How much money has the company, whose backers includes a co-founder and angel investor in Keyhole, Inc., raised to date?
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SnapLogic SnapLogic is a commercial software company that provides Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) tools for connecting Cloud data sources, SaaS applications and on-premises business software applications. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA SnapLogic was founded in 2006. SnapLogic is headed by Ex-CEO and Co-Founder of Informatica, Gaurav Dhillon and is venture backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners, Floodgate Fund, Brian McClendon, and Naval Ravikant. The company has raised $60 million to date.
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Brian McClendon Brian McClendon (born 1964) is an American software designer, developer, and engineer. He was a co-founder and angel investor in Keyhole, Inc., a geospatial data visualization company that was purchased by Google in 2004 to produce Google Earth. Keyhole itself was spun off from another company called Intrinsic Graphics, of which McClendon was also a founder. He was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.
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KiteDesk KiteDesk was a lead generation company headquartered in Tampa, Florida. It was founded in 2011 by software veterans from the Tampa startup community. The company is venture-backed, including a $6 million investment round completed in 2016.
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Peerbackers Peerbackers is a crowdfunding web site where entrepreneurs can post projects and raise money to fund those projects. It was founded in 2011 by Andrew Rachmell and Sally Outlaw. Entrepreneurs will submit proposals which will be reviewed by Peerbackers staff, after which they are posted and members of the public can make individual investments. Peerbackers takes 5% of the money raised.
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Snowflake Computing Snowflake Computing was founded in 2012 in San Mateo, California by three data warehousing experts: Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes and Marcin Zukowski. It came out of stealth mode in October 2014 shortly after appointing former Microsoft executive Bob Muglia as CEO that June. According to IT Business Edge, much of the interest in the company is based on Muglia's involvement. As of October 2015, Snowflake Computing has raised $71 million in funding, including $26 million it had raised before coming out of stealth and $45 million funding round announced in June 2015. An additional $100 million was raised in April 2017, bringing total funding to $205 million.
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Jet.com Jet.com is an American e-commerce company headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey. The company was cofounded by entrepreneur Marc Lore (who had sold his previous company, Diapers.com, to Amazon.com) along with Mike Hanrahan and Nate Faust, and has raised $820 million over four venture rounds from firms including Google Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital Ventures, Accel Partners, Alibaba Group, and Fidelity. The site was publicly launched in July 2015.
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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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SatoshiPay SatoshiPay is a company that processes nanopayment transactions usually in the form of bitcoins (or smaller Bitcoin units called, "satoshis"). The company is currently developing a two-way payment platform that will allow content providers to charge consumers a small fee (as low as one satoshi or a fraction of a cent) to read, watch, or listen to content. In September 2015, the company received seed funding from British entrepreneur Jim Mellon's investment firm, Kuala Innovations.
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TEEC Angel Fund Tsinghua Entrepreneurs & Executive Club Angel Fund (TAF) is a Silicon Valley (SV) based super angel fund with extensive roots in technology – spanning clean tech, biotech, healthcare, financial services and more, as well as a strong connection with China. TAF is backed by a team of veteran entrepreneurs with deep investment experience providing innovative entrepreneurs the tools to thrive and succeed. The company's core network of Tsinghua Entrepreneur & Executive Club (TEEC) has over 300 members to help startups it.
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Eric C. Anderson Eric C. Anderson (born 1974) is an American entrepreneur and aerospace engineer. He is the co-founder and chairman of Space Adventures Ltd., the first commercial spaceflight company, which has arranged for eight missions for privately-funded individuals to the International Space Station since 2001. Anderson is widely credited as having established the market for commercial spaceflight. He is also a founding partner of Space Angels Network, CEO of Intentional Software Corporation, co-founder and chairman of Planetary Power, Inc., co-founder and co-chairman of Planetary Resources and chairman of Personal.com and Booster Fuels.
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Lyft Lyft is a transportation network company based in San Francisco, California. It develops, markets and operates the Lyft car transportation mobile app. Launched in June 2012, Lyft operates in approximately 300 U.S. cities, including New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles and provides 18.7 million rides a month. The company was valued at US$7.5 billion as of April 2017 and has raised a total of US$2.61 billion in funding.
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Barney Pell Barney Pell (born March 18, 1968) is an American entrepreneur, angel investor and computer scientist. He is co-founder, Vice Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Moon Express; co-founder and Chairman of LocoMobi; and Associate Founder of Singularity University. He was co-founder and CEO of Powerset, a pioneering natural language search startup, search strategist and architect for Microsoft's Bing search engine, a pioneer in the field of General Game Playing in Artificial Intelligence, and the architect of the first intelligent agent to fly onboard and control a spacecraft.
