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Trinity Ventures

Founded in 1986, Trinity Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with passionate entrepreneurs to transform revolutionary ideas into reality. With over $1 billion under management, Trinity Ventures believes in personal engagement, mutual respect and goal alignment with the entrepreneurs. Trinity focuses on early stage and seed technology investments with particular emphasis on social commerce and entertainment, digital media, Saas, and cloud and infrastructure.

Trinity Ventures has invested in such leading companies as Aruba Networks, 21Vianet, Blue Nile, LoopNet, Photobucket, SciQuest, Starbucks, BeachMint, Infoblox, Trion Worlds and Zulily.

www.trinityventures.com

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
RJMetrics 5/13Series A$6.25M1
RJMetrics 5/13Series A$5M2
Moovweb 3/13Series A$16M4
Deliv 3/13Seed$1M5
Cheers 3/13Series A$2.5M4
Rentlytics 3/13Seed$1M7
Namo Media 3/13Seed$1.88M13
Armor5 2/13Seed$2M3
New Relic 2/13Private Equity$80M8
TeamSnap 2/13Venture Round$2.75M4
Ellie 2/13Seed$2M3
ScaleArc 1/13Series C$12.3M3
Whisper 2013Series A$3M2
Ruby Ribbon 2013Series B$8.5M2
TubeMogul 12/12Series C$20M3
Duetto Research 12/12Series A$10M7
ServiceMax 11/12Series D$27M4
InfoArmy 10/12Series B$17.3M2
MongoHQ 10/12Venture Round$6M1
Skyfire Labs 10/12Series D$10M5
thredUP 10/12Series C$14.5M3
Act-On Software 9/12Series D$16M4
NextGreatPlace 8/12Series A$3.5M1
One Jackson 8/12Seed$2M4
One Jackson Clothing 8/12Seed$2M5
Green Throttle Games 8/12Series A$6M2
Dynamic Signal 7/12Series B$13.3M4
Cloudability 7/12Series A$8.7M4
Care.com 7/12Series E$50M4
White Sky 6/12Venture Round$7.5M3
HyperBees 6/12Seed$110k1
Badgeville 5/12Series C$25M4
DotLoop 5/12Series A$7M1
Ruby Ribbon 5/12Seed$3M1
Clearleap 3/12Series C$2.76M2
Skyfire Labs 1/12Series C$8M4
BeachMint 1/12Venture Round$35M9
Cloudability 12/11Seed$1.1M5
ScaleArc 12/11Series B$5.33M2
Endeka Group 11/11Debt$4.2M1
New Relic 11/11Venture Round$15M6
TeamSnap 11/11Venture Round$910k2
Care.com 10/11Series D$25M3
Cloudscaling 9/11Series A1
KIXEYE 8/11Series C$18M3
Badgeville 7/11Series B$12.2M3
PayScale 7/11Venture Round$7M4
Taulia 7/11Series B$8.5M3
Connected 6/11Angel$500k6
EggCartel 6/11Seed$1M4
BeachMint 6/11Venture Round$23.5M4
ServiceMax 6/11Series C$14M4
Aryaka Networks 6/11Series B$15M3
Weddington Way 6/11Seed3
Act-On Software 6/11Series C$10M1
ShopIgniter 5/11Series B$8M2
StackMob 5/11Series A$7.5M3
thredUP 5/11Series B$7M3
CrowdFlower 3/11Series B$7M2
dotCloud 3/11Series A$10M3
RadiumOne 3/11Series B$21M4
MaxPoint Interactive 3/11Series B$8M2
dotCloud 2/11Angel$800k10
Dynamic Signal 2/11Series A$8M6
Taulia 12/10Series A$3.2M3
BeachMint 12/10Venture Round$10M4
Badgeville 11/10Series A$2.5M3
New Relic 10/10Series C$10M4
Care.com 10/10Series C$20M3
PlayFirst 10/10Venture Round$9.2M5
TubeMogul 10/10Series B$10M3
Aryaka Networks 9/10Series A$14M4
MaxPoint Interactive 9/10Series A$3M1
RPO 9/10Debt$15M2
zulily 8/10Series B$6M3
Triangulate 7/10Venture Round$750k1
thredUP 7/10Venture Round$1.4M3
InboxQ 7/10Angel6
Loggly 5/10Series B$4.2M2
ServiceMax 4/10Series B$8M3
Avaak 3/10Series B$10M4
Triangulate 3/10Seed$750k2
Posterous 3/10Series A$4.4M8
Perfect Market 3/10Series C$6M4
CrowdFlower 1/10Series A$5M5
RadiumOne 12/09Series A$10.5M2
CubeTree 11/09Series B$8M2
Skyfire Labs 9/09Series B$5M3
Amalfi Semiconductor 8/09Series C$24M4
Red Aril 7/09Venture Round3
Ankeena Networks 6/09Series B$6.5M3
Likewise Software 4/09Series C$10M3
BlueStripe Software 4/09Series B$8M2
LoopNet 4/09Venture Round$50M3
TubeMogul 3/09Series B$3M1
Ripple TV 3/09Series C$4M2
Exalt Communications 2/09Series C$15M3
New Relic 11/08Series B$6M2
BillShrink 10/08Series B$8M2
Avaak 10/08Series A$7M3
Trion Worlds 9/08Series C$70M6
Uptake 9/08Series B$10M1
White Sky 9/08Series B$11M3
Ankeena Networks 8/08Series A$9.4M2
Perfect Market 7/08Series A$15.6M4
Skyfire Labs 5/08Series B$13M3
Wetpaint 5/08Series C$25M4
Jobster 4/08Series D$7M4
CR2 4/08Venture Round$1.56M2
CubeTree 4/08Series A$3.18M1
