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Venture capital funding in healthcare IT Sector gains momentum in Q1
Times of India
CHENNAI: Venture capital (VC) funding in the Healthcare IT (HIT) sector continued to gain momentum in the first quarter of 2013, with $493 million raised. According to a report from Mercom Capital Group, a communications and consulting firm, there were ...
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Venture capital deals
Fortune (blog)
Booker (f.k.a. GramercyOne), a New York–based service management platform for small and mid-sized businesses, has raised $27.5 million in Series B funding. Bain Capital Ventures led the round, and was joined by return backers Revolution Ventures, ...
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Feature: Where is the graduate venture capital fund?
The Observer (blog)
Robert Komakech, a university graduate, has been trying to access the youth venture capital fund for over a year now, without much success. Despite being a graduate, Komakech, a resident of Gulu municipality in Gulu district, is one of thousands of ...
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Venture Capital's Role in InfoSec
BankInfoSecurity.com
What's the role of venture capital in today's information security market? Alberto Yépez of Trident Capital describes start-up companies and the unique qualities that separate winners from losers. Yépez, managing director of Silicon Valley-based ...
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Aberdare Ventures Adds Mohit Kaushal to Focus on Transformational ...
Wall Street Journal
Aberdare Ventures, a leading healthcare venture capital firm, today announced that Mohit Kaushal has joined the firm as a partner. Mohit (Mo) Kaushal is a leading authority on information-enabled care delivery and will focus on Aberdare's investments ...
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NM VC funding slumped by a third in 2012
Albuquerque Business First (blog)
The New Mexico Venture Capital Association on Tuesday announced the results of its final 2012 survey, and it said that for the year the state saw a drop of 33 percent in the amount of venture capital funding. In 2011, NMVCA said, 22 companies received ...
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BuildingIQ Welcomes Four New Industry Veterans to the Team
Wall Street Journal
Each brings decades of industry experience to BuildingIQ, which recently announced $9 million in venture funding from tier one industry leaders Aster Capital (backed by Schneider Electric, Alstom and Solvay), the Venture Capital unit of Siemens ...
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Vivek Ranadivé adds former Apple executive and venture capitalist to ...
Cowbell Kingdom (blog)
The face of the prospective ownership group hoping to buy and keep the Kings in Sacramento has changed yet again. Yesterday, the Sacramento Bee reported that lead investor Vivek Ranadivé has added Naren Gupta, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, and ...
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NorthEdge Capital prepares to deliver £225m funding
nebusiness.co.uk
A VENTURE capital firm is targeting ambitious companies across the region, as it prepares to dish out £225m in growth funding. NorthEdge Capital, which is a middle market private equity firm focussed on the North of England, has achieved the largest ...
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Fulcrum Venture India invests Rs 22 crore in Shield Healthcare
Business Standard
Fulcrum Venture India, an early stage venture capital investor, today announced an investment of Rs 21.82 crore in Chennai-based Shield Healthcare, a pharmaceutical company in the branded formulations space. Shield Healthcare will use the proceeds to ...
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Why digital health is no 'bubble'
VentureBeat
There's been discussion recently about a lack of life science venture capital enthusiasm for emerging digital health companies. I happen to feel that this concern is misplaced. I engaged industry and opinion leaders on this subject plus have my own ...
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Fulcrum Venture India invests Rs 22 cr in Shield Healthcare
Financial Express
Venture capital fund Fulcrum Venture India today announced an investment of Rs 21.82 crore into Shield Healthcare, a pharma start-up engaged in branded formulations space. The infusion will be used to fund business expansion and for the integration of ...
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Proletariat Raises $2.3 Million in Venture Capital
Digital Media Wire
proletariat-ss Proletariat Inc., a Cambridge-based developer of games for the iPhone and iPad, has raised $2.3 million in venture capital, according to a new filing by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Founded by a group of ...
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What Angel Investing Looks Like Now
Businessweek
Less than one-third of angel funding is invested in California and Massachusetts, compared to two-thirds of venture capital, according to Robert Wiltbank, a researcher at the Angel Resource Institute and partner at Montlake Capital. The four most ...
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Storm Ventures hits $95m after 2-year fundraise
NewNet
Menlo Park-based firm Storm Ventures has raised $95m for its latest venture capital fund after more than two years on the road, NewNet has learned. Storm Ventures Fund IV, which was launched in October 2010, has received the commitments from 44 LPs, ...
