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• ViVu Pulls in $3M for WebEx, Go2Meeting Killer

  BNET - 2009-10-13

  ViVu said today that it's received $3 million in Series A funding for its virtual video webcast and collaboration platform, pressuring rival offerings such as Citrix's Go2Meeting and and Cisco's WebEx. The round was led by Inventus Capital Partners; Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Quest Ventures and entrepreneur Bill Carrico also participated....

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• Hearst inks chat deal with Meebo

  Strategy Eye - 2008-11-14

  Hearst  is adding instant-messaging IM functions to some of its magazine sites, as part of a partnership with Meebo. The service has already debuted on technical magazine site PopularMechanics.com, registering 30,000 unique users in the first week, according to Hearst data. Meebo's chat rooms will also launch on Hearst's...

  Tags: IM, Hearst Corp., Meebo, Instant Messaging, Business Structures, Internet, Online Communications, Finance, Francesco Canepa, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Hearst Corporation, Sequoia Capital, Time Warner

• Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DFJ Frontier, and Zone Ventures Award $250,000 to NeuroVigil in Fourth Annual DFJ Venture Challenge

  - 2008-05-30

  UC San Diego Startup Bests 16 Teams from 12 Universities in Competition for Seed Funding

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• DFJ Gotham Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson Award $250,000 to Winning Team at Second Annual DFJ East Coast Venture Challenge

  - 2008-05-16

  Cornell's Widetronix Beats 8 Other Teams with New, Longer-lasting Pacemaker Power Supply

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• myShape™ Announces Closing of Series B Round of Funding Led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson

  - 2007-07-16

  myShape Changes the Way Women Shop Online, Giving Women their Own Personal Shop, Where Everything Fits and Flatters

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• Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DFJ Frontier and Zone Ventures Award $250,000 to Winners of Third Annual Venture Challenge

  - 2007-06-04

  Fourteen Teams from Twelve Universities Compete for Start-Up Funding; Stanford Team Prevails

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• Draper Fisher Jurvetson to Hold First East Coast Student Business Plan Competition, Hosted by Columbia Business School

  - 2007-05-16

  To: BUSINESS EDITORSTo: BUSINESS EDITORS

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• Draper Fisher Jurvetson Launches Brazil-Based Affiliate

  - 2007-05-09

  MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Draper Fisher Jurvetson ("DFJ"), a leading international high-technology venture capital firm, announced today that they are opening a Brazil-based Affiliate in partnership with FIR Capital Partners, a pioneering early stage Brazilian venture capital firm.

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• DFJ, Draper Triangle and DFJ Gotham Ventures Host First Annual East Coast Venture Challenge

  - 2007-05-03

  University Entrepreneurs to Compete for $250,000 in Seed Venture Funding NEW YORK -- Leading early-stage venture firms DFJ and its affiliates Draper Triangle and DFJ Gotham today announced the first ever DFJ East Coast Venture Challenge. Entrepreneurs from all eight Ivy League schools, New York University, and Carnegie Mellon...

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• Ripple Secures $5 Million in Series A Financing From Venture Capital Firms Trinity Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson

  - 2007-01-23

  Ripple, a leading developer, distributor and programmer of out-of-home digital networks, announced today that it has secured $5 million in a first round of capital funding from Trinity Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurveston.

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