• TechCrunch
• CrunchBase
• More
  • TechCrunch UK
  • TechCrunch France
  • TechCrunch Japan

True Ventures

edit

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, [about.me] & Sphere Founder Tony Conrad and Giga Omni Media Founder 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

edit

• 
  True Ventures invested in Bandcamp. (12/1/10)
  Posted 1/24/12 at 12:01pm
• 
  True Ventures invested in Fitbit. (1/24/12)
  Posted 1/24/12 at 5:02am via techcrunch.com
• 
  True Ventures invested in Sponge. (4/19/10)
  Posted 4/20/10 at 3:51pm via sec.gov
• 
  True Ventures invested in Appconomy. (12/19/11)
  Posted 12/19/11 at 4:42am via techcrunch.com
• 
  True Ventures invested in Academia.edu. (11/30/11)
  Posted 11/30/11 at 6:11pm via techcrunch.com
• 
  True Ventures invested in Puppet Labs. (11/29/11)
  Posted 11/29/11 at 5:56pm via techcrunch.com
• 
  True Ventures invested in BrightRoll. (11/15/11)
  Posted 11/15/11 at 6:53am via sociableblog.com
• 
  True Ventures invested in Tinkercad. (11/8/11)
  Posted 11/8/11 at 8:20pm via techcrunch.com
• 
  True Ventures invested in Schematic Labs. (11/8/11)
  Posted 11/8/11 at 11:59am via techcrunch.com
• 
  True Ventures invested in Urban Airship. (11/7/11)
  Posted 11/6/11 at 9:09pm via gigaom.com
• 
  True Ventures invested in Kicksend. (11/3/11)
  Posted 11/3/11 at 5:58pm via techcrunch.com
• 
  True Ventures invested in Spree Commerce. (7/1/11)
  Posted 10/29/11 at 1:39pm via techcrunch.com
• 
  True Ventures invested in Ginger.io. (10/1/11)
  Posted 6/9/11 at 2:01pm via xconomy.com
• 
  True Ventures invested in Pose.com. (10/21/11)
  Posted 10/21/11 at 6:47pm via techcrunch.com
• 
  True Ventures invested in SaveUp. (9/15/11)
  Posted 9/15/11 at 3:45am via techcrunch.com
• 
  True Ventures invested in Spectrum Bridge. (9/13/11)
  Posted 9/13/11 at 9:16pm via spectrumbridge.com

