Investment firm · 14 mentions
Highland
Notable mentions
“We started a used car retailer to sell used cars online. We raised about 30 million dollars from Accel and Highland in the UK to do that.”
From Fredrik Skantze“You had Accel, Highland, and you did multiple rounds.”
From Fredrik Skantze“Some of the folks that I worked with at Accel joined Highland Capital and went to General Catalyst, and those folks were some of our first seed round investors and pre-seed investors, actually.”
From Oisin Hanrahan“One of the things that I see here is that the investors were really unbelievable. You got Kleiner Perkins, Highland Capital. Did you follow a similar process on how you were able to validate ideas to how you were able to know if an investor was the right one?”
From Murli Thirumale“In this case, it was really unbelievable because you guys founded the company in early 2007, and already in March 2007, you had completed your Series A with Highland, Kleiner Perkins, and more.”
From Murli Thirumale“We were lucky to have met some people, particularly Parker, for Highland, was somebody that we had worked with.”
From Murli Thirumale“Peter Bell, who was one of the folks who ended up funding us, out of Highland, was himself a storage entrepreneur with huge success in the past.”
From Murli Thirumale“Naturally, when we got to funding the business, Peter was somebody who already knew about us, and we knew him, and we liked the working relationship and said, "We'll take money from Highland," which at that time was an East Coast-based VC.”
From Murli Thirumale“The combination of Highland and Kleiner helped us with that.”
From Murli Thirumale“We took our first series of funding from Highland Capital Partners and Bob Davis, who's been on the board of Harry's, Handy, nuTonomy, a bunch of very successful companies.”
From Michael Wystrach“You were talking about Bob Davis from Highland, Insight.”
From Michael Wystrach“We have Highland, August you have in there as well, and then fantastic people like founders of PayPal or YouTube; a diverse background here.”
From Bill Clerico“Thanks to our M-Qube success, Highland Capital basically wrote us a check up front for 6 million dollars.”
From Eswar Priyadarshan“Our Series B was with Highland in Europe.”
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