BlueKai & Datameer: Top 10 Big Data Companies
Fast Company names BlueKai & Datameer Most Innovative Big Data Companies
Congrats to Redpoint portfolio companies BlueKai and Datameer - both listed in the Fast Company Most Innovative Big Data companies round up.
- See Fast Company's Top 10 List
- Check out Redpoint's entire portfolio
Bluefin Labs acquired by Twitter
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Congrats to Bluefin Labs!
Today, our Redpoint portfolio company, Bluefin Labs, is announcing its merger with Twitter. When we invested in Bluefin about two and a half years ago, we bought into the vision of matching and measuring social response to TV viewing; and deriving insights into engagement and reactions to ads and programs. A spinout out of the MIT Media Lab, Bluefin uses heavy data science to gain never before available understandings to reactions to TV by matching millions of people’s social postings, such as tweets, to actual programs and ads. By doing so, Bluefin is able to create the world’s largest and first ad hoc, real time focus group.
- Read Geoff's blog on the acquisition
- Read Twitter's blog on the news
Redpoint V Closed: $400M Early Stage Fund
Announcing Redpoint V
Redpoint V - a $400M early stage fund, has closed. We are looking forward to supporting more bold entrepreneurs with the fund as they create industry defining businesses. With Redpoint V, we now manage over $3.3 billion across our multiple funds, and will focus investment in emerging and new markets.
- Read more about Redpoint V on our blog
- Check out the WSJ story on our news
Adap.TV brings on Tim Morse as CFO
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Former Yahoo CFO Joins Adap.TV team
Adap.tv announced the appointment of Timothy R. Morse to the newly created position of Chief Financial Officer. Morse joins Adap.tv from Yahoo!, where he held the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer positions from June 2009 to October 2012. To date, Adap.tv has experienced record growth. In 2012, it was named by Inc. Magazine as the nation’s fastest-growing video advertising company in “Inc 500,” its annual ranking of private companies. Adap.tv added more than 200 new customers in 2012, including some of the world’s most recognizable agencies and publishers, such as VEVO and Horizon Media.
- Read Adap.TV's press release
- Check out WSJ's coverage of the news
Redpoint funds Tastemade Series A
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Tastemade Launches, Receives Series A from Redpoint
Today, Tastemade formally launched and we are thrilled to be part of their vision. We believe Tastemade represents the best of the new breed of Internet video networks, and will deliver exceptional content and services to consumers worldwide. In the short 6 months they have been in business, Tastemade has 100 channel partners, 9 million monthly viewers, and 1300 hours of compelling content. We are excited to see what the team accomplishes next.
- Read Geoff's blog on why we invested
- Check out the AllthingsD story
2U Launches Semester Online
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University Consortium to Offer Online Courses for Credit
Starting next fall, 10 prominent universities, including Duke, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Northwestern, will form a consortium called Semester Online, offering about 30 online courses. Semester Online will be operated through the educational platform 2U.
- NY Times article on Semester Online
- Learn more about 2U
Big Switch: raises $25M Series B
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Big Switch ushers in next era of networking
Redpoint Ventures is proud to announce our investment in Big Switch Networks. We have been looking at data center architectures and how they are changing for a while now, being first exposed to that through our investment in cloud.com in 2009. While selling private clouds, we realized how dramatically cost efficient compute could become - but at the same time we were constantly reminded of the limitations of storage and the limitations of the old networking architecture.
- Read Satish's blog on the investment
- GigaOM's story on BigSwitch
Stripe launches Stripe Connect
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Stripe builds economic infrastructure for the Internet
Redpoint portfolio company Stripe has released Stripe Connect, a new version of its payments service that enables users of any website to accept credit card payments.
- Read about Stripe Connect in Forbes
- TechCrunch on Stripe's Series B
StorSimple acquired by Microsoft
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Microsoft acquires StorSimple
Microsoft has acquired portfolio company StorSimple - bolstering its Cloud-integrated Storage strategy. We are proud of the StorSimple team - which has defined the frontier on how cloud can empower enterprise IT.
- StorSimple's blog on the news
- Read more in GigaOM
Pure Grabs Silver in WSJ Awards
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Pure Storage Wins Silver in WSJ’s 2012 Technology Innovation Awards
Portfolio company Pure Storage has solved the biggest obstacle to greater adoption by companies of so-called solid-state storage, which stores data electronically instead of on disks: its high cost.
- Read the WSJ story
- Find out more about Pure Storage
Redpoint takes on Brazil
Redpoint e.ventures announces $130M Brazil Fund
In July, Redpoint e.ventures closed its first Brazil fund at USD $130 million. With this fund, Redpoint e.ventures becomes the largest early-stage VC fund in Brazil, and the first Silicon Valley-affiliated fund dedicated to the region.