Investments

Videos

Sources

1. True Ventures is raising a $200M fund (venturebeat.com) [edit]
2. Fitness Tracker Fitbit Raises $12M To Market New Wi-Fi Enabled Smart Scale, Aria (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Appconomy Raises $10 Million To Accelerate Expansion In China (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Academia.edu Raises $4.5 Million To Help Researchers Share Their Scholarly Papers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Cisco, Google Ventures, VMware Put $8.5M In Data Center Automation Startup Puppet Labs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. BrightRoll Raises $30 Million Series C Financing (sociableblog.com) [edit]
7. Accel, True Ventures And Softbank Plunk $4.75M Into Music Sharing App SoundTracking (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Tinkercad Raises $1 Million, Aims To Popularize 3D Printing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. GigaOm (gigaom.com) [edit]
10. Kicksend Grabs $1.8 Million From True Ventures, SV Angel & More For Dead Simple File Sharing (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Photo Sharing App For Fashion Pose Raises $3 Million From True Ventures And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. Xconomy (xconomy.com) [edit]
13. SaveUp Raises $2 Million For Stealth Rewards Program (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. Spectrum Bridge® Raises $8.8 Million in Series B Funding Round (spectrumbridge.com) [edit]
15. MakerBot Takes $10 Million In Funding From Foundry Group, Angels (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. techcrunch.com [edit]
17. Stealth Social Mobile Startup just.me Raises $600K From Google Ventures, SV Angel And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
18. Nodeable, The Twitter For Machines, Raises $2 Million From True Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
19. SV Angel, True Ventures And Others Put $1 Million Into Interest-Based Connections App One (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. Shortmail's 410 Labs Raises $750K (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
21. Spree Raises $1.5 Million From True Ventures, Aol For Open Source eCommerce Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
22. OpenStack gets a startup seeking to commercialize the code (gigaom.com) [edit]
23. Valencell, Inc. Announces $5.5 Million Series B Venture Financing (businesswire.com) [edit]
24. Smarterer Raises $1.25M To Prove You’re Good At Anything In 60 Seconds Or Less (techcrunch.com) [edit]
25. Metamarkets Raises $6 Million To Help Big Web Publishers Corral Big Data (allthingsd.com) [edit]
26. techcrunch.com [edit]
27. In-Game Ad Startup Kiip Raises $4 Million From Hummer Winblad, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
28. Milk Completes $1.5 Million Angel Round, Packed with Valley Names (techcrunch.com) [edit]
29. Message Bus: The Start Project’s First Graduate Launches, Pulls In A Cool $3 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
30. How Do You Talk To An Angel? Use Yobongo, They’re All Investing. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
31. Social Analytics Platform BackType Raises a Cool Million in Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
32. Vurve Raises Another $4.5 Million To Give Businesses “Advertising On Autopilot” (techcrunch.com) [edit]
33. Citation Needed [add]
34. True Ventures Funds Orabrush, the Justin Bieber of Mouth Care (techcrunch.com) [edit]
35. Pose: A Photo Sharing App For Fashion And Shopping That Just Raised $1.6 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
36. techcrunch.com [edit]
37. techcrunch.com [edit]
38. AdKeeper Inc. Secures $35 Million in Series B Funding Led by Oak Investment Partners (businesswire.com) [edit]
39. Appconomy Closes $1.5M First Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
40. Citation Needed [add]
41. PayNearMe Closes $16M Round of Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
42. Urban Airship Closes $5.4 Million Funding Round To Help Power Mobile Apps (techcrunch.com) [edit]
43. 19 Year Old Kiip Founder Closes 300K Angel Round For Mobile In-Game Ad Startup (techcrunch.com) [edit]
44. Looks Like Our Friends Over At GigaOm Just Raised Another $2.5 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
45. StockTwits Grabs $4 Million More In Inside Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
46. Citation Needed [add]
47. Typekit gets $2.05M to let web designers use their favorite fonts (venturebeat.com) [edit]
48. Jaiku Founder Raises Seed Funding For New Venture, Pingpin, Wastes My Time (techcrunch.com) [edit]
49. techcrunch.com [edit]
50. Fitness Tracker Fitbit Gains Another $8 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
51. Welcoming Scio Security to the True Family (trueventures.com) [edit]
52. techcrunch.com [edit]
53. Data Center Automation Startup Puppet Labs Raises $5 Million More (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
54. Real-Time Search Startup Collecta Gets $4.7 Million More (paidcontent.org) [edit]
55. Photographic Evidence Of Stealth Startup Tello Raising $100k (techcrunch.com) [edit]
