According to Comscore, activity on smartphones and tablets now absorbs 60 percent of our digital media time, driven predominately by apps. Yet, for the most part, anyone hungry to know how — and how often — those apps are used has been left in the dark. Onavo, an app analytics company, was widely seen as providing […]
Institutional Venture Partners
Eric Liaw Means Business
Eric Liaw of Institutional Venture Partners has been at the center of two of this week’s biggest deals, both of which happen to be in L.A. On behalf of IVP, Liaw led a $63 million investment in the jobs aggregation platform ZipRecruiter. Liaw is also on the board of The Honest Company, the maker of eco-friendly baby […]
This Four-Year-Old Internet Startup Just Landed $63 Million in Series A Funding
You probably haven’t heard yet of four-year-old ZipRecruiter, a profitable, L.A.-based online hiring platform for small and medium-size businesses. In recent months, though, plenty of growth-stage equity firms were kicking its tires and hoping the company might bring them aboard as investors. In the end, its four cofounders agreed to a $63 million round led by […]
That’s It?
Almost a week ago, some odious years-old emails written by Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel were leaked to the media, and it’s a wonder how quickly their content seems to be have been swept under the rug. It’s understandable, to a point. Spiegel’s emails were written when he was a college student trying to impress his […]
Dropcam, the $50M Startup That Should Keep ADT Awake at Night
Dropcam is watching you. To date, the four-year-old startup has raised $47.8 million for its HD wireless home-monitoring cameras that allow consumers to watch the kids from the office, glimpse which neighbor isn’t picking up after his dog, or catch break-ins. Greg Duffy, Dropcam’s 26-year-old cofounder and CEO, won’t disclose how many of the company’s […]