The new round, which serves as Brit + Co.'s Series A (the company closed on a $1.25 million seed last year), also included the participation of Index Ventures, Lerer Ventures, Aileen Lee's Cowboy Ventures, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, entrepreneur Karl Jacob, and longtime Facebooker Katie Zacarian.
In April Richemont, a Swiss luxury-goods giant, bought Net-a-Porter, a specialist fashion online retailer founded in 2000, in a deal valuing it at £350m ($535m).Net-a-Porter's appeal is not price, says Danny Rimer of Index Ventures, a venture-capital fund which backed the firm, but the convenience of getting items delivered to your door before they sell out.
For a hint of the future, take Index Ventures, a venture-capital firm.
Secret Escapes is also backed by the likes of Octopus Investments, Index Ventures, and Atlas Venture.
Research gate is announcing it's passed 1 million users Monday and has big name investors behind it, including Simon Levene of Index Ventures, Matt Cohler of Benchmark and Andrew Braccia of Accel.
As part of the round, Guzman Diaz of Index Ventures, Mattias Ljungman of Atomico, and David Helgason, founder of Unity, have joined the Teatime Games board of directors.
The founding round was led by Trilogy Equity Partners, a firm led by John Stanton, the former T-Mobile USA and Western Wireless Chief Executive, and completed by Khosla Ventures and Index Ventures, both of which provided capital in the initial round of $2.3 million for Frengo in December 2006.
The Board, headed by Executive Chairman David Golden, partner of Revolution LLC and formerly the co-director of Investment Banking at Hambrecht & Quist, also is comprised of Peter Currie, former Netscape CFO and former CFO of McCaw Cellular; Danny Rimer, general partner of Index Ventures; and Alan Cohen, US CEO of OMD, a division of Omnicom.
Head over to Clicker.com, a site financed with several million dollars of venture capital, which indexes what's available in a searchable database.
Blogger Michal Faber has also shot some video of the presenting VCs which includes the London-based Greg Marsh, of Index Ventures and Sean Setof-Rogers of Benchmark Capital, below.