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Companisto Companisto is an international equity-based crowdfunding website. It was founded by the lawyers David Rhotert and Tamo Zwinge in June 2012, in Berlin. Investments are between 5 and 500,000 Euros per investor with no limit on how much funding a startup can raise. Companisto allows investors to invest in startups. In return, they become shareholders and are entitled to a share of any profits, as well as potentially benefiting from an exit. Companisto has over 70.000 investors from 92 countries.
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Blueseed Blueseed is a Silicon Valley-based startup company and a seasteading venture to create a startup community located on a vessel stationed in international waters near the coast of Silicon Valley in the United States. The intended location (outside the territorial seas of the United States, 12 nautical miles from the coast of California, in the so-called “contiguous zone”) would enable non-U.S. startup entrepreneurs to work on their ventures without the need for a US work visa (H1B), while living in proximity to Silicon Valley and using relatively easier to obtain business and tourism visas (B1/B2) to travel to the mainland. After the conclusion of their incubation on the vessel, successful startups may relocate to Silicon Valley and employ local workforce. The project received wide media coverage and the promise of funding from venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who also supports The Seasteading Institute, who ultimately did not invest in the seed round. Blueseed later obtained US$ in seed funding,
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TuneIn TuneIn is an audio streaming service delivering live news, radio, and sports, in addition to music, podcasts, and audiobooks, to an audience of over 60 million monthly active users worldwide. The company is based in San Francisco, California. Founded by Bill Moore in 2002 as RadioTime in Dallas, Texas, TuneIn has more than 100,000 broadcast radio stations and four million on-demand programs and podcasts from around the world. TuneIn is available on the web at TuneIn.com, for a suite of mobile apps: iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Samsung, Windows Phone, and on over 200 connected devices, including Sonos, Bose, Amazon Echo, and Google Home connected speakers. TuneIn service is also available in over 50 vehicle models, including the Tesla Model S. TuneIn raised over $47 million in venture funding from Institutional Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GV, General Catalyst Partners, and Icon Ventures.
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Ken Howery Ken Howery is a co-founder and partner at Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm with over $3 billion under management.
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Sky Dayton Sky Dylan Dayton (born August 8, 1971) is an American entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder of Internet service provider EarthLink, co-founder of eCompanies, and the founder of Boingo.
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Uphold Uphold (formerly Bitreserve) is a cloud-based financial services platform enabling users to convert deposits to their account via bank account, credit card in addition to cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin , litecoin and ethereum into reserve-backed currencies and commodities allowing anyone with a device to send, receive, and exchange money and commodities. Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, with offices in Larkspur, Braga, London, and Shanghai, Uphold allows users to convert bitcoin into "cloud money," in 29 currencies (dollars, euros, yen, rupee and others) and 4 precious metals (Gold, Silver, Platinum, and Palladium). The company also has an open API and has stated interest in addressing the remittance market through partnerships with the retail outlet Elektra and the Salinas Group. (Remittances from the US to Mexico alone ran to an estimated $22 billion last year, according to the World Bank.) Though Uphold holds bitcoins as stable, real-world currency, Anthony Watson, the former CEO, has stated it is "not a bitcoin company. In terms of bitcoin's relevance to us, it is a means to an end."
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JMI Equity JMI Equity is an American growth equity firm focused on investing in leading software, internet, business services and healthcare IT companies. JMI provides capital for growth, recapitalizations, acquisitions and buyouts. Founded in 1992, JMI has invested in more than 115 companies throughout North America and Canada and has raised over $3.1 billion of committed capital. JMI VIII closed in August 2014 with $1 billion of committed capital. JMI VII closed in November 2010 with $875 million of committed capital. JMI VI closed in July 2007 with $600 million of committed capital. Representative investment holdings include, ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), Intergraph, DoubleClick, Kronos, Eloqua (NASDAQ: ELOQ) and Undertone Networks.
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TheVentures TheVentures is a venture fund based in Seoul, South Korea that makes seed investments (between $50,000 and $200,000) in Korean startups.
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Engine (organization) Engine is a non-profit group advocating for public policies that encourage the growth of technology startups in San Francisco, California. Engine is composed of a 501(c)(3) organization called Engine Research Foundation and a 501(c)(4) called Engine Advocacy. Engine Advocacy and Engine Foundation are the two branches of a non-profit organization that conducts economic research and policy analysis research and provides support and advice to technology startups. Engine Advocacy was an instrumental partner in the effort to defeat PIPA and SOPA back in 2012. The organization researches and advocates around the issues of open Internet, intellectual property reform, privacy laws, Internet and spectrum access and immigration reform. Google, SV Angel, 500 Startups, Mozilla, Yelp and the Startup Genome support the organization.
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Howard Lindzon Howard Lindzon is a Canadian author, financial analyst, technical analyst and super angel investor. Lindzon manages a hedge fund, serves as managing partner of the holding company Social Leverage, limited partner at Knight's Bridge Capital Partners, and is the co-founder of StockTwits. Lindzon was named one of the "The Best Tweets for Your Money" in 2013 by Barron's.