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We are pleased to announce that we have made our initial investment in Yesware. Based in Boston, Yesware is a seed stage company that is developing services that connect salespeople, their email and CRM. We believe that mapping this basic relationship – between the application in which salespeople, executives, and the people who support them spend the majority of their time and the app which is used to perform key business functions – is a ...
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Posted by: Brad Feld
Today we’re happy to announce that Federated Media Publishing has acquired Foundry Group portfolio company Lijit Networks. The deal is a great outcome for the company and its investors. As part of the transaction, Foundry Group Partner Seth Levine will join the Federated Media board of directors and Todd Vernon (Lijit’s CEO and founder) and Walter Knapp (Lijit’s COO) will take on senior operating roles at the combined business (both will report directly to Federated’s ...
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We are excited to announce that we’ve led a $10 million financing in MakerBot Industries, a Brooklyn, NY-based company that has developed the first low cost commercial 3D printer.
While 3D printing technology has been around for a while, to date it has been limited to high-end industrial printers costing between $10,000 and $500,000. While the applications of 3D printing are very broad and extremely compelling, the cost and complexity of the products and process has ...
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Posted by: Brad Feld
For a limited time, Occipital’s Panorama 360 is free. If you don’t know why this is such an awesome app, watch the short video demonstration below.
We closed our investment in Occipital last week. The Occipital gang is going to create a bunch of amazing stuff and now’s your chance to get on board with a one minute iPhone download. And, if you are reading this after the free offer expires, it’s still worth getting for the ...
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Posted by: Brad Feld
In 2001 I led Mobius Venture Capital’s investment in a company that was defying then-conventional wisdom in its approach to email security. Postini offered an anti-spam/anti-virus email security solution hosted in the cloud, as opposed to via on-premise software or an appliance. This was back before SaaS was even a generally recognized acronym; but what Postini was doing seemed intuitively obvious and their approach was then in the early stage of being validated by customers.
I ...
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Posted by: Ryan McIntyre