56. TechCrunch: Metamarkets Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
57. Loggly raises $4.2M for a ‘fun’ approach to server logs (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
58. The Extraordinaries raises $1.1M for “micro-volunteering (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
59. chubbybrain.com [edit]
60. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
61. Assistly Grabs $2.2 Million From True Ventures And Howard Lindzon’s Social Leverage (techcrunch.com) [edit]
62. Gdgt Raises New Financing with New Concept (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
63. Socialcast Raises $8 Million Series B To Spread Its Realtime Enterprise Streams (techcrunch.com) [edit]
64. techcrunch.com [edit]
65. Virtual Goods' Payment Firm Kwedit Raises $3.3M (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
66. Loggly raises $500K to search your log files (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
67. Urban Airship raises $1.1M to provide infrastructure for mobile apps (mobile.venturebeat.com) [edit]
68. TechCrunch [edit]
69. Technology And Materials Marketplace Inventables Scores $2 Million From True Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
70. techcrunch.com [edit]
71. Goodreads Ups Funding To $2M (socaltech.com) [edit]
72. techcrunch.com [edit]
73. Milo, a Site to Help People Shop Offline, Attracts Investors (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
74. Online Art Store 20×200 Scores $800,000 From True Ventures And Angels (techcrunch.com) [edit]
75. Stealth Web Startup Palaran Raises $1 Million In Funding From True Ventures (paidcontent.org) [edit]
76. Citation Needed [add]
77. Citation Needed [add]
78. techcrunch.com [edit]
79. Small Batch Inc. Announces Typekit Funding (blog.typekit.com) [edit]
80. Reductive Labs scores $2M for Puppet IT automation tool (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
81. Twitter App Investors Still Writing Checks: StockTwits Raises a Round (mediamemo.allthingsd.com) [edit]
82. 1000 Markets makes it official with $500,000 seed round (techflash.com) [edit]
83. Cap Funding Report [edit]
84. Citation Needed [add]
85. Capital Report Index [edit]
86. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
87. SendMe nabs another $12 million for mobile entertainment content (venturebeat.com) [edit]
88. TechCrunch [edit]
89. Filtrbox Raises $1.4 Million, Launches Revamped Market Intelligence Tool (techcrunch.com) [edit]
90. Loopfuse Closes $1.4 Million in Series A Funding (loopfuse.com) [edit]
91. TextDigger Announces $4.3 Million A-1 Funding (uk.sys-con.com) [edit]
92. B-Stock Solutions Closes $1.2 Million in Series A Funding (bstocksolutions.com) [edit]
93. BloomSpot Investors (bloomspot.com) [edit]
94. BackType Gets More Conversation Tracking Features, Seed Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
95. Spectrum Bridge® raises $8.1 Million in Series B Funding Round (spectrumbridge.com) [edit]
96. Cloud Computing Helps Data Sharing Syncplicity Raise $2.35 Series A (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
97. Fitbit Raises Healthy $2 Million From True Ventures And SoftTech VC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
98. appssavvy Raises $3.1 Million To Connect Social Media Developers, Advertisers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
99. GigaOm Ignores My Advice, Raises Another $4.5 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
100. Telecommunications Development Fund (tdfund.com) [edit]
101. techcrunch.com [edit]
102. Kurtosys raising round for financial compliance software (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
103. Space Pencil Raises $2.8 Million For Web Analytics (paidcontent.org) [edit]
104. How-To Video Site MindBites Raises $1 Million First Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
105. biz.yahoo.com [edit]
106. Venturebeat article (venturebeat.com) [edit]
107. WeGame, stealthy online gaming site, raises $500k (venturebeat.com) [edit]
108. TechStars (techstars.org) [edit]
109. WordPress.com Creator Raises $29.5M (gigaom.com) [edit]
110. GigaOm (gigaom.com) [edit]
111. trueventures.com [edit]
112. Online Game Technology Start-up WeGame.com Gets $500,000 (dmwmedia.com) [edit]
113. Vodpod blog (blog.vodpod.com) [edit]
114. Datacraft Solutions, Inc. Secures Significant VC Funding (smart-grid.tmcnet.com) [edit]
115. Citation Needed [add]
116. SingleFeed Raises Round of Financing (singlefeed.com) [edit]
117. GigaLogix Closes Series A Financing (trueventures.com) [edit]
118. Cap Funding Report [edit]
119. Infectious receives $750K in funding (bayareanewsgroup.com) [edit]
120. sendmemobile.com [edit]
121. techcrunch.com [edit]
122. Maya’s Mom Raises Angel Round, Launches (techcrunch.com) [edit]
123. Cap Funding Report [edit]
124. gigaom.com [edit]
125. sendmemobile.com [edit]
126. PEHub (pehub.com) [edit]
127. Meebo Confirms Sequoia Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
128. Citation Needed [add]
129. Automattic Raised $1.1M Last October (businessweek.com) [edit]
130. startupsearch.org [edit]
131. Citation Needed [add]