Highland Capital Partners
Summary
Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in seed, early, and growth stage companies in the communications, consumer, digital media, healthcare, and information technology sectors. The firm's partners include: Peter Bell, Sean Dalton, Bob Davis, Richard de Silva, Bob Higgins, John Hsin, Paul Maeder, Fergal Mullen, Corey Mulloy, Dan Nova, Dr. Bijan Salehizadeh, Chuan Thor, and Kuantai Yeh.Founded in 1988, the company is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, and has offices in Menlo Park, California; Geneva, Switzerland; and Shanghai, China.The Highland Consumer Fund was formed by Highland in 2006 to target retail and consumer products and services investment opportunities.
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Closely watched Internet TV startup Aereo raises $38 million
(Reuters) - Aereo, the Internet TV startup backed by the media company run by billionaire Barry Diller, has raised $38 million and will expand to 22 U. S. cities including Chicago, Houston and Miami.
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Aereo Expands Its Market Lineup
Barry Diller's oft-sued startup Aereo isn't just refusing to back down, it's expanding. The broadcast streaming service will hit some 22 new cities in 2013, including Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, Austin, Houston, Washington, D. C. , Baltimore, Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Birmingham and Providence. All are major broadcast markets.
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Digg, Once Worth $164 Million, Sold To Betaworks For $500K
Good news, MySpace: You’ve just been eclipsed as the biggest bust of the social media era.
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A Leap into the future with 3D gestures
It’s an unimpressive-looking black oblong, no bigger than a packet of chewing gum, but Leap Motion’s new gesture-control device, unveiled today, could change the way we interact with computers.
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Celebrity Shopping Service OpenSky Hires Merchandising Exec
OpenSky, the e-commerce company that lets users “follow” celebrities using a Twitter-like system, has hired its first chief merchandising officer. Simon Black joins the New York-based start-up after running merchandising at Eddie Bauer and HSN. OpenSky has raised $49 million from investors including Providence Equity and Highland Capital.
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Game Closure secures $12 million for cross-platform game kit
Game Closure, which makes it possible for mobile game studios to develop and publish across platforms, today announced a Series A financing round of $12 million led by Highland Capital Partners.
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Got Funds? Big Rounds for OpenSky, Zaarly, TagMan and More
ADOTAS – Last night at a charity event hosted by InMobi (more to come), I ran into a lawyer whose firm serves venture capital capital firms with their eyes on advertising tech by drawing up investing contracts and such. As I trudge through all the funding announcements in my inbox this morning, I can’t help but think about the amazing revenue that firm must be seeing.
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6-Month Old Shopping Startup OpenSky scores $30 Million
OpenSky, a social shopping site that lets users follow experts and celebrities who curate products for them, just raised $30 million. Providence Equity Partners led the round and existing investors Highland Capital Partners, Canaan Partners and The Raine Group participated. The startup launched in April and already has 600,000 registered users. Its seeing 50% month over month growth, and 50% of its users are on track to buy 15-18 items per year.
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PepsiCo Picks Ten Startups to Mentor
PepsiCo has named the ten European startups that will make up the PepsiCo10, the company’s program for discovering and supporting emerging technology companies. These startups will work on pilot marketing initiatives with some of PepsiCo's leading brands.
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GameStop Welcomes Scvngrs
One way to lure customers into physical stores is to gamify the real world, which is exactly what GameStop and Coca-Cola are doing with Scvngr and the "Happiness in Numbers" campaign. The companies say it’s the biggest real-life location-based game ever. Challenges are tasks like visiting a GameStop and taking a photo with a favorite game box and a Coke, or getting the high score on one of the in-store game kiosks and taking a picture posing with the game while holding a Coke.
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