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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 invested in TechForward. (8/5/09)
  Posted 10/2/09 at 11:11am via socaltech.com
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  First Round Capital invested in TechForward. (4/13/09)
  Posted 10/2/09 at 11:06am via socaltech.com
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  First Round Capital invested in Percolate. (12/15/11)
  Posted 12/16/11 at 3:24am via businessinsider.com
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  First Round Capital invested in Percolate. (12/15/11)
  Posted 12/15/11 at 4:17pm via betabeat.com
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  First Round Capital invested in TaskRabbit. (12/13/11)
  Posted 12/13/11 at 9:47pm via techcrunch.com
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  First Round Capital invested in Fab. (12/7/11)
  Posted 12/7/11 at 6:06pm via techcrunch.com
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  First Round Capital invested in Pocket Change. (11/23/11)
  Posted 11/23/11 at 6:41pm via techcrunch.com
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  First Round Capital invested in BirchBox. (8/17/11)
  Posted 11/21/11 at 10:14am via techcrunch.com
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  First Round Capital invested in HotelTonight. (11/18/11)
  Posted 11/16/11 at 7:35pm via techcrunch.com
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  First Round Capital invested in Chloe and Isabel. (11/18/11)
  Posted 11/17/11 at 10:16pm via yahoo.com
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  First Round Capital invested in CustomMade.com. (11/17/11)
  Posted 9/28/11 at 8:59pm via techcrunch.com
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  First Round Capital invested in Refinery29. (7/15/11)
  Posted 11/15/11 at 3:16pm via allthingsd.com
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  First Round Capital invested in Clipboard. (11/7/11)
  Posted 11/8/11 at 11:00am via techcrunch.com
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  First Round Capital invested in Turntable.fm. (9/13/11)
  Posted 7/8/11 at 1:22am via techcrunch.com
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  First Round Capital invested in Docracy. (11/3/11)
  Posted 11/3/11 at 7:52pm via techcrunch.com
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  First Round Capital invested in Agari Data. (11/2/11)
  Posted 11/2/11 at 5:51pm via techcrunch.com

Investments

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1. First Round Gathers $126M For Third Fund (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
2. First Round lets funded entrepreneurs exchange equity (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
3. Press Release (skillslate.com) [edit]
4. AxialMarket (axialmarket.com) [edit]
5. Percolate Raises $1.5 Million From Dave Morin And First Round Capital To Turn Brands Into Tumblrs (businessinsider.com) [edit]
6. Percolate Raises $1.5 M. and Turns Away from Consumers to Helping Brands Curate Content (betabeat.com) [edit]
7. TaskRabbit Gets $17.8M For “Aggressive” Expansion, Wants To Grow Internationally And Beyond (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Design-Focused Flash Sales Site Fab.com Raises $40M From Andreessen Horowitz, Ashton Kutcher (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. Mobile Game Monetization Platform Lunch Money Raises $1M From Google Ventures; Rebrands As Pocket Change (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. Chloe + Isabel Raises $8.5 Million To Turn Its Users Into Its Salespeople (au.finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
11. Battery And Accel Put $9M In App For Last-Minute Hotel Deals, HotelTonight (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. Google Ventures And First Round Drop $2.1 Million Into Custom Marketplace CustomMade (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. ‘Web Clipping 2.0′ Startup Clipboard Backed By Andreessen Horowitz, Index, CrunchFund, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. Disrupt Hackathon Winner Docracy Raises $650,000 From First Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. Email Security Startup Agari Raises $2.5M From Alloy, Battery, Greylock And First Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. Sincerely Raises $3 Million To Deliver Real-World Postcards, Holiday Cards On The Way (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. In-Image Ad Network GumGum Raises $7 Million From NEA, First Round And GRP (techcrunch.com) [edit]
18. Ski Lift Ticket Retailer Liftopia Raises $1.3 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
19. DNAnexus Raises $15 Million, Teams With Google To Host Massive DNA Database (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. Subscription Service For Kids Activities Kiwi Crate Raises $2 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. Stylish Eyewear Maker Warby Parker Tries On $12M In Funding (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
22. LiveIntent Raises $8M in Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
