Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Founding Date: 2004. Mobile Usage: 8% of 2010 query volume (mobile app download growth of 344% YoY). round closed in June 2004. 1.65M extension round closed Nov 2004. Kayak Software Corporation. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. Headquarters: Norwalk, CT & Concord, MA.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2010

Hopefully you haven’t heard of them before… Jivy Group - a mini-conglomerate of companies founded in 2004. It’s currently available on Windows only – the mobile version is on its way. Fribiz , a syndicated virtual currency platform launched this week.

South Africa 89

South Africa Product Incubator 89

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). conference happened at the end of 2004). Coordinates Recent Posts The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] 11 July 2012, 1:57 pm Our Investment in Cloze 25 June 2012, 5:36 pm Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That’s Never Happened 12 June 2012, 4:19 pm.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). It was filed in 2005 and issued in 2010 which means there was a good deal of prior art around SNS before Yahoo filed.

IP 100

IP IPO Social Network Silicon Valley 100

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. For example, search for investors who are interested in mobile and also are willing to invest in Austin, Texas. Today in Mobile. Mobile Lists. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @joshuabaer. You’ll find 590 of them!

Social Media 80

Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. They don’t even run ads in the FB mobile apps.

IPO 100

IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery.

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100