Caliber was owned by a Minneapolis-based private-equity shop, Norwest Equity Partners, since last January.
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Based in Menlo Park, California, The Dealmap had funding from Norwest Venture Partners and Keynote Ventures.
Founded in 2006, 3jam raised venture funding from New Enterprise Associates and Norwest Venture Partners.
Several others, including Accel and Norwest Venture Partners, have gravitated to funding both emerging and startup companies.
Redpoint Ventures led the round and existing investors Accel Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, and Floodgate Fund also participated.
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Two other explorers on the west coast, AWE and Norwest Energy last week reported successful flows of gas from a test well.
It was a theme he launched at Norwest in Minneapolis, and he continued it when Norwest acquired Wells Fargo and took its name.
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Although Wells has escaped Mr Grundhofer's embrace and is in theory an equal partner with Norwest, Norwest is clearly in the driving seat.
Promod Haque (62) of Norwest Venture Partners is targeting India (see FORBES, Sept. 5), hooking up with big local partners to form Yatra Online.
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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Investors: Rick Thompson, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Norwest Venture Partners.
Funded by Sequoia, Norwest, Foundation Capital and others, the company offers an application that people can download to their personal devices, and create a secured area for business stuff.
In October, Dell hired veteran Silicon Valley venture capitalist Jim Lussier, formerly with Norwest Venture Partners, to lead its venture-investing operation, which is expected to operate out of Santa Clara.
Mark this down as a big loss for Norwest.
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Existing investors DCM and Norwest Venture Partners also participated.
Tim Chang is leading the deal for Mayfield in a reuniting of sorts: Chang previously invested in the company when he was at Norwest Venture Partners and also helped form the founding team.
It was a coup for Wells Fargo Chairman and former Chief Executive Richard Kovacevich, a shrewd deal maker whose last major transaction was the 1998 merger of his company, Norwest, with Wells Fargo.
Dell Ventures managing director Jim Lussier, formerly of Norwest Venture Partners, has this to say about the venture arm of the Round Rock, Texas-based company and its storage ambitions in a blog post today.
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By contrast, Norwest, which aggressively pushes traditional retail products, such as mortgages and consumer loans, through a huge network of non-bank offices as well as bank branches, has a markedly different culture from Wells Fargo's.
In another major development for the city, the British property company MEPC Plc announced it had formed a joint venture with Norwest Holst to construct and maintain a new square and road linking Cardiff city centre and Cardiff Bay waterfront.
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