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Million Cat Challenge Reaches Halfway Milestone

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Million Cat Challenge Reaches Halfway Milestone
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Tasktop Raises $11 Million to Fuel Expansion as Demand for the Company's …

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Tasktop Raises Million to Fuel Expansion as Demand for the Company's …
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Sony's PS4 Has Allegedly Sold 8 Million Units

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Sony's PS4 Has Allegedly Sold 8 Million Units
… 7 million units sold landmark for the PS4, is now reporting that the PS4 has sold over 8 million units as of May 19, 2014. The outlet had reported the 7 million units figure at the end of March. Sony confirmed these figures two weeks later in an …
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and wife give $120 million to California schools

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Casper Raises $1.6 Million from Investors Including Lerer Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners

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New York, NY (PRWEB) February 25, 2014

Casper, the company delivering a better sleep experience with better designed mattresses and a superior delivery system, today announces the close of a $ 1.6 million dollar seed round. Led by Lerer Ventures, the round also includes investments from Norwest Venture Partners, Crosslink Partners, Vaizra Investments, and Correlation Ventures.

Casper’s founding team is a mix of e-commerce professionals and design engineers who share a vision to boost creativity, productivity, and health through an improved sleep experience. Philip Krim, co-founder and CEO, sold over 40,000 beds online through an e-commerce company he started as a sophomore at the University of Texas. Jeff Chapin, co-founder and product lead, worked on R&D and design for Sealy while at IDEO in Boston.

Casper, launching in late Spring, will initially offer a single mattress construction. The mattress is designed and engineered with comfort in mind: it contours to the body, reduces pressure, eliminates sinking in and overheating, but also provides excellent bounce-back – a welcome addition for mattress activities other than sleep. By eliminating costs associated with retail partnerships, distribution, and storage, Casper is able to reinvest in the product.

“We’ve made a concerted effort to focus on the elements that actually affect sleep – you would be shocked at the games retailers and manufacturers play solely for marketing purposes with no added benefit to the consumer,” says Krim. “It’s a liberating opportunity to make a bed from scratch, solely on our own terms.”

“I have been sleeping on a Casper for the last couple of months and I can only say that the sleep is awesome,” says Ben Lerer, Managing Director at Lerer Ventures. “The entire team is perfectly suited to take their vision of what people need for a better night’s sleep and transform the entire category.”

“Mattress shopping is a viewed by a large percentage of the market as one of the more difficult and frustrating shopping experiences, only surpassed by the experience of buying a used car,” said Josh Goldman, general partner at Norwest Venture Partners. “Casper is focused on fixing this archaic process that consumers endure today by bringing a high quality product to the $ 12.4B mattress market at an extremely disruptive price point. We have the utmost confidence that the leadership and design expertise of this team will deliver some much-needed transparency to the sleep industry.”

Casper products will be available in the coming months at http://www.caspersleep.com. The company is currently accepting applicants for their beta testing program.

About Casper

Casper is rewriting the rules of the mattress industry by providing a universally comfortable sleep experience. With better sleep comes more productivity and creativity. Casper’s mattress is a responsive one – designed to contour to your body, reduce pressure, ensure you won’t sink in or overheat, but also provide excellent bounce-back – perfect for mattress activities other than sleep. By eliminating storage and retail partners, Casper’s superior mattresses cost a third of the closest retail equivalent. Please visit http://www.caspersleep.com/ and follow us on Twitter @caspersleep.

About Lerer Ventures

Lerer Ventures is a New York-based, seed stage venture capital fund led by managing directors Kenneth Lerer, Eric Hippeau, Ben Lerer and Jordan Cooper. LV invests in founders in the earliest stages of a startup’s life, seeking out entrepreneurs with product vision, consumer insight, focused execution, and unwavering ambition. Its portfolio includes BuzzFeed, Warby Parker, Thrillist, Birchbox, Percolate, Sailthru, Fullscreen, Songza, Chartbeat, RebelMouse, Refinery29 and many more.

About Norwest Venture Partners

Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) is a multi-stage venture capital and growth equity investment firm that has partnered with entrepreneurs to build great businesses for more than 50 years. The firm manages over $ 3.7 billion in capital and has funded more than 500 companies since inception. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., NVP has subsidiaries in Mumbai and Bengaluru, India and Herzelia, Israel. NVP makes early to late-stage venture and growth equity investments across a wide range of sectors including: technology, information services, business services, financial services, consumer products/services and healthcare. For more information, please visit http://www.nvp.com and follow NVP on Twitter @NorwestVP.