23. Turntable.fm Closes That $7 Million Round, Fred Wilson Joins Board (techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. AppFirst Closes Series A Funding Round (businesswire.com) [edit]
25. Ad Optimizer Yieldex Raises $10 Million From Hearst, Amazon (paidcontent.org) [edit]
26. DoubleVerify Raises $33M (finsmes.com) [edit]
27. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
28. Accel Leads $10.5M Round In Cosmetics Discovery Platform Birchbox (techcrunch.com) [edit]
29. Ashton Kutcher-Backed Fab.com Closes $7.7 Million (businessinsider.com) [edit]
30. AppFog lands $8M for PHP Cloud (gigaom.com) [edit]
31. Get Satisfaction Gets $10 Million To Grow Its Community Support Network (techcrunch.com) [edit]
32. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
33. Smartling gets $10M to expand crowdsourced translations (gigaom.com) [edit]
34. Refinery29 Adds Shopping After Drawing an Audience in With Content (allthingsd.com) [edit]
35. MotherKnows Raises $1.7 Million For Online Health Record Service For Parents (techcrunch.com) [edit]
36. Fab.com Claims To Be Profitable On $1.3M In Revenue After 30 Days, Raises $1M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
37. Armed With $7M In New Funding, Movieclips Lands Deal With YouTube To Be The Vevo Of Film Clips (techcrunch.com) [edit]
38. TheStreet (thestreet.com) [edit]
39. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
40. ROBLOX Raises $4 Million For Its Online Building Game For Kids (techcrunch.com) [edit]
41. PerformLine Closes Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
42. Altruik Raises $3M in Second Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
43. HotelTonight Raises $3.25M in Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
44. techcrunch.com [edit]
45. TaskRabbit Gets $5M From Shasta Ventures, First Round And Others To Help People Get Stuff Done (techcrunch.com) [edit]
46. Investors Cough Up $1.6 Million To Dine With Grubwithus, The Brilliant Social Dining Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
47. Citation Needed [add]
48. Adaptly Raises $2.7 Million To Facilitate Cross Platform Social Ad Buys (techcrunch.com) [edit]
49. SavingStar gets $7M from Series B round (bizjournals.com) [edit]
50. Bamboom Labs Seals $4.5M Seed Round (pehub.com) [edit]
51. SEC Form D (edgar.sec.gov) [edit]
52. Milk Completes $1.5 Million Angel Round, Packed with Valley Names (techcrunch.com) [edit]
53. VigLink Raises Another $5.4 Million To Help Publishers Monetize Outbound Clicks (techcrunch.com) [edit]
54. Recommendation Engine StumbleUpon Stumbles Onto $17M From Accel, August Capital And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
55. Citation Needed [add]
56. WeatherBill Brings in $42M From Google, Khosla (gigaom.com) [edit]
57. Huge Vote Of Confidence: Uber Raises $11 million From Benchmark Capital (techcrunch.com) [edit]
58. One Kings Lane Grows 500% In 2010, Takes $23 Million Investment (techcrunch.com) [edit]
59. Citation Needed [add]
60. Truveris Closes $3.8M Venture Capital Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
61. Storenvy Finds A Number Of Impressive Buyers For Its $1.5 Million Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
62. SalesCrunch Gathers $1.4M From First Round, Accel And Angels (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
63. techcrunch.com [edit]
64. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
65. techcrunch.com [edit]
66. AdKeeper Inc. Secures $35 Million in Series B Funding Led by Oak Investment Partners (businesswire.com) [edit]
67. Citation Needed [add]
68. PHP Fog Raises $1.8 Million To Be The Heroku Of PHP (techcrunch.com) [edit]
69. Social Network For Gay Men Fabulis Rebrands To Fab.com, Raises $1.75 Milli (techcrunch.com) [edit]
70. Mobile app analytics firm Flurry closes $15 million Series C round (fiercemobilecontent.com) [edit]
71. Monetate Secures $5.1 Million Financing to Support Continued Growth (prweb.com) [edit]
72. Plastic Jungle Raises $10 million For Gift Card Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
73. Yummly Raises $1.8 Million For Semantic Recipe Search Engine (techcrunch.com) [edit]
74. MOVIECLIPS.com Raises $3M in Series A Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
75. AxialMarket Closes $2M Financing Round (axialmarket.com) [edit]
76. techcrunch.com [edit]
77. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
78. Makeup Discovery Service BirchBox Raises $1.4 Million Seed Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
79. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
80. SkillSlate Raises $1.1 Million in Funding (skillslate.com) [edit]
81. Unvarnished Becomes Honestly.com, Raises $1.2 Million And Opens The Floodgates (techcrunch.com) [edit]
82. UberCab raises $1.25M to end your futile search for taxis (venturebeat.com) [edit]
83. Citation Needed [add]
84. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
85. First Round Announcement (waytooearly.firstround.com) [edit]
86. “Stealth” Advertising Startup AK Networks Raises $8 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
87. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
88. OneTrueFan Is The Foursquare For Websites (techcrunch.com) [edit]
89. Backed With $1.3 Million, Pantheon Launches Drupal-Based Web Development Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
