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StrikeAd announces £2m financing from DFJ Esprit12 Jan 2012
London, UK – January 11th, 2012 – StrikeAd, the London and New York based mobile advertising specialists, today announced it has secured £2m second round investment from venture capital firm DFJ Esprit. The investment, which follows first round finance from Germany-based venture capital firm eValue announced in February 2011,... [read more]
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CloudApps Sustainability Suite wins global recognition from Greenbang
25 Nov 2011
LONDON – November 25th, 2011– CloudApps, the enterprise application leader in sustainability, today announced it has won the Greenbang 2011 Efficiency Award in the Cloud Computing category. The Greenbang awards celebrate the most forward thinking, innovative businesses whose projects are designed to create a sustainable business future.... [read more]
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Cambridge Consultants spins out Aveillant to get wind farms turning
25 Oct 2011
New radar company is backed by Cambridge Consultants, DFJ Esprit and the Wind Energy Industry. Cambridge, UK – Cambridge Consultants, creator of a stable of successful high-tech start-ups, today announced the spin out of Aveillant with venture investment from DFJ Esprit and AIFCL, the wind industry fund. Aveillant’s technology will remove... [read more]
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DisplayLink Closes Series D Funding28 Sep 2011
PALO ALTO, Calif. and CAMBRIDGE, UK, September 28, 2011 – DisplayLink Inc., the leading provider of solutions that simplify the connection between monitors and computers using USB, has announced that it has closed a $15m Series D funding round. The new equity financing was led by incoming investor Cipio... [read more]
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DFJ Esprit wins Venture Capital Fund of the Year
23 Sep 2011
London, September 23, 2011: DFJ Esprit has won Venture Capital Fund of the Year at last night’s Investor Allstars Awards, ‘The Oscars’ of the VC community. The Venture Capital Fund of the Year award is for professional excellence and is open to all European venture capital firms and corporate venture... [read more]
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Horizon Discovery Announces £11.3m Fundraising15 Sep 2011
Senior Management Team and Board of Directors Strengthened with Key Appointments. Cambridge, UK, 15 September 2011: Horizon Discovery (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines, has announced that it has completed a second closing of its Series C funding round, realizing a cumulative... [read more]
Latest DFJ Network blogs
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No dead trees
Since the beginning of the year I have been running an experiment to see if I can consume all my print me... [read more]
Nic Brisbourne, February 3rd 2012
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Google Solve for X Retreat [Flickr]
jurvetson posted a photo: Each of us had to come up with an >X< — a big hairy topic that nee... [read more]
Steve Jurvetson, February 2nd 2012
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The shift to digital is shrinking the P&L at Netflix and Amazon
When they released fourth quarter earnings data last week Netflix broke out their streaming and DVD busin... [read more]
Nic Brisbourne, February 2nd 2012
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Solar Flair [Flickr]
jurvetson posted a photo: heading off to a Google retreat... wonder what's running through their min... [read more]
Steve Jurvetson, February 2nd 2012
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