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Fliesler to Work with Entrepreneurs and Invest in Early Stage Technology Companies Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) March 07, 2013 Matrix Partners, a premier venture capital firm with a 30-year history, today announced that Jared Fliesler has joined Matrix as a general partner. He will be based in the firm’s Silicon Valley office. Fliesler comes to Matrix from Square, where he served as Vice President of User Acquisition and Business Operations. Prior to Square he held senior positions at Google...
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Work4 Labs, the world leader in Facebook recruitment technology, today announced its newly expanded suite of social recruiting products. During its initial phase of development, Work4 Labs has built an impressive customer roster of 17,000 customers, including Anheuser Busch, Ben and Jerry's, Kate Spade, VMWare, and UPS. Based on the success of its enterprise offering and the demand for Facebook recruiting tools from smaller...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- sqrrl, the company focused on security, scalability, and adaptability for Big Data, today announced that it has received funding from Atlas Venture and Matrix Partners. Chris Lynch of Atlas and Antonio Rodriguez of Matrix will join the company's board of directors. sqrrl's seed round will enable the company to aggressively hire to meet the rising demand for secure, scalable, and adaptable Big Data products and fuel the release of an...
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cyphort(TM), Inc. (www.cyphort.com), an innovative cyber security start-up, today announced the completion of its series-A round led by new investor Matrix Partners with participation from existing investors Foundation Capital. In addition, Andrew Verhalen, general partner of Matrix Partners, will join Cyphort's board of directors. With its new financing, the company can now accelerate delivery and market expansion of its game...
WATERLOO, Ontario and BOSTON, Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TribeHR (www.tribehr.com), pioneer of the industry's first social HR platform, today announced it has secured $2.5 million in financing led by Relay Ventures, with participation from Matrix Partners. The funds will be used to accelerate the development of new social and mobile products and go-to-market strategies for TribeHR's cloud-based HR management platform. TribeHR is the only solution that manages the entire employee...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., July 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- JustFab, the innovative fashion styling service and contemporary fashion brand, today announced that it has secured $76 million in funding. Rho Ventures led the round with participation from Matrix Partners, Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) and JustFab parent company, Intelligent Beauty. The primary capital will be used to further JustFab's aggressive international expansion, move into additional fashion categories, and provide...
SAN FRANCISCO, July 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Meteor Development Group, the company behind the Meteor open-source project, which produces a platform for building software applications, today announced $11.2 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Matrix Partners and others also participated in the Series A round. A "dream team" of enterprise technology leaders will advise the company. Applications written with Meteor run on a user's own computer -- inside their browser or on...
SOMERVILLE, Mass., July 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Echo Nest, the world's leading music intelligence platform, has closed a $17.3 million financing round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Prior investors Matrix Partners, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Fringe Partners, Jim Pallotta and board member Michael Brown also participated in this round. The Echo Nest plans to use the funds to support continued sales growth, international expansion, and new product development. The company is...
Company to use funds from Verizon, Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures and Lightspeed Ventures to expand globally to help operators solve video data surge on mobile networks, and also announces two new senior executive hires Mountain View, Calif. (PRWEB) January 25, 2012 Skyfire Labs, a leader in mobile video optimization and cloud solutions for mobility, today announced it has raised $8 million in its Series C financing. Verizon Investments LLC, a subsidiary of Verizon Communications Inc....
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Framehawk, Inc., today announced it has closed $11 million in Series B financing from Matrix Partners and existing investors. This new round of financing will help the stealth-mode start-up accelerate its development and business infrastructure to deliver the company's enterprise mobility software to large organizations worldwide. "Adding the financial backing and expertise from Matrix Partners alongside our existing...