Fluid Entertainment 3/08Series A$3.2M1
Focus 3/08Series C$12.2M3
Care.com 3/08Series B$10M2
PlayFirst 12/07Series C$16.5M4
Hidden City Games 10/07Series B$15M2
Trion Worlds 7/07Series B$30M6
PayScale 7/07Series C$10.3M7
Ripple TV 7/07Series B$10M2
Skyfire Labs 6/07Series A$4.8M2
ID Analytics 5/07Series C$20M4
scanR 3/07Series B$8M4
Aepona 2/07Series C$10M3
BlueTarp Financial 1/07Series B$18.5M4
BlueStripe Software 1/07Series A$5M1
Wetpaint 1/07Series B$9.5M3
Ripple TV 1/07Series A$5M2
Clarus Systems 10/06Series B$3.33M3
Aruba Networks 10/06Venture Round$30M4
White Sky 9/06Series A$5M1
Netcordia 7/06Series B$10M2
Jobster 7/06Series C$18M4
Sabrix 6/06Series D$13M4
Identity Engines 5/06Series B$13M3
Photobucket, Inc. 5/06Series B$10.5M2
Network Physics 4/06Venture Round$8.63M4
Centeris Corporation 3/06Series B$11.5M3
MyNewPlace 3/06Series A$8M4
ID Analytics 2/06Series B$5.15M3
Lightstorm Networks 2/06Series A€4.35M4
Amalfi Semiconductor 2/06Series B$20M3
Cinario 1/06Venture Round$908k5
Affinity Labs 1/06Series A3
PlayFirst 1/06Series B$5M3
Bix 1/06Series A$6.7M2
Mirage Networks 11/05Series C$12M5
Wetpaint 10/05Series A$5.25M2
PayScale 10/05Series B$7M4
mSpot 8/05Series A$2.33M1
Jobster 8/05Series B$19.5M3
Shenick Network Systems 5/05Series B$3.25M2
CR2 5/05Venture Round$12.6M2
Codefast 3/05Series A$6.5M2
Aepona 3/05Series B$20M4
Similarity Systems 2/05Venture Round$7M2
Jobster 1/05Series A$8M2
Modulus Video 3/04Series A$8.5M1
PlayFirst 1/04Series A$5M2
ID Analytics 5/02Series A$10M2
Blue Nile 7/01Series C$7M5
Blue Nile 4/00Series B$42M4

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Sources

  1. Business Intelligence Startup RJMetrics Raises $6.25M From Trinity Ventures For Ecommerce Boom (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. RJMetrics Closes Series A Financing (prweb.com) [edit]
  3. Moovweb Raises $16M To Help Businesses Bring Their Web Content To Mobile (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Deliv Raises $1 Million To Crowd Source Same-Day Local Delivery For Big Brick And Mortar Retailers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. Cheers Raises $2.5M Series A To Expand Its Positivity Network And Make The Case To Brands (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. Citation Needed [add]
  7. DrawChat Creator Launches His Mobile Ad Startup Namo Media, Raises $1.9M Round Led By Google Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. Armor5 grabs $2M for its novel approach to the BYOD problem (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  9. Another Big Enterprise Deal As New Relic Raises $80M And Eyes IPO To Extend App Monitoring Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. TeamSnap Closes $2.75M Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  11. Ellie gets $2M in backing to take the ecommerce fight to Lululemon (pandodaily.com) [edit]
  12. ScaleArc Raises $12.3M To Make Databases Easier To Manage, Scale, And Guard Against Major Outages (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  13. techcrunch.com [edit]
  14. Ruby Ribbon Closes $8.5M Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  15. TubeMogul absorbs $20M for real-time video advertising (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  16. Duetto Research Announces $10M Series A Funding Round (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
  17. ServiceMax Announces $27 Million in New Funding to Accelerate Global Growth (marketwire.com) [edit]
  18. Data 2.0 Goes Large: InfoArmy Raises $17.3M To Build Out Its Crowdsourced Competitive Intelligence Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  19. MongoHQ Raises $6 Million For Database As Service Engine (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  20. Skyfire Raises $10M To Bring Its Mobile Optimization Tools To Global Carriers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  21. Kids’ Clothing Service thredUP Raises $14.5M Series C, Plans Expansion Into Teen & Adult Apparel (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  22. Act-On enters act IV of investment with $16M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  23. NextGreatPlace vacation membership club secures $3.5 million in funding (skift.com) [edit]
