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Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Lightspeed Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm with teams in Menlo Park, China, India, and Israel. Lightspeed focuses on investments in enterprise infrastructure, internet media and commerce, mobile, digital media and cleantech.

Past notable investments include Nicira, Fushion-io, Playdom, Kosmix, Pliant Technology, Brocade, Blue Nile, Ciena, DoubleClick, Phone.com, and Riverbed.

Selected consumer investments include:

• Bonobos
• GrubHub
• Lemon
• Living Social
• Kixeye
• Nest
• Thefind.com
• The Honest Company
• Snapchat
• Shoedazzle
• TaskRabbit

Selected enterprise investments include:

• AppDynamics
• Boundry
• Delphix
• Embrane
• MapR Technology
• Nimble Storage
• Nutanix
• DataStax
• Tintri

Recent Milestones

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  Lightspeed Venture Partners invested in EdgeSpring. (5/16/13)
  Posted 5/16/13 at 6:54pm via pandodaily.com
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  Lightspeed Venture Partners invested in Natera. (5/1/13)
  Posted 5/2/13 at 6:36am via finsmes.com
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  Lightspeed Venture Partners invested in Qubole. (4/24/13)
  Posted 4/25/13 at 4:24am via finsmes.com
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  Lightspeed Venture Partners invested in OpenCoin. (4/11/13)
  Posted 4/12/13 at 5:10am via finsmes.com
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  Lightspeed Venture Partners invested in MuleSoft. (4/3/13)
  Posted 4/5/13 at 5:56am via mulesoft.com
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  Lightspeed Venture Partners invested in MapR Technologies. (3/19/13)
  Posted 3/19/13 at 2:39am via gigaom.com
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  Lightspeed Venture Partners invested in Bonobos. (3/13/13)
  Posted 3/13/13 at 5:00pm via pandodaily.com
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  Lightspeed Venture Partners invested in Evolv . (3/12/13)
  Posted 3/12/13 at 5:44pm via techcrunch.com
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  Lightspeed Venture Partners invested in Pertino. (3/7/13)
  Posted 3/7/13 at 5:43pm via techcrunch.com
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  Lightspeed Venture Partners invested in Stitch Fix. (2/28/13)
  Posted 2/28/13 at 7:07pm via techcrunch.com
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  Lightspeed Venture Partners invested in Click Security. (2/25/13)
  Posted 2/25/13 at 6:39pm via finsmes.com
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  Lightspeed Venture Partners invested in LivingSocial. (2/20/13)
  Posted 2/20/13 at 6:15pm via techcrunch.com
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  Lightspeed Venture Partners invested in Scodix. (2/5/13)
  Posted 2/6/13 at 4:53am via dowjones.com
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  Lightspeed Venture Partners invested in Leyden Energy. (1/23/13)
  Posted 1/23/13 at 6:51pm via finsmes.com
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  Lightspeed Venture Partners invested in AppDynamics. (1/23/13)
  Posted 1/23/13 at 6:32pm via techcrunch.com
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  Lightspeed Venture Partners invested in Whisper. (1/1/13)
  Posted 4/10/13 at 1:59pm via techcrunch.com

