David Sze, a 13-year veteran of venture-capital firm Greylock Partners, has gained acclaim for his lucrative bets on Facebook, LinkedIn and Pandora. But he’s never written a check as big as the one he just gave to Nextdoor.com, a social-networking...
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Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia has raised more money just seven months after his company's last round of financing.
Early Facebook, LinkedIn Backer Bets Big on Nextdoor With $15M
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Greylock Partners is reaping rewards from business software companies such as Palo Alto Networks and Workday.
Greylock Follows Facebook Win With Business Software IPOs
Greylock Partners has gained accolades – and bundles of money — in the past 15 months from early bets on consumer Internet brands Facebook, LinkedIn and Pandora. Now, it’s reaping rewards from investments in the lesser known but still lucrative arena of business software, where Greylock...
Read more »Investors Betting on Betable It Can Help Social Games Make Money
As social gaming companies such as Zynga explore ways to play in the online gambling business, Betable wants to be their dealer. The startup, a gambling operator that lets developers integrate real-money gaming into their products, announced today it has...
Read more »Leap, Hardware Startups Channel Steve Jobs to Lure Investors
Leap Motion was able to entice venture capitalists to invest $14.6 million in its motion-sensor device for controlling computers using just a wave of some fingers. The company was luckier than most. Entrepreneurs aspiring to build technology products that customers can...
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