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Felicis Ventures

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Felicis Ventures is an active angel investment fund with a focus on early stage, consumer internet and mobile start-ups. It was founded late 2005 by Aydin Senkut, who was Google’s first Product Manager and later ran Strategic Partner Development for Google in Asia. With over a decade of experience in product management, sales and business development, Aydin strives to accelerate his portfolio companies’ success.

Investments include: Aardvark (acquired by Google), Brightroll, Imageshack, Meraki, Mint (acquired by Intuit), Posterous, Powerset (acquired by Microsoft), Sendori (acquired by IAC), Tapulous, and SGN.

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  Felicis Ventures invested in Artspace. (1/31/12)
  Posted 1/31/12 at 7:15pm via techcrunch.com
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  Felicis Ventures invested in Cardspring. (1/31/12)
  Posted 1/31/12 at 10:05am via techcrunch.com
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  Felicis Ventures invested in 955 Dreams. (1/26/12)
  Posted 3/5/11 at 3:50pm via techcrunch.com
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  Felicis Ventures invested in Fitbit. (1/24/12)
  Posted 1/24/12 at 5:02am via techcrunch.com
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  Felicis Ventures invested in Piazza. (1/6/12)
  Posted 1/7/12 at 4:14am via techcrunch.com
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  Felicis Ventures invested in Spool. (1/4/12)
  Posted 5/17/11 at 3:19pm via techcrunch.com
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  Felicis Ventures invested in Matchbox. (12/19/11)
  Posted 12/19/11 at 8:10pm via masshightech.com
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  Felicis Ventures invested in Iddiction. (11/1/11)
  Posted 11/15/11 at 8:59am via gigaom.com
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  Felicis Ventures invested in Any.DO. (11/10/11)
  Posted 11/10/11 at 9:16am via techcrunch.com
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  Felicis Ventures invested in Shopify. (10/17/11)
  Posted 10/17/11 at 9:47pm via finsmes.com
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  Felicis Ventures invested in Baby.com.br. (2/1/11)
  Posted 10/13/11 at 12:03pm via nytimes.com
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  Felicis Ventures invested in DNAnexus. (10/12/11)
  Posted 10/12/11 at 5:18pm via techcrunch.com
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  Felicis Ventures invested in Clearslide. (9/28/11)
  Posted 9/28/11 at 3:35am via yahoo.com
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  Felicis Ventures invested in Azumio. (7/27/11)
  Posted 7/27/11 at 6:00pm via finsmes.com
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  Felicis Ventures invested in Piazza. (7/6/11)
  Posted 7/4/11 at 1:52pm via finsmes.com
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  Felicis Ventures invested in PlotWatt. (6/23/11)
  Posted 6/23/11 at 8:48pm via finsmes.com

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1. Felicis Ventures Raises First Institutional Fund (prnewswire.com) [edit]
2. ImageShack Launches Video Service for Twitter (yfrog.com) [edit]
3. Artspace Raises $2.5 Million For Its Contemporary Art Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. CardSpring Raises $10 Million To Connect Payments To The Web (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/26/955-dreams-raises-3-25-million-seed-round-launches-band-of-the-day-on-ipad/ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Fitness Tracker Fitbit Raises $12M To Market New Wi-Fi Enabled Smart Scale, Aria (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. Bessemer Leads $6M Round In Q&A Platform For Students And Teachers, Piazza (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Spool Raises $1 Million To Let You Cache Content To Mobile And Push It To Friends (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. Matchbox gets $2.5M for iPad college admissions app (masshightech.com) [edit]
10. Any.DO Launches A Social To Do List App With $1 Million In Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Stealth startup Iddiction gets $3.5M to help apps get discovered (gigaom.com) [edit]
12. Shopify Closes $15M Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
13. DNAnexus Raises $15 Million, Teams With Google To Host Massive DNA Database (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. ClearSlide Secures $11 Million from Greylock and Felicis to Expand Sales Communications Platform (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
15. Azumio Raises $2.5M in Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
16. Piazza Raises $1.5M in Seed Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
17. PlotWatt Raises $1M in Seed Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
18. Search Engine Room 77 Raises $10.5M For Personalized Hotel Room Recommendations (techcrunch.com) [edit]
19. Marketplace For Home-Cooked Food Gobble Raises $1.2M From Founder Collective, Greylock And Other Angels (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. Free Electronic Medical Records Service Practice Fusion Raises $23 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. Digital Textbook Startup Inkling Nabs ‘Multi-Million Dollar’ Investment From McGraw-Hill And Pearson (techcrunch.com) [edit]
22. Social Game Developer A Bit Lucky Scores $5M From Nexon (techcrunch.com) [edit]
23. Angry Birds Maker Rovio Raises $42 Million From Accel, Atomico And Felicis (techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. Zaarly Launches Realtime, Local Marketplace To The Public (techcrunch.com) [edit]
25. MindSnacks Raises $1.2 Million For Mobile Educational Games (techcrunch.com) [edit]
26. Breezy Gets $750K From Accel And Others, To Advance Its Mobile Printing Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
27. ccLoop Announces Series A Funding (ccloop.com) [edit]
28. Massive Health Nabs $2.25M Seed (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
29. NYT DealBook (dealbook.nytimes.com) [edit]
30. Shopify Announces $7 Million Series A Funding from Bessemer, FirstMark, and Felicis (shopify.com) [edit]
31. Dow Jones VentureWire (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
32. Votizen Raises $1.5 Million To Make Sure Government Representatives Hear Your Voice (techcrunch.com) [edit]
33. techcrunch.com [edit]
34. Digital Textbook Startup Inkling Scores Sequoia Funding, Publisher Deals (techcrunch.com) [edit]
35. Techcrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
36. Photographic Evidence Of Stealth Startup Tello Raising $100k (techcrunch.com) [edit]
37. TechCrunch, SEC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
38. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
39. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
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41. YC-Funded DailyBooth Raises $1 Million From Sequoia, Kevin Rose, Ron Conway Et Al. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
42. Online Shopping Helper Richrelevance Secures $12.5 Million Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]
43. Cap Report [edit]
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45. techcrunch.com [edit]
46. techcrunch.com [edit]
47. Attendio has raised $965,000 (venturebeat.com) [edit]
48. Mint Software raises $750,000 for personal finance service (venturebeat.com) []
49. startupsearch.org [edit]
50. Cap Funding Report [edit]