First Round Capital

Name:	First Round Capital
Industries:	Venture Capital
Headquarters:	100 Four Falls Corporate Center Suite 104 West Conshohocken, PA 19428 United States
Website:
www.firstround.com/

A venture capital firm that specializes in providing seed-stage funding to technology companies.

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BankSimple Secures $2.9 Million: Report

BankSimple raised $2.9 million from its first investment round, VentureBeat reported. First Round Capital, IA Ventures and Village Ventures participated in the financing. BankSimple has not been launched, but CEO Joshua Reich said the company has interest from 20,000 potential users, VentureBeat reported. - read more at Private Equity Hub

tags: 20 Village Ventures

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Bank middle-manager BankSimple raises $2.9M to not be a bank

BankSimple, the not-quite-a-bank provider of front-end services for a number of treasury-focused banks, raised $2.9 million in its first round of funding. First Round Capital, IA Ventures and Village Ventures led the round. Again, BankSimple is not a bank. It's a provider that manages user experiences ... - read more at VentureBeat

tags: Village Ventures

21 hours:

Ambitious Online Banking Alternative Scores $2.9 Million in ...

Banksimple has just raised $2.9 million in a Series A round to fund their ambitious alternative online banking startup for full-service, fee-free banking. The round includes investments from First Round Capital, IA Ventures and Village Ventures, a collection of industry veterans with extensive startup ... - read more at Mashable

tags: technology Village Ventures

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New Survey From Xobni on Email Overload Shows There Is No Such ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Xobni, the creators of a popular Microsoft Outlook add-in that helps people more effectively manage their email and business relationships, today announced the results from an August online survey conducted on its behalf by Harris Interactive (in U.S.) and Opinion ... - read more at RedOrbit

tags: Cisco Systems Harris Interactive Microsoft Salesforce Facebook LinkedIn BlackBerry Twitter technology Khosla Ventures http://xobni.com 20

9/2/10:

TechStars New York

TechStars is coming to New York City. The first program runs from 1/10/11 to 4/8/11. Applications are open now. The NY mentor list is stunning and includes the following: Phin Barnes (First Round Capital), Alex Blum (KickApps), Matt Blumberg (Return Path), Brad Burnham (USV), Jeff Clavier, Dennis Crowley ... - read more at Feld Thoughts

tags: AOL Matt Blumberg David Cohen Howard Morgan Tumblr Boxee Adaptive Blue StockTwits DFJ Gotham Ventures FourSquare Foundry Group Medialets TechStars Village Ventures Founder Collective Vimeo FirstMark Capital RRE Ventures Buddy Media Rent The Runway Alex Iskold David Karp John Maloney Howard Lindzon Dennis Crowley Naveen Selvadurai Phin Barnes Eric Litman Avner Ronen Zach Klein Eric Paley Roger Ehrenberg Mike Lazerow Jennifer Hyman

9/1/10:

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New York City startup BankSimple today disclosed that it raised its first venture funding in a round led by First Round Capital, Roger Ehrenberg's IA Ventures, and Village Ventures, along with seed investors SV Angel (Ron Conway) and Nauiokas Park (Amy Nauiokas and Sean Parker), and . But it did not ... - read more at TechCrunch

tags: TechCrunch technology Village Ventures Roger Ehrenberg

9/1/10:

EXCLUSIVE: Early Twitter Employee Alex Payne's Online Bank Startup, ...

BankSimple, a new type of technology-focused, online-only banking startup cofounded by an early Twitter employee, has just completed a round of venture funding, SAI has learned. First Round Capital's Josh Kopelman, IA Ventures' Roger Ehrenberg, and Village Ventures' Matt Harris led the round, which ... - read more at Silicon Alley Insider

tags: Twitter technology Village Ventures Alex Payne Josh Kopelman Roger Ehrenberg Matt Harris

9/1/10:

TechStars Comes to the Big Apple

In what's bound to be a boost for an already thriving tech startup scene, the Boulder-based incubator TechStars announced today that it is opening a program in a new location, New York City. This will be the fourth city into which the program has expanded, joining Boulder, Seattle, and Boston. TechStars ... - read more at ReadWriteWeb

tags: Apple Foursquare TechStars Founder Collective Fred Wilson

9/1/10:

TechStars Loves NY!

This morning we announced that TechStars is opening it's 4th (and final) program in New York. As readers of this blog know, I'm a huge fan and supporter of TechStars (and, along with my Foundry partners, an individual investor each of the TechStars programs in Boulder, Boston, Seattle and now New York ... - read more at Seth Levine's VC Adventure

tags: David Cohen Tumblr Boxee DFJ StockTwits Medialets TechStars Village Ventures Fred Wilson Roger Ehrenberg

9/1/10:

Startup Accelerator TechStars Is Coming To New York City

TechStars, one of the best known and most successful startup accelerator programs, is expanding to New York City. Applications are now open for its inaugural NYC class, which will start in January. TechStars founder and CEO David Cohen is temporarily relocating to the city to oversee the innaugural ... - read more at Silicon Alley Insider

tags: CEO David Cohen Union Square Ventures DFJ TechStars FirstMark Capital Fred Wilson Albert Wenger

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