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Highland Capital Partners

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Founded in 1988, Highland Capital Partners is a global venture capital firm focused on putting the entrepreneur first. With offices in Silicon Valley, Boston and Shanghai, Highland has raised over $3 billion in committed capital and invested in more than 225 companies, resulting in category-defining businesses across consumer and enterprise technology. Investments include 2U, Ask Jeeves, Bromium, Calxeda, Leap Motion, LevelUp, Lycos, MapQuest, Nebula, QD Vision, Qihoo 360, Quattro Wireless, RentJuice, Rent the Runway, Starent Networks, Sybase, Violin Memory, VistaPrint and WePay. Highland also serves as a mentor for future entrepreneurs through Summer@Highland, a program that provides students and university-affiliated startups with the environment and resources to take their initiative to the next level. For more information, visit www.hcp.com.

Recent Milestones

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  Highland Capital Partners invested in Ink File Picker. (6/18/13)
  Posted 6/18/13 at 9:34am via techcrunch.com
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  Highland Capital Partners invested in Disconnect. (6/17/13)
  Posted 6/17/13 at 9:11am via techcrunch.com
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  Highland Capital Partners invested in Dailybreak. (6/11/13)
  Posted 6/11/13 at 11:10pm via bizjournals.com
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  Highland Capital Partners invested in Privalia. (5/14/13)
  Posted 5/14/13 at 9:22pm via finsmes.com
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  Highland Capital Partners invested in Aviate. (5/11/13)
  Posted 5/11/13 at 4:49am via techcrunch.com
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  Highland Capital Partners invested in QD Vision. (3/29/13)
  Posted 3/31/13 at 4:56pm via freshnews.com
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  Highland Capital Partners invested in Indochino. (3/20/13)
  Posted 3/25/13 at 8:05pm via techcrunch.com
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  Highland Capital Partners invested in BAROnova. (2/15/13)
  Posted 2/16/13 at 12:54am via prnewswire.com
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  Highland Capital Partners invested in Infinio. (2/12/13)
  Posted 2/12/13 at 8:37am via techcrunch.com
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  Highland Capital Partners invested in NewVoiceMedia. (1/29/13)
  Posted 1/29/13 at 6:39pm via techcrunch.com
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  Highland Capital Partners invested in vArmour Networks. (1/15/13)
  Posted 1/15/13 at 8:25pm via finsmes.com
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  Highland Capital Partners invested in Aereo. (1/8/13)
  Posted 1/8/13 at 6:17pm via techcrunch.com
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  Highland Capital Partners invested in GetYourGuide. (1/7/13)
  Posted 1/7/13 at 3:18pm via techcrunch.com
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  Highland Capital Partners invested in Leap Motion. (1/3/13)
  Posted 1/3/13 at 6:20pm via techcrunch.com
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  Highland Capital Partners invested in Kyruus. (1/2/13)
  Posted 1/2/13 at 6:52pm via kyruus.com
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  Highland Capital Partners invested in Rent the Runway. (11/30/12)
  Posted 11/30/12 at 6:49pm via venturebeat.com

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1. Highland Capital launches $300M consumer VC fund (venturebeat.com) [edit]
2. Highland Capital Partners (hcp.com) [edit]
Highland Capital Partners Names Laurence Garrett as General Partner (hcp.com) [edit]
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3. YC-Backed Filepicker.io Rebrands As Ink, Raises $1.8M From Andreessen Horowitz, Highland Capital & Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Disconnect, An Ex-Googler’s Social Enterprise/Privacy Startup, Raises $3.5M, Extends To More Browsers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Dailybreak adds $2M for engagement marketing expansion (bizjournals.com) [edit]
6. Privalia Closed €25M Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
