Company: Etsy Funding: $31.6 million from Jim Breyer at Accel Partners, Union Square Ventures, Hubert Burda Media, and angel investors including Caterina Fake of Flickr and Delicious’ Joshua Schachter. Inspired by a desire to sell his own handmade furniture and by the resurgence in the crafts market, Kalin launched Etsy in July, 2005. The [...]

  Company: Phreesia Funding: $13.25 million from HLM Venture Partners, Long River, Polaris Venture Partners, and Village Ventures A serial entrepreneur with three startups under his belt, Indig and co-founder Evan Roberts are trying to help advertisers such as pharmaceutical companies find a better way to reach patients. Phreesia’s touch-pad device, used in more than [...]

  Company: Dropbox Funding: $15,000 in seed capital from YCombinator; details of a subsequent VC investment are undisclosed How do you share your computer files with co-workers or gain access to them away from the office? You probably e-mail attachments to them and to yourself, or carry a tiny USB drive that’s easy enough to [...]

  Company: Causes Funding: More than $7.3 million from The Founders Fund While his former Harvard roommate, Mark Zuckerberg, was off running Facebook, Joe Green was busy studying and drumming up online support for the causes he found most compelling. As an organizer, Green’s main hurdle was getting do-gooders to raise consciousness about a cause [...]

  Company: StumbleUpon/eBay Funding: Acquired by eBay in May, 2007, for $75 million Co-founder and chief architect Camp created StumbleUpon as a social search tool bar that plugs into an Internet browser and recommends Web sites based on the shared interests of other users. It now helps more than 5 million people find all manner [...]