Postmates Raises $16 Million Series B Round, Led by Spark Capital

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 18, 2014

Postmates, the leading on-demand delivery service, announced today that it has raised an additional $ 16 million in capital for its Series B financing round to support its dramatic growth and expand geographically. The latest round was led by Spark Capital with follow-on from existing investors. Nabeel Hyatt, Venture Partner at Spark Capital, will join founders Bastian Lehmann and Sean Plaice on the company’s Board of Directors along with Scott Banister.

“We’re currently averaging thousands of deliveries per week. Customers who order more than 10 times per month contribute to more than 30% of order volume; customers who order more than 5 times per month contribute to more than 50% of order volume,” said Bastian Lehmann, CEO and co-founder of Postmates. “More importantly, is how quickly our supply is growing. We have nearly 2,000 active Postmates couriers on the platform in our four markets.”

Since closing its Series A funding in December of 2012, Postmates has developed its own proprietary logistics software that successfully dispatches and guides couriers through major metropolitan areas to deliver local goods including prepared food, groceries and retail goods. The company has forged partnerships and promotional campaigns with merchants in San Francisco, D.C., Seattle and New York, including Whole Foods, Momofuku Milk Bar, Hapa Ramen and The Meatball Shop, among others.

“We are experiencing remarkable growth and strong national demand for our mobile platform,” said Lehmann. “This new round of financing and group of investors – with their proven success in identifying potentially successful consumer products such as Twitter, Foursquare and Tumblr – will guide us through this critical growth stage. With Spark’s support, we’ll continue to push the boundaries of e-commerce and logistics within local markets.”

This investment will enable Postmates to strengthen its position as the industry leader in same-day delivery. The company plans to improve its understanding of local inventory and aggressively invest in their operations, design and engineering teams to meet increasing domestic and international demand for the product.

“We’re thrilled to be partnering with Postmates. They have a magical product and have proven this past year they know how to handle incredible growth while keeping quality high,” said Nabeel Hyatt, Venture Partner at Spark Capital. “Bastian and his team have created a service that not only puts your city in the palm of your hand, but it also does that while helping support the local businesses that make a city what it is.”

Postmates previously closed a $ 5 million Series A round from FoundersFund and received a $ 1.75 million seed round with SoftTechVC, Matrix Partners, Scott Banister, Naval Ravikant, Russel Simmons, Thomas Korte, Shervin Pishevar, Dave Morin, and David Sacks participating amongst others. The Series B brings Postmates’ total funding to just over $ 22 million.

About Postmates:

Postmates is transforming the way local goods move around a city by enabling anyone to get any product delivered in under one hour. Postmates’ revolutionary urban logistics & on-demand delivery platform connects customers with local couriers, who purchase and deliver goods from any restaurant or store in a city. Postmates’ mission is to become the on-demand delivery infrastructure for every major city in the world. Postmates was co-founded by Sam Street, Sean Plaice and Bastian Lehmann in 2011, and is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in London, Seattle and New York.

Postmates is free to download from the app store or by visiting: http://www.postmates.com

About Spark Capital

Spark Capital is a venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs seeking to build disruptive, world-changing companies. Founded in 2005, the firm manages approximately $ 1,500,000,000 across four funds. Headquartered in Boston, Spark maintains an office in New York and invests across the globe. Spark Capital focuses on Internet and mobile investments across the following key categories: advertising & monetization, commerce & services, content & media, financial services, hardware & infrastructure, mobile and social.

For more information, visit http://www.sparkcapital.com







Wellspring Announces $5 Million Capital Raise Led By MK Capital

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Chicago, IL (PRWEB) February 12, 2014

Wellspring, the leader in enterprise software to manage research and innovation, today announced it has raised $ 5 million in capital led by MK Capital, a $ 250M venture capital firm focused on building category leading companies in the software and digital media industries. The capital will be used to strengthen Wellspring’s product and technology position within the R&D and product innovation markets and for expansion in the corporate R&D, clinical, and academic research markets.

The Chicago-based Open Innovation software company was founded in 2003 as a spin-out of Carnegie Mellon University, initially providing technology transfer software solutions to universities and hospitals. Today, Wellspring’s Sophia software platform is used in universities across the world, in hospitals such as University Hospitals/Case Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, and by corporations such as Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products. With the closing of the capital round, Wellspring has already secured contracts with Education Development Center Inc, University of Illinois system, and the US Department of Veterans Affairs.

“Wellspring has the great fortune to work with companies and universities at the forefront of innovation. We are at an exciting time. We’re transforming how R&D is done across the innovation value chain.” said Dr. Robert Lowe, Chief Executive Officer. “We’re excited to tap MK Capital’s experience in enterprise software and phenomenal investment track record.”