Investments

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1. lsvp.com [edit]
2. Two years of stealth and $11M in VC later, EdgeSpring launches a data analytics platform for the average man (pandodaily.com) [edit]
3. Natera Completes $54.6M Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
4. Qubole Completes $7M Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
5. OpenCoin Closes Angel Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
6. MuleSoft Raises $37 Million to Connect the New Enterprise (mulesoft.com) [edit]
7. In battle for Hadoop, MapR raises $30M (gigaom.com) [edit]
8. Nice pants: Bonobos raises $30m off of strong growth and Nordstrom deal (pandodaily.com) [edit]
9. Talent Intelligence Software Company Evolv Raises $15M From VantagePoint, Khosla And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. Pertino Raises $20M For Cloud-Based Networking Service That Foretells A New Wave Of Disruption For Enterprise Giants (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Stitch Fix Gets $4.75M Series A To Scale Out Its Tech-Enabled Personal Shopping Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. Click Security Raises $17.7M in Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
13. Daily Deals Site LivingSocial Raises Another $110 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. Israeli Digital-Press Maker Scodix Wraps Up $14M (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
15. Leyden Energy Raises $10M in Series C Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
16. App Performance Company AppDynamics Raises $50M, Plans IPO (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. techcrunch.com [edit]
18. Influitive Raises Another $7.3M To Bring The Peer-To-Peer Model To Marketing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
19. Still In Stealth, Origami Logic Gets $9.3M To Help Marketers Unfold And Make Sense Of Big Data (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. Affirmed Networks launches with $52 million in venture backing (pandodaily.com) [edit]
21. LiveU Raises $27M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
22. Dhingana Raises $7M For Free, Streaming Indian Music (techcrunch.com) [edit]
23. BloomReach Raises $25 Million; Series C Led by New Enterprise Associates (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
24. Skyfire Raises $10M To Bring Its Mobile Optimization Tools To Global Carriers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
25. Ride-Sharing Startup SideCar Raises $10 Million From Lightspeed And Google Ventures To Expand Into New Markets (techcrunch.com) [edit]
26. DataStax Raises $25M in Series C Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
27. Kids App Maker Duck Duck Moose Raises $7M Series A From Sequoia, Lightspeed & Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
28. Virtual Instruments Raises $27.5 Million in Series D Funding (marketwatch.com) [edit]
29. Cloud-based networking startup Aerohive Networks readies for IPO with $22.5M funding grab (venturebeat.com) [edit]
30. Eyeing An IPO, Enterprise Data Company Nimble Storage Raises $40.7M From Sequoia And Accel (techcrunch.com) [edit]
31. Cloud Security Provider Zscaler Scales Up, Takes Its First Outside Investment: $38M From Lightspeed (techcrunch.com) [edit]
32. Storage Provider Nutanix Raises $33 Million And Shows Signs Of Readying For An IPO (techcrunch.com) [edit]
33. Revel Touch Raises $10M To Help Retailers Create Sleek Mobile Commerce Apps (techcrunch.com) [edit]
34. FiveStars Raises $13.9M in Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
35. Tintri Raises $25 Million For Storage Designed To Improve Virtual Machine Environments (techcrunch.com) [edit]
36. TaskRabbit Gets $13M From Founders Fund And Others To “Revolutionize The World’s Labor Force” (techcrunch.com) [edit]
37. Avere Raises $20M to Help Corporations Store and Manage Data (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
38. Boundary Raises $15M in Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
39. The funded (bizjournals.com) [edit]
40. Craftsvilla Raises $1.5 Million Series A To Become “The Etsy Of Asia” (techcrunch.com) [edit]
41. Plexxi raises $20.1M, emerges from stealth (masshightech.com) [edit]
42. Lemon Raises $8M to Make Physical Wallets a Thing of the Past (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
43. Meilele Announces Close of $40M Series B Financing (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
44. Delphix Raises $25 Million in Series C Funding (delphix.com) [edit]
45. Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners Invest in OneAssist (yourstory.in) [edit]
46. China's Meilele Furnished With $35M Series B Round (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
47. Bonobos Raises $16.4M From Accel; Lands Nordstrom Investment And Retail Deal (techcrunch.com) [edit]
