Today's Funding: Codecademy, Hyperink, 4INFO, Redfin, Facebook and Prysm (6 Deals, $132.8M)
Computer programming learning service Codecademy raised $2.5M in a funding round led by Union Square Ventures. Other investors include O'Reilly AlphaTech, Thrive Capital, SV Angel, Yuri Milner, Chamath Palihapitiya, Chris Dixon, CrunchFund, Craig Shapiro, Joshua Schacter, Vivi Nevo, Dave Morin, Sam Altman, Ruchi Sanghvi, Aditya Agarwal, and Naval Ravikant.
Codecademy
Website: http://www.codecademy.com
Twitter: @codecademy
Zach Sims, co-founder
Twitter: @zsims
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/zacharysims
Ryan Bubinski, co-founder
Twitter: @ryanbubinski
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanbubinski
Union Square Ventures
Website: http://www.usv.com/
O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures
Website: http://oatv.com/
Thrive Capital
Website: http://www.thrivecap.com/
SV Angel
Twitter: @svangel
Website: www.svangel.com
Yuri Milner, President at DST Global
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/yuri-milner/10/b59/3b2
Chamath Palihapitiya, Founding+Manager at The Social+Capital Partnership
Twitter: @chamath
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chamath
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Hyperink
Twitter: @hyperink
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Hyperink
Website: http://www.hyperink.com/
Matt Lee, co-founder
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattjlee
Kevin Goa, co-founder
Twitter: @Kgao
Andreessen Horowitz
Website: http://a16z.com/
Blog: http://a16z.com/resource-library/
Twitter: @a16z
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/andreessenhorowitz/
Y Combinator
Website: http://ycombinator.com/
Blog: http://ycombinator.posterous.com/
SV Angel
Twitter: @svangel
Website: www.svangel.com
Lerer ventures
Twitter: @lererventures
Website: http://www.lererventures.com/
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Mobile advertising company 4INFO raised $14M in a funding round led by Paul G. Allen's Vulcan Capital. Other investors include Mitsui Global Investment and U.S. Venture Partners.
4INFO
Twitter: @4INFO
Website: www.4info.com
Zaw Thet, CEO
Twitter: @zawthet http://twitter.com/#!/zawthet
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/zawthet
Website: http://www.zawthet.com/
Paul G. Allen's Vulcan Capital
Website: http://capital.vulcan.com/AboutVulcanCapital/PaulGAllen.html
Mitsui Global Investment
Website: http://www.mitsui-global.com/en/
U.S. Venture Partners
Website: http://www.usvp.com/html_vers/
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Redfin, an online real estate startup, raised $14.8M in a funding round led by Globespan Capital Partners, with participation from previous investors.
Redfin
Blog: http://blog.redfin.com/
Website: www.redfin.com
Glenn Kelman, President and CEO
Twitter: @glennkelman
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/glennkelman
Globespan Capital Partners
Website: http://www.globespancapital.com/
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Online peer-to-peer investment service MicroVentures raised a $300K fund to invest in Facebook from 30 investors.
MicroVentures
Blog: http://www.microventures.com/blog
Website: http://www.microventures.com/
William Clark, CEO
Twitter: @austinbillc
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/billclark1
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Prysm raised $100M in equity funding from Partech International and Artiman Ventures to go towards production of laser phosphor displays.
Prysm
Website: http://www.prysm.com/
Amit Jain, President, CEO and co-founder
Profile: http://spudnikinc.com/about/our-team-members/amit-jain
Roger Hajjar, CTO and co-founder
Profile: http://spudnikinc.com/about/our-team-members/roger-hajjar-phd
Partech International
Website: http://partechvc.com/
Artiman Ventures
Website: http://www.artimanventures.com/