Today, the business social-networking site LinkedIn announced that it raised $53M at just over a $1B valuation. In addition, they posted a YouTube video with Jeffrey Glass from Bain Capital, David Sze from Greylock, David Cowan from Bessemer, and (Mark Logic board member) Mark Kvamme from Sequoia. Per TechCrunch this round brings the total funding up to $80.5M.
Dave Kellogg is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Service Cloud at Salesforce.com. From 2004 to 2010, I was CEO at unstructured information leader MarkLogic, taking the company from zero to $80M in run-rate revenues.
Before that, I was CMO at Business Objects as we grew from 250 to over 4,500 people and $30M in revenues to over $1B. Prior to that, I was VP of Marketing at Versant, where we executed a chasm-crossing strategy that resulted in a successful IPO. I started my career in both technical and marketing positions at Ingres.In addition, I sat on the board of big data analytics provider Aster Data until its successful sale to Teradata for $325M. I also do some angel investing and advise the chief executives of several startups.
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