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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

Banks are particularly helpful with raising money from “strategic&# investors, which often means corporate investors such as Intuit, SAP, AMD, Salesforce.com and the like. Venture Financing. Current round: $19.8mm Series B led by Accel with existing investors Floodgate and First Round Capital. TechCrunch.

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I can''t remember if this was the first or second financing, 2007 or 2008, but we''d been out talking to various financial and strategic investors for a few months explaining the story and model. Ain''t lost yet, so I gotta be a winner - Paul Westerberg A number of years ago we were fundraising for betaworks.