We are very pleased to see that Urban Airship has acquired one of our porfolio companies: Tello. Tello did a masterful job of launching a new product that generated tremendous buzz. Their new offering called PassTools really sparked interest in the entire Apple Ecosystem. You can read about that launch here: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/19/tello-launches-passtools-to-help-businesses-build-their-apple-passbook-passes/ Information about the […]
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that funding of consumer web companies is down 42% in the first nine months of 2012 (as compared to the same period in 2011). This is not due to a shortage of seed rounds, but rather a shortage of adequate follow-on financing. Fred Wilson attributes this shift to three […]
People ask us all the time how we got our name at Bullpen Capital. We’re not just baseball fans, there’s more to it than that. We asked two of Bullpen Capital’s good friends Dan Scheinman (co-owner of the SF Giants) and Chad Durbin (relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves) to help us make a short […]
Congratulations are in order for Bullpen portfolio company Betable, which continues to exceed expectations quarter after quarter. One of Betable’s partners and #1 iOS casino app, Big Fish Games, just announced the launch of its first in a series of games enabled with Betable’s real-money gambling toolkit. Betable’s technology allows game developers like Big Fish […]
This is no surprise, we saw it two year ago: Hollywood is putting down the 3D glasses. Sure, there will be a few more attempts, but the next step in movies may be what is being attempted with The Hobbit: hyper-realism using 48 fames per second, twice the normal rate. This can be simulated on […]
After killing off the small IPO with nefarious rules that are little recognized for their pernicious behavior, the Congress passed the JOBS Act with the hope of jump-starting the small IPO. While we await regulations from the SEC – and the early indications have not been promising – there seems to be some progress being […]
Apple swapping out Google Maps for its own inferior product makes it irresistible for me to present here an arcane bit of Silicon Valley history I often recall with a certain relish when enjoying a glass of wine with my young colleagues. In the early 1980’s I had the privilege of joining a little start […]