  24. One Jackson Seeded With $2M to Connect Parents with Indie Clothing Designers (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
  25. Citation Needed [add]
  26. Green Throttle Games™ Secures $6 Million To Reinvent TV Gaming On Mobile Devices (prnewswire.com) [edit]
  27. Dynamic Signal Raises $13.3M in Series B Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
  28. Cloudability Raises $8.7 Million From Foundry Group For Service To Track Cloud Spending (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  29. An E-Round For E-Help: Care.com Picks Up $50M From IVP And More For Further International Growth (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  30. White-Label Security Firm White Sky Raises $7.5 Million From Prism VentureWorks, Trinity Ventures, And Intersections (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  31. UK outfit HyperBees wins Best Buy's Get Discovered contest for Android (pocketgamer.biz) [edit]
  32. Badgeville Levels Up With $25M From InterWest & More To Gamify Enterprise (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  33. DotLoop Raises $7M From Trinity To Kill Real Estate Paperwork (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  34. Ruby Ribbon Raises $3M in Seed Funding from Trinity Ventures (finsmes.com) [edit]
  35. Nasdaq private company tool [edit]
  36. Skyfire Raises $8 Million In A Round Funded By Verizon And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  37. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  38. Cloudability Raises $1.1M To Help Businesses Manage And Monitor Cloud Costs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  39. ScaleArc Raises $5.33 Million to Fund Expansion (euroinvestor.co.uk) [edit]
  40. Endeka Group Receives US$4.2M Venture Debt Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
  41. Cloud App Management Platform New Relic Raises $15M From DAG, Benchmark (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  42. TeamSnap Raises $910K in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  43. Care.com Raises $25 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  44. Cloudscaling Closes Series A (cloudscaling.com) [edit]
  45. KIXEYE Raises $18m in Series C Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  46. Badgeville Raises $12 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  47. PayScale Secures $7M (finsmes.com) [edit]
  48. Taulia raises $8.5M to help suppliers avert their own debt crises (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  49. Connected Raises $500K For Contact Management Application (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  50. techcrunch.com [edit]
  51. BeachMint Raises $23.5M at a Rumored $150M Valuation (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  52. SaaS Field Service Software ServiceMax Raises $14M From Mayfield, Salesforce And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  53. Aryaka Secures $15 Million in Series B Funding (aryaka.com) [edit]
  54. Citation Needed [add]
  55. Act-On Raises $10 Million For Online Marketing Automation Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  56. ShopIgniter Raises $8M in Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  57. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  58. Thredup raises $7M to help parents swap clothes (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  59. CrowdFlower Raises $7M, Launches E-Commerce Tool For Data Categorization (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  60. Open PaaS DotCloud Raises $10M From Benchmark And Trinity, Jerry Yang Joins Board (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  61. Social Retargeting Ad Network RadiumOne Raises $21M At A $200M Valuation (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  62. MaxPoint Interactive Lands $8M For Neighborhood-level Targeting Technology (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  63. Ron Conway, Chris Sacca And Others Invest 800K In PaaS Dotcloud (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  64. SEC Regulatory Filing (sec.gov) [edit]
