Is hardware dead? Has the energy gone out of the SaaS market? How has Amazon impacted the economics of it all? Find out in our sit-down interview with Satish Dharmaraj, co-founder of email startup Zimbra, who’s now a partner at Redpoint Ventures. Read More »
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Formspring, a San Francisco-based social Q&A startup, has raised $10 million in fresh funding in a round led by Redpoint Ventures. Formspring.me is also part of a group of companies trying to capture a piece of a massive web trend: personal expression. Read More »
Xmarks, the bookmarks syncing service is shutting down. The San Francisco-based company quietly announced on its website today. The four-year-old company was started by Mitch Kapor, who initially funded the company. Redpoint Ventures later invested in the startup. Xmarks failed to develop a business model. Read More »
“An increasing trend is big funds like ours banding with angels and writing small checks just to try and get a foot in the door.” Geoff Yang, Redpoint Ventures, on how lean startups are changing the dynamics of the VC industry. (Bloomberg) Read More »
There are $1.3 billion in venture dollars sitting on the table for startups that can make Verizon’s next generation LTE network better, so I talked to Daniel Deeney who is investing some of those dollars to see what types of companies he’s looking for. Read More »
Earlier today, Kara Swisher reported that Satish Dharmraj, co-founder of Zimbra, an open-source email service that was acquired by Yahoo for $350 million, was joining Menlo Park, Calif.-based RedPoint Ventures as a partner. He isn’t the only one. We’ve also learned that that
Topspin Media, a startup launched by former Yahoo Music General Manager Ian Rogers and widely regarded as digital-music maverick, has raised a new round of founding from Denver Boulder, Colorado-based VCs at The Foundry Group. The news was announced on the Foundry Group blog… Read More »
