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True Ventures

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Founded in 2006, True Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups. With three funds and approximately $600 million in capital under management, True provides seed and Series A funding to the most talented entrepreneurs in today’s fastest growing markets. With a mission to make the world a better place for entrepreneurs, True encourages each founder’s vision and has built resources to empower the employees, families and communities of its portfolio companies. The firm maintains a strong founder community and offers innovative educational opportunities to its portfolio, helping entrepreneurs achieve higher levels of success and impact. With more than 100 companies funded and multiple companies acquired, the True portfolio has created over 1,900 jobs.

True is led by General Partners Jon Callaghan, Phil Black, John Burke and Puneet Agarwal, along with Venture Partners Toni Schneider (CEO of Automattic), Tony Conrad (Founder of about.me and Sphere) and Om Malik (Founder of Giga Omni Media). Companies in the True portfolio include about.me (acquired by AOL), Assistly (acquired by Salesforce), Automattic (creators of the popular blogging platform WordPress.com), Bloomspot, BrightRoll, Cetas (acquired by VMware), Fitbit, Milo (acquired by eBay), Socialcast (acquired by VMware), Syncplicity (acquired by EMC) and Typekit (acquired by Adobe).

(Source: True Ventures)

Recent Milestones

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  True Ventures invested in Madison Color. (4/29/13)
  Posted 5/4/13 at 1:08am via businesswire.com
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  True Ventures invested in Concurrent Inc. (3/20/13)
  Posted 3/26/13 at 9:30pm via venturebeat.com
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  True Ventures invested in MessageMe. (3/19/13)
  Posted 3/29/13 at 3:08am via techcrunch.com
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  True Ventures invested in TastemakerX. (3/7/13)
  Posted 3/7/13 at 5:54pm via techcrunch.com
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  True Ventures invested in Urban Airship. (2/6/13)
  Posted 2/6/13 at 9:56am via techcrunch.com
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  True Ventures invested in about.me. (2/5/13)
  Posted 2/5/13 at 9:09pm via dowjones.com
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  True Ventures invested in Piston Cloud Computing. (2/4/13)
  Posted 2/5/13 at 3:15am via venturebeat.com
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  True Ventures invested in PayNearMe. (1/22/13)
  Posted 1/22/13 at 6:19pm via techcrunch.com
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  True Ventures invested in Streetline. (1/10/13)
  Posted 1/10/13 at 6:54pm via techcrunch.com
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  True Ventures invested in Ginger.io. (11/28/12)
  Posted 11/28/12 at 12:19pm via techcrunch.com
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  True Ventures invested in Always Prepped. (11/15/12)
  Posted 11/15/12 at 9:16am via techcrunch.com
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  True Ventures invested in 3D Robotics. (11/5/12)
  Posted 4/6/13 at 11:31am via diydrones.com
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  True Ventures invested in Helpshift, Inc.. (10/30/12)
  Posted 12/1/12 at 7:04pm via techcrunch.com
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  True Ventures invested in Message Bus. (10/15/12)
  Posted 10/15/12 at 5:36am via dowjones.com
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  True Ventures invested in DJZ. (9/1/12)
  Posted 10/31/12 at 5:10pm via nytimes.com
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  True Ventures invested in tenXer. (8/28/12)
  Posted 8/28/12 at 2:28pm via finsmes.com

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4. Madison Color Raises $4 Million Series A Funding to Reinvent Home Hair Color Market (businesswire.com) [edit]
5. Concurrent grabs $4M to make ‘big data’ app development on Hadoop easier Read more at http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/20/concurrent-funding/#yQ8t5u6Dbmj4PJUc.99 (venturebeat.com) [edit]
6. Facebook Isn’t Holding Back Their Growth: MessageMe Raises $1.9M And Grabs 1M Users (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. TastemakerX Raises Another $1.25M To Position Itself As “Fantasy League” For Bands (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Urban Airship Raises $25 Million As It Expands Beyond The Mobile Backend (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. About.me Spins Back Out of AOL, Raises $5.7M (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
