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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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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"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.
Lightspeed Venture Partners owns 11.5%.
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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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Rowe Price and Institutional Venture Partners and existing investors Lightspeed Ventures Partners and Amazon.com.
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