Sentences with phrase «firm accel»

Thunderhead recently announced that its Smart Communications division, the leading cloud solution for customer and business communications, has been acquired by leading private equity firm Accel - KKR.

Sageworks, an old - school fintech that provides lending, credit risk and portfolio risk technology to US financial institutions, has been acquired by private equity firm Accel - KKR.

Mumbai - based Cogo Freight Pvt. Ltd, which owns and operates digital freight company Cogoport, has raised Series A funding from venture capital firm Accel Partners.

This week, drone maker DJI, which is based in Shenzhen, China, said it raised $ 75 million from venture capital firm Accel Partners.

DJI was valued at about $ 8 billion in 2015 when it raised $ 75 million from Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel Partners.

Food - tech startup Swiggy, online payment gateway Razorpay, venture capital firm Accel Partners and angel investor Kris Gopalakrishnan...

The country's largest workforce by demographics, millennials are willing to give up a percentage of their salary for long - term job security, flexible office hours and a management structure that emphasizes mentorship and a better career trajectory, according to new research from survey software firm Qualtrics and venture capital firm Accel Partners (a Qualtrics investor).

Chief among them are co-founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, venture firm Accel Partners, early investor and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Russian tycoon Yuri Milner's DST, and investment bank Goldman Sachs.

The investment is being led by SoftBank Group and venture capital firm Accel, a previous investor, said the people, who declined to be identified.

For example, on Wednesday, Joe Schoendorf, partner at venture capital firm Accel Partners, and Mike Stankey, vice chairman of cloud - based human resources company Workday, will discuss what the plethora of private companies valued at $ 1 billion or more, known as unicorns, are doing to markets and marketplaces.

Not exact matches

Sequoia Capital (24.8 % pre-IPO), Accel (5.3 %), and T. Rowe Price (2.2 %) back the firm.

The company recently raised US$ 42 million from venture capital firms Atomico Ventures and Accel Partners, and its CEO is now contemplating taking the company public within the next few years.

Gouw and Fonstad, both longtime VCs who worked at firms like Accel and DFJ, didn't set out to create a «female - focused» fund when they launched Aspect in 2014.

The workplace collaboration company is teaming with several venture capital firms — including Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Spark Growth, and Social + Capital — to create an $ 80 million fund that will invest in software projects that complement its technology.

Probably 30 percent, whereas it used to be less than 10 percent,» Theresia Gouw, a VC that recently left Accel to form a new firm, Aspect Ventures, with her friend and fellow experienced investor Jennifer Fonstad, told Inc.com.

Loyal Valley Capital (9.0 %), IDG - Accel China (7.6 %), Legend Capital (5.9 %) and Tencent (5.2 %) back the firm.

Then in July 2011, after a Series A round of $ 4.5 million funding, she went on to close a $ 19 million Series B round of funding with participation from Accel Partners — one of the venture capital firms invested in Facebook.

The list of signatures includes big name venture firms like Accel and Bessemer Venture Partners, accelerators such as 500 Startups and General Assembly and startups such as Casper and Flywheel.

Two years later, Camp, Smith, and a group of venture capital firms, including Accel Partners and First Round Capital, bought the company back for a reported $ 29 million.

Venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners and Accel Partners invested in PagerDuty.

Last September, IFC's portfolio firm Power2SME raised an additional $ 26 million (Rs 166 crore) in its Series E funding round from existing investors Inventus Capital Partners, Accel Partners, Kalaari Capital and Nandan Nilekani in September last year.

Prior to that she was a general partner for 15 years at Accel; she left to co-found Aspect with the goal of bringing collaboration back to Series A companies and bridging the gap between angel investors and larger multi-stage VC firms.

Sequoia Capital of Menlo Park, California, Accel Partners, the Palo Alto, California - based firm that also backs Facebook Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts - based General Catalyst Partners, and Oak Investment Partners in Westport, Connecticut, own 69 percent of Kayak, according to its filing.