7. Highland Capital, Andreessen Horowitz & Others Put $1.8M Into Aviate, An Intelligent Homescreen For Android (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. QD Vision Secures $20 Million to Ramp Production of Color IQ™ Optical Components (freshnews.com) [edit]
9. Indochino Raises $13.5M Series B Led By Highland Consumer Fund, Launches New Line (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. BAROnova® Secures $27.3M Investment To Fund Clinical Trial For Weight-loss Device (prnewswire.com) [edit]
11. Virtual Storage Performance Company Infinio Raises $10M From Highland Capital And Bessemer Venture Partners (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. NewVoiceMedia Takes $20M Led By Highland Capital, MMC To Build Contact Centers In The Clouds (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. vArmour Networks Raises $6M in Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
14. Aereo Raises $38 Million Series B, Plans To Bring Its Streaming TV Service To 22 New Markets (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. Online Holiday Events Booking Platform GetYourGuide Raises $14M Series A To Internationalize Content, Zero In On Mobile (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. Leap Motion Raises $30M More For Its Gesture-Based Controller, Announces Bundling Deal With Asus (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. Kyruus Raises $11M Series B to Accelerate the Rapid Growth of its Physician Network Management Solutions (kyruus.com) [edit]
18. Fashion fairy godmother Rent the Runway raises $20M for Cinderella moments (venturebeat.com) [edit]
19. Qumulo raises $24.5 million (bizjournals.com) [edit]
20. Online Shoe Retailer Spartoo Marches On With €25 Million Series C, Led By Sofina, To Bolster European Growth (techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. Crowdsource nabs $12.5M to bring scalable labor to the enterprise (venturebeat.com) [edit]
22. Handybook Secures $2M From Highland Capital Partners And General Catalyst For Its ‘Uber For The Home’ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
23. Calxeda Raises $55 Million For ARM-Based, Low-Powered Server Chips (techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. Kids’ Clothing Service thredUP Raises $14.5M Series C, Plans Expansion Into Teen & Adult Apparel (techcrunch.com) [edit]
25. CENX Receives Equity Investment from Ericsson (finsmes.com) [edit]
26. Nebula Raises $25M From Comcast, Kleiner Perkins To Help Companies Deploy On-Premise, Private Clouds (techcrunch.com) [edit]
27. Predilytics Raises $6 Million to Pursue Healthcare Analytics (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
28. Cybersecurity: Bit9 Gets $34.5M From Sequoia, Others For Its Whitelist Approach To Fighting Attacks (techcrunch.com) [edit]
29. CampusLive Rebrands as Dailybreak, With $5 Million In New Funding And A New CEO (techcrunch.com) [edit]
30. Bromium Raises $26.5M For Security Through Micro-Virtualization (techcrunch.com) [edit]
31. Heartland Robotics changes name, lands $30M (masshightech.com) [edit]
32. Summer@Highland Accepts Latest Batch Of Student Startups (forbes.com) [edit]
33. LevelUp Grabs $12M From Highland, Google Ventures To Take Its Mobile Payment Solution National (techcrunch.com) [edit]
34. Custom Jewelry Startup Gemvara Raises $25M In Oversubscribed Series D Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
35. Summer@Highland Accepts Latest Batch Of Student Startups (forbes.com) [edit]
36. Leap Motion Raises $12.75 Million, Wants To Change “The Future Of Human/Computer Interaction” (techcrunch.com) [edit]
37. WePay Raises $10 Million To Scale Its Online Payment Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
38. DAVIDsTEA Receives CAD$14M Minority Investment Led by the Highland Consumer Fund (finsmes.com) [edit]
39. 2tor brings prestigious university degrees online, raises $26M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
40. Violin Memory raises $50M round at $800M-plus valuation (venturebeat.com) [edit]
41. OpGen to Receive up to $17M in Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
42. Disconnect, An Ex-Googler’s Social Enterprise/Privacy Startup, Raises $3.5M, Extends To More Browsers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
43. Game Closure raises $12M for HTML5 cross-platform games (venturebeat.com) [edit]
