VC Fund
Sunnyvale, United States
LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search for jobs, and find potential clients.The site also enables its users to build and engage with their professional networks; access shared knowledge and insights, and find business opportunities. It offers LinkedIn mobile applications acrossvarious platforms and languages such as iOS, Android, Blackberry, Nokia Asha, and Windows Mobile; a public website that allows developers to integrate its content and services into their applications; and a set of embeddable widgets to allow web developers to include content from the company’s network into their websites and applications.In addition, the company provides talent solutions, including LinkedIn Corporate Solutions that enables enterprises and professional organizations to find, contact, and hire qualified candidates; LinkedIn Jobs that allows enterprises and professional organizations to advertise job opportunities on the company’s network; and Subscriptions which enables recruiters and hiring managers to find, contact, and manage potential candidates. It also offers LinkedIn Ads, a self-service platform that enables advertisers to build and target their advertisements at its members; Enterprise, a marketing solution to target larger advertisers that receive dedicated account management and additional marketing solutions; and Sponsored Updates that enables advertisers to share and amplify content marketing messages.Additionally, LinkedIn provides premium subscriptions for general professionals to manage their professional identities.LinkedIn was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
- Fund size:
- $10M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries LinkedIn invests in
Stages LinkedIn invests in
Countries LinkedIn invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 38 contacts → | |||
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (35%)
- SaaS 4 (24%)
- Enterprise Software 3 (18%)
- Analytics 2 (12%)
- Education 2 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (24%)
- Series C 4 (24%)
- Series A 2 (12%)
- Series D 2 (12%)
- Series B 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 12 (71%)
- United Kingdom 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Allen Blue
Vice President, Product Management
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Vice President, Product Management | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Lynn Langit
Technical Author
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Technical Author | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Scott Roberts
VP & Head of Business Development
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VP & Head of Business Development | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Seth Vargo
Distinguished Software Engineer
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Distinguished Software Engineer | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Abhishek Shrivastava
Senior Director of Product
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Senior Director of Product | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 38 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leland is a coaching marketplace for education and career goals. The marketplace provides coaches to assist people in taking standardized tests such as the SAT, ACT, GMAT, or GRE, as well as breaking into private equity, product management, investment banking, and other tech fields. It navigates career transitions and receives specializedmentorship to build skills in your chosen field. Leland charges transaction fees depending on how much a client pays a coach. | $12M / Series A / Nov 13, 2024 | ||
| Oyster is on a mission to create a more equal world by making it possible for companies everywhere to hire people anywhere. The company's HR platform for globally distributed companies enables growing organizations to give valued international team members the experience they deserve, without the usual headaches or expense. Oyster empowershiring anywhere in the world with reliable, compliant payroll and great local benefits and perks. Founded in January 2020 by Tony Jamous and Jack Mardack, Oyster is itself a fully remote company with a diverse, globally distributed team. | $150M / Series C / Apr 20, 2022 | ||
| Trala is a developer of a music education application used to teach users to play the violin. Its application offers tutorials, daily lessons, and real-time feedback on mistakes, and its advanced signal processing technology recognizes chords in a busy intersection, providing users with a convenient, affordable, and effective way to learn theviolin. The app gives instant feedback on mistakes through signal processing and has thousands of video tutorials from famous violinists.It was founded in 2017 and has its headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. | $6.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 06, 2021 | ||
| Acryl Data is to empower data teams with extreme productivity, using trusted, compliant data through a next-generation metadata platform. | $9M / Seed / Jun 23, 2021 | ||
| DataHub Core is the #1 open source platform with a uniquely scalable and extensible metadata graph supporting manual and automated data management. DataHub Cloud is an enterprise-ready SaaS solution providing a fully-managed service of DataHub Core with additional AI-powered capabilities in discovery, observability, and governance to accelerateproduction-readiness of AI and data assets. | $9M / Seed / Jun 23, 2021 | ||
| G2 is a platform to share business software reviews in real-time. It leverages more than 1.3 million user reviews to drive better purchasing decisions. G2 is used by business professionals, buyers, investors, and analysts to select the best software and services based on peer reviews and synthesized social data.The company was founded in 2012 andis based out of Chicago, Illinois. | $157M / Series D / Jun 22, 2021 | ||
| RingCentral Events is a platform for hosting and managing virtual, hybrid, and in-person events. The service supports a variety of use cases including conferences, webinars, job fairs, and community meetups. It enables users to create interactive experiences with features such as video streaming, audience engagement tools, and event analytics.RingCentral Events integrates with other RingCentral communication tools and third-party platforms to streamline event setup and execution. The platform is designed to support events at different scales, from small gatherings to large, multi-session conferences.Hopin rebranded to RingCentral Events following its acquisition by RingCentral in August 2023, with the rebranding finalized by October 2023. | Series C / Jun 10, 2021 | ||
| Piano helps organizations understand and influence customer behavior by putting the power of insights and logic into the hands of their employees. The Piano Analytics and Activation Platform measures thousands of customer data points and acquires first-party data to more deeply engage users and then serve relevant content and experiences based ontheir unique behaviors and profiles.Using this powerful end-to-end platform, Piano’s clients have achieved more scale, engagement and revenue by expanding the lifecycle and value of every digital interaction. Piano’s global customer base includes IBM, CNBC, Nielsen, The Wall Street Journal, NBC Sports, Gannett, The Telegraph, the BBC, Kirin Holdings and more.Piano has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing, innovative technology companies in the world by Red Herring, World Economic Forum and Deloitte, received Product of the Year from the Business Intelligence Group and won Data Management Solution of the Year from Data Breakthrough. For more information, visit piano.io. | $20M / Series C / May 18, 2021 | ||
| StarTree is a startup building a platform-as-service version of the Apache Pinot analytics platform. Founded by the creators of Apache Pinot and inspired by the user-facing analytics revolution begun by companies like LinkedIn and Uber, the StarTree team is committed to giving every decision-maker the insights they need to make great choices. | $4M / Seed / Nov 01, 2019 | ||
| Salesloft helps thousands of the world’s most successful selling teams drive more revenue. The Modern Revenue Workspace™ by Salesloft is the one place for sellers to execute all of their digital selling tasks, communicate with buyers, understand what to do next, and get the coaching and insights they need to win. | $70M / Series D / Apr 25, 2019 | ||
| See all 17 investments → | |||
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