June 2007
- A front page article in the Wall Street Journal featured Pandora and how it is working with Sprint Nextel to make its services available on mobile phones and also working on its own player.
- Pandora wins in the Media category in CNet’s first “Webware 100” awards.
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- Yardbarker tops the frontpage of Digg on June 13.
- EoPlex Technologies received the 2007 North American Specialized Manufacturing Technology Innovation of the Year Award by Frost & Sullivan.
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- ShotSpotter announced on June 5th the closing of a $12 million Series C round of funding. Levensohn Venture Partners led the round, joined by existing investors Labrador Ventures, Claremont Creek Ventures, City Light Capital and Lauder Partners.
- Everyone.net announced on June 5 that OpenTable, Inc. selected Everyone.net as a preferred email service partner for its more than 7,000 worldwide restaurants.
May 2007
- Google acquires Labrador's GreenBorder.
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- PC World Magazine named Pandora one of "The 100 Best Products of 2007" in its May 21 issue.
- The Louisville Courier Journal featured Pandora in its May 19 Gizmo column.
- Labrador's Sean Foote spoke on a panel titled: "Pallet of Venture Capital Investment Styles and Strategies" at the Emerging Managers Summit Conference in Chicago on May 17.
- Labrador's Sean Foote spoke on a Clean Energy panel for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers at Santa Clara University on May 12.
- Solaicx closed a $27.1 million Series C up round financing on May 8th led by the D.E. Shaw Group.
- Pandora, Jangl, Altierre and Solaicx received the 2007 "Red Herring 100 North America" award. Red Herring's prestigious list of the top 100 private technology companies in
- Everyone.net gains momentum in the cable marketplace showcasing a number of custom email and messaging solutions for cable providers at The CABLE Show 2007 in
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April 2007
- As part of our seed program, Labrador invested in Marrone Organic Innovation's Series A financing.
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- Jangl announced on April 25 that it is bringing calling and texting capability to the more than 40 million member and visitors to Tagged.com, one of the world's largest and fastest-growing social networking sites.
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- Pandora's Tim Westergren was featured on CNN and in the April 16 issue of Newsweek discussing the growing popularity of music on the Internet and the proposed new royalty rates.
- Labrador's Sean Foote was quoted in a April 11 Dow Jones story on Altierre's $17 million Series B financing.
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- "Novatorque's Rough Road Offers Lessons for VCs" a column by Labrador's Sean Foote, ran in the April issue of The Venture Capital Journal. This is the eighteenth in a series of columns on seed and early stage investing in The Venture Capital Journal.
March 2007
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- Labrador invested $320,000 in Veeker as part of a Series A financing.
- As part of our seed program, Labrador invested $200,000 in Yardbarker as part of a Series A financing.
- EoPlex Technologies has been named a "Cool Vendor" by Gartner, Inc. EoPlex was listed in Gartner's report "Cool Vendors in Semiconductors, 2007," published March 23.
- Everyone.net unveiled on March 20 new Rich Web Mail enhancements to the company’s line of hosted email solutions. The new features are designed to deliver a more intuitive, desktop-style Web mail experience and are available free of charge with all Everyone.net services.
- MeeVee's Neil Kjeldsen was featured in a March 25 Boston Globe article titled, "Start-ups and stalwart tackle unwieldy task of finding, organizing content."
- Bill Yerkes of Solaicx was quoted in a March 8 story in the Economist titled, "Bright prospects. "
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February 2007
- As part of our seed program, Labrador invested $50,000 in Phonezoo as part of a Series A-1 Preferred financing.
- As part of our seed program, Labrador invested $300,000 in Mi5 Networks.
- Labrador Ventures, along with Silicon Valley Bank and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, hosted its 5th Annual Mardi Gras celebration on Thursday, February 15 with over 125 venture capitalists. Click here to see photos with the snake tamer.
- Eoplex Technologies closed an $8 million Series C round on February 8. ATA Ventures led the financing with investments from Labrador Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Draper-Richards.
- Labrador's Sean Foote participated on a panel at Columbia and London Business Schools joint program, EMBA, Global Entrepreneurship event.
- Labrador Ventures joined an $15M Series B financing of existing portfolio company Altierre led by new investor D.E. Shaw.
- Labrador’s Larry Kubal was a panelist at FundingPost’s Silicon Valley VC Event along with representatives from Interwest, Hummer Winblad, KTIC, Altos, Palo Alto Venture Partners and Hambrecht Geneva Ventures.
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January 2007
- Labrador Ventures joined a $19M Follow-On Series E financing of portfolio company Aperto Networks along with all existing investors.
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- MeeVee selected for the prestigious AlwaysOn Media 100 award.
- Eoplex featured in a January 15 San Francisco Chronicle column titled, "Innovations--Printing gets new dimension."
- Jangl participated at the 2007 International CES Conference in
- "What's in it for me?" a column by Labrador's Larry Kubal, ran in the January issue of The Venture Capital Journal. This is the seventeenth in a series of columns on seed and early stage investing in The Venture Capital Journal.
