March 11th, 2013

Omniture Co-Founder’s Business Intelligence SaaS Company Domo Raises $60M From GGV Capital, Jeff Bezos, Greylock And Others

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Domo, the SaaS business intelligence startup launched by Omniture founder Josh James, has raised $60 million in new funding, we’ve learned exclusively. The round was led by GGV Capital with Greylock Partners; Bezos Expeditions, the personal investment company of Jeff Bezos; co-CEOs of Workday Aneel Bhusri and David Duffield; Founders Fund; and Mercato Partners all participating. → Read More

February 5th, 2012

Keep It Simple, Stupid: The Enterprise Version

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Back in 2009, my colleague MG Siegler wrote a brilliant piece titled ‘Keep It Simple, Stupid,‘ which delved into how having a simple and easy to use product is a key formula for winning in the consumer tech space. A few days ago, Greylock Partner John Lilly echoed MG’s thoughts, explaining that simplicity is quite simply very hard to beat. While this doctrine has been applied tonconsumer… → Read More

January 31st, 2012

Omniture Co-Founder’s Business Intelligence SaaS Company Domo Lands $20M From IVP

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Domo, the SaaS business intelligence startup launched by Omniture founder Josh James, has raised $20 million in new funding from Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). This round brings total investment in Domo to $63 million. Previous investors include Benchmark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Ron Conway and David Lee of SV Angel, and Hummer Winblad.

As you may remember, Omniture is a web… → Read More

March 10th, 2011

DOMO Lets You Share Your Interests And Connect With New People Around You

Tokyo-based Tonchidot, legendary TechCrunch50 finalist and maker of the popular Sekai Camera augmented reality service, has released a new (free) app for iPhone and Android. But DOMO (Japanese for “nice to meet you” or “thank you”) isn’t an update or variation of Sekai Camera but another (ingenious) way to “augment” reality.

DOMO is being offered as a “pre-social” app, which makes use of your… → Read More

April 17th, 2007

Domo Robot Has Human-Like Eyes That Can Sorta See

I normally don’t give a damn about robots, but this Domo character is a real card. I mean, look at his eyes—they almost look like real eyeballs. Gnarly! The eyes aren’t just for show, either: inside are cameras that essentially “see” Domo’s surroundings. This means that he (he?) can do things other than “normal” robot operations, like work on an… → Read More