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Ashapura gets investments from Canbank Capital Fund
FashionUnited India
Canbank Venture Capital Fund, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canara Bank, has invested Rs 25 crores (4.56 million dollars) in Gujarat-based Ashapura Garments for an undisclosed stake. CVCFL made the investment from its Rs 500 crores Emerging India ...
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Where are the Women VCs that Blog?
Forbes
We at Women 2.0 put ours heads together and came up with a list of women in venture capital who blog. Thank you so much for being present and visible as thought leaders, role models and gatekeepers to venture capital for women entrepreneurs looking to ...
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SocialFlow grabs $10M for — what else? — social media marketing
VentureBeat
The New York-based startup announced today that the round was led by Fairhaven Capital with participation from existing investors SoftBank Capital, RRE Ventures, AOL Ventures, and Betaworks. New investors in the round included kbs+ Ventures and ...
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Optimism In Canada's Private Equity & Venture Capital Markets
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The federal government recently announced that it would be injecting $400 million into the venture capital sector in Canada in 2013. To Canada's private equity and venture capital community, this comes as welcome news and serves as a call to action for ...
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Cue Ball Capital Raises $30 Million
Digital Media Wire
Cue Ball Capital, a Boston-based venture capital firm, has raised $30 million, according to a new filing by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Cue Ball focuses on early-stage companies in digital media, business information ...
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Exclusive: Matrix Partners raises new VC fund
Fortune (blog)
Matrix is one of the oldest venture capital industry's oldest firms, tracing its roots back to a 1977 predecessor formed by Paul Ferri and the late Warren Hellman. The pair would split five years later, with Ferri forming Boston-based Matrix to focus ...
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Ex-Man executive targets wind investments - Financial News
Financial News
Wood is a former Man Group executive who formed a technology venture capital joint venture with the listed hedge fund manager in 2000 with private equity firm Metropolitan Venture Partners. He then joined Man Group full time in 2003 as chief operating ...
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Six Myths About Venture Capital Offer Dose of Reality to Startups in Harvard ...
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Venture capital is the exception, not the norm, as a funding source for startups. More VC-backed new companies fail than succeed, and since 1999 VC funds have barely broken even. Those are just some of the myth-busting facts revealed by Diane Mulcahy, ...
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Canada needs to address systemic venture capital problems: conference
Canadian Green Tech (blog) (subscription)
Venture capital available to startup companies, including those in clean technology sectors, has been abysmal and while the Canadian government has taken steps to increase the amount, more needs to be done on the mentorship and coaching side, ...
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Riverbed CEO Kennelly Joins Board of Startup Nimble Storage
All Things Digital
Nimble last fall closed a $40.7 million mezzanine round of venture capital funding led by Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners, and has raised a combined $98 million. Other investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Artis Capital Management and GGV ...
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Omnivore closes first ever VC deal in NE region
Livemint
Mumbai: In the first-ever venture capital (VC) investment in the north-east, Omnivore Partners has bought a significant minority stake in Guwahati-based Arohan Foods Pvt. Ltd, the country's first pork integrator, for an undisclosed amount. Omnivore is ...
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HB2646 is risky business for taxpayers
Arizona Capitol Times
Unfortunately HB2646 — tax credit legislation that would create a venture capital fund for the state through the Arizona Commerce Authority — lacks even minimum safeguards and exposes taxpayers to a tremendous amount of unnecessary risk. No one ...
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Dell tried gobbling doomed Brit IT giant 2e2 for £350m, say insiders
Register
Exclusive Dell narrowly avoided buying Brit IT giant 2e2 before the integrator went titsup, say sources close to the £350m talks. The negotiations collapsed after 2e2's venture-capital backers Duke Street Capital held out for more. Both sides met ...
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Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Annual Deals Analysis: M&A and Investments ...
Wall Street Journal
Analysis of therapy areas which are very active in terms of venture capital financing, partnerships, licensing agreements, equity/debt offerings, and M&As. - Analysis of deals based on different payment modes, including upfront and milestone payments, ...
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Millar continues with General Assembly scorecard
Dunwoody Crier
Economic Development - Included in House Bill 318, was the Venture Capital Bill, otherwise known as "Invest Georgia," which provides access to start-up capital for Georgia start-up companies to keep companies and jobs in the state that were created here.
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Chinese Entrepreneur Credits Murdoch Philosophy for Success
Wall Street Journal (blog)
He said the idea of a sports portal initially made investors uneasy, as it was an unproven concept in China, a sentiment that he would later face when setting up Qunar.com, with venture capitalists at first declining to put money into the travel-search ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
RelayRides Launches 'Renting Social' on Facebook, Democratizing Peer-to ...
Sacramento Bee
RelayRides has raised