True Ventures

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True Ventures is a venture capital firm with $350 million under management, the most recent fund having closed in July, 2008. The firm is led by General Partners Jon Callaghan, Phil Black and John Burke. Counting Automattic CEO Toni Schneider, Sphere CEO Tony Conrad and Giga Omni Media CEO Om Malik amongst its ranks, True Ventures is focused on providing funding to early stage growth companies in the technology sector. Companies in its portfolio include Automattic, GigaOm, Sphere, FitBit, meebo, BrightRoll, appssavvy and SendMe Mobile.

Milestones

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  True Ventures invested in Palaran. (10/14/09)
  Posted 10/14/09 at 9:09pm
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  True Ventures invested in 20x200. (10/09)
  Posted 10/21/09 at 11:43pm
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  True Ventures invested in TuneIn. (7/09)
  Posted 7/28/09 at 4:12pm
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  True Ventures invested in gdgt. (7/1/09)
  Posted 7/1/09 at 9:09am
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  True Ventures invested in Small Batch, Inc. (6/24/09)
  Posted 6/24/09 at 1:20pm
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  True Ventures invested in Reductive Labs. (6/23/09)
  Posted 6/23/09 at 9:58am
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  True Ventures invested in StockTwits. (5/18/09)
  Posted 5/18/09 at 9:29am
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  True Ventures invested in 1000 Markets. (5/15/09)
  Posted 5/15/09 at 1:54pm
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  True Ventures invested in VoxPop Network Corporation. (5/09)
  Posted 5/18/09 at 5:09pm
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  True Ventures invested in Goodreads. (5/09)
  Posted 6/27/09 at 12:25pm
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  True Ventures invested in scanR. (4/23/09)
  Posted 7/6/09 at 4:22pm
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  True Ventures invested in Socialcast. (4/6/09)
  Posted 4/6/09 at 9:08pm
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  True Ventures invested in SendMe. (3/5/09)
  Posted 3/17/09 at 11:37am
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  True Ventures invested in Collecta. (3/09)
  Posted 6/18/09 at 7:28am
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  True Ventures invested in Filtrbox. (2/17/09)
  Posted 2/17/09 at 12:19am
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  True Ventures invested in LoopFuse. (2/12/09)
  Posted 6/30/09 at 9:35pm

Investments

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1. Stealth Web Startup Palaran Raises $1 Million In Funding From True Ventures (paidcontent.org) [edit]
2. Online Art Store 20×200 Scores $800,000 From True Ventures And Angels (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. techcrunch.com [edit]
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5. Small Batch Inc. Announces Typekit Funding (blog.typekit.com) [edit]
6. Reductive Labs scores $2M for Puppet IT automation tool (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
7. Twitter App Investors Still Writing Checks: StockTwits Raises a Round (mediamemo.allthingsd.com) [edit]
8. 1000 Markets is an Etsy rival with backing from PayPal founders (techflash.com) [edit]
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10. The True Story of True Ventures (pehub.com) [edit]
11. Capital Report Index [edit]
12. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. SendMe nabs another $12 million for mobile entertainment content (venturebeat.com) [edit]
14. TechCrunch [edit]
15. Filtrbox Raises $1.4 Million, Launches Revamped Market Intelligence Tool (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. Loopfuse Closes $1.4 Million in Series A Funding (loopfuse.com) [edit]
17. TextDigger Announces $4.3 Million A-1 Funding (uk.sys-con.com) [edit]
18. BackType Gets More Conversation Tracking Features, Seed Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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20. Spectrum Bridge® raises $8.1 Million in Series B Funding Round (spectrumbridge.com) [edit]
21. Cloud Computing Helps Data Sharing Syncplicity Raise $2.35 Series A (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
22. Fitbit Raises Healthy $2 Million From True Ventures And SoftTech VC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
23. appssavvy Raises $3.1 Million To Connect Social Media Developers, Advertisers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. GigaOm Ignores My Advice, Raises Another $4.5 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
25. Telecommunications Development Fund (tdfund.com) [edit]
26. techcrunch.com [edit]
27. Kurtosys raising round for financial compliance software (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
28. Space Pencil Raises $2.8 Million For Web Analytics (paidcontent.org) [edit]
29. How-To Video Site MindBites Raises $1 Million First Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
30. biz.yahoo.com [edit]
31. Venturebeat article (venturebeat.com) [edit]
32. WeGame, stealthy online gaming site, raises $500k (venturebeat.com) [edit]
33. TechStars (techstars.org) [edit]
34. WordPress.com Creator Raises $29.5M (gigaom.com) [edit]
35. GigaOm (gigaom.com) [edit]
36. trueventures.com [edit]
37. Online Game Technology Start-up WeGame.com Gets $500,000 (dmwmedia.com) [edit]
38. Vodpod blog (blog.vodpod.com) [edit]
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40. SingleFeed Raises Round of Financing (singlefeed.com) [edit]
41. Infectious receives $750K in funding (bayareanewsgroup.com) [edit]
42. sendmemobile.com [edit]
43. techcrunch.com [edit]
44. Maya’s Mom Raises Angel Round, Launches (techcrunch.com) [edit]
45. gigaom.com [edit]
46. sendmemobile.com [edit]
47. Meebo Confirms Sequoia Funding (techcrunch.com) []
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49. Automattic Raised $1.1M Last October (businessweek.com) [edit]
50. startupsearch.org [edit]