10. Piston Cloud nabs $8M to bolster open source cloud adoption (venturebeat.com) [edit]
11. PayNearMe Raises $10 Million Series D; Launches Self-Serve Platform To Allow Any Business To Accept Remote Cash Payments (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. Streetline Raises $25M Round Led By True Ventures To Bring Real-Time Parking Data To Cities And Drivers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. Ginger.io Raises $6.5M To Use Your Smartphone To Track Your Health, Round Led By Khosla (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. Always Prepped Grabs $650K From True Ventures, Former Blackboard EVP To Launch A Mint.com For Education (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. 3D Robotics announces VC funding, expansion plan (diydrones.com) [edit]
16. Helpshift Gets $3.2M From Nexus, True Ventures To Build The Salesforce Of Mobile CRM (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. Message Bus Raises $11M to Make Messaging More Reliable (pevc.dowjones.com) [edit]
18. Building a Home Online to Suit Electronic Music (nytimes.com) [edit]
19. tenXer Raises $3M in Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
20. SocialPandas Raises $1.5 Million For CRM Tools To Aid The Forgotten Sales Person (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. Glider Launches At Disrupt NY With SaaS That Automates Approving And Signing Contracts, Adds Intelligence To Deal Flow (techcrunch.com) [edit]
22. Financial Rewards Startup SaveUp Raises $5 Million To Gamify Your Finances (techcrunch.com) [edit]
23. LittleBits Picks Up $3.65M, PCH Deal To Build Out Its Open-Source Hardware Vision (techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. Kiip Raises $11 Million Funding Round to Fuel Explosive Worldwide Growth in Mobile Rewards Market (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
25. Betable Brings Legal Gambling Mechanics To Social Game Developers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
26. No Resumes, Just Skills: Smarterer Grabs $1.75M From True, Google Ventures; Tony Conrad Joins Board (techcrunch.com) [edit]
27. With $2.1M From True Ventures (And Others), TripleLift Builds Ads From A Brand’s Trending Images (techcrunch.com) [edit]
28. Flint: A New Mobile Payment App For Small Businesses Picks Up $3M From Storm, True Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
29. TerraEchos, Inc. Closes Additional Seed Investment from True Ventures (in.finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
30. Cloud Foundry’s founder debuts Apcera with $2.2M in funding. (gigaom.com) [edit]
31. Metamarkets Closes $15M Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
32. Singly Receives $7M Investment (allthingsd.com) [edit]
33. New Orleans’ Neighborland Raises Seed Round (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
34. Gifts From VIPs: Quarterly Grabs $1.25M From Collaborative Fund And True Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
35. Google Ventures And Others Put $5M In Enterprise Mobile Security Company Duo (techcrunch.com) [edit]
36. Tello Raises $2.7M From True Ventures To Give Businesses Consumer Feedback On The Fly (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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38. Caterina Fake’s Pinwheel raised $7.5M from Redpoint (gigaom.com) [edit]
39. Awesome Inventory Management Startup Stitch Labs Nabs $1M From True Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
40. More Details On Caterina Fake’s New Startup, Pinwheel (techcrunch.com) [edit]
41. Finnish Startup Ovelin Snags $1.4M From True Ventures To Reinvent Early Music Ed With Games (techcrunch.com) [edit]
42. TastemakerX, The App For Hipsters Who Totally Heard That Band First, Raises $1.8M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
43. Fitness Tracker Fitbit Raises $12M To Market New Wi-Fi Enabled Smart Scale, Aria (techcrunch.com) [edit]
44. Appconomy Raises $10 Million To Accelerate Expansion In China (techcrunch.com) [edit]
45. Academia.edu Raises $4.5 Million To Help Researchers Share Their Scholarly Papers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
46. Cisco, Google Ventures, VMware Put $8.5M In Data Center Automation Startup Puppet Labs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
47. BrightRoll Raises $30 Million Series C Financing (sociableblog.com) [edit]
48. Disrupt Alum Trippy Raises $1.75 Million Thanks to Ribs and Fried Chicken (techcrunch.com) [edit]
49. Accel, True Ventures And Softbank Plunk $4.75M Into Music Sharing App SoundTracking (techcrunch.com) [edit]
50. Tinkercad Raises $1 Million, Aims To Popularize 3D Printing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
51. GigaOm (gigaom.com) [edit]
52. Kicksend Grabs $1.8 Million From True Ventures, SV Angel & More For Dead Simple File Sharing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
