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• Going.com gets it going with $5 million

  Published: July 26, 2007, 9:23 am

  Tags: Facebook, General Catalyst, Generalcatalyst, Going Com, Goog, Highland Capital, Msft, Myspace, Yhoo

  The investors include General Catalyst and Highland Capital. So far, Going.com covers NY, Boston, San Francisco, and Chicago. It has about 500,000 registered users. Compared to biggies like Facebook and MySpace, Going.com is still small-time stuff. But with the infusion of capital, I suspect that won't be the case for long. I certainly

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• General Catalyst Raises $715 Million For Two Funds

  Published: October 26, 2007, 2:48 pm

  Tags: News Briefs, Deals, General Catalyst, Private Equity

  deals, General Catalyst Robert Buderi wrote: Cambridge-based venture firm General Catalyst Partners has raised two new funds totaling $715 million, PE Week Wire reports today, citing regulatory filings. The funds, General Catalyst Group V and General Catalyst Group V Supplemental, were culled from 77 investors, according to the

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• Headhunter's Weapon Snares $26 Million

  Published: June 11, 2008, 2:13 pm

  Tags: Boston, Boston Blog Main, Recruiting, Software, Financing, Deals, Fast Company, Highland Capital Partners, General Catalyst, General Catalyst Partners

  Capital Partners and General Catalyst Partners. Bullhorn was founded in 1999 and launched is first product two years later. Since then the privately owned company has grown rapidly and counts around 130 employees today. Until today the company had raised a total of $8.4 million, which means that its growth has been largely self-financed,

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• Elementary, My Dear Video: Elemental Technologies Raises $7.1 Million, Goes After Media Conversion Market

  Published: July 17, 2008, 5:11 pm

  Tags: Boston Blog Main, National Blog Main, Seattle, Seattle Blog Main, Internet Video, Deals, Funding, Financing, Venture Capital, Digital Media, Video Conversion, Encoding, Elemental Technologies, General Catalyst, Voyager Capital

  by Cambridge, MA-based General Catalyst Partners, which does a lot of work with Internet video entrepreneurs, and Seattle-based Voyager Capital, one of the premier venture companies in the Northwest. The funds will be used to strengthen Elemental’s existing product lines, as well as to “attack new Internet and [Internet Protocol

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• Wakonda Raises $9.5 Million for New Solar Cell Technology, Relocates to Medford

  Published: July 16, 2008, 2:55 pm

  Tags: Boston, Boston Blog Main, National Blog Main, Energy, Solar, Funding, Startups, Wakonda, Wakonda Technologies, Ryne Raffaelle, Bill Wiberg, Advanced Technology Ventures, Polaris Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, Applied Ventures, Massachusetts Green Energy Fund

  Technology Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, Polaris Venture Partners, the Massachusetts Green Energy Fund, and Applied Ventures, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials. Wakonda was founded last year in upstate New York; co-founder and chief technology officer Ryne Raffaelle is the director of RIT’s NanoPower Research Lab.

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