June 2008
- ShotSpotter announced the closing of $7.5 million Series D financing on June 17. The Westly Group led the round, joined by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) and Broidy Capital Management. The Company’s existing investors include the Band of Angels, City Light Capital, Claremont Creek Ventures, Labrador Ventures, Lauder Partners, and Levensohn Venture Partners. The capital will be used to solidify the dominance of its flagship product, the ShotSpotter GLS, in both the U.S. domestic public safety and military markets and to accelerate international market expansion.
- Aperto Networks and Tranzeo Wireless Technologies announced the the combination of Aperto base stations and Tranzeo subscriber unit technology for flexible, cost-effective WiMax solutions.
- Labrador's Sean Foote gave a lecture titled, "VC and Microfinance: Pros and Cons" at the Haas School of Business.
May 2008
- Pandora's Tim Westergren was profiled in a May 26 Fortune Magazine article. The profile includes some of Westergren's favorite things to have and to do while on the road.
- Altierre held a second closing on its Series C round, increasing the round's total to $30 million.
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- NextHop Technologies was acquired by U4EA Technologies on May 20. Together, the companies will address small and medium business, enterprise and service provider requirements for seamless mobility for voice, data and video applications. U4EA Technologies is a privately held company with locations in
- Live Universe acquires MeeVee.
- A new partnership between Pandora and Clear Channel was reported in WashintonPost.com, Billboard.biz, Wired.com, SiliconValleyInsider.com, Valleywag.com and Digg.com.
- Eoplex increased its $8 million Series C Round of financing to $12 million. The new funds will be used to build its first full-scale production plant to manufacture new types of cell phone antennas. The round was lead by ATA Ventures with the backing of all current investors, including Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Labrador Ventures and Draper-Richards.
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- Live Universe acquires Jangl.
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April 2008
- Silverpop Systems closed a $15 million Series D round, led by new investor D.E. Shaw & Co. The new capital will be used to make further acquisitions.
- KickApps was selected by WorldNow, a technology and sales company, to drum up new online revenue opportunities for local TV stations.
- Fyreball launches media-sharing service with $1 Million from Angels.
- Supermarket News reported on April 10 that Robert J. Dunst, a former chief information officer at Albertsons, was named to the board of directors of Altierre Corp.
- Ustream. TV closed an $11.1 million Series A round in April. Labrador Ventures participated in the investment, along with Doll Capital Management and The Band of Angels. The funding will be used to accelerate product development and meet market demand for a live online video broadcasting platform that allows people all over the world to engage in real-time. TechCrunch and VentureWire reported on the new financing.
- Yardbarker announced on April 3 a $6 million Series B round of financing. Draper Fisher Jurvetson led the round and was joined by existing investors, including Labrador Ventures, Russ Siegelman, Ronnie Lott (via SC Investments Consulting), Jarl Mohn and Baseline Ventures. Yardbarker plans to use the funds to expand its engineering and sales teams.
- Aperto Networks announced a new $20 million round of financings on April 2. Quicksilver Ventures led the financing which included participation by Labrador Ventures and other existing investors including Gunn Allen Venture Partners, JK&B Capital, Canaan Partners, Alliance Ventures, Innovacom and JAFCO Ventures.
March 2008
- The Wall Street Journal featured Altierre in a March 31 article titled "A Cheaper Price Tag."
- The Washington Post featured Pandora in a March 21 article on the future of radio and USA Today included Pandora in its round-up of popular online music sites in a March 24 article.
- Pluggd Inc. hired two new vice presidents: Alex Alben as VP of corporate strategy and Fred Tietze as VP of sales and business development.
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- Altierre announced on March 10 a $22 million in Series C funding. The Galleon Group led the round, and was joined by return backers D.E. Shaw, ATA Ventures, Kinetic Ventures and Labrador Ventures.
- Entegris, Inc. (NasdaqGS:ENTG - News) announced on March 6 that it signed an agreement to purchase a 14 percent equity stake of privately held Integrated Materials, Inc. (IMI) for $8 million.
- Mi5 featured in Information Week's Startup Of The Week titled, "Mi5 Networks Cleans Up The Web" in the March 3 issue.
- On March 6 Jangl turned on a revenue stream across its network of social calling widgets, which reach a potential 80 million social networking profiles. The new advertising initiative is called Mobile Media Platform and provides a set of APIs for publishers and ad units for advertisers.
February 2008
- Labrador Ventures, along with Silicon Valley Bank and Goodwin Procter, hosted its 6th Annual Mardi Gras celebration on Tuesday, February 5 with over 150 venture capitalists. Click here to see photos.
- Labrador Ventures was named one of Silicon Valley's most active Venture Capital firms by the Silicon Valley Business Journal.
January 2008
- MeeVee was featured in a January 21 USA Today article titled, "Websites make it easy to catch a missed TV show."
- MeeVee announced on January 8 a syndication partnership with MTV networks to distribute content from Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1, CMT, Logo, The N, Spike TV, AtomFilms and Game Trailers. Article featured on Fox Business news.
- Labrador's Sean Foote was interviewed by PricewaterhouseCoopers' Steve Bengston for his wsRadio show, "Startup Radio," on January 3.