- Check out our announcement
- Read more in the New York Times
thredUP reinvents secondhand clothing
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ThredUP expands its vision, raises another round
Redpoint participates in the recent Series C round for thredUP (we also funded their Series B). The company is seeing 7,000 new customers join every month, with a 46 percent retention rate.
- Read about thredUP in Boston.com
- Tomasz's blog on exceptional ecommerce
Zendesk receives Series D Funding
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Redpoint leads Zendesk round
Zendesk is one of those companies that has re-defined the SaaS landscape. Not only did it dramatically simplify a complex and old software category with a beautifully simple UI, it also embraced the emerging social media channels for providing customer service.
- Find out why we invested in Zendesk
- See AllThingsD's story
BranchOut: Bringing careers to life
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BranchOut unveils new design
BranchOut has a simple goal: to make professional networking a deeper and more personal experience. Recently the team unveiled a new version of BranchOut as a significant step on their path toward achieving this goal.
- More on the redesign on the BranchOut Blog
- Read more on TechCrunch
Video: Satish on Friendships & startups
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Satish & Pure Storage CEO Scott Deitzen on GigaOM
Working with your friends is not always easy, but Satish Dharmaraj and Scott Dietzen have found a way to do it for the past 15 years. Part of their secret, they say, is checking their egos at the door and taking a holistic approach to the business.
- Watch the GigaOM video
Electric Imp: Featured in Gizmodo
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Connect anything to the Internet
Recently launched Electric Imp is making it possible to connect anything to the Internet. The founding team includes former iPhone engineering manager Hugo Fiennes and former Gmail designer Kevin Fox.
- Read the Gizmodo article
Sonos Joins the Redpoint Family
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Redpoint invests in Sonos
We are excited to announce that we led an investment in Sonos and to welcome their team to the Redpoint family. When we consider investments, we are generally evaluating people, markets and the idea. Redpoint has traditionally veered towards betting on great entrepreneurs beyond every other variable.
- Read our blog on the Sonos investment
- AllThingsD on the Sonos investment
Cloud.com acquired by Citrix
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Cloud.com acquired in 2011
With the addition of Cloud.com, Citrix now offers a complete portfolio of virtualization, orchestration and networking solutions built for the Cloud Era.
- Read more the Cloud.com acquisition
- Read TechCrunch's take on the acquisition
Path: The Personal Social Network
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Path CEO Dave Morin at TechCrunch Disrupt
Path CEO and co-founder Dave Morin interviewed backstage at TechCrunch Disrupt on his vision.
- See Founder Dave Morin at TechCrunch Disrupt
- Why we invested in Path
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BlueKai & Datameer: Top 10 Big Data Companies
Fast Company names BlueKai & Datameer Most Innovative Big Data Companies
Congrats to Redpoint portfolio companies BlueKai and Datameer - both listed in the Fast Company Most Innovative Big Data companies round up.
- See Fast Company's Top 10 List
- Check out Redpoint's entire portfolio
Bluefin Labs acquired by Twitter
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Congrats to Bluefin Labs!
Today, our Redpoint portfolio company, Bluefin Labs, is announcing its merger with Twitter. When we invested in Bluefin about two and a half years ago, we bought into the vision of matching and measuring social response to TV viewing; and deriving insights into engagement and reactions to ads and programs. A spinout out of the MIT Media Lab, Bluefin uses heavy data science to gain never before available understandings to reactions to TV by matching millions of people’s social postings, such as tweets, to actual programs and ads. By doing so, Bluefin is able to create the world’s largest and first ad hoc, real time focus group.
- Read Geoff's blog on the acquisition
- Read Twitter's blog on the news
Redpoint V Closed: $400M Early Stage Fund
Announcing Redpoint V
Redpoint V - a $400M early stage fund, has closed. We are looking forward to supporting more bold entrepreneurs with the fund as they create industry defining businesses. With Redpoint V, we now manage over $3.3 billion across our multiple funds, and will focus investment in emerging and new markets.
- Read more about Redpoint V on our blog
- Check out the WSJ story on our news
Adap.TV brings on Tim Morse as CFO
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Former Yahoo CFO Joins Adap.TV team
Adap.tv announced the appointment of Timothy R. Morse to the newly created position of Chief Financial Officer. Morse joins Adap.tv from Yahoo!, where he held the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer positions from June 2009 to October 2012. To date, Adap.tv has experienced record growth. In 2012, it was named by Inc. Magazine as the nation’s fastest-growing video advertising company in “Inc 500,” its annual ranking of private companies. Adap.tv added more than 200 new customers in 2012, including some of the world’s most recognizable agencies and publishers, such as VEVO and Horizon Media.
- Read Adap.TV's press release
- Check out WSJ's coverage of the news
