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Startup RightScale Takes $4.5M for the Cloud

Benchmark Capital has invested a neat $4.5 M into the Santa Barbara based startup RightScale which focuses on bringing cloud computing into the enterprise world. CEO Michael Crandell thinks that RightScale more...
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Startup Glassdoor.com Takes In $3 Million Series B

Benchmark Capital has invested $3 Million in Series B funding in Sausalito based startup Glassdoor.com. Interestingly, CEO and Founder Robert Hohman was previously the President of Hotwire.com, and the more...
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Shared database MetaWeb gets $42M funding

MetaWeb is a San Francisco based startup company that has just gotten another round of funding from Benchmark Capital and Goldman Sachs to further its open shared database to share, edit and store the more...
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Benchmark Wagers on Ruby on Rails With $3.5 Million

VC Firm Benchmark Capital is betting heavily on Ruby on Rails with a Series A funding of startup Engine Yard. Ruby on Rails is an increasingly popular Web application programming environment because it more...
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