These hires come close on the heels of BlueStone's Series D funding round where the firm raised $ 30 million from Accel Partners, Kalaari Capital, IIFL and others.

With the deal, Birchbox's other investors — which include top venture capital firms including Accel Partners and First Round Capital — are getting wiped out, and are expected to walk away with nothing.

The Economic Times reported that Walmart has reached agreements with Tiger Global Management, the New York investment firm; Naspers, the South African media conglomerate; Accel, the venture capital firm and Tencent Holdings, the Chinese company, to purchase their stakes in Flipkart.

Premier VC firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, Norwest Venture Partners, Accel Partners and Founders Fund have all raised more than $ 1 billion this year.

To date, Slack has raised about $ 180 million from firms such as Google Ventures, Accel Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, among others.

Among Silicon Valley's other top venture capital firms — Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, Benchmark Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Accel Partners — only Accel has a female investment partner who is full time.

From the 13 shortlisted startups at 1st batch of the early stage tech Startup Accelerator program, about three or four selected startups would get acceleration fund from Z Nation Lab, while venture capital firms such as Matrix Partners, Accel India, Mumbai Angels will be part of the investor panel on the demo day and may invest in promising startups.

Accel Partners» Theresia Gouw and Draper Fisher Jurvetson's Jennifer Fonstad are leaving their Silicon Valley venture capital firms to start Aspect Ventures, seeking to invest in budding mobile technologies.

Still on our watch list: news of bigger - and - better - than - ever funds from other firms that announced their latest funds roughly two years ago, including Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz and Accel Partners.

The latest batch of money came from a group that included several first - time Spotify investors, including Russian venture capital firm DST and California - based VCs Kleiner Perkins and Accel Partners.

Accel Partners» Theresia Gouw and Draper Fisher Jurvetson's Jennifer Fonstad are leaving their Silicon Valley venture capital firms to start Aspect Ventures, seeking to invest...

At Accel, where Gouw was the only female partner until 2008, she was responsible for several of the firm's most successful investments, including Trulia, which went public in 2012, Xoopit and Zimbra, which were both purchased by Yahoo.

After a 15 - year run in venture capital with Accel Partners, Gouw left her post in February to rejoin the ranks of entrepreneurs and cofound her own venture firm, Aspect.

Accel's Theresia Gouw, DFJ's Jennifer Fonstad Team Up to Form New Venture Firm (San Jose Mercury News)

Gouw, who was a partner at Accel Partners for 15 years, and Fonstad, former Managing Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson for 17 years, will invest in Series A and Seed venture rounds via the new firm.

Theresia Gouw, a former partner at Accel Partners, and Jennifer Fonstad, a former managing director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, have formed Aspect Ventures, a firm that will invest in early - stage startups creating mobile technology.

Breyer has also partnered over the years with the Chinese firm IDG Capital Partners, which formerly collaborated with Accel Partners and where Breyer Capital has since become an anchor investor in a series of funds that now manage more than $ 4 billion.

In May 2005, the Accel group, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist firm, bought a $ 12.2 million chunk of Facebook, which is currently valued at around $ 100 million.

A number of prominent venture capital firms also began investing during this period, including KleinerPerkins Caulfield & Byers, Bessemer Venture Partners, Accel Partners, and Google Ventures.

Qualtrics is a rapidly growing software - as - a-service company backed by three of the top venture capital firms in the world - Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, and Insight Venture...

«HighWire Press, a technology service provider to influential scholarly publishers and an auxiliary unit of Stanford University Libraries, announced today it has received a significant equity investment to support its strategic growth from Accel - KKR, a leading technology - focused private equity firm.

Still on our watch list: news of bigger - and - better - than - ever funds from other firms that announced their latest funds roughly two years ago, including Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz and Accel Partners.

Chi - Hua Chien, a general partner at venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers who found the Facebook investment while previously working at Accel Partners, said his firm is actively exploring investments related to Bitcoin and has already looked at more than two dozen such companies.