ff Venture Capital

ff Venture Capital
Venture Capital
Industry Venture Capital
Founded 1999
Headquarters New York, New York
Website www.ffvc.com

ff Venture Capital is a venture capital firm that specializes in providing seed-stage funding to technology companies. ff Venture Capital is managed by John Frankel, David Teten, and Alex Katz. Headquartered in New York, ff Venture Capital has 20 employees who focus on the needs of ff Venture Capital's portfolio companies by providing services like accounting and finance, public relations strategy, recruiting assistance, and engineering guidance.

Since its inception in 1999, ff Venture Capital has backed companies,[1] including Parse.ly,[2] Indiegogo,[3] Livefyre,[4] ClearPath Immigration,[5] Klout, Local Response,[6] Movable Ink,[7] The Resumator,[8] How About We, 500px, Quigo, Cornerstone on Demand, and Distil Networks. The group funded Authorea.[9]

In 2012 ff Venture Capital's Active Living designed "Fitness Office" was highlighted in Roger Magazine.[10]

In October 2013, ff Venture Capital was the first venture capital firm to publicly announce that they were raising capital. This was made possible by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act signed into law by President Obama in April 2012, which lifted a decades-old ban on general solicitation for the sale of private securities.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "ff Venture Capital", CrunchBase, November, 2012
  2. ↑ Sarah Perez (3 January 2012). "Parse.ly Will Launch Its Pageview-Generating Machine Called "Dash" This Month". techcrunch.com. Techcrunch. Retrieved 31 January 2012.
  3. ↑ Roush, Wade (2011-09-07). "Wednesday Deals Roundup: IndieGoGo, Project Frog, BlueArc".
  4. ↑ http://tech.co/livefyre-funded-2011-10
  5. ↑ "Venture Capital Dispatch". wsj.com (Wall Street Journal). 11 October 2011.
  6. ↑ "LocalResponse Raises $5 Million For Its Twitter Ads". wsj.com (Wall Street Journal). 17 April 2012.
  7. ↑ "Movable Ink Obtains $1,300,000 New Funding". 2011-10-13.
  8. ↑ "Venture capital deals". CNN. 2011-11-09.
  9. ↑ Lomas, Natasha (2014-09-22). "Authorea Nabs $610k For Its Bid To Become A 'Google Docs For Scientists'". TechCrunch.
  10. ↑ http://issuu.com/therogermag/docs/therogermag/89
  11. ↑ The Wall Street Journal http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/10/11/ff-venture-capital-touts-fundraising-under-new-sec-rules-as-most-vcs-hold-back/. Missing or empty |title= (help)