“Wellspring addresses the most pressing strategic issue confronting corporations today—the need to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and velocity of innovation activities” noted Mark Koulogeorge, managing general partner of MK Capital. “Well run organizations will increasingly insist on having a software platform to manage innovation activities, just as they rely on sales or marketing automation software for those functional areas of the business. We are excited to be an investor in the leading company in this burgeoning sector.”

“We are excited to welcome Wellspring to Chicago, where it sees the city’s top technical and product talent plus headquarters to innovative multinationals as key to its continued growth,” said Mayor Rahm Emanuel. “Fueled by MK Capital’s investment, Wellspring’s move demonstrates the city’s ability to attract and support world-class technology firms.”

Unlike other Open Innovation platforms, Wellspring’s Sophia software enables organizations to innovate faster by accessing knowledge quickly and optimizing investments in research and innovation, all by managing and harnessing the organization’s Knowledge Supply Chain. By managing their Knowledge Supply Chain, companies, universities, and hospitals optimize their research programs to effectively spur new innovations.

In addition to the Sophia platform, Wellspring also acquired Flintbox in 2010, an intellectual property exchange originally founded by the University of British Columbia. With this capital raise, Wellspring will be strengthening its existing products and providing new technologies in Open Innovation for all sectors of R&D.

Wellspring is the leading provider of software systems to unify the processes of open innovation, from technology scouting to corporate venturing to in/out-licensing to intellectual property management. The company’s Sophia Knowledge Supply Chain Software enables companies, foundations, government agencies, and universities to identify and capture value from knowledge assets and their network of collaborators. For more information, please contact Sara Kronenberg at (312) 643-5100 or visit http://www.wellspringworldwide.com.

MK Capital invests in early and growth stage companies in the software and digital media industries. The firm’s partners, who average over fifteen years of venture capital experience, partner with entrepreneurial management teams to build leading companies in emerging markets. MK Capital has deep domain expertise in the marketing, education, and cloud infrastructure industries. The firm is headquartered in Chicago and has offices in Los Angeles and Ann Arbor. MK Capital manages over $ 250 million in capital and is actively seeking new investment opportunities. For more information, visit http://www.mkcapital.com or call (312) 324-7700.







Chicago Cloud IT Services Company Announces $2.4 Million Series A Funding

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Chicago, IL (PRWEB) February 04, 2014

ADAR IT, a Chicago-based cloud computing company has secured $ 2.4 million in Series A funding from MK Capital and engaged BOSI Global as an operating partner to build on 84% compounded annual growth and 97% customer retention.

ADAR IT is an innovative cloud IT services company bringing enterprise-level cloud solutions to small to medium-sized businesses. Each customer is set up with their own ADAR Private Cloud™ – so their entire IT infrastructure gets virtualized. Power outages and disasters affecting an office infrastructure no longer affect productivity or data security. Individuals can access their entire virtual desktop from anywhere with a high-speed connection – using even a tablet or smartphone. Customers pay a flat monthly fee to access this end-to-end technology on demand—from desktops, servers, and data storage—to unlimited technical support and IT consulting.

“We are a next-generation managed service provider that cares deeply about the customer experience,” says CEO and co-founder Vadim Vladimirskiy. “We bundle all of the IT services a business owner needs into a secure, sophisticated and reliable solution. One fixed monthly price covers all things IT.”

ADAR’s innovative delivery of IT services and fanatical customer service has led to rapid growth, customer churn of under 3%, and evangelist-like customers in the US, Europe and Asia.

“When I first met Vadim I was quite impressed with how he had built ADAR IT, with essentially no paid in capital, into a managed services provider with over 100 customers around the globe” says Bret Maxwell, General Partner at MK Capital, “and his vision for providing a state-of-the-art, cloud-based offering serving the small and medium-sized marketplace that was both cost effective and of high quality. As we learned more and conducted due diligence, we were even more impressed at the level of customer satisfaction – with many customers being almost evangelical in their praise for the solution. ADAR is offering a solution today for small and medium size enterprises that historically was only available to much larger entities at a significantly higher price point.”

“Vadim is a smart, driven entrepreneur,” says Charlie McClary, CEO of BOSI Global – ADAR’s operating partner. “In a world where entrepreneurs chase Series A funding with marginal revenues and no profits, it is refreshing to see someone like him build a thriving high-growth company with substantial profits first. We’re energized to partner with him to take ADAR IT to the forefront of the managed services space.”