90. BankSimple Deposits $3.1 Million From First Round, Ron Conway, And Roger Ehrenberg (techcrunch.com) [edit]
91. Citation Needed [add]
92. TaskRabbit gets $850K to cross errands off your to-do list (venturebeat.com) [edit]
93. techcrunch.com [edit]
94. Digital Couponing Startup SaveWave Scores $2.3M From Leading Investors (techcrunch.com) [edit]
95. VigLink Grabs Wheel at DrivingRevenue (xconomy.com) [edit]
96. Solve Media Finds Solution to "Banner Blindness" (navfund.com) [edit]
97. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
98. PayPal-Backed BillFloat Launches, Secures $4.5 Million Series A Round (Exclusive) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
99. ModCloth Raises $19.8 Million Series B For Indie Fashion (techcrunch.com) [edit]
100. SafetyWeb Secures $8 Million So Parents Can Better Secure Their Kids Online (techcrunch.com) [edit]
101. BlackBerry Partners Fund Leads $9 Million Funding Round For Transpera (techcrunch.com) [edit]
102. Hot New York Startup Stickybits Raises $1.6 Million (businessinsider.com) [edit]
103. SimpleGeo Digs Up Another $8 Million And A Group Of Former Digg Employees (techcrunch.com) [edit]
104. Jelli Secures $7 Million in Series A Funding for Crowdsourced Radio (prnewswire.com) [edit]
105. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
106. techcrunch.com [edit]
107. AppFirst Raises $1M. Launches Performance Monitoring SaaS (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
108. Educational Technology Company Knewton Scores $12.5 Million More. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
109. Khosla And RRE Lead $16.2 Million Series C In Xobni (techcrunch.com) [edit]
110. techcrunch.com [edit]
111. Alt Lender On Deck Capital Raises $35M (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
112. Browser-For-Kids Maker KidZui Scores $4M, Deals With Best Buy, DreamWorks (techcrunch.com) [edit]
113. Plastic Jungle Raises $7.4 Million for Gift Card Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
114. TechCrunch, SEC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
115. techcrunch.com [edit]
116. PeerPong Raises $2.8M for an Aardvark for Twitter (gigaom.com) [edit]
117. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
118. Rixty, Online Payments For The Unbanked, Scores $1.24 Million In Venture Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
119. Flurry Closes $7M Series B Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
120. Jelli Nabs $2M Seed To Crowdsource Radio Stations (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
121. http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/12/packlate-funding/ (sec.gov) [edit]
122. Citation Needed [add]
123. WSJ Venture Wire (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
124. Chegg Founder Raises Another $7.5 Million For Stealth Startup Kakai, SEC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
125. NYTimes (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
126. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
127. TechCrunch, SEC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
128. Hot Potato Raises $1.42 For Event Social Networking (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
129. Outright raises $5.5M to help small businesses with their finances (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
130. Mass High Tech (masshightech.com) [edit]
131. FinSMEs (finsmes.com) [edit]
132. Cap Funding Report [edit]
133. Altruik Raises $4.7 Million For SEO Tools (paidcontent.org) [edit]
134. Company Communication [edit]
135. ScanScout lands $8.5M second round (venturebeat.com) [edit]
136. Thread.com Raises $1.2 Million For Facebook-Powered Matchmaking Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
137. TechCrunch [edit]
138. ClickEquations Raises $3 Million For Paid Search Platform (paidcontent.org) [edit]
139. Kid-Friendly Online Gamer Roblox Raises $2.2 Million (paidcontent.org) [edit]
140. Personal Finance Startup Mint Raises $14 Million (techcrunch.com) []
141. TechForward Raises $4.3M (socaltech.com) [edit]
142. Continuity Engine Expands Presence with New Round of Funding and Partnership (freshnews.com) [edit]
143. DNAnexus raises $1.55M for DNA sequencing (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
144. Project Fair Bid Raises $4.5 Million For Stealth Auction Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
145. 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]
146. Image Licensing Network GumGum Grabs $2.6 Million And Is Growing Fast (techcrunch.com) [edit]
147. Yapta lands $2M to track airfare and hotel prices (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
148. VigLink Raises $800K To Take Hassle Out Of Affiliate Programs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
149. OpenX Keeps On Growing, Raises $10 Million More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
150. DoubleVerify Launches After Successful Ramp-Up That Lands Blue-Chip Clients (marketwire.com) [edit]
151. May 2009 TimeData completed its first close of the Series A round (timedatacorp.com) [edit]
152. TechForward Grabs Funding (socaltech.com) [edit]
153. StumbleUpon's founders buy service back from eBay (google.com) [edit]
