Matrix Partners
Matrix Partners Gets A New General Partner: Hardi Meybaum
Matrix Partners, the 38-year-old, early-stage venture capital firm, has just added a 10th general partner to its roster: Hardi Meybaum, an Estonian entrepreneur who sold his computer-aided design company to…
Indian Health Search Portal Practo Lands $90M Led By Tencent For Global Expansion
Chinese internet giant Tencent is getting its tentacles into India’s healthcare space after it lead a $90 million Series C round for medical search startup Practo. The startup raised $60…
Meteor Raises $20M To Build The One JavaScript Stack To Rule Them All
The competitive landscape for app development tool providers continues to become tighter, with Meteor Development Group raising $20 million for its stack of frameworks and tools for developing web and…
Design Platform Canva Raises $6 Million, Expands To Businesses With “Canva For Work”
Creating professional graphics is not a skill set that everyone has, but online design platform Canva wants to change that. In mid-2013, the company debuted a service that allows anyone…
The Flatiron School, an educational platform aimed at getting young kids and adults comfortable with programming, has today announced the close of a $9 million Series B funding round led…
TinyOwl Lands $16M To Expand Its Food Delivery Service To 50 Cities In India
India-based food ordering service TinyOwl has raised a $16 million Series B round to fund an aggressive plan to reach 50 cities in the country, TechCrunch has learned.
India’s Stayzilla Raises $20M For Its Hybrid Hotel/Airbnb-Like Booking Service
Stayzilla, an India-based service that combines regular hotel bookings with short-term, Airbnb-style rentals, has announced a $20 million Series B round to grow its business.
Doctor Search Site Practo Lands $30M For Aggressive Growth In India And Overseas
Practo, an Indian startup that provides a search portal matching doctors with patients and other digital services for practices, has closed a $30 million Series B round to expand its…
Indian News App NewsHunt Lands $40M To Evolve Into A Digital Content Marketplace
India-based mobile news aggregation service NewsHunt has raised $40 million to continue its evolution into a digital content platform.
B2B Marketplace Kinnek Raises $10 Million From Matrix To Help SMBs Find And Purchase Supplies
B2B marketplace Kinnek wants to connect SMBs with suppliers that will offer up the goods they need and provide competitive prices for them. Based on its growth in recent months,…
How Do You Connect 10 Million Dumbphone Users To Facebook?
As low internet penetration stifled Facebook’s early growth in emerging markets in 2011, Indian startup U2opia developed an SMS-like system for users to post messages and read notifications by navigating…
GrabCAD Raises $8.15M From Charles River Ventures, Yammer Co-Founder & Others For Its ‘GitHub For Mechanical Engineers’
GrabCAD, which offers an online community and cloud-based collaboration tools for those involved in designing and building physical products, has raised an $8.15 million series B round led by Charles…
WI Harper Group, Matrix Partners Invest $12.5 Million In Social Games Maker SNS Plus
Matrix Partners and WI Harper Group, a Chinese VC, this morning announced that they’ve pumped $12.5 million into SNS Plus, an international publisher and distributor of games with a focus…
Matrix Partners Closes $650 Million Funds To Invest More In China, India
Matrix Partners, a US-based investment firm with additional offices in India and China, this morning announced that it has closed two new funds: Matrix Partners China II (at $350 million)…
Baidu Leads $50 Million Funding Round For Chinese Real Estate Marketplace Anjuke
Leading Chinese search engine company Baidu has led a $50 million financing round for Anjuke, a major real estate marketplace in China. Anjuke, which was founded in Shanghai in 2007,…
Ask a VC: "We Probably Would Have Been the Last Guys to Do a Round in Twitter" (TCTV)
My guest on Ask a VC this week was Dana Stalder of Matrix Partners, a newbie in the venture world, but a seasoned manager and entrepreneur in Valley Internet circles.…
CloudBees Raises $4 Million From Matrix Partners For Java Cloud Computing Play
CloudBees, a Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider, has raised $4 million in Series A financing led by Matrix Partners with participation from individual investors, including JBoss founder Marc Fleury and JBoss/HP/Bluestone…
SpiderCloud Wireless Raises $25 Million, Total Funding Now $40 Million
Wireless technologies developer SpiderCloud Wireless has raised $25 million in a Series B funding round led by Opus Capital. Shasta Ventures and existing Series A investors Charles River Ventures and…
HubSpot Closes $16 Million Series C Round Led By Scale Venture Partners
Digital marketing startup HubSpot has raised a third round of funding to the tune of $16 million, bringing the total invested in the Cambridge, MA company to a healthy $33.5…
Conductor Raises $10 Million For SEO Management And Optimization Technology
Conductor, a New York-based provider of SEO measurement and optimization solutions, has raised a Series B round of funding to the tune of $10 million, led by Matrix Partners and…