  65. Taulia Raises $3.2 Million, Helps Companies Pay Their Invoices Early (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
  66. BeachMint Raises $10 Million For... (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  67. Badgeville Announces $2.5 Million Series A Funding Round (businessinsider.com) [edit]
  68. New Relic Gets Another $10M, Proves SaaS Profitability (cloud.gigaom.com) [edit]
  69. Care.com Raises $20 Million To Connect You To Nannies, Babysitters And Caregivers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  70. PlayFirst Completes $9.2M Debt and Equity Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
  71. Video Ad And Analytics Startup TubeMogul Takes $10 Million In VC Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  72. Aryaka Launches Cloud-Based Application Acceleration and WAN Optimization Platform; Raises $14 Million in Funding (aryaka.com) [edit]
  73. MaxPoint Interactive Raises $3M from Trinity Ventures (finsmes.com) [edit]
  74. Bridge Bank Provides $15M Debt Financing For RPO Plant (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
  75. Zulily, A Private-Sale Shopping Site For Moms, Raises $6 Million Series B (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  76. Company Announces Funding from Trinity Ventures and Rick Thompson (triangulatecorp.com) [edit]
  77. Kids Clothing Swap ThredUP Raises $1.4M From Trinity Ventures, Founder Collective And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  78. About Us - InboxQ (blog.inboxq.com) [edit]
  79. Loggly raises $4.2M for a ‘fun’ approach to server logs (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  80. SaaS Field Service Software ServiceMax Raises $8 Million From Salesforce And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  81. Qualcomm leads $10M round for Vue personal video network gear (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  82. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
  83. Citation Needed [add]
  84. Idealab Spin-off Perfect Market Raises $6 Million From Tribune Company, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  85. CrowdFlower Closes $5 Million Series A Round (crowdflower.com) [edit]
  86. techcrunch.com [edit]
  87. CubeTree Raises $8 Million For Enterprise-Focused Collaboration Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  88. SkyFire Raises $5 Million More For Rich Mobile Browser (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  89. Chip maker Amalfi gets $24M funding for cellphone guts (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  90. Red Aril Company Overview (redaril.com) [edit]
  91. Nokeenaâ„¢ Networks Secures $6.5 Million in Funding to Expand Availability of New Media Infrastructure (freshnews.com) [edit]
  92. Likewise Secures $10 Million in Funding; Sets Sights on New Users and Product Development (ostatic.com) [edit]
  93. BlueStripe nabs $8 million to jumpstart commercialization (triangle.bizjournals.com) [edit]
  94. LoopNet Raises $50 Million PIPE (pehub.com) [edit]
  95. ogul Raises $3 Million For Video Analytics (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  96. paidcontent.org [edit]
  97. Exalt Communications raises $15M (bizjournals.com) [edit]
  98. New Relic Raises $6 Million For Rails Performance Monitoring (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  99. Personalized Savings Advisor BillShrink.com Closes $8 Million in Series B Funding, Led by Trinity Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners (billshrink.com) [edit]
  100. Avaak, Inc. Secures $7 Million in Series A Funding (thefreelibrary.com) [edit]
  101. Trion Closes A Whopping $70 Million In Series C Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  102. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  103. Guard ID Systems Raises $11 Million In New Financing (idvault.com) [edit]
