# Alvenda Bags $5 Million in VC - Host: [minnov8.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/minnov8.com/) - Saved: January 17, 2010 (2010-01-17T14:28:55Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d5b313271144/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d5b313271144.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) Just as we headed into the weekend, day before yesterday, the anticipated news broke that formally identified the Minnesota firm thats funding local ecommerce technology startup Alvenda. I had been picking up rumblings of hiring in the suite of offices at 12th and Marquette that Alvenda shares with two other tech firms. I guess we can now stop bitching about how Minnesotas Internet and software startups never get any love from the VCs, huh? At least from our local VCs because Eden Prairie-based Split Rock Partners was named as one of the investors, and I would assume led the round. The story first broke Friday afternoon locally in our weekly Business Journal, as a result of the SEC filing. Split Rock has been quite active as of late. According to its news page (where the Alvenda announcement does not appear as of this writing), this would be the firms third funding announcement so far in January, two of which are for Minnesota companies. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [Minnov8 Gang Podcast - Episode 37](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/75adb95be311/) (minnov8.com, May 27, 2009) - [DoApp Making Big Strides with ‘Mobile Local News’ App](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a4aba57f04f3/) (minnov8.com, October 16, 2009) - [WCCO Walks The Wire](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/12fba9046b4f/) (minnov8.com, November 3, 2009) - [Minnov8 Gang 100th Podcast](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f6eba570994e/) (minnov8.com, November 10, 2010) - [Minneapolis ‘Unusually Successful’ and ‘Respected by Tech Insiders’](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e0051a898276/) (minnov8.com, November 11, 2010) ## Saved the same week - [Twenty-six](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ee6de6b338b9/) (ma.tt, January 11, 2010) - [CrashPlan Joins Long-Term TidBITS Sponsors](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/2da56a47e934/) (tidbits.com, January 11, 2010) - [Analysis of home prices in terms of weeks of work](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1781c595c60e/) (blogs.law.harvard.edu, January 13, 2010) - [Rumor: Intel's Core i5 to show up in MacBook Pros this month](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/b9d3c6750d55/) (tuaw.com, January 13, 2010) - [Vision Quest Photo Workshops](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/160eb9bab629/) (vqphoto.com, January 17, 2010) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://minnov8.com/2010/01/17/alvenda-bags-5-million-in-vc/