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Basis Science reveals its health-tracking wristwatch and fitness web service
Fitness tracking devices have invaded our lives, seeking to quench our thirst for data about whether we’re healthy or not. But Basis Science is hoping to create the mother of all devices with the...
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5 things you need to do to put your first funding round to best use
GUEST: This is a guest post by Matthew Howard, managing partner at Norwest Venture Partners. There was a time when investors would rush startups to market, but a shift has taken place during the past...
View ArticleSeculert connects to botnets in order to see if you’re infected, gets $10M
While some companies still fear the cloud’s murky standards on handling its data, Seculert believes using the cloud will give companies the most well-rounded infection detection possible. The security...
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Blue Jeans raises a massive $50M round to continue pounding Cisco, Microsoft,...
Blue Jeans Network, the new face of business-class videoconferencing, has raised a massive $50 million fourth round of financing, the company announced this morning, bringing its total financing to a...
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SundaySky gets $20M to make more spammy ‘customer service’ videos
It’s the age of social media and rich media, so big companies need better ways to easily connect to millions of customers in a way that seems human. Without, of course, actually incurring the expense...
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Fighting malware with malware logic, Shape Security secures $40M
Shape Security adopts one of malware’s key strategies — altering its code to avoid detection — to protect enterprises from cyberattacks. It calls its product ShapeShifter. The cybersecurity startup has...
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Workspot's 'work anywhere' tech gives workers a mobile option
Who wants to sit in an office to get their work done these days? Most of you don’t, so mobile workspace company Workspot has been working to bring your work to your mobile devices. And it seems to be...
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Threadflip sells fashionistas' clothes for them, grabs $13M to scale
Fashion marketplace Threadflip today announced a $13 million funding round to expand its online consignment shop. Founded in 2012, Threadflip is a marketplace where women, for a fee, can list fashion...
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For $15, Zirx will take away all the pain of parking your car in San Francisco
Lyft, Uber, SideCar, and similar ride-sharing services are about making life a little easier for San Franciscans without cars. Now a new crop of companies are working to help folks with cars by...
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Norwest Venture Partners raises $1.2 billion for its 13th fund
Norwest Venture Partners announced that it has raised $1.2 billion for its 13th fund, which it’ll use to support its sector and stage independent investment strategy. With this fund, the firm now has a...
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How enterprise giants are keeping up with fast-moving mobile market
Keeping up with Moore’s law is like running on an accelerating treadmill. Many older, bigger companies huff-and-puff to maintain this pace, while younger, more agile startups breeze breathlessly by....
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Qubole raises $25 million for data analysis service
EXCLUSIVE: Qubole, which provides software to automate and simplify data analytics, announced today that it has raised $25 million in a round co-led by Singtel Innov8 and Harmony Partners. Existing...
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Norwest Venture Partners closes new $1.5 billion fund, adds managing partner
Norwest Venture Partners announced today that it has closed a new $1.5 billion fund, called NVP XIV. This is the firm’s largest fund to date, bringing its total capital commitments to more than $7.5...
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Funding Daily: Fireglass raises $20 million led by Norwest and Lightspeed
New York-based startup Fireglass, a network security service for enterprises, announced today that it had closed a $20 million funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners and Lightspeed Venture...
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Norwest survey: CEOs fear failure, feeling unqualified, and hiring the wrong...
Norwest Venture Partners interviewed a bunch of private company CEOs and founders, getting a glimpse into their worries, which include fear of failure, feelings of being unqualified, and anxiety about...
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LinkedIn acquires Glint to help users track employee engagement
LinkedIn today announced its intent to acquire Glint, a self-described employee engagement company, in order to help its users better track satisfaction within their own organizations. Terms of the...
View ArticleBangalore-based enterprise IT startup Appnomic raises a modest $5M
Appnomic has secured its third round of funding from existing investor Norwest Venture Partners for its cloud application monitoring service. $5 million is a surprisingly modest fundraise for an...
View ArticleFormer CEO of Vibram USA starts his own minimalist footwear brand
I really don’t like things between my toes. Toe socks as a preteen? Forget about it. Those squishy sponges after a pedicure? No, thank you. But over the past few years, “five finger” footwear has risen...
View ArticleWith its data warehouse for hospitals, Health Catalyst pulls in $33M
HealthCatalyst is the latest health technology startup to benefit from the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. The startup, once known as Healthcare Quality Catalyst, provides health care data...
View ArticleStoried VC firm NVP bulks up its enterprise team
Norwest Venture Partners, one of Silicon Valley’s oldest venture capital firms, is bulking up its international team of venture investors, and predicts it will be highly active in 2013. What does this...
View ArticleBasis Science raises $11.5M and nabs Deepak Chopra and Esther Dyson as advisers
Basis Science is announcing today it has raised $11.5 million in a round of funding for its wrist-based health tracker. The company launched the Basis website and health-tracking system in December and...
View ArticleAttention digital health startups: VCs say now is a ‘great’ time to raise money
SAN FRANCISCO — It’s a great time for health startups to raise money, according to some of the biggest names in health investing. Funding for digital health grew dramatically in 2012 and is continuing...
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How SaaS is triggering the rise of mid-market companies
GUEST: This is a guest post by Robert Abbott, general partner at Norwest Venture Partners. The mid-market — companies with 50 to 2,000 employees — is a sleeping giant about to be energized by...
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Most health startups likely to fail because they don't understand health care...
VB EVENT: As a partner at Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), Casper de Clercq has seen countless digital health startups try to get solutions off the ground. He’s also seen many fail. According to de...
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Money isn’t the only valuable thing a VC can give a startup
Entrepreneurs know it can be difficult selecting the right investors to fund their startup. But instead of choosing firms based on which has a celebrity partner or offers the most money, Norwest...
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Phiar raises $3 million for AR navigation to eliminate wrong turns
Phiar has raised $3 million in seed funding to develop machine learning and augmented reality (AR) technology to improve driving with smartphone navigation.Read More
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Norwest Venture Partners: Will 2019 bring a downturn or more IPOs?
Matt Howard, partner at Norwest Venture Partners, is optimistic about disruptive new technologies, but he's worried about recent economic news.Read More
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Norwest Venture Partners raises $2 billion venture and growth equity fund
Norwest Venture Partners has raised $2 billion for its 15th venture capital and growth equity investment fund -- its largest investment fund to date.Read More
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25 new reasons to attend CloudBeat
If you purchase, evaluate, develop, or invest in enterprise technology, then you need to be at CloudBeat 2013, Sept. 9-Sept. 10 in San Francisco. Now in its third year, CloudBeat tracks the growing...
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Bright raises $15M for live video platform where creators educate fans
Bright has raised $15 million for its live video conversation platform that helps creators and influencers teach and entertain their fans.Read More
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