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First Round Capital

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First Round Capital is a venture capital firm that primarily makes early round investments. They look to play an active role in the operations of most the companies they invest in.

Milestones

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  First Round Capital — First Round lets funded entrepreneurs exchange equity (1/29/10)
  Posted 1/30/10 at 2:56am
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  First Round Capital invested in Rixty. (1/21/10)
  Posted 1/21/10 at 10:13am
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  First Round Capital invested in Live Intent. (1/20/10)
  Posted 1/21/10 at 5:58pm
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  First Round Capital invested in Transpera. (1/14/10)
  Posted 1/14/10 at 9:48pm
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  First Round Capital invested in Flurry. (1/12/10)
  Posted 1/12/10 at 6:33pm
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  First Round Capital invested in Kakai. (12/23/09)
  Posted 12/23/09 at 5:30pm
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  First Round Capital invested in One Kings Lane. (12/6/09)
  Posted 12/6/09 at 8:07pm
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  First Round Capital invested in SimpleGeo. (11/27/09)
  Posted 11/30/09 at 10:50am
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  First Round Capital invested in Hot Potato. (11/25/09)
  Posted 10/26/09 at 8:36am
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  First Round Capital invested in Outright. (11/18/09)
  Posted 11/16/09 at 6:19am
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  First Round Capital invested in Swipely. (11/16/09)
  Posted 11/16/09 at 12:58pm
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  First Round Capital invested in AppNexus. (11/10/09)
  Posted 11/10/09 at 4:14pm
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  First Round Capital invested in Bootstrap Software. (11/2/09)
  Posted 1/20/10 at 6:53am
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  First Round Capital invested in Square. (11/09)
  Posted 12/1/09 at 11:05am
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  First Round Capital invested in Altruik. (11/09)
  Posted 11/3/09 at 4:34pm
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  First Round Capital invested in ScanScout. (10/28/09)
  Posted 10/28/09 at 6:34am