154. Knewton Bags $6 Million Series B Round For Adaptive Learning Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
155. Email startup Xobni leaves beta, raises $3.2M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
156. 33Across Gets $1.5 Million to ID Online Influencers (dmwmedia.com) [edit]
157. Aster Data Systems Extends oversubscribed Series B Funding to $17 Million (asterdata.com) [edit]
158. Andreessen Horowitz Back RockMelt Social Media Browswer (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
159. Amazon Invests In Online Ad Optimization Firm Yieldex (paidcontent.org) [edit]
160. Get Satisfaction gets new CEO and funding amid growth (venturebeat.com) [edit]
161. Performline Receives Additional Financing; Launches PerformMatch (centernetworks.com) [edit]
162. Jingle Networks keys up $7.5M for directory assistance (venturebeat.com) [edit]
163. Xobni Closes $7 Million B Round Led By Cisco (techcrunch.com) [edit]
164. Cap Report Index [edit]
165. Foodzie Raises $1 Million For Its Specialty Food Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
166. Mobile Soc Gaming's SocialBomb Does 1st Round (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
167. Transpera Raises $8.25 Million In Series B For Mobile Video Monetization Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
168. techcrunch.com [edit]
169. Citation Needed [add]
170. Second Birthday Brings Series A Funding to SMS Innovator MoVoxx Second Birthday Brings Series A Funding to SMS Innovator MoVoxx [edit]
171. thealarmclock.com [edit]
172. Gigya Raises $11 Million For Two-Pronged Widget Strategy (techcrunch.com) [edit]
173. AppNexus Raises $8 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
174. Mass High Tech/ SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
175. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
176. Company about page (demdex.com) [edit]
177. Teen Social Network myYearbook Gets $13 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
178. Content Licensing Firm GumGum Gets $500k Of $1 Million First Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
179. Knewton Raises $2.5 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
180. Citation Needed [add]
181. techcrunch.com [edit]
182. Widget Distribution, Tracking Service Gigya Raises $9.5 Million (dmwmedia.com) [edit]
183. Citation Needed []
184. Press release - UK Techcrunch (uk.techcrunch.com) [edit]
185. techcrunch.com [edit]
186. Cap Funding Report [edit]
187. Flowgram Gets Funding From Reid Hoffman, Others (silicontap.com) [edit]
188. Citation Needed [add]
189. pehub.com [edit]
190. thealarmclock.com [edit]
191. Citation Needed [add]
192. TechForward, Inc. Announces Funding by NEA and First Round (Series A-1 Preferred) (privco.com) [edit]
193. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
194. thealarmclock.com [edit]
195. techcrunch.com [edit]
196. pehub.com [edit]
197. techcrunch.com [edit]
198. Citation Needed [add]
199. Transpera, latest mobile video channel company (venturebeat.com) [edit]
200. Citation Needed [add]
201. techcrunch.com [edit]
202. readwriteweb.com [edit]
203. paidcontent.org [edit]
204. Citation Needed [add]
205. Citation Needed [add]
206. Alarm:clock (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
207. prnewswire.com []
208. paidcontent.org [edit]
209. Xobni raises $4.26M to let you improve your email habits (venturebeat.com) [edit]
210. First Round Capital (firstround.com) [edit]
211. Citation Needed [add]
212. myYearbook.com Raises $4.1 Million in Venture Funding (vcgate.com) [edit]
213. Wrapping the Israeli internet scene in 2007 (vccafe.com) [edit]
214. siliconbeat.com [edit]
215. attributor.com [edit]
216. Mint Software raises $750,000 for personal finance service (venturebeat.com) []
217. techcrunch.com []
218. Citation Needed []
219. silicontap.com [edit]
220. Kid-Friendly Net Firm Kidzui Launches With $8 Million (paidcontent.org) [edit]
221. gigaom.com [edit]
222. Venture Capital: Snapvine turns up the volume a notch (seattlepi.nwsource.com) [edit]
223. techcrunch.com [edit]
224. Krugle Secures $6.1 Million in Series B Funding Led by Rustic Canyon Partners. (thefreelibrary.com) [edit]
225. http://www.demo.com/community/?q=node/93923 (demo.com) [edit]
226. Bazaarvoice Launches With Nearly $4 Million in Series A Funding from Austin Ventures (bazaarvoice.com) [edit]
227. Authernative, Inc. Raises $2.5 Million in Series A Funding to Extend Its Position as Emerging Provider of User Authentication and Identity Management Solutions. (accessmylibrary.com) [edit]
228. wikia.com [edit]
229. Wall Street Jounral (online.wsj.com) [edit]
230. Cap Funding Report [edit]
231. Citation Needed [add]
232. techcrunch.com [edit]
233. StumbleUpon May Be For Sale: 50M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
234. Citation Needed [add]
235. techcrunch.com [edit]
236. Odeo receives funding from Charles River (plus: Kapor, Kraus, O'Reilly, Kopelman, Conway...) (odeo.com) [edit]
237. Visual Shopping Engine Like.com Raises $3.3 Million (paidcontent.org) [edit]
238. Citation Needed [add]
239. waytooearly.firstround.com [edit]
240. Aggregate Knowledge Gets $5M (silicontap.com) [edit]
241. Medico.com - Health Care is more than a US concern (businessinsider.com) [edit]