O TechCrunch anuncia que a startup de marketing digital HubSpot recebeu um investimento de 32 milhões de dólares da capital de risco californiana Sequoia Capital, da Google Ventures, da Salesforce e de outros investidores. A HubSpot, em capital de risco, conseguiu angariar 65 milhões de dólares.
“In January we reported that digital marketing startup HubSpot was close to taking a new venture round. That deal is now closed, and the company will announce that they’ve taken $32 million from Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, Salesforce and previous investors.
HubSpot, which is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has raised a total of $65 million in venture capital.
The company has 4,000 customers, they say, who use HubSpot to help manage their website and generate leads. Revenue is at a $25 million run rate annually, up from $10 million a year ago, says CEO Brian Halligan.” (…)
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Os fundos de capital de risco estão entre os mais beneficiados com a "Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act", promulgada pelo Presidente Obama na semana passada, dando um impulso a um sector que atravessava maiores dificuldades do que a maioria.
Convido-o a ler o artigo "Venture Capital a WInner in Dodd-Frank" no site TheStreet.
Venture capital to keep shrinking, expert says at SMU forum
"The U.S. venture capital industry will continue to shrink, even after reshaping itself in the past few years with fewer deals, fewer investments and smaller funds, industry guru John Taylor said Thursday at Southern Methodist University's Southwest Venture Forum.
The good news is that "the industry is open for business," said Taylor, vice president for research of the National Venture Capital Association. "I'm hearing that deal flow is good."
U.S. venture capitalists invested in 725 companies in 2009, though that's down from an average of 1,000 a year.
Nationally, $17.7 billion in investments was the lowest level since 1997. The $644 million invested in Texas was the smallest amount since 1996.
Dallas-Fort Worth companies garnered the most venture capital dollars statewide in the last three years - $1.4 billion, or 43 percent."
Artigo completo em dallasnews.com
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