44. Aereo Raises $20.5M in Series A Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
45. MICHAEL MATHIEU JOINS AFFINE AS CEO AND CHAIRMAN; ANDY MILLER ADDED TO COMPANY’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS; COMPANY CLOSES $5M EQUITY FINANCING (affine.tv) [edit]
46. Trupanion Raises $9M (finsmes.com) [edit]
47. VMTurbo Closes $10M in Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
48. Impermium Secures $8 Million in Series-A Financing to Lead Fight Against Social Web Spam (freshnews.com) [edit]
49. Beyond the Rack Closes $36.6M Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
50. DFINE Closes $25M Equity Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
51. Stealth startup Iddiction gets $3.5M to help apps get discovered (gigaom.com) [edit]
52. GoodRx Grabs $1M+ From SV Angel, Founders Fund & More To Help You Find Cheap Prescription Drugs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
53. OpenSky Secures $30 Million Funding (prnewswire.com) [edit]
54. BetterLesson Grabs $1.6 Million To Let Educators Find And Share The Best Lesson Plans (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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56. Zoove Raises $15 Million, Offers ‘StarStar’ Vanity Phone Numbers For Brands (techcrunch.com) [edit]
57. Daily Deal Aggregator Yipit Raises $6 Million Series B (techcrunch.com) [edit]
58. Kyruus Closes $5.5M in Series A Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
59. Scoop: European Social Games Phenomenon wooga Raises $24 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
60. QD Vision scores $22M financing round for expansion (masshightech.com) [edit]
61. Shortform Video Platform VYou Reels In $3M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
62. session M Raises $6.5M in Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
63. Highland Capital Partners announces ten collegiate start-up teams participating in 2011 'Summer@Highland' program (boston.com) [edit]
64. PerkStreet pulls down another $9M in Series B cash (masshightech.com) [edit]
65. Bamboom Labs Seals $4.5M Seed Round (pehub.com) [edit]
66. Bamboom Labs raises $4.5M for live TV over the Web (venturebeat.com) [edit]
67. CampusLive Nabs $3M (xconomy.com) [edit]
68. Affine raises $5M in 2nd round (bizjournals.com) [edit]
69. Movik Networks Secures $25 Million Funding (freshnews.com) [edit]
70. 2tor Raises $32.5 Million Series C To Make Online Education Great (techcrunch.com) [edit]
71. Privalia raises €88 million, buys German online fashion retailer Dress for Less (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
72. Real Estate Community RentJuice Gets $6.2 Million From Tim Draper And Highland Capital (techcrunch.com) [edit]
73. Paper.li Raises $2.1 Million For Social News Curation, Hits 2 Million Users (techcrunch.com) [edit]
74. Paper.li Raises $2.1 Million To Open Operations In The U.S. And Asia (paidcontent.org) [edit]
75. SCVNGR Raises $15 Million At $100MM Valuation (techcrunch.com) [edit]
76. Movik raises $3M in apparent bridge loan (masshightech.com) [edit]
77. Heartland Robotics Raises $20 Million in Series B Financing (marketwire.com) [edit]
78. Pixable raises $2.5M to fund a wave of cool photo apps (venturebeat.com) [edit]
79. OpGen Completes $17 Million Series B Financing (opgen.com) [edit]
80. IPierian Announces Second Close Of Series B Financing At $28M (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
81. Complete Genomics, Inc. Announces Completion of $39 Million Series E Financing (completegenomics.com) [edit]
82. Green chip start-up gets $48 million in funding (news.cnet.com) [edit]
83. WePay Raises $7.5 Million For Hassle-Free Group Payments Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
84. BÂRRX Medical, Inc. Completes $15 Million Growth Financing (barrx.com) [edit]
85. Flash Sales Site Beyond The Rack Raises $12 Million To Take On Gilt (techcrunch.com) [edit]
86. Tatara Systems Announces $7 Million Financing (tatarasystems.com) [edit]
87. Predictive Biosciences, Inc.: Series C $25M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
88. picoChip passes million chip milestone and secures $20M equity funding (picochip.com) [edit]
89. Metacafe lands $5 million for curated movie site (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
90. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
