Topic - Bessemer Venture Partners

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LinkedIn Connects to a ‘Strategic’ $22.7M

SAP, Goldman Sachs, McGraw-Hill join Bessemer in extension of June’s $53M D round.
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LinkedIn CEO: $1B Just The Start

Despite heady valuation after funding round, Nye says there are no plans for an IPO cashout.
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Computers, General news, Biosciences, Communications, Internet, Finance

Triple Play for Bessemer

Sales of three portfolio companies—Sirtris, PA Semi and Gracenote—are announced within 12 hours.
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Computers, General news, Media, Communications, Internet

VCs Invest $60M with two WiMAX providers

The on-again, off-again romance between investors and WiMAX is decidedly on again as investors commit to carriers in the U.S. and Russia.
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Archives, General news, Internet, Finance

Lead-Generator Yodle Pulls in $12M

DFJ leads round for company that wants to create a scalable model for connecting local businesses to online prospects.
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Internet

SelectMinds Connects With $5.5M

Corporate social network company, which helps employees stay in touch with each other, receives a $5.5 million Series A funding round from Bessemer Venture Partners.
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Finance

Visto Gets $35M Mail Call

Litigious email systems supplier takes $86 million in the last five months after a decade in the business.
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Communications

Millennial Media Snags $6.3M

Mobile ad startup will target “millennials,” the 76 million people born between 1977 and 1995.
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Internet

Netli Speeds Global Apps

Startup transfers long-distance web traffic onto its network to improve business application performance.
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Finance

Yelp Hollers for $10M

City guide site scores second round of funding from Benchmark Capital.
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Finance

VCs Back Net Acceleration

Network accelerator services provider Netli raises $18 million in its fourth round of venture capital fund-raising.
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General news

The Valley: Networking

Before social networking software, the real world: Thickets of relationships keep Silicon Valley on the competitive edge.
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Computers

Cisco Bets on Home Networks

A strategic investment in mesh-networking startup Zensys will help Cisco boost its digital home offerings.
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General news, Finance

Hedge Fund Backs Nanotech

NanoOpto closes $5-million loan from Ritchie Capital's new venture debt fund.
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Computers, General news

P.A. Semi Makes Its Debut

The chip startup, backed by stellar engineers, says its cool-running processors will kick butt and shove larger rivals aside.
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Computers, General news, Security, Internet

Google Learns of Vulnerability

Finjan Software finds Google vulnerability.
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Finance

VC Action: Big Bucks in Bio

A $60-million investment in Affymax is the latest in bioscience’s hot-blooded 2005.
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Security

Tumbleweed Picks New CEO

Three weeks before its quarterly earnings call, security vendor Tumbleweed names software exec its new CEO.
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General news, Finance

VC Investment in India Rises

Investment in India grows more than 30 percent to $395 million in the second quarter.
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General news, Security

The security shift

The security market has changed, but one thing remains the same: the crooks still have the edge.