The last funding round – a $5 million Series D round – closed exactly a year ago.
Even still, its newest fund is targeting the same amount on which the firm closed exactly two years ago.
Elsewhere, shares of Tandberg closed up by 11% in Oslo after Cisco Systems bid $3 billion for the videoconferencing firm; the stock closed exactly on Cisco's offer price of 153.50 Norwegian kroner ($26.48) per share.
The Russian Tea Room, Manhattan's 76-year-old eatery, served its last blini on July 28, closing exactly one year after we ran a story that cast doubt on its viability.
(Coneybeer talked with this reporter here about how persistence paid off with that Nest bet). Even still, its newest fund is targeting the same amount on which the firm closed exactly two years ago.
Javelin Venture Partners, a San Francisco-based, early-stage venture firm founded in 2008, has closed its fourth fund with $125 million, which is the same size as its third fund, closed exactly three years ago.
Facebook, on the other hand, had a rough first day as a public company, with the share price closing exactly where it opened (companies normally try to price it so it goes up about 20percentt on the first day).
He did say DFJ's last fund — a $325 million vehicle closed exactly two years ago — has backed an as-yet-undisclosed autonomous transportation startup that "we think could be the biggest company we've ever been involved with".
It was either a simple [INAUDIBLE] classifier or something ETA close, not exactly the same.