53. Photo Sharing App For Fashion Pose Raises $3 Million From True Ventures And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
54. Xconomy (xconomy.com) [edit]
55. SaveUp Raises $2 Million For Stealth Rewards Program (techcrunch.com) [edit]
56. Spectrum Bridge® Raises $8.8 Million in Series B Funding Round (spectrumbridge.com) [edit]
57. MakerBot Takes $10 Million In Funding From Foundry Group, Angels (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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59. Stealth Social Mobile Startup just.me Raises $600K From Google Ventures, SV Angel And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
60. Nodeable, The Twitter For Machines, Raises $2 Million From True Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
61. SV Angel, True Ventures And Others Put $1 Million Into Interest-Based Connections App One (techcrunch.com) [edit]
62. Shortmail's 410 Labs Raises $750K (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
63. Spree Raises $1.5 Million From True Ventures, Aol For Open Source eCommerce Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
64. OpenStack gets a startup seeking to commercialize the code (gigaom.com) [edit]
65. Valencell, Inc. Announces $5.5 Million Series B Venture Financing (businesswire.com) [edit]
66. Smarterer Raises $1.25M To Prove You’re Good At Anything In 60 Seconds Or Less (techcrunch.com) [edit]
67. Metamarkets Raises $6 Million To Help Big Web Publishers Corral Big Data (allthingsd.com) [edit]
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69. In-Game Ad Startup Kiip Raises $4 Million From Hummer Winblad, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
70. Milk Completes $1.5 Million Angel Round, Packed with Valley Names (techcrunch.com) [edit]
71. Message Bus: The Start Project’s First Graduate Launches, Pulls In A Cool $3 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
72. How Do You Talk To An Angel? Use Yobongo, They’re All Investing. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
73. Social Analytics Platform BackType Raises a Cool Million in Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
74. Vurve Raises Another $4.5 Million To Give Businesses "Advertising On Autopilot" (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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76. True Ventures Funds Orabrush, the Justin Bieber of Mouth Care (techcrunch.com) [edit]
77. Pose: A Photo Sharing App For Fashion And Shopping That Just Raised $1.6 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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80. AdKeeper Inc. Secures $35 Million in Series B Funding Led by Oak Investment Partners (businesswire.com) [edit]
81. AdKeeper Inc. Secures $35 Million in Series B Funding Led by Oak Investment Partners (businesswire.com) [edit]
82. Appconomy Closes $1.5M First Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
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84. PayNearMe Closes $16M Round of Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
85. Urban Airship Closes $5.4 Million Funding Round To Help Power Mobile Apps (techcrunch.com) [edit]
86. 19 Year Old Kiip Founder Closes 300K Angel Round For Mobile In-Game Ad Startup (techcrunch.com) [edit]
87. Looks Like Our Friends Over At GigaOm Just Raised Another $2.5 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
88. StockTwits Grabs $4 Million More In Inside Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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90. Typekit gets $2.05M to let web designers use their favorite fonts (venturebeat.com) [edit]
91. Jaiku Founder Raises Seed Funding For New Venture, Pingpin, Wastes My Time (techcrunch.com) [edit]
92. techcrunch.com [edit]
93. Fitness Tracker Fitbit Gains Another $8 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
94. Former Google Social Lead Launches Ditto Discovery App (allthingsd.com) [edit]
95. Welcoming Scio Security to the True Family (trueventures.com) [edit]
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98. Data Center Automation Startup Puppet Labs Raises $5 Million More (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
99. Real-Time Search Startup Collecta Gets $4.7 Million More (paidcontent.org) [edit]
100. Photographic Evidence Of Stealth Startup Tello Raising $100k (techcrunch.com) [edit]
101. TechCrunch: Metamarkets Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
102. Loggly raises $4.2M for a ‘fun’ approach to server logs (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
103. The Extraordinaries raises $1.1M for “micro-volunteering (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
104. chubbybrain.com [edit]
105. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
