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Aydin Senkut

Aydin Senkut is the Founder and President of Felicis Ventures. He’s been an angel investor in promising start-ups since the end of 2005. His current portfolio emcompasses over 30 companies including Buzzlogic, Cake Financial, Dogster, Meraki Networks, Mint, Social.im Shopittome, Yapta, Yume Networks, Webs.com, Weebly and others.

Prior to starting Felicis Ventures, he was a Senior Manager at Google, responsible for strategic partner development and account management in Japan and Asia Pacific.

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Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
100Plus 11/11Seed$750k3
Dropcam 9/11Series A$5.8M7
ContextLogic 3/11Angel$1.7M10
Bump Technologies 1/11Series B$16.5M5
Chloe + Isabel 1/11Seed9
MOVIECLIPS 11/10Series A$3M7
NOWBOX 5/10Angel12
Wildfire Interactive 4/10Series A$4M5
MyLikes 4/10Seed$630k11
ERPLY 3/10Unattributed$2M8
Posterous 3/10Series A$4.4M8
Worldly Developments 3/10Seed$800k14
CarWoo! 1/10Seed$300k12
CivicSolar 1/10Seed$455k6
SolveMedia 1/10Series A7
Milo 11/09Series A$4M17
Credit Karma 11/09Series A$2.5M5
Chomp 11/09Seed$565k3
Bump Technologies 10/09Series A$3.4M7
Producteev 7/09Angel$180k5
Y Combinator 3/09Unattributed$2M4
CrowdFlower 3/09Seed$1.2M9
Dropcam 3/09Seed5
Foodzie 12/08Seed$1M23
Posterous 12/08Angel$725k11
Producteev 7/08Seed$180k9
Octopart 5/08Angel$300k8
Handipoints 5/08Angel$550k5
Mob.ly 3/08Seed$1.1M8
VentureBeat 2/08Seed$320k7
Feedjit 1/08Angel$450k3
Yamli 1/08Angel2
Mesmo.tv 10/07Series A$900k6
Mogad 8/07Series A$500k4
MUBI 8/07Series A$750k5
Trivop 6/07Angel7
Omnidrive 12/06Angel$800k4
Rapleaf 6/06Angel6
Cake Financial 1/06Seed8
Loomia 6/05Seed$1M7

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  1. 100Plus Raises $1.25M From Greylock and Band Of Angels To Make You Live Longer (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Accel Leads $6M Round In Video Monitoring And Cloud Streaming Service Dropcam (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. ContextLogic Gets $1.7M From Conway, Rabois And Others To Better Target Ads, Content (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Bump Raises $16 Million Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. New York Startups Shapeways, Chloe + Isabel, and HowAboutWe.com Rake in Cash (xconomy.com) [edit]
  6. MOVIECLIPS.com Raises $3M in Series A Funding Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
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  8. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  9. MyLikes Raises $630,000 Seed Round, All From Ex-Googlers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. Erply: The Next Skype of Business Software? (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  14. CivicSolar bags $400K to help you choose the right solar panels at the best price (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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  16. Milo, a Site to Help People Shop Offline, Attracts Investors (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
  17. Credit Karma Raises $2.5 Million To Take The Mystery Out Of Credit Scores (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  19. Bump Technologies Confirms Sequoia Funding, Reveals Roster Of Angels. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  21. Y Combinator Gets The Sequoia Capital Seal Of Approval (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  22. Crowdflower Communication [edit]
  23. Company Communication [edit]
  24. Foodzie Raises $1 Million For Its Specialty Food Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  25. Group Blogging Via Email's Posterous Raises $725K (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  26. Producteev launches Group Task Management App at LeWeb08' (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  28. Handipoints Receives $800k from Charles Rivers and Angels (virtualworldsnews.com) [edit]
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  30. VentureBeat raises $320,000 seed round, traffic growing (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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  32. venturehacks.com [edit]
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  34. Bookmarks Sharing Provider Mogad Secures $500K First Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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  38. Rapleaf Secures Venture Capital Funding (rapleaf.com) [edit]
  39. cakefinancial.com [edit]
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