  104. Nokeena Networks raises $8.7M for faster streaming video (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  105. Perfect Market Raises $15 Million First Round For Archive Monetization (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  106. Skyfire scores $13 million in funding (mobilecrunch.com) [edit]
  107. Accel (accel.com) [edit]
  108. paidcontent.org [edit]
  109. EDGAR [edit]
  110. Citation Needed [add]
  111. Fluid Entertainment Gets $3.2M From Trinity Ventures (virtualworldsnews.com) [edit]
  112. paidcontent.org (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  113. Citation Needed [add]
  114. techcrunch.com [edit]
  115. Hidden City Games raises $15M for trading cards (hiddencitygames.com) [edit]
  116. TRION WORLD NETWORK, PUBLISHER AND DEVELOPER OF CONNECTED GAMES AND ENTERTAINMENT, RAISES 30 MILLION FROM GLOBAL MEDIA GIANTS, TOP VCS (trionworldnetwork.com) [edit]
  117. mashable.com [edit]
  118. Ripple Secures Series B Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  119. Skyfire is backed by Trinity Ventures and Matrix Partners and has raised $4.8 million in total funding. (skyfire.com) [edit]
  120. ID Analytics Secures $20 Million in Series C Financing To Fuel New Product Development and Market Expansion (idanalytics.com) [edit]
  121. ScanR, a cross-device scanner company, raises $8M more (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  122. Aepona Raises $10M in New Financing Round (aepona.com) [edit]
  123. BlueTarp Financial Builds for Future Growth with $18.5 Million in Venture Financing: Trinity Ventures Joins Existing Investors Highland Capital Partners, IDG Ventures and Village Ventures to Lead Series B Round (prweb.com) [edit]
  124. Virtualization company BlueStripe set to launch product (triangle.bizjournals.com) [edit]
  125. pulse2.com [edit]
  126. paidcontent.org [edit]
  127. VoIP testing company, Clarus, raises $3.33M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  128. Aruba raises $5M, sweetening pot before going public? (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  129. Guard ID Systems Secures $5 Million in Funding from Trinity Partners (idvault.com) [edit]
  130. Netcordia Raises $10 Million From Trinity Ventures and Novak Biddle; Fred Wang of Trinity Ventures Joins Netcordia's Board of Directors. (encyclopedia.com) [edit]
  131. prnewswire.co.uk [edit]
  132. Sabrix Secures $13 Million in Series D Funding (sabrix.com) [edit]
  133. Identity Engines clinched $13 million in Series B funding (networkcomputing.com) [edit]
  134. PhotoBucket Closes $10.5M From Trinity Ventures (techcrunch.com) []
  135. EDGAR [edit]
  136. EDGAR [edit]
  137. MyNewPlace Gets Funding For Spring Launch (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  138. EDGAR [edit]
  139. Lightstorm Networks raises €4.35m to expand in the US (archives.tcm.ie) [edit]
  140. Amalfi Semiconductor Secures $20 Million in Series B Funding (accessmylibrary.com) [edit]
  141. EDGAR [edit]
  142. Affinity Labs, an information portal, raises less than $10M (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  143. gamasutra.com [edit]
  144. EDGAR [edit]
  145. Mirage Networks Secures $12 Million in Series C Funding (miragenetworks.com) [edit]
  146. seattlepi.nwsource.com [edit]
  147. findarticles.com [edit]
  148. EDGAR [edit]
  149. goliath.ecnext.com [edit]
  150. Shenick announces $3.25 million strategic investment led by Innovacom (shenick.com) [edit]
  151. EDGAR [edit]
  152. CODEFAST SECURES $6.5 MILLION TO COMMERCIALIZE (codefast.com) [edit]
  153. AePona Raises $20M (lightreading.com) [edit]
  154. Similarity Systems secures $7 million funding (delta.ie) [edit]
  155. angelscorner.com [edit]
  156. Citation Needed [add]
  157. gamasutra.com [edit]
  158. xconomy.com (xconomy.com) [edit]
  159. Seattle Post-Intelligencer (seattlepi.nwsource.com) [edit]
  160. Seattle Post-Intelligencer (seattlepi.nwsource.com) [edit]
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