DesiHits raised venture capital in 2008 from which American firm?
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DesiHits DesiHits is a multi-platform media company that produces and distributes fusion entertainment content aimed at the South Asian diaspora. The Company was founded in 2006 by Anjula Acharia-Bath, Ranj Bath and Arun Sandhu, and is headquartered in New York. Jimmy Iovine of Interscope Records and Israeli venture capitalist Aviv Nevo are strategic investors in the Company, and the Advisory Board includes former President of Epic Records Charlie Walk, Warner Music's Roger Gold, Tony Kanal of No Doubt, Ogilvy & Mather executive Doug Scott, record producer Steve Stoute, and Drew Lipscher, partner at Greycroft Partners. Anita Chatterjee is the Company's Editor-in-Chief. In January 2008, DesiHits raised a $5 million round of venture capital financing from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DE Shaw and Trident Capital.
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Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is an American venture capital firm focused on early- and growth-stage investments in enterprise, consumer and disruptive technologies. In 2015, DFJ was identified as one of the top investors of billion-dollar startups.
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David S. Rose David Semel Rose (born June 12, 1957) is an American serial entrepreneur and angel investor, based in New York. He is an investor in startup technology companies and founder of New York Angels, an early-stage technology investment group. He is Managing Partner of Rose Tech Ventures, a venture fund focused on Internet-based business, and CEO of Gust (formerly known as Angelsoft), which operates a collaboration platform for early stage angel investing.
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Third Rock Ventures Third Rock Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Boston, founded in 2006, which invests in biotechnology startups. Rather than passively waiting for investment opportunities, Third Rock creates companies itself by attracting the world’s leading experts to sign on.
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Fred Wilson (financier) Fred Wilson (born August 20, 1961) is an American businessman, venture capitalist and blogger. Wilson is the co-founder of Union Square Ventures, a New York City-based venture capital firm with investments in Web 2.0 companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Zynga, Kickstarter, and MongoDB.
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Talari Networks Talari Networks is a United States technology company. It was founded in 2007 and launched its initial beta product in early 2008.
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Rothenberg Ventures Rothenberg Ventures, known briefly as Frontier Technology Venture Capital, is an American venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2012 by Mike Rothenberg, who continues to serve as chief executive officer. It has invested in more than 100 companies, including "Bustle", Revel Systems, and SpaceX, and has focused its investments on virtual reality and other "frontier" technologies. Rothenberg Ventures became the subject of an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 2016, and multiple lawsuits have been filed against the firm.
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Genesis Partners Genesis Partners is an Israeli venture capital firm, founded in 1996 by Eddy Shalev and Dr. Eyal Kishon.
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Jim Breyer James W. Breyer (born July 1961) is an American venture capitalist, founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, an investment and venture philanthropy firm, and a partner at Accel Partners, a venture capital firm. Breyer has invested in over 30 companies that have gone public or completed a merger, with some of these investments, including Facebook, earning over 100 times cost and many others over 25 times cost. On the "Forbes" 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked #722 with a net worth of US$2.4 billion.
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Dan Pickett Daniel T. Pickett III (born July 27, 1968) is an American technology entrepreneur, private equity investor and philanthropist. He is the chairman, chief executive and co-founder of nfrastructure, a privately held networking and IT services firm. He is also President of Hudson River Capital Holdings, a private investment company in New York.
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Private Equity Growth Capital Council The American Investment Council (AIC), formerly the Private Equity Growth Capital Council (PEGCC), is a lobbying, advocacy, and research organization based in Washington, D.C., that was launched by a consortium of private equity firms in February 2007. It focuses on defending and promoting the private equity and growth capital investment industry to lawmakers and the public at large. Its members include some of the world's largest private equity firms.
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Michael Novogratz Michael Edward "Mike" Novogratz (sometimes Novo, born November 26, 1964) is an ex-hedge fund manager, formerly of the investment firm Fortress Investment Group. He was ranked a billionaire by "Forbes" in 2007 and 2008.
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Agios Pharmaceuticals Agios Pharmaceuticals is a public American pharmaceutical company focused on developing small-molecule anti-cancer therapeutics targeting cancer cell metabolism via the growth factor pathway. Among the proteins under investigation by the company are IDH1 and IDH2. The company was founded in 2008 (or 2007) by Lewis Cantley, Tak Mak and Craig Thompson. Agios is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company tendered an initial public offering in July 2013.
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Kanwal Rekhi Kanwal Rekhi (born August 29, 1945) is an Indian-American businessman, Venture capitalist Angel investor and entrepreneur, currently serving as the managing director at Inventus Capital Partners. Kanwal is credited as the first Indo-American Founder & CEO to take a venture-backed company public on the NASDAQ.
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Mark Stevens (venture capitalist) Mark Stevens (born 1959/1960) is a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California.
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Chris R. Hansen Christopher "Chris" R. Hansen is an American hedge fund manager. In March 2008, he founded Valiant Capital Management, a San Francisco, California-based global long/short equity hedge fund that had $2.7 billion in assets in 2012.
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Jubilee Capital Management Jubilee Capital Management (JCM) is a Singapore-based venture capital firm with operations in Beijing and the US, and partners in China, Asia Pacific, Europe and the United States.
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Revolution LLC Revolution LLC is an American investment firm based in Washington, D.C., founded in 2005 by Steve Case, Donn Davis, and Tige Savage. Notable investments include LivingSocial and Zipcar.
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Gregory Kats Gregory H. Kats (born July 14, 1959) is an American businessman, environmentalist and writer. He is President of Capital E, a national clean energy advisory and venture capital firm. He previously served as a Managing Director at Good Energies a billion-dollar global clean energy investor and served for 5 years as the Director of Financing for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
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Collaborative Fund Collaborative Fund is a venture capital firm focused on providing seed and early stage funding to technology companies.
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Lee Kranefuss Lee Thomas Kranefuss (born September 27, 1961) is an American businessman, investment manager, corporate adviser and entrepreneur.
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Istithmar World Istithmar World ("istithmar" is Arabic for "investment") is an investment firm based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). This company is a state-run business owned by Dubai World, a Dubai government-owned company, and was established in 2003. Originally known as "Istithmar," the company was renamed as "Istithmar World" in 2008.