December 2007
- ezboard was acquired by privately held KickApps on December 27. The KickApps hosted platform enables users to easily create, deploy and manage branded social and rich media communities on their websites.
- Aperto announced on December 18 that its Packetmax was selected by the Egyptian Ministry Of Interior for the first Wimax Network in the nation.
- As part of our seed program, Labrador invested in Fyreball.
- ShotSpotter was featured in a York Dispatch article on December 14 titled, "York City looks to ShotSpotter to reduce gun crime."
- ShotSpotter was featured in a Minneapolis' WCCO report on December 12 that its system caught a 15 year-old with a stolen rifle.
- Labrador's Sean Foote was interviewed by PricewaterhouseCoopers' Steve Bengston for his wsRadio show, "Startup Radio," on December 6.
- The Boston Herald ran a December 7th story on Shotspotter.
- As part of our seed program, Labrador invested in Infoaxe.
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November 2007
- DC Mayor announced additional resources for ShotSpotter Technologies on November 29.
- Jangl announced on November 28 its latest free, upgrade features for safe, private and free SMS. Jangl's SMS lets customers send and receive text messages from any PC or mobile handset.
- Labrador's Nina Labatt spoke at The 2007 Private Equity Strategic Financial Management Conference: "Operational, Tax and Accounting Issues in the Private Equity Firm," held on November 27-28 in San Francisco.
- As part of our seed program, Labrador invested in Ustream.TV.
- Pandora is featured in Doonesbury cartoons on November 27 and November 28.
- MeeVee: Now With TiVo! As of November 20, TiVo users can record shows from anywhere by clicking "Record On My TiVo DVR" from any episode listing in the MeeVee guide.
- Solaicx held an opening ceremony on November 20 for its new solar manufacturing facility in Portland, Oregon and Governor Ted Kulongoski cut a ceremonial ribbon inaugurating the plant’s new operations.
- EoPlex Technologies announced on November 8, 2007 that Dr. Marvin Kilgo has joined the company as Vice President of Operations and Engineering. Dr. Kilgo brings more than twenty years of experience in process development and technical management to the Company.
- AT&T Communications added Pandora’s personalized Internet radio service to its wireless network, available from select AT&T mobile phones.
- Advanced Packaging highlighted EoPlex Technologies in a November 1, 2007 online article.
October 2007
- NewTeeVee.com reported that Veeker raised new funding and signed an exclusive deal with NBC to roll its service out to 10 major cities.
- Labrador's Sean Foote was interviewed by PricewaterhouseCoopers' Steve Bengston for his wsRadio show, "Startup Radio," on October 18.
- MeeVee launched a new site on October 16 providing users with a customized suite of Online and TV directory services, features and long form content. MeeVee also recently acquired Top Ten Sources, an Internet aggregator of the best rich media content drawing from blogs, podcasts, video and mainstream media.
- "Most companies have customers. Pandora has fans." Pandora featured in an October 2007 Inc. magazine cover story.
- Veeker launched Veeker 2.0, a multimedia messaging service delivering simple and quick video and picture messaging via mobile phones, e-mail and Webcam.
September 2007
- Labrador Ventures joined a $3.5M Series D financing of portfolio company MeeVee along with existing investors.
- Altierre Corporation presented at ThinkEquity Partners’ prestigious G5 Growth Conference in September in San Francisco.
- EoPlex announced on September 7 that AlwaysOn selected the Company for its GoingGreen Top 100 Private Company Award. The Company was recognized for leadership in clean technology and global business potential.
- Wired Magazine's Bog Network reported that HP's upcoming laptop and desktop computers will ship with the Pandora internet radio service via the Windows start menu or an IE bookmark, allowing buyers of those machines to start enjoying Pandora's free, customizable, artist-based music stations.
- As part of our seed program, Labrador invested in Podaddies Series A financing.
August 2007
- PC Magazine named www.meevee.com one of the Top 100 Undiscovered Websites.
- As part of our seed program, Labrador invested in Pluggd's Series A financing.
- Solaicx names Jeff Osorio as Chief Financial Officer.
- Solaicx announced on August 15 that Jeff Osorio joined the company as chief financial officer. Formerly, Mr. Osorio was a corporate controller and interim CFO of Cypress Semiconductor.
- Labrador's Stuart Davidson spoke at the Rockefeller Jackson Forum's Focus on Foundations and Endowments on August 12-14. The panel, "Evolution of Global and Alternative Investments," included representatives from General Atlantic, Unison Capital and Venrock.
- IntruGuard receives HostingWeek Magazine Editor’s choice award for 2007.
July 2007
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- On July 20 AlwaysOn named Solaicx an "AlwaysOn 100 Top Private Company" in its "Green" category. The AO100 winners will be honored at the Stanford Summit on July 31st.
- NextHop Technologies closed a Series D funding for $4 million on July 17. The new funds will be used to accelerate product development and further innovation in enterprise mobility and networking. New Enterprise Associates, Duchossois Technology Partners, Labrador Ventures, and Parker Price Venture Capital provided the latest investment, bringing total company funding to $45.8 million.
- Solaicx announced on July 11 that the former CEO of BP Solar, Harry Shimp, joined its Board of Directors.
