The investment takes the total raised by ZocDoc in its history to at least $68m, and it is also backed by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures.
Month: August 2011
Pearson helps Inkling raise $17m
Both Pearson and McGraw-Hill became backers of the company in March.
Lighting the fire of cross-border investment
To continue success: energise European SMEs and drive economic growth, bringing down national barriers and light the fire of cross-border investment.
How to run a good board meeting
Firas Raouf, an investor in early stage technology companies, gives his tips for what corporate venturers should expect from their portfolio company CEOs.
Keeping corporate entrepreneurs happy
Robert Hisrich, Garvin Professor of Global Entrepreneurship and director of the Walker Center for Global Entrepreneurship at Thunderbird School of Global Management, discusses how to promote corporate entrapreneurship.
Gaule’s Question Time: AkzoNobel
As part of a series of interviews with leading innovation and venture developers, Andrew Gaule, founder of the Corven Corporate Venturing Network, talks to Harmen Kielstra, open innovation leader at AkzoNobel Decorative Paints.
Success is finely balanced
To ensure longerterm survival better, rather than the historic two to three-year longevity, a number of groups are putting in place the governance structures that provide greater independence and stability of funding, and working out their own comparative advantages rather than blindly following the hot investment areas.
IDG adds $1m to Minus kitty
US-based file sharing company Minus has raised the funds less than a year after it was founded.
Tengelmann takes 45% of Zitra
Tengelmann buys stake in the business which runs a platform for manufacturers to sell premium products to retailers.
Chakravarthy joins Capital18
Chakravarthy had been looking at investments in technology and telecoms at Bharti, including its corporate venturing unit Airtel Innovation Fund, which had been closed last year.
Yadav leaves Bharti
The departure follows press speculation the Airtel fund was being closed over the summer, as first reported by news provider Pluggd.in, which described it as “heartbreaking news for mobile (app) developers”.
Assia calls up $20.8m
New investors in Assia included phone operators Telefonica and AT&T, and venture capital firm Sandalwood Partners.
Juniper raises glass to Adva
Adva will issue 551,471 ordinary shares to Juniper.
SET blows into NGenTec
Wouter Jonk, managing director of SET Venture Partners, an independent firm with local utility Delta as a limited partner, has become a board member of NGenTec.