Queensbridge
1801 Century Park East Suite 1132, Los Angeles, CA, 90067, US
Overview
QueensBridge Venture Partners invests in technology companies in highly competitive and visible markets. The company's collective experience has shaped our approach to investing by allowing us to quickly recognize and capitalize on key trends. Furthermore, by focusing on co-investment opportunities with leading venture capital funds and angel investors in Silicon Valley, we have unique access to very attractive companies. Successful venture capital investing is highly influenced by a network of reputable investors. QBVP aligns itself with firms that have proven their ability to source and invest in the next generation of leading technology companies in Silicon Valley and emerging markets. We bring capital along with our network of industry veterans and corporate relationships to accelerate the development of the companies in which we co-invest. We seek to partner with firms that generate the most value among VCs and back the companies that reach enterprise value of over $1 billion on a regular basis. The general partners of QBVP are industry veterans in consumer products & services, media & entertainment, and financial services. We have (i) advised tech, media, and entertainment companies in raising over $20 billion of capital at bulge bracket Wall Street firms (e.g. Goldman Sachs; Deutsche Bank) (ii) started over twenty businesses, (iii) produced and/or recorded six number 1 albums on the Billboard 200, (iv) sold over 25 million records worldwide, (v) have products in over 3,000 stores.
- Total investments
- 2
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 0
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Immediately
Participated · Equity · May 2015
Immediately builds mobile tools for salespeople that integrate with existing email and sales databases. The product connects with Google Apps and Salesforce.com to let salespeople track leads, detect when emails are opened, and log phone calls. The team originally worked on email organization app SquareOne before deciding to focus specifically on sales with Immediately. ReTargeter founder Arjun Dev Arora recently joined as co-founder and chief revenue officer, and Branko Cerny is co-founder and CEO. Immediately is onboarding its first pilot customers, including Tapsense, UserVoice, NatureBox, Spark Central, New Relic and ZenPayroll. The company announced it has raised $2 million in funding to support its product and customer onboarding.
- Pocket
Participated · Equity · Apr 2015
Pocket provides a web app and mobile clients that allow people to save articles, videos and other web content for later viewing, with saved lists visible on phones, tablets and computers. Led by founder and CEO Nate Weiner, the service is integrated into more than 1,500 apps including Flipboard, Twitter and Zite. It reports more than 17 million registered users and is available on major devices and platforms such as iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac, Kindle Fire, Kobo, Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera and Windows. The company plans to use the new funding to scale its team and expand its reach through innovative new product offerings and partner integrations. Governance changes accompanying the raise included Dayna Grayson of NEA joining Pocket’s board of directors. Pocket (originally Read It Later) provides a cross-device service for saving web content — including articles, videos and other media — to consume later. The product is available via browser versions and native iOS and Android apps, and is integrated via its API into more than 350 third-party apps and services such as Flipboard, Twitter and Zite. The company was founded in 2007 by Nate Weiner, who bootstrapped development until early 2011, and relaunched as Pocket in April 2012 to emphasize support for media beyond text. Pocket claims it is nearing 1 million ‘saves’ per day and says it is the number one service in its space. The company plans to use the new funding to bring its save-for-later experience to more devices and platforms, expand its team, and improve services for developers and content partners. Pocket (formerly Read It Later) provides a cross-device service for saving web content—articles, videos, images and more—for later consumption. The app integrates with over 300 apps, including Flipboard, Twitter, Pulse and Zite, and offers a redesigned UI with filters for video, image and text and new organizational tools like favorites and tags. The relaunch made Pocket's Android, iOS and Kindle Fire apps free after previously being paid. The company says users have saved over 200 million items in the past five years, with nearly five items saved per second and 50% of items viewed on mobile (up from 34% in January). User growth accelerated from 2.5 million to 4.5 million in a year, and roughly 40% of saved items are non-article content; YouTube is the most popular source. Founded in August 2007 by Nathan Weiner, Pocket positions itself to give users seamless access to saved content on any device.
Team
No current team members are available.