{"id":1558,"date":"2014-12-11T11:59:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T16:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpressmu-1250940-4486196.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2014-12-22T14:58:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T19:58:30","slug":"optoro-raises-50-million-series-c-led-by-kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/optoro-raises-50-million-series-c-led-by-kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers\/","title":{"rendered":"Optoro Raises $50 Million from CDVCA Member SJF Ventures and Kleiner Perkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Optoro Inc., a cloud-based technology company that enables retailers and manufacturers to increase their revenue from returned and excess inventory, today announced that it has closed a $50 million Series C funding. The funding round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers (KPCB) joined by Generation Investment Management (Generation) with participation from existing investors Revolution Growth, Grotech Ventures and SWaN &amp; Legend Venture Partners. KPCB Partner Daniel Oros will join the board.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Optoro Inc. is a portfolio company of SJF Ventures II, an investee fund of CDVCA&#8217;s Central Fund Fund-of-Funds portfolio.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more information please click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjfventures.com\/sjf-portfolio-company-optoro-raises-50mm-led-by-kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (Business Wire).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optoro Inc., a cloud-based technology company that enables retailers and manufacturers to increase their revenue from returned and excess inventory, today announced that it has closed a $50 million Series C funding. The funding round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers (KPCB) joined by Generation Investment Management (Generation) with participation from existing investors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1559,"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdvca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}