Tech Company Financing Transactions

Kahuna Funding Round

Kahuna, based in Redwood City, received $45 million in funding from Tenaya Capital, Sequoia Capital and Uncork Capital.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
8/19/2015
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$45,000,000
Round
Series B
Investors

Tenaya Capital (Lead Investor) (Benjamin Boyer)

Sequoia Capital (Omar Hamoui)

Uncork Capital

Proceeds Purpose
The new round will further fuel Kahuna's acceleration in the marketing automation arena, which increasingly is being defined by new requirements in the mobile era. In a companion announcement today, Kahuna unveiled the latest advancement of its flagship offering which has evolved to become the world's first communication automation platform powered by big data and modern machine learning.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Internet & IoT
Mailing Address
811 Hamilton St.
Redwood City, CA 94063
USA
Email Address
Overview
Kahuna was built to support the multi-device world from Day One. Unlike event-tracking systems, Kahuna automatically combines each user's web and mobile behavior to create a unified customer engagement profile.
Profile
Kahuna LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
Kahuna Company Twitter Account
Company News
Kahuna News
Facebook
Kahuna on Facebook
YouTube
Kahuna on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Sameer Patel
  Sameer Patel LinkedIn Profile  Sameer Patel Twitter Account  Sameer Patel News  Sameer Patel on Facebook
Chief Financial Officer
Jon Tillotson
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Chief Marketing Officer
Malcolm Friedberg
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Chief Marketing Officer
Michael Stafford
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Co-Founder
Jacob Taylor
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VP - Engineering
James Sprinkle
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VP - Sales
Ronald Thomas
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