September 17th, 2011

Six Must-Watch Backstage Videos From Disrupt Plus The Music (TCTV)

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It’s been a very busy week at TechCrunch with our Disrupt conference and other internal disruptions, so you may have missed some great and revealing interviews. Devin Coldewey wrote a post with the Six Must-Watch On-Stage Videos from Disrupt. But there was a lot of activity going on backstage too. We did more than 60 interviews with entrepreneurs, VC’s, Angels, CEO’s, and a Mayor.

Also, if you find yourself missing or still humming the tunes from Disrupt, you can download the music created for us by Smith & Keats Music in this post.
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November 15th, 2010

Data Storage Company Coraid Raises $25 Million Series B

Coraid, a developer of Ethernet SAN storage solutions, this morning announced that it has closed a $25 million Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. All of Coraid’s Series A ($10 million) backers, including Allegis Capital and Azure Capital Partners, participated in this round.

The reason why it’s interesting that Menlo Ventures led this sizeable financing round (sorry, Om) is because they were also the largest investor in data storage company 3PAR, which was recently acquired by HP for $2.35 billion. → Read More

August 3rd, 2010

eXelate Raises $15 Million For Behavioral Targeting Data Marketplace

eXelate, a New York-based provider of data management tools for online publishers and operator of an open marketplace for audience targeting data, has raised $15 million in Series B funding in a round led by Silicon Valley’s Menlo Ventures with participation of Israeli VC firm Carmel Ventures.

The latter led the company’s initial $4 million financing round back in October 2007. → Read More

June 10th, 2010

Crowdcast Raises $6 Million For 'Social Business Intelligence' Solutions

Crowdcast, a provider of social business intelligence (SBI) solutions, has raised $6 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Alsop-Louie Partners.

The company’s name is a combination of the words ‘crowd’ and ‘forecast’, and its self-declared goal is to help companies find out what their people really know about their businesses, in order to make better strategic leadership decisions. → Read More

April 1st, 2010

Videoconferencing Company Vidyo Raises $25 Million More

Vidyo, which specializes in video conferencing technology, has closed a big round of financing.

The company raised $25 million in a Series C round led by Four Rivers Group and joined by prior backers Menlo Ventures, Rho Ventures, Sevin Rosen Funds and Star Ventures. → Read More

March 8th, 2010

TC50 Finalist DataXu Scores $11 Million More For Online Ad Bidding Platform

Boston-based DataXu, provider of a real-time online ad bidding and optimization system, has secured $11 million in Series B funding to add to the $7.8 million in financing it raised in an earlier round (April 2009).

The company, which was a finalist at last year’s edition of the TechCrunch50 conference and startup launchpad, raised the additional capital from Menlo Ventures and prior investors Atlas Venture and Flybridge Capital Partners. → Read More

December 2nd, 2009

Branders.com Scores Another $5 Million In Venture Capital

Branders.com, an online-only promotional items store operator, raised another $5 million in venture funding, bringing the total invested in the company to $46 million. Participating in this round were Menlo Ventures, DCM, Venture Strategy Partners and Altos Ventures. → Read More

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