Article from AboveTheCrowd. This morning, Intuit announcedits agreement to acquire one of Benchmark’s portfolio companies, Demandforce, for $424mm. As with Instagram, Benchmark Capital is the largest institutional investor in Demandforce. Unlike Instagram, which is a consumer application and is extremely well known, Demandforce focuses on local professional businesses and has chosen to keep an intentionally [...]
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SolarCity plans IPO
Posted in Investments, Intellectual capital, Board Of Intellectual Capital, Business models, Economy, IPO news, cleantech, tagged boic, Gerbsman Partners, Merrill Lynch, Solyndra, Tesla Motors, BrightSource Energy, bank of America, First solar inc., SolarCity, U.S. Bankcorp, Clean Edge Inc., BrightSource, SunPower Corp., SunRun Inc. on May 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Article from SFGate. Two weeks ago, solar power plant company BrightSource Energy abruptly canceled plans for an initial public stock offering, convinced that investors currently have little appetite for new solar shares. Now SolarCity Corp. will test that theory. SolarCity on Monday reported plans for its own IPO. The San Mateo company, best known for [...]
SigFig offers to tune up your investment portfolio
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, tagged boic, Gerbsman Partners, Investments, SigFig, Wikinvest on May 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Article from GigaOm. SigFig, a product born from portfolio tracker Wikinvest, is finally launching formally Tuesday, offering to make understanding investments easy. The free service, which has been in beta, allows users to sync all their investments and monitor them in real-time from one dashboard with extensive analysis conducted in the background to help find where [...]
This Startup Just Raised $25 Million To Beat LinkedIn
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Business models, Economy, Entrepreneurship, FaceBook, Investments, LinkedIn, Market research, tagged boic, BranchOut, FaceBook, Gerbsman Partners, HTML5, LinkedIn, Mayfield on April 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Article from SFGate. BranchOut wants to beat LinkedIn at its own game: helping people use their social network to find a job. Today, the company got a lot more backing to help it out. It announced a $25 million Series C round from Mayfield and other investors, bringing its total funding to $49 million in [...]
