Investors in the company include Accel Partners, Amadeus Capital, Atlas Ventures, Balderton Capital and DFJ Esprit.
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After stumbling on a Box.net blog post, DFJ not only adopted the service, they invested in it.
Healthcare and education are two sectors with embedded bureaucracies that need to be disrupted, points out Goldstein of DFJ Gotham.
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By midafternoon DFJ was ready to back what it viewed as a revolutionary way to improve searching on the Web.
Existing investors who joined the round: Blue Chip Venture Company, DFJ, Illinois Ventures, Matthew Pritzker Company, Mercury Fund and RPM Ventures.
DFJ's straight man is John Fisher, 40, who met Draper at Alex.
Draper says DFJ has reorganized to focus on the most creative entrepreneurs.
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The partners nearly showed them the door too, unimpressed with their Web database tools when DFJ asked if they had any other ideas.
While DFJ has not bagged famous prizes like Ebay and Amazon.com, the Redwood City, Calif. firm still has bragging rights in venture circles.
While DFJ has not bagged famous prizes like Ebay and Amazon.com, the Redwood City, California, firm still has bragging rights in venture circles.
Only a handful of venture firms, including Helion Ventures, DFJ, Kleiner Perkins, IDG and NEA IndoUS, remain committed to funding startups in India.
The significant number of non-US companies there really showed that Tim and his partners at DFJ see the growth opportunities to be in emerging markets.
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Arriving at DFJ, she landed her first deal with Troika Networks, a Los Angeles-based data communications company, six months after graduating from Harvard Business School.
To keep its edge, DFJ is franchising its venture model, with affiliates in Virginia, Alaska, Utah, southern California, Colorado, Oregon and Texas and two more on the way.
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Other investors include Siemens Venture Capital and DFJ JAIC.
To keep its edge, DFJ is franchising its venture model with affiliates in Virginia, Alaska, Utah, southern California, Colorado, Oregon and Texas -- and two more are on the way.
In return for advising affiliates, DFJ shares profits and gets access to new deals, like Utah- based EmWare, a Novell spinoff that provides Internet connection for products like vending machines and locks.
Invested in by Storm Ventures, DFJ, NEA, and SAP Ventures, Splashtop is leading the wave of mobility and cloud computing - delivering enhanced productivity and collaboration by bridging users to apps, data and services on any device.
Both Balderton Capital and DFJ Esprit (they also funded Datahug) are using it to get to the heart of who knows who faster, dealflow and to engage with people in markets they want to invest in.
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Ross Goldstein, a co-founder and managing director of DFJ Gotham, points out that the Big Apple has climbed the ranks to become the second-largest venture capital hub in the U.S., unseating Boston and second only to the Bay area now.
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