106. Assistly Grabs $2.2 Million From True Ventures And Howard Lindzon's Social Leverage (techcrunch.com) [edit]
107. Gdgt Raises New Financing with New Concept (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
108. Socialcast Raises $8 Million Series B To Spread Its Realtime Enterprise Streams (techcrunch.com) [edit]
109. techcrunch.com [edit]
110. Virtual Goods' Payment Firm Kwedit Raises $3.3M (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
111. Loggly raises $500K to search your log files (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
112. Urban Airship raises $1.1M to provide infrastructure for mobile apps (mobile.venturebeat.com) [edit]
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114. Technology And Materials Marketplace Inventables Scores $2 Million From True Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
115. Goodreads Ups Funding To $2M (socaltech.com) [edit]
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117. Milo, a Site to Help People Shop Offline, Attracts Investors (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
118. Online Art Store 20x200 Scores $800,000 From True Ventures And Angels (techcrunch.com) [edit]
119. Stealth Web Startup Palaran Raises $1 Million In Funding From True Ventures (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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123. Small Batch Inc. Announces Typekit Funding (blog.typekit.com) [edit]
124. Reductive Labs scores $2M for Puppet IT automation tool (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
125. Twitter App Investors Still Writing Checks: StockTwits Raises a Round (mediamemo.allthingsd.com) [edit]
126. 1000 Markets makes it official with $500,000 seed round (techflash.com) [edit]
127. EDGAR [edit]
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129. Capital Report Index [edit]
130. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
131. SendMe nabs another $12 million for mobile entertainment content (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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133. Filtrbox Raises $1.4 Million, Launches Revamped Market Intelligence Tool (techcrunch.com) [edit]
134. Loopfuse Closes $1.4 Million in Series A Funding (loopfuse.com) [edit]
135. TextDigger Announces $4.3 Million A-1 Funding (uk.sys-con.com) [edit]
136. B-Stock Solutions Closes $1.2 Million in Series A Funding (bstocksolutions.com) [edit]
137. BackType Gets More Conversation Tracking Features, Seed Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
138. BloomSpot Investors (bloomspot.com) [edit]
139. Spectrum Bridge® raises $8.1 Million in Series B Funding Round (spectrumbridge.com) [edit]
140. Cloud Computing Helps Data Sharing Syncplicity Raise $2.35 Series A (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
141. Fitbit Raises Healthy $2 Million From True Ventures And SoftTech VC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
142. appssavvy Raises $3.1 Million To Connect Social Media Developers, Advertisers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
143. GigaOm Ignores My Advice, Raises Another $4.5 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
144. Telecommunications Development Fund (tdfund.com) [edit]
145. techcrunch.com [edit]
146. Kurtosys raising round for financial compliance software (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
147. Space Pencil Raises $2.8 Million For Web Analytics (paidcontent.org) [edit]
148. How-To Video Site MindBites Raises $1 Million First Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
149. biz.yahoo.com [edit]
150. Venturebeat article (venturebeat.com) [edit]
151. Social Discovery Network Tagged Acquires WeGame (blog.launch.co) [edit]
152. TechStars (techstars.org) [edit]
153. WordPress.com Creator Raises $29.5M (gigaom.com) [edit]
154. GigaOm (gigaom.com) [edit]
155. Online Game Technology Start-up WeGame.com Gets $500,000 (dmwmedia.com) [edit]
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157. Vodpod blog (blog.vodpod.com) [edit]
158. Datacraft Solutions, Inc. Secures Significant VC Funding (smart-grid.tmcnet.com) [edit]
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160. SingleFeed Raises Round of Financing (singlefeed.com) [edit]
161. GigaLogix Closes Series A Financing (trueventures.com) [edit]
162. Infectious receives $750K in funding (bayareanewsgroup.com) [edit]
163. EDGAR [edit]
164. sendmemobile.com [edit]
165. techcrunch.com [edit]
166. Maya’s Mom Raises Angel Round, Launches (techcrunch.com) [edit]
167. EDGAR [edit]
168. gigaom.com [edit]
169. sendmemobile.com [edit]
170. PEHub (pehub.com) [edit]
171. Meebo Confirms Sequoia Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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173. startupsearch.org [edit]