91. Gemvara Raises $5.2 Million For Custom Jewelry Shopping Online (techcrunch.com) [edit]
92. Citation Needed [add]
93. Virtual Desktop Company MokaFive Raises $21M From Khosla Ventures And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
94. RethinkDB Raises $1.2 Million For Its Database For Solid-State Drives (techcrunch.com) [edit]
95. Autoquake Gets Another £6m Investment From Its Backers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
96. Autoquake.com secures additional £6m investment (sourcewire.com) [edit]
97. Rent The Runway Raises $15 Million For The Netflix For Couture (techcrunch.com) [edit]
98. 2tor Raises $20 Million Series B To Go After The High End Of Online Education, SEC (techcrunch.com) [edit]
99. Gigamon, SEC (gigamon.com) [edit]
100. TechCrunch [edit]
101. Geo-Gamer Scvngr Tracks Down $4M From Google Ventures, Highland (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
102. Syntropharma Collects Follow-On Funding For Transdermal Patch (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
103. QD Vision Raises $10 Million in Financing to Deliver Energy-Efficient, Cost-Effective Lighting and Display Technologies, SEC (freshnews.com) [edit]
104. ExaGrid stores away $16M in fifth funding round (masshightech.com) [edit]
105. Movik moves into latest round with $8.5M (masshightech.com) [edit]
106. cellular-news (cellular-news.com) [edit]
107. InXpo raises $9M for virtual events business expansion (digital.venturebeat.com) [edit]
108. Zoove Raises $13 Million in Third Round of Financing (hcp.com) [edit]
109. Pervasis Therapeutics Announces $17 Million in Financing and New Board Member (news.prnewswire.com) [edit]
110. Complete Genomics bags $45M round for sequencing (fiercebiotech.com) [edit]
111. NetentSec Receives US$3M in Second-round Investment (zero2ipo.com.cn) [edit]
112. BioSyntech Announces $4.5 Million Financing (biosyntech.com) [edit]
113. SCVNGR Lets You Build Awesome Scavenger Hunts For Any Mobile Phone (techcrunch.com) [edit]
114. FanSnap Raises Another $5.2 Million For Its ‘Kayak For Event Tickets’ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
115. iZumi Bio and Pierian Merge to Form iPierian to Advance Cellular Reprogramming (biocetera.com) [edit]
116. Hyperion lands $60M VC round (fiercebiotech.com) [edit]
117. Hangout Industries handed $4M in funding (masshightech.com) [edit]
118. Stylefeeder Raises $500K (xconomy.com) [edit]
119. Edgar Report (sec.gov) [edit]
120. Glasses Direct Raises £10 Million of Financing (hcp.com) [edit]
121. iZumi Bio Raises $20 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
122. Accel backs online car retailer Autoquake (telegraph.co.uk) [edit]
123. CVCA (cvca.com.cn) [edit]
124. Quattro Wireless Raises $10 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
125. Ocarina Networks Secures $20 Million in Series B Financing to Grow Leadership in Thriving Online Storage Optimization Market (marketwatch.com) [edit]
126. Virtual Computer raises $15 million and makes a new friend in the industry (weblog.infoworld.com) [edit]
127. Highland Capital Partners Takes the Lead in Investing US$10M in VIVA; Chuan Thor Aims at Mobile Rich Media (zero2ipo.com.cn) [edit]
128. StreamBase Closes $6M Series D (xconomy.com) [edit]
129. Highland Capital (bostinnovation.com) [edit]
130. ExaGrid Systems Obtains $12,000,000 Series D Funding Round (xconomy.com) [edit]
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132. Baronova secures $7.5 million in Series B funding (alacrastore.com) [edit]
133. press release (techcrunch.com) []
134. Paragon Lake Raises $5.8 Million To Help You Make Custom Jewelry (techcrunch.com) [edit]
135. $26M earmarked for expansion (recruitingfly.com) [edit]
136. Capital Funding Report [edit]
137. CHiL Semiconductor Raises $16.7 Million To Expand Sales and Operations WorldWide (chilsemi.com) [edit]
138. EDGAR [edit]
139. Turbine Finishes $40M Investment Round (virtualworldsnews.com) [edit]
140. Imprivata Says Open Sesame to $15M Third Round (xconomy.com) [edit]
141. Online retailer Autoquake raises £6m to fund international expansion (autoindustry.co.uk) [edit]
142. Pharmaca raises $20M for expansion (bizjournals.com) [edit]
143. cafemom.com [edit]
144. Mass High Tech (masshightech.com) [edit]
145. Pervasis Therapeutics Closes Additional $9.75 Million in Financing (pervasistx.com) [edit]
