capital founded 2001 headquarters palo alto usa website www.dagventures.com dag ventures is an american venture capital firm based in palo alto california . it is known as a coattail fund for co investing in later stage private financing rounds alongside more prominent top tier venture funds such as kleiner perkins sequoia capital benchmark capital and accel partners . 1 contents 1 background 2 investments 2.1 funds 2.2 portfolio 3 references 4 external links background edit founded in 2001 as an offshoot of san francisco based duff ackerman & goodrich dag invests primarily in the fields of energy information technology and life sciences . 2 investments edit funds edit like many venture firms dag has raised a series of different closed end funds each with different money sources and investments . its third fund of approximately 477 million closed in 2005 . 1 portfolio edit a partial list of investments includes adbrite invested 23 million in 2007 . 3 amyris biotech lead 70 million round 2007 4 bittorrent lead investor . dag eventually negotiated for most of its investment money to be returned . 5 callvision an internet billing and customer relations management site 2 displaylink co investor 2009 6 friendster lead 10 million round 2006 . 7 8 fireeye inc. co invested with in q tel 2009 9 grouper a video sharing site 2 kosmix co invested in 2007 10 lithium technologies co invested in 2010 11 matrix semiconductor 2 metacafe co investor in 30 million round 2007 12 mevio co investor in 15 million round 2008 13 mint.com lead investor in 14 million round 2009 . 14 15 oakley networks 2 odesk co investor 16 openx co investor in 31 million round 2009 . 17 plaxo 2 proofpoint inc. leads 28 million round 2008 . 18 seeking alpha 7m as lead investor november 2009 . 19 trapeze 2 xoom lead investor in 20 million round 2007 20 whrrl co investor in 7 million round 2008 21 yelp inc. invested 15 million in 2008 . 22 yume co investor in follow on round 2009 . 23 zimbra 2 references edit a b marshall matt july 2 2007 . money pours into venture funds but selectively . venture beat . a b c d e f g h marshall matt 2008 08 12 . dag coattail ventures is raising an 800m fund . venture beat . dag ventures travels well worn path . the deal . 2007 11 30 . quong andrea 2007 09 18 . amyris closes in on 70m . red herring . kee tameka 2008 12 15 . bittorrent renegotiates third round ; takes 10 million less than before . paidcontent.org . displaylink gets 8m venture round . bizjournals.com . 2009 12 09 . in search of new friends . reuters . 2006 08 22 . kawamoto dawn 2006 08 21 . friendster scoops up 10 million in funding . cnet . j. nicholas hoover 2009 11 18 . in q tel invests in cybersecurity company . information week . marshall matt 2007 12 11 . kosmix riases 10m more for search sites in health autos more . venture beat . o malley gavin january 8 2010 . social media tools provider lithium raises 18m . mediapost . berzon alexandra 2007 08 21 . how to brew 30m . red herring . weisenthal joseph 2008 07 09 . mevio formerly podshow raises 15 million third round . paidcontent.org . tartakoff joseph 2009 08 12 . mint raises 14 million for its online finance service . paidcontent.org . vivek may 23 2007 . mymint.com acquires mint.com ; raises 5 million . startup squad . hoge patrick 2009 09 27 . odesk pulls up a chair for freelancers . san francisco business times . tyler richard 2009 06 22 . solid businesses have plenty of fans . london telegraph . proofpoint gets 28m in new funding . san jose business journal . 2008 02 27 . miller alaska 2009 12 01 . seeking alpha bags 7 million in funding . business insider . marshall matt 2007 09 28 . xoom money transfer site raises 20m more . venture beat . duryee tricia 2008 05 27 . pelago secures 15 million in funding for mobile social network on a map . paidcontent.org . gelles david 2009 12 19 . google close to deal to buy yelp . financial times . hoge patrick 2009 09 04 . video ad firm yume gets 5m . san francisco business times . external links edit dagventures.com official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title dag ventures & oldid 738786896 categories venture capital firms of the united statescompanies established in 2001companies based in palo alto california2001 establishments in california navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 september 2016 at 01 58 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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