Posts Tagged with ‘sequoia-capital’

Sequoia Capital is one of the best-known names when it comes to venture funding of startups in the Silicon Valley so everything the firm does is considered as having strong implications for the entire industry. So it is no wonder that the players in the industry are more than worried today now that Om Malik reports that Sequoia held a meeting for founders of its portfolio companies to talk about the economic crisis to them.
The CEOs and founders were [...]

VoIP has thus far only become a serious player in the wired telecommunications industry. When it comes to things wireless, VoIP has yet to gain much ground.
That may soon change, however. Deutsche Telekom AG, a German corporation, is now leading a group of investors of Jajah, a startup (which went live in early 2006) that promises to save users a good amount of coin, particularly in instances of international spread, by routing calls via inexpensive VoIP connections. The latest round [...]

What do Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, CBS Corp, Viacom, and Li Ka-shing (a really rich Chinaman) have in common? They all bet their pants on Joost. $45 million in slacks, as of early May.
Actually, high-priced fabrics weren’t part of the bargain. (I’m not so sure that’s the right word to use in this context, but anyhow.) Just paper. Lots of it. Is it just me or does it seem like Joost has been hogging headline space quite a bit as [...]