Quattro co-founder launches mobile-app tool startup Session M
Lars Albright, the entrepreneur whose technology now powers Apple’s iAds, has a new startup, and it just raised a $6.5 million round led by famed venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
The Session M website is pretty bare right now, featuring a brief note from Albright that only hints at what the Boston-headquartered company will be up to:
Our team at session M loves how mobile apps are changing the way people interact … Continue Reading
iPad publisher Callaway Digital Arts enlists Martha Stewart and the iFund
Apple’s iPad has been hyped as the future of publishing — books, magazines, you name it. Now high-profile venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is putting millions of dollars behind that idea. Through its iPhone- and iPad-focused iFund, Kleiner just led a $6 million round in iPad app publisher Callaway Digital Arts.
Ram Shiram’s Sherpalo Ventures joined Kleiner in the round — an auspicious pair of investors, since Shiram and Kleiner partner John Doerr … Continue Reading
Kleiner’s Bing Gordon: Social Web due for shake-up, old media will “eat their young”
Is Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ social push coming too late? The venture firm just announced the creation of a $250 million sFund for investing in “social Web” startups, but 2010 seems like the wrong time to be jumping onto that bandwagon.
Kleiner partner Bing Gordon will be leading the fund. In an interview after the firm’s press conference, he acknowledged that many investors think social networking has peaked. That’s not the case, he said. … Continue Reading
Ngmoco aims to be part of a global social mobile gaming company
Neil Young, chief executive of iPhone game maker Ngmoco, said in an interview today that he agreed to sell his company to Japan’s DeNA for $400 million because of a shared vision to build the world’s top social mobile gaming company. DeNA announced the acquisition earlier today.
“We looked at how we wanted to build the biggest mobile games company in the world,” Young said in an interview with VentureBeat today. “We started the company … Continue Reading
Kleiner Perkins' John Doerr: iPad 'will rule the world'
Neil Young, chief executive of iPhone game maker Ngmoco, said in an interview today that he agreed to sell his company to Japan’s DeNA for $400 million because of a shared vision to build the world’s top social mobile gaming company. DeNA announced the acquisition earlier today.
“We looked at how we wanted to build the biggest mobile games company in the world,” Young said in an interview with VentureBeat today. “We started the company … Continue Reading
Alert: Kleiner Perkins announces $100M iFund
Neil Young, chief executive of iPhone game maker Ngmoco, said in an interview today that he agreed to sell his company to Japan’s DeNA for $400 million because of a shared vision to build the world’s top social mobile gaming company. DeNA announced the acquisition earlier today.
“We looked at how we wanted to build the biggest mobile games company in the world,” Young said in an interview with VentureBeat today. “We started the company … Continue Reading