Investments

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1. First Round lets funded entrepreneurs exchange equity (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
2. Rixty, Online Payments For The Unbanked, Scores $1.24 Million In Venture Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
4. Mobile Video Firm Transpera Adds $2 Million In Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]
5. Flurry Closes $7M Series B Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
6. Chegg Founder Raises Another $7.5 Million For Stealth Startup Kakai, SEC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. NYTimes (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
8. TechCrunch, SEC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. Hot Potato Raises $1.42 For Event Social Networking (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
10. Outright raises $5.5M to help small businesses with their finances (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
11. Mass High Tech (masshightech.com) [edit]
12. FinSMEs (finsmes.com) [edit]
13. Cap Funding Report [edit]
14. Altruik Raises $4.7 Million For SEO Tools (paidcontent.org) [edit]
15. Company Communication [edit]
16. ScanScout lands $8.5M second round (venturebeat.com) [edit]
17. Thread.com Raises $1.2 Million For Facebook-Powered Matchmaking Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
18. ClickEquations Raises $3 Million For Paid Search Platform (paidcontent.org) [edit]
19. Kid-Friendly Online Gamer Roblox Raises $2.2 Million (paidcontent.org) [edit]
20. Personal Finance Startup Mint Raises $14 Million (techcrunch.com) []
21. Continuity Engine Expands Presence with New Round of Funding and Partnership (freshnews.com) [edit]
22. DNAnexus raises $1.55M for DNA sequencing (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
23. Project Fair Bid Raises $4.5 Million For Stealth Auction Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. View my * My Posts * Facebook * Twitter * Friendfeed * LinkedIn * Digg * CoTweet Now in Public Beta; Get the Same Twitter CRM Tools as Big Brands (mashable.com) [edit]
25. Image Licensing Network GumGum Grabs $2.6 Million And Is Growing Fast (techcrunch.com) [edit]
26. Yapta lands $2M to track airfare and hotel prices (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
27. Citation Needed [add]
28. OpenX Keeps On Growing, Raises $10 Million More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
29. DoubleVerify Launches After Successful Ramp-Up That Lands Blue-Chip Clients (marketwire.com) [edit]
30. May 2009 TimeData completed its first close of the Series A round (timedatacorp.com) [edit]
31. Cap Report Index [edit]
32. Knewton Bags $6 Million Series B Round For Adaptive Learning Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
33. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
34. 33Across Gets $1.5 Million to ID Online Influencers (dmwmedia.com) [edit]
35. Aster Data Systems Extends oversubscribed Series B Funding to $17 Million (asterdata.com) [edit]
36. Amazon Invests In Online Ad Optimization Firm Yieldex (paidcontent.org) [edit]
37. Get Satisfaction gets new CEO and funding amid growth (venturebeat.com) [edit]
38. Performline Receives Additional Financing; Launches PerformMatch (centernetworks.com) [edit]
39. Jingle Networks keys up $7.5M for directory assistance (venturebeat.com) [edit]
40. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
41. Foodzie Raises $1 Million For Its Specialty Food Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
42. Mobile Soc Gaming's SocialBomb Does 1st Round (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
43. Transpera Raises $8.25 Million In Series B For Mobile Video Monetization Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
44. techcrunch.com [edit]
45. Citation Needed [add]
46. Second Birthday Brings Series A Funding to SMS Innovator MoVoxx Second Birthday Brings Series A Funding to SMS Innovator MoVoxx [edit]
47. Gigya Raises $11 Million For Two-Pronged Widget Strategy (techcrunch.com) [edit]
48. Mass High Tech (masshightech.com) [edit]
49. AppNexus Raises $8 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
50. Company about page (demdex.com) [edit]
51. Teen Social Network myYearbook Gets $13 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
52. Content Licensing Firm GumGum Gets $500k Of $1 Million First Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
53. Industry Standard (thestandard.com) [edit]
54. Knewton Raises $2.5 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
55. techcrunch.com [edit]
56. Widget Distribution, Tracking Service Gigya Raises $9.5 Million (dmwmedia.com) [edit]
57. Citation Needed []
58. Press release - UK Techcrunch (uk.techcrunch.com) [edit]
59. techcrunch.com [edit]
60. pehub.com [edit]
61. thealarmclock.com [edit]
62. Citation Needed [add]
63. TechForward, Inc. Announces Funding by NEA (reuters.com) [edit]
64. thealarmclock.com [edit]
65. thealarmclock.com [edit]
66. techcrunch.com [edit]
67. thealarmclock.com [edit]
68. readwriteweb.com [edit]
69. Citation Needed [add]
70. thealarmclock.com [edit]
71. techcrunch.com [edit]
72. pehub.com [edit]
73. Transpera, latest mobile video channel company (venturebeat.com) [edit]
74. Citation Needed [add]
75. techcrunch.com [edit]
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77. Citation Needed [add]
78. Alarm:clock (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
79. paidcontent.org [edit]
80. prnewswire.com []
81. Xobni raises $4.26M to let you improve your email habits (venturebeat.com) [edit]
82. First Round Capital (firstround.com) [edit]
83. techcrunch.com [edit]
84. Citation Needed [add]
85. myYearbook.com Raises $4.1 Million in Venture Funding (vcgate.com) [edit]
86. Wrapping the Israeli internet scene in 2007 (vccafe.com) [edit]
87. siliconbeat.com []
88. attributor.com [edit]
89. Mint Software raises $750,000 for personal finance service (venturebeat.com) []
90. techcrunch.com []
91. Citation Needed []
92. silicontap.com [edit]
93. gigaom.com [edit]
94. Kid-Friendly Net Firm Kidzui Launches With $8 Million (paidcontent.org) [edit]
95. Venture Capital: Snapvine turns up the volume a notch (seattlepi.nwsource.com) [edit]
96. techcrunch.com [edit]
97. Bazaarvoice Launches With Nearly $4 Million in Series A Funding from Austin Ventures (bazaarvoice.com) [edit]
98. wikia.com [edit]
99. Wall Street Jounral (online.wsj.com) [edit]
100. Citation Needed [add]
101. techcrunch.com [edit]
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103. techcrunch.com [edit]
104. Citation Needed [add]
105. Aggregate Knowledge Gets $5M (silicontap.com) [edit]
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107. waytooearly.firstround.com [edit]
108. Citation Needed [add]
109. http://www.demo.com/community/?q=node/93923 (demo.com) [edit]