146. Shopping Engine StyleFeeder Completes $2 Million First Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
147. EDGAR [edit]
148. ExaGrid pulls in millions in Series C round (masshightech.com) [edit]
149. Virtual Iron gets $13 million in new financial round, outlines new strategy (virtualization.info) [edit]
150. Bit9 Raises $10 Million in Third Round of Venture Funding. (prweb.com) [edit]
151. Casero Secures $5.8 Million as Rembrandt Venture Partners Joins Existing Investors in Series B Funding (casero.com) [edit]
152. OpGen Announces $23.6 Million Series A Financing (opgen.com) [edit]
153. hcp.com [edit]
154. Hyperion Therapeutics raises $40M against GI and kidney disease (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
155. Citation Needed [add]
156. cafemom.com [edit]
157. home.businesswire.com [edit]
158. StreamBase Announces Complex Event Processing (CEP) Expansion Strategy (streambase.com) [edit]
159. Desktone Secures $17 Million in Venture Funding (desktone.com) [edit]
160. Photoways Raises €10 Million to Accelerate Growth (harborvest.com) [edit]
161. MOKA5â„¢ RAMPS UP WITH FUNDING AND NEW CEO (moka5.com) [edit]
162. translate.google.com [edit]
163. Citation Needed [add]
164. picoChip closes growth round funding of $27 million (picochip.com) [edit]
165. Tatara Systems (tatarasystems.com) [edit]
166. Tatara Systems Raises $8 Million to Fuel Growth in Rapidly Emerging Femtocell Market (tatarasystems.com) [edit]
167. EDGAR [edit]
168. thealarmclock.com [edit]
169. EDGAR [edit]
170. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
171. UUSee – the YouTube Killer – gets more funding – $23 million worth (centernetworks.com) [edit]
172. Hangout Industries handed $4M in funding (masshightech.com) [edit]
173. Vertica Systems Raises $23.5 Million in Financing. (redorbit.com) [edit]
174. BlueTarp Financial Builds for Future Growth with $18.5 Million in Venture Financing: Trinity Ventures Joins Existing Investors Highland Capital Partners, IDG Ventures and Village Ventures to Lead Series B Round (prweb.com) [edit]
175. MokaFive snags $5M for virtualization software (venturebeat.com) [edit]
176. Codon Devices Secures $20 Million in Series B Financing (findarticles.com) [edit]
177. Syntropharma Secures Funding (growthbusiness.co.uk) [edit]
178. Solstice Neurosciences Raises $85 Million in Private Financing (solsticeneuro.com) [edit]
179. Qihoo raises $25M for new Web 2.0 search engine (venturebeat.com) [edit]
180. Top10 Media Completes $3.5 Million in Funding (hcp.com) [edit]
181. EDGAR [edit]
182. EDGAR [edit]
183. RadioSpire Networks raises $9M (bizjournals.com) [edit]
184. ANDA Networks Announces Additional $10.5 Million of Expansion Equity Investment Capital (andanetworks.com) [edit]
185. Bit9 Raises $9.8 Million in Second Round of Venture Funding (bit9.com) [edit]
186. PA Semi heads to 16 cores on back of $50m boost (theregister.co.uk) [edit]
187. Coremetrics Gets Big In Web Analytics (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
188. EDGAR [edit]
189. Vertica Systems Raises $23.5 Million in Financing (redorbit.com) [edit]
190. EDGAR [edit]
191. EDGAR [edit]
192. EDGAR [edit]
193. EDGAR [edit]
194. Bit9, Inc. Officially Launches Parity Application Control Solution; Announces Funding, Executive Team, and Board of Directors (bit9.com) [edit]
195. EDGAR [edit]
196. EDGAR [edit]
197. translate.google.com [edit]
198. Innovative Silicon Secures $16M in Series B Funding (findarticles.com) [edit]
199. Tatara Systems (tatarasystems.com) [edit]
200. Tatara Systems (tatarasystems.com) [edit]
201. findarticles.com [edit]
202. EDGAR [edit]
203. EDGAR [edit]
204. ExaGrid Systems Secures $13.5 Million in Series B Funding; Supports Sales and Marketing Expansion; Brings Total Funding to More Than $20 Million. (thefreelibrary.com) [edit]
205. SmartLink Radio Networks Announces $15M in Series B Financing Led by Key Venture Partners. (thefreelibrary.com) [edit]
206. EDGAR [edit]
207. canadait.ca [edit]
208. Jones Day - Experience - Auriga Partners invest in Innovative Silicon (jonesday.com) [edit]
209. searchenginejournal.com [edit]
210. Tatara Systems (tatarasystems.com) [edit]
211. Tatara Systems (tatarasystems.com) [edit]
212. Citation Needed [add]
213. press release (navic.tv) [edit]
214. press release (navic.tv) [edit]
215. Citation Needed [add]
216. internetnews.com [edit]