About ADAR IT

ADAR IT provides cloud-based IT solutions for small and mid-size businesses. IT services include server hosting, desktop hosting, network design and implementation, software licensing, network security services, local and off-site backup, ongoing network maintenance and support, disaster recovery systems, and consulting services. In addition, ADAR IT provides customers with a fully managed network migration service from traditional in-house IT systems to the cloud-based platform, giving small to mid-size businesses the same IT advantages enjoyed by Fortune 500 enterprises. For more information, visit http://www.adarit.com or call (877) 860-0700.

About MK Capital

MK Capital invests in early and growth stage companies in the software and digital media industries. The firm’s partners, who average over fifteen years of venture capital experience, partner with entrepreneurial management teams to build leading companies in emerging markets. MK Capital has deep domain expertise in the marketing, education and cloud infrastructure industries. The firm is headquartered in Chicago and has offices in Los Angeles and Ann Arbor. MK Capital manages over $ 250 million in capital and is actively seeking new investment opportunities. For more information, visit http://www.mkcapital.com or call (312) 324-7700.

About BOSI Global

BOSI Global serves as Operating Partner to venture-backed and privately held companies. The company is made up of successful entrepreneurs and corporate leaders with strong pedigree in high-growth operations across all areas of business. BOSI Global has offices across the US as well as in Singapore, Europe and Canada. For more information, visit http://www.bosiglobal.com or call (877) 264-2674.

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Greybull Stewardship Closes $20 Million Evergreen Fund

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EMERYVILLE, CA (PRWEB) February 04, 2014

Greybull Stewardship today announced the closing of a $ 20 million evergreen investment fund, Greybull Stewardship, L.P. Since the fund’s January 2010 inception, annual returns have realized 23 percent after fees. As a result, existing limited partners (LPs) increased their commitments and new LPs were added for the second four-year cycle. The fund is industry agnostic, focusing instead on lower middle market companies with between $ 1 to $ 3 million in EBITDA. Other criteria include companies with strong competitive advantages, recurring revenue, and management teams that hold significant equity in the businesses and plan to remain in place after the investment.

“According to a Kauffman Foundation study, only 16 per cent on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing private companies had venture capital backing, indicating there is a capital shortage in this sector,” said Mason Myers, general partner of Greybull Stewardship. “The companies we have invested in to date have reached a tipping point – a capital infusion supported by new governance structures gives management the tools to grow into the middle market.”

The fund’s evergreen structure is central to Myers’ strategy of realizing long-term, cash-on-cash returns with maximum flexibility for business owners. Evergreen funds have the flexibility to exit investments based on what is best for the business, rather than because of restrictions created by a fund’s limited life or other fund-specific limitations. Greybull Stewardship also focuses on generating returns by harvesting some cash tax efficiently from annual profits in addition to the sale of investments, which often is well aligned with the objectives of portfolio company co-owners and management.

“I want founders and business owners to see Greybull Stewardship as an ideal co-owner of their growing, profitable company, just as Berkshire Hathaway is the buyer of choice for many great businesses that do not want to sell to a strategic acquirer that will change things or a financial buyer that will sell the company again a few short years later,” said Myers. “I have been a fan of Berkshire Hathaway philosophies ever since my high school years in Omaha, Nebraska. One of the lessons I have taken from Warren Buffett is to create a structure for Greybull Stewardship that makes it an investor preferred by the very best companies.”

Greybull Stewardship’s growth portfolio includes:

    StormSource Software the developer of Appointment-Plus, the worldwide leader in mobile and online scheduling software.
    Main Street Gourmet a custom bakery specializing in custom foods such as cookies, muffins, brownies, granola, loaf cakes, toppings and desserts for grocery store bakeries and restaurants.
    ABC Sports Camps provides registration services for sport camps and events by offering complete online management, marketing and reporting tools.
    Real Estate Institute and Bookmark Education offer continuing education for real estate, mortgage, insurance, and legal professionals.
    Sites for Law Firms provides websites for law firms with built in marketing and self-editable content.

“Over the last three years, the company has grown from just a handful of employees to a current team of over sixty people. In that time we’ve grown revenue at a compound rate of over 35% per year and become the leading appointment scheduling software in a significant market. We look forward to our continued partnership with Mason and his investors as we continue to expand our services globally,” said Bob La Loggia, founder and CEO, Appointment Plus.

About Greybull Stewardship

Greybull Stewardship exists to provide business owners an ideal co-owner and steward of their business and earn attractive long-term, compounding, cash-on-cash returns for investors. Greybull’s evergreen fund structure and flexible investment horizon is designed to align with the objectives of portfolio company co-owners and management, comprised of growing, profitable organizations in the lower middle market with between $ 1 to $ 3 million in EBITDA.

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