48. Pertino Closes $8.85M Series A Venture Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
49. The Honest Company Secures $27 Million in Funding Led by General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and IVP (freshnews.com) [edit]
50. No, Snapchat Isn’t About Sexting, Says Co-Founder Evan Spiegel (techcrunch.com) [edit]
51. Samsung Leads $23M Round In Data Storage Hardware Company Pivot3 (techcrunch.com) [edit]
52. Skyfire Raises $8 Million In A Round Funded By Verizon And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
53. AppDynamics Lands $20M From KPCB, Others For Application Performance Management Solutions (techcrunch.com) [edit]
54. Eyeview Raises $5.2 Million For Personalized Video Ads (And They’re Pretty Nifty) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
55. Gene Security Network, Now Natera, Adds $20M For Prenatal Tests (xconomy.com) [edit]
56. Natera Completes $20M Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
57. venturebeat.com [edit]
58. techcrunch.com [edit]
59. Stion Raises $130M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
60. Outbrain Raises $35M In Series D Funding For Content Discovery Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
61. TaskRabbit Gets $17.8M For “Aggressive” Expansion, Wants To Grow Internationally And Beyond (techcrunch.com) [edit]
62. XtremIO raises $19M extended Series B funding round (bizjournals.com) [edit]
63. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
64. Boundary Raises $4M; Monitors Private And Public Clouds In Realtime (techcrunch.com) [edit]
65. Citation Needed [add]
66. Nutanix Raises $25M in Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
67. SolarEdge Closes a $37M Round for Panel Electronics (greentechmedia.com) [edit]
68. Craftsvilla.com Raises Early-Stage Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
69. DataStax Closes $11M Series B Round of Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
70. Food Delivery Search Engine GrubHub Raises $50M, Buys Campusfood And Allmenus (techcrunch.com) [edit]
71. Exclusive: Hadoop Companies Multiply as MapR Lands $20M in Funding (allthingsd.com) [edit]
72. Embrane Secures $18 Million in Series-B Funding (embrane.com) [edit]
73. Link_A_Media Devices Secures $16 Million in Series D Funding (freshnews.com) [edit]
74. Lightspeed Invests In Indian Consumer Company OneAssist (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
75. Leyden Energy Receives $20M in Series B Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
76. KIXEYE Raises $18m in Series C Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
77. Ex-Apple Leaders Push the Humble Thermostat Into the Digital Age (nytimes.com) [edit]
78. Networking-Of-The-Future Startup Plexxi Closes $20 Million Series B Round (businessinsider.com) [edit]
79. CloudBees Zooms To $10.5 Million In Funding For ‘Java-As-A-Platform’ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
80. ZestCash gets $19M to offer data-driven loans (gigaom.com) [edit]
81. What Cloud? Nimble Grabs $25 Million For Storage And Backup Boxes (techcrunch.com) [edit]
82. PetFlow.com Raises $10M in Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
83. Virtualization And Cloud Security Startup Bromium Raises $9.2M From Andreessen Horowitz And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
84. Tintri Lands Another $18M For Storage Appliance For Virtual Machines (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
85. Semiconductor Company Aquantia Raises $21 Million (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
86. Siemer Ventures Invests in EAT Club, Inc. (siemervc.com) [edit]
87. Online Shopping Startup ProjectSlice Raises $9.4 Million From Eric Schmidt, Michael Birch And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
88. ShoeDazzle raises a dazzling $40M from Andreessen Horowitz (venturebeat.com) [edit]
89. Peel Raises $16.7M To Turn Your Smartphone Into Your Television’s Best Friend (techcrunch.com) [edit]
90. Online video ad co Eyeview raises $1m from Google CEO (globes.co.il) [edit]
91. Evolv Raises $15.8 Million For Talent Matching And Intelligence Software (techcrunch.com) [edit]
92. Nutanix Raises $13.2 Million in Oversubscribed Series A Round of Funding (it.einnews.com) [edit]
93. Industry Veterans Come Together to Launch IO Turbine, Secures Nearly $8 Million in Funding (ioturbine.com) [edit]
94. LivingSocial Files To Authorize Up To $565M In Series E [Update: And Raises $400M] (techcrunch.com) [edit]
95. Aerohive Networks Adds $25M Series D (pehub.com) [edit]
96. Tintri Lands $17M (silicontap.com) [edit]
97. MyBuys Raises $20 Million To Help Online Retailers Cater To Individual Visitors (techcrunch.com) [edit]
98. Giftly Now Lets You Give The Gift Of Discovery (And Some Money, Too) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
99. Khosla Ventures Leads $5.6 Million Funding For MyLikes; Buchheit Joins Board (techcrunch.com) [edit]
100. techcrunch.com [edit]
101. Outbrain Raises $11 Million in Series C Funding (marketwire.com) [edit]
102. Nicira Networks raises $26M for enterprise network virtualization (sec.gov) [edit]
103. Cirtas Systems Closes $22.5M Series B Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
104. Deals & More: Scenechronize scores $5M to streamline film production, GlobalTranz raises $10M for goods transport (venturebeat.com) [edit]
105. Inside Facebook (insidefacebook.com) [edit]
106. Chinese Luxury Shopping Site Ihaveu.com Bags $11M (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
107. TechCrunch [edit]
108. Bonobos Raises $18.5 Million. Metrosexuals Unite! (techcrunch.com) [edit]
109. Nimble Storage Closes $16 Million in Over-Subscribed Series C Round of Funding (earthtimes.org) [edit]
110. techcrunch article (fr.techcrunch.com) [edit]
111. LivingSocial Confirms $175 Million Amazon Investment (techcrunch.com) [edit]
112. Citation Needed [add]
113. Rhythm NewMedia Raises Another $10 Million For Its Premium Mobile Video Ad Network (techcrunch.com) [edit]
114. Riptano Prophesizes Success With Cassandra Database, $2.7M Funding (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
115. Pulse Takes An Angel Round, But Where Are The Angels? (techcrunch.com) [edit]
116. $25M for SolarEdge’s Solar Panel Power Optimizers (greentechmedia.com) [edit]
117. Memoir Systems brings in $5.1M to improve memory technology (venturebeat.com) [edit]
118. Cirtas Completes $10 Million Series A (cirtas.com) [edit]
119. GGV, Lightspeed Venture invest MediaV (avcj.com) [edit]
120. Citation Needed [add]
121. Apptera Raises Another $10 Million For Its Voice & Visual Mobile Advertising Networ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
122. AppDynamics Raises $11 Million in Series B Round (prnewswire.com) [edit]
123. LivingSocial Raises Another $14 Million To Expand Group Buying Sites. (paidcontent.org) [edit]
124. AltAssets (altassets.com) [edit]
125. Fusion-io (fusionio.com) [edit]
126. Citation Needed [add]
127. Open Source Enterprise Company MuleSoft Raises $12 Million From SAP And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
128. Citation Needed [add]
129. Texas TechPulse (texastechpulse.com) [edit]
130. Venture Beat (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
131. Pliant catches $27.3M for enterprise flash drives (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
132. Skybox closes $2M to produce risk management software (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
133. Aquantia Announces $44M Financing as it Begins its Next Leap in 10G Ethernet Connectivity Solutions (aquantia.com) [edit]
134. Exclusive: Playdom Raises A Huge Round At A Huge Valuation (techcrunch.com) [edit]
135. Link_A_Media takes $18M for data recovery (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
136. Link_A_Media Devices Secures $18 Million in Series C Funding (linkamedia.com) [edit]
137. LS9, Inc.: Series C $25M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
138. SkyFire Raises $5 Million More For Rich Mobile Browser (techcrunch.com) [edit]
139. WeFi’s Directory Nearly 30 Million WiFi Hotspots Strong, Raises More Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
140. Bling Nation raises $8M for cell phone payment system (digital.venturebeat.com) [edit]
141. TechCrunch []
142. Solazyme Snags $57M to Make Algal Oil for Cars and Salad (greentechmedia.com) [edit]
143. Semiconductor Memory Start-up Unity Semiconductor Closes $22m Series C Financing (unitysemi.com) [edit]
144. Fusion-io Raises $47.5 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
145. Pliant Tech Raises $15 Million (sanjose.bizjournals.com) [edit]
146. Outbrain Raises $12 Million Series B; Massive $18 Million Total Funding To-Date (centernetworks.com) [edit]
147. Delphix raises $8M for database management (venturebeat.com) [edit]
148. Provigent takes $10M for wireless chips (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
149. Kosmix Raises $20 Million More For Its Universal Search Engine (techcrunch.com) [edit]
150. Citation Needed [add]
151. Apptera Raises $10.5 million for Mobile Advertising (startupmeme.com) [edit]
152. Game Site Casual Collective Gets $1 Million Funding, Relaunches (paidcontent.org) [edit]
153. OpTier Raises $63M in Fourth Round of Funding (optier.com) [edit]
154. Aprius Raises $20M to Advance I/O Virtualization Systems (aprius.com) [edit]
155. techcrunch.com [edit]
156. SailPoint Secures $6.5 Million from Existing Investors (sailpoint.com) [edit]
157. Algae Oil Maker Solazyme Gets $45.4 Million More (greentechmedia.com) [edit]
158. TutorVista.com gets $18-m PE funding (economictimes.indiatimes.com) [edit]
159. Citation Needed [add]
160. Skyfire scores $13 million in funding (mobilecrunch.com) [edit]
161. paidcontent.org (paidcontent.org) [edit]
162. Serious Business Raises $4 Million For Facebook Apps (paidcontent.org) [edit]
163. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
164. Flixster Raises $5 Million Of Planned $8 Million Second Round; No Sale (paidcontent.org) [edit]
165. paidcontent.org (paidcontent.org) [edit]
166. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
167. Pliant Gets $8M For SSD Drives (silicontap.com) [edit]
168. Aquantia Closes $26 M Series B Funding Round. (aquantia.com) [edit]
169. EDGAR [edit]
170. Pivot3 Generates $24M in Series C Funds (texastechpulse.com) [edit]
171. appdynamics.com [edit]
172. Vertical Search Firm Kosmix Raises $10 Million Third Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
173. NYT Dealbook (dealbook.nytimes.com) [edit]
174. MyBuys, behavioral targeting for online retailers, raises $10M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
175. Teknovus Raises 28 Million In “Oversubscribed” Mezzanine Financing Round (teknovus.com) [edit]
176. thealarmclock.com [edit]
177. Citation Needed [add]
178. Citation Needed [add]
179. Star Analytics, data integration company, raises $3.5M. (venturebeat.com) [edit]
180. EDGAR [edit]
181. Citation Needed [add]
182. Mobius Power, secretive battery company, raises $4.5M (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
183. Apptera raises $9.74M for mobile search advertising (venturebeat.com) [edit]
184. IceBreaker Secures $7.2 Million in Funding for Mobile Social Networking Platform (icebreaker.mobi) [edit]
185. Photovoltaic Startup, Stion Raises $15 Million in Series B Financing (compoundsemi.com) [edit]
186. paidcontent.org (paidcontent.org) [edit]
187. VCs Back WeFi For WiFi Location Network (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
188. MuleSource, open-source integration company, raises $12.5M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
189. Alarm:clock (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
190. Blaze DFM Closes $10 Million Series B Funding. (highbeam.com) [edit]
191. techcrunch.com [edit]
192. Clean Coal Maker CoalTek Raises $33M (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
193. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
194. Citation Needed [add]
195. Calista Technologies to Deliver Zero-Touch Access to Windows Vista (findarticles.com) [edit]
196. Techcrunch article (techcrunch.com) [edit]
197. SailPoint Secures $10 Million in Series B Funding. (sailpoint.com) [edit]
198. vccafe.com [edit]
199. Techcrunch: Raises €4 million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
200. siliconbeat.com [edit]
201. TUTORVISTA SECURES $10.75 MILLION SECOND ROUND FUNDING LED BY LIGHTSPEED VENTURE PARTNERS (tutorvista.co.in) [edit]
202. Lightspeed Debuts In India: Puts In $22.5 Million In Mercantila, $7 Million In TutorVista (contentsutra.com) [edit]
203. MonoSphere Closes $11 Million in Funding to Address Growing Storage Capacity Planning Market Demand. (encyclopedia.com) [edit]
204. ADVANCED MICROFABRICATION EQUIPMENT INC. RAISES $35 MILLION IN SERIES B FINANCING (amec-inc.com) [edit]
205. China’s AMEC Raises $35M (redherring.com) [edit]
206. Citation Needed [add]
207. EDGAR [edit]
208. Shopping Social Bookmarking Site Stylehive Gets $2.62 Million Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]
209. EDGAR [edit]
210. Identity Engines clinched $13 million in Series B funding (networkcomputing.com) [edit]
211. Nextance Reports Strong Momentum and Closes $10.1M in New Funding; Sustained Growth and Large Deals Point to Increasing Demand for Contract Performance Management (findarticles.com) [edit]
212. EDGAR [edit]
213. Skybox Secutrity (skyboxsecurity.com) [edit]
214. Innovative Transaction Workload Management Software Company Secures $7 Million in Additional Financing (optier.com) [edit]
215. EDGAR [edit]
216. Citation Needed [add]
217. EDGAR [edit]
218. EDGAR [edit]
219. Personeta Secures $12 Million in Series D Funding Round. (goliath.ecnext.com) [edit]
220. venturebeat.com [edit]
221. Identity Engines raises $8.7M (sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com) [edit]
222. EDGAR [edit]
223. MonoSphere's Back in New 'Capacity' (networkcomputing.com) [edit]
224. Extraprise Closes Venture Financing to Support Expansion (extraprise.com) [edit]
225. SemEquip Announces Completion of $26 Million in Financing (semequip.com) [edit]
226. Funding Round Nets $13.5M for Ellacoya (multichannel.com) [edit]
227. NeoScale Secures $12M (networkcomputing.com) [edit]
228. EDGAR [edit]
229. Software firm Valchemy raises $8.5M (bizjournals.com) [edit]
230. EDGAR [edit]
231. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
232. Citation Needed [add]
233. EDGAR [edit]