lightspeed wrote its first check); to the March sale of publicly traded Nimble Storage to Hewlett Packard Enterprise for just north of $ 1 billion in cash; to the IPO of the enterprise software company MuleSoft in March (the company is now valued at $ 2.8 billion); to the March IPO of the consumer tech company Snap, which is is valued at more than $ 20 billion, despite a terrible earnings call earlier today that drove its shares into a nosedive.

TC: You may have seen that another venture firm, Lightspeed Venture Partners, is now asking its portfolio CEOs to sign a pledge that affirms their commitment to consider women and other underrepresented groups.

According to a fresh SEC filing, Lightspeed Venture Partners, also 18 years old, is raising a record $ 1.8 billion in new capital commitments from its investors, just two years after raising what was then a record for the firm: $ 1.2 billion in funding across two funds (one early - stage and the other for «select» companies in its portfolio that had garnered traction).

Less than two weeks after Groupon closed a $ 135 million Series C round, LivingSocial has raised a $ 14 million Series C round led by new investor Lightspeed Venture Partners.

(Think Andreessen Horowitz, Accel Partners, Founders Fund and Lightspeed Venture Partners, among others.)

VCCIRCLE - Nov 7 - Vee, an Indian mobile dating app, has received $ 1M in its pre-Series A round of funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners.

«According to Frost and Sullivan, the mobile dating segment is projected to grow at 62 % a year through 2009,» said Jake Seid, General Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners.

$ 2,400,000 I Lightspeed Venture Partners

Speakers: Vab Goel, Norwest Venture Partners Navin Chaddha, Mayfield Fund Arif Janmohamed, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Timothy Campos, Former CIO, Facebook Eric Feige, Financial Services Practice Lead, and General Manager, Magenic Arif Janmohamed, Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners Rama Sekhar, Partner, Norwest Venture Partners Muddu Sudhakar, Entrepreneur & Executive Moderator: Asheem Chandna, Partner, Greylock Partners

The round, which takes total investment in the company to approximately $ 88m, was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, with additional funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, GV (formerly Google Ventures), NTT DOCOMO Ventures, and Dimension Data.

Last summer, in an expose published by The Information, Caldbeck, who'd previously been an investor with Lightspeed Venture Partners, was accused of making unwanted sexual advances toward six women who said they were groped and propositioned during their professional relationship with him.

(Think Andreessen Horowitz, Accel Partners, Founders Fund and Lightspeed Venture Partners, among others.)

BlueVine's other investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, 83NORTH, Correlation Ventures, Citi Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and Rakuten Fintech Fund.

Its investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Raine Ventures, Comcast Ventures, AT&T, Amazon and Ribbit Capital.

In October 2014, they announced a $ 30 million Series A financing co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Wicklow Capital.

The round was led by new investor Norwest Venture Partners with participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures.

Active firms include Khosla Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Exabeam is privately funded by Norwest Venture Partners, Aspect Ventures, Icon Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and investor Shlomo Kramer.

Previous investors in the company include Crosslink Capital, Brick & Mortar Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Homebrew, Bee Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

It includes participation from existing backers Sequoia India, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Greenoaks Capital, while Hero Enterprise, an ambitious fund attached to motorbike and scooter maker Hero MotoCorp, joined as a new investor.

Business - to - business (B2B) marketplace Udaan.com has raised an early stage investment from Lightspeed Venture Partners, it said...

said Bejul Somaia, a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, which is not among Uber's backers.

The Los Angeles - based company has already raised more than $ 100 million of financing from investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Benchmark, Institutional Venture Partners, General Catalyst Partners and SV Angel.

In June, Mic raised a $ 17 million series B round of funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Advancit Capital, Axel Springer, Jim Clark, John Hadl, Knight Foundation, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, and Red Swan Ventures.

Khosla Ventures led the round, and was joined by return backers Lightspeed Venture Partners and Greylock.

From a price perspective, «There are no longer deals to be had,» said Jeremy Liew, managing director at Lightspeed Venture Partners and an investor in companies such as Flixster and RockYou.

Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round.

Sonae Investment Management led the round, and was joined by investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures and Knollwood Investment Advisory.

Singtel Innov8 and Harmony Partners led the round, and was joined by investors including Charles River Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and Institutional Venture Partners.

On Wednesday, the company announced $ 100 million in new funding led by new investor Founders Fund, with existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Jefferies participating.

Jessica Alba's startup The Honest Company, a subscription ecommerce service focused on providing parents non-toxic, eco-friendly family and baby products, has closed a $ 25 million funding round let by Institutional Venture Partners with participation from Iconiq Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and General Catalyst Partners.

SoftBank led the round, and was joined by investors including Sequoia India, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Greenoaks Capital.

On Tuesday, the food delivery startup hoping to reinvent frozen's reputation in the era of clean eating announced that it had raised some $ 43 million in a second round of funding, led by venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from VMG Partners, M13, actress Haylie Duff, Bobby Flay and Shaun White.

Given the tremendous volumes of the iPod that were sold at the time, the decision helped drive a movement toward flash memory in consumer devices, says John Vrionis, a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Principal shareholders include Lightspeed Venture Partners, which owns 23 % of the company, and Khosla Ventures, with a 10.9 % stake.

The Snap IPO just delivered a huge payday to the company's two biggest outside investors, Benchmark and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

That same year, Murphy and Snap co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel inked their first deal with outside investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners invested $ 485,000 in a seed round, then participated in follow on funding rounds.

Since its 2012 launch, the Toronto - based «virtual garage sale» site had raised more than US$ 34 million, including from heavyweight American funds such as Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round, and was joined by LionBird and Corundum Open Innovation.