Today's Funding: Knewton, TwinStrata, Ushi, Crashlytics and Khosla Ventures ($45M in four deals, $1.05B Fund)
Knewton, the education company, closed a $33M Series D funding round led by Founders Fund.
Knewton
Website: http://www.knewton.com/
Blog: http://www.knewton.com/blog/
Twitter: @knewton
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Knewton
Jose Ferreira, founder and CEO
Twitter: @knewton_jose
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/joseferreira
Founders Fund
Website: http://www.foundersfund.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Founders-Fund/108084692553591
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Cloud storage and backup recover company TwinStrata raised $8M in a Series B funding round led by Avalon Ventures.
TwinStrata
Website: http://www.twinstrata.com/
Blog: http://blog.twinstrata.com/
Twitter: @cloudarray
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/TwinStrata/128036443879280?v=wall
Nicos Vekiarides, CEO
Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/101260782263141373440
Twitter: @nicvek
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/nicos-vekiarides/3/472/457
Avalon Ventures
Website: http://www.avalon-ventures.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Avalon-Ventures/161065593918768
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Ushi, a China-based professional social networking platform, raised $3M from the Gerson Lehrman Group.
Ushi
Website: http://www.ushi.cn/index.jhtml
Gerson Lehrman Group
Website: http://www.glgresearch.com/
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Crashlytics, a crash reporting service for mobile developers raised $1M in seed funding in a round led by Flybridge Capital Partners and Baseline Ventures.
Crashlytics
Website: http://beta.crashlytics.com/
Twitter: @crashlytics
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Crashlytics
Jeff Seibert, founder
Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/107774375448503497158
Twitter: @jeffseibert
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jseibert
Flybridge Capital Partners
Website: http://www.flybridge.com/
Twitter: @flybridgecap
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Flybridge-Ventures/108446665852472
Baseline Ventures
Website: http://baselinev.com/
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Khosla Ventures raised a $1.05B fund, of which half is expected to be invested in clean tech.
Khosla Ventures
Website: http://www.khoslaventures.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Khosla-Ventures/109195142445045
Vinod Khosla
Twitter: @vkhosla