Rowe Price and Institutional Venture Partners and existing investors Lightspeed Ventures Partners and Amazon.com.
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Investors in Milpitas, California-based Pliant include Arcturas Capital, Divergent Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Menlo Ventures.
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Investors in Skyfire include Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Verizon Ventures, and Panorama Capital.
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The basic unit of action in FTL, along with lightspeed travel, is ship-to-ship combat.
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These tools easily replicate software and distribute it around the world at lightspeed -- at almost no cost.
Lightspeed Research surveyed 3, 300 people and found that 65% said they had returned to a business after redeeming a daily deal coupon.
Representatives from U.S. Venture Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners, also an investor in the company, could not be immediately reached for comment.
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Breadcrumb is not alone in using these devices to transform the POS. Other apps include LightSpeed by Xsilva Systems, Cashier and Ambur.
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"This isn't exactly a massive backlash, " says Jeremy Liew, a partner with Lightspeed Venture Partners, which has invested in several Facebook application developers.
Other investors include Norwest Venture Partners, which led the round, and existing investors Opus Capital, Walden International, Genesis Partners, Vertex Venture Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
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Lightspeed Venture Partners is anchoring the fund, with investors including Rothenberg Ventures, The Bitcoin Opportunity Fund and Ben Davenport, all of which have invested previously in Bitcoin companies.
Investors: Rick Thompson, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Norwest Venture Partners.
Bitcoin is still at a very early stage, so Lightspeed is looking to encourage innovation in the sector through the fund, says Jeremy Liew, parter at Lightspeed, which has previously invested in two such startups: Opencoin and another that has not been announced.
Lightspeed Venture Partners owns 11.5%.
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And now, with changes to the social landscape occurring at lightspeed, JESS3 presents its third iteration of The Geosocial Universe, charting the latest monthly active user data for various social networks, along with the percentage of users who access each network via mobile devices.
In an article earlier this summer on PandoDaily, titled Celebrities Will Drive the Next Wave of eCommerce, Jeremy Liew, a seasoned e-commerce investor from Lightspeed Venture Partners, argued that the pervasiveness of social media creates an opportunity to take celebrity endorsement from mere brand association to a direct acquisition mechanism.
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