Confirmed: Zimbra co-founder Dharmaraj to become a VC at Redpoint
Updated with Dharmaraj’s confirmation
Satish Dharmaraj, the co-founder of Yahoo-acquired email company Zimbra, will become a partner at Redpoint Ventures, according to Kara Swisher at BoomTown.
Dharmaraj joined Yahoo in 2007 after selling Zimbra to the ailing Internet giant for $350 million. He left in January of… Continue Reading
Zimbra founder and investor Satish Dharmaraj leaves Yahoo
Satish Dharmaraj, the co-founder of Zimbra and an active angel investor, is leaving Yahoo, Boomtown reports. He’s not saying why — I interrupted him in a meeting when I called to ask — but in the last half a year he’s already put angel funding… Continue Reading
Simple blogging startup Posterous raises $725K
Posterous, a startup that simplifies the blogging process, has raised $725,000 of new angel funding.
The San Francisco company allows you to write and post blog entries any way you choose — through the web site, through email, or via SMS text message. You don’t have… Continue Reading
Zimbra co-founder invests in Dimdim’s open source web meetings
Satish Dharmaraj, the co-founder and chief executive of Yahoo-owned communication company Zimbra, has made a personal investment in web meeting startup Dimdim.
Dharmaraj says he put his money into Dimdim because its technology complements Zimbra’s. Both offer open source software for different aspects of collaboration. Zimbra… Continue Reading
Zimbra’s rocking email service
Updated
Zimbra, the open source messaging software company, has just announced that it has sold four million Zimbra mailboxes, an impressive milestone for the three year old San Mateo company.
Zimbra, you’ll recall, gives you an email platform that implements the latest AJAX majic. It started last… Continue Reading
Microsoft Live — too little, too late
(Editor’s note: Silicon Valley techies have argued before that Microsoft’s days of dominance are numbered, as open source and other cheaper software make headway. Satish Dharmaraj, of open source messaging company Zimbra, writes that Microsoft’s most recent efforts, with Office Live and Windows Live, aren’t… Continue Reading