Dave Duffield’s business app company Workday raises $75M
It looks like the era of humongous funding rounds isn’t completely over. Workday , a startup that provides online software to help companies manage things like human resources and finances, has raised $75 million in a fifth round of funding.
The Pleasanton, Calif. company was co-founded by Dave Duffield back in 2005, after he sold his previous startup, PeopleSoft, to Oracle for $10.3 billion. (Duffield is still the company’s chief executive, and remains the major stakeholder… Continue Reading
Dave Duffield launches back-office software co. Workday with $15M
See our story here. Duffieldand and Greylock Partners invested $15 million into the company in 2005. They plan to kick in an additional $20 million next year, the Merc reports.
Roundup: 37Signals, MetroFi, CaliSolar & Duffield’s taxes…and more
37signals, the jazzy Web 2.0 company, takes funding from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — See the company’s announcement here about why. We last mentioned the company here. The company boasts: Since we launched Basecamp we’ve been contacted by nearly 30 different VC firms. We’ve never been interested in the typical traditional VC deal. With a few exceptions, all the VCs could offer us was cash and connections. We’re fine on both of those fronts. We don’t… Continue Reading