Venture Capital Update

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Zend raised $7 Million in funding from TriplePoint Capital. Zend provides support and products for PHP.

BuzzFeed raised $3.5 Million in funding from Hearst Interactive Media and Softbank. BuzzFeed allows anyone to create feeds and hopes to provide those that have the most popular content.

Softbank Capital

SoftBank Capital is an independent venture capital firm focused on high growth technology based businesses. They have direct market presence in Massachusetts, New York and Southern California.

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Investments on VCU:

• Thumbplay
• Goodmail Systems
• KickApps
• Sermo

The FeedRoom raised $12 Million in funding from NewSpring Capital, BEV Capital and Velocity Equity Partners. From what we found online, it appears this brings their total to $61 Million. The FeedRoom provides a complete solution for creating, controlling and distributing web video.

Trulia raised $15 Million in funding from Deep Fork Capital, Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and Fayez Sarofim & Co. Previously Trulia Received $10 Million in funding, along with prior funding bringing the total to $33 Million. Trulia is a residential real estate search tool covering the United States.

Accel Partners

From Accel Partners website: About Accel Partners

For the last 25 years Accel Partners, a venture capital firm, have been dedicated to the cause of providing support to those entrepreneurs who have the talent and expertise to create foremost technology companies while specifying new categories.

Accel Partners has reposed faith in the acumen of these entrepreneurs to crave their own ways rather than follow the predefined ways of the market.

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Sequoia Capital caters to two constituencies: the founders and management of private companies who have selected us as partners and the limited partners who have trusted us with their money. We want to do well by both but founders and management come first. We have learned that the only way to develop a fabulous company is one step at a time. This only happens if the company makes wonderful products or delivers a service that thrills large numbers of customers. If that occurs the founders, management and employees of these companies prosper. It is only then that the investor deserves to be rewarded. It has to happen in that order. There are no short-cuts.

Starfish raised $3.15 Million in funding from Novak Biddle Partners. Starfish provides solutions for academic institutions to retain students.

Novak Biddle Venture Partners is profiled on venture capital update. Novak Biddle Venture Partners was established in 1997 to provide equity financing and assistance to the management of young, information technology companies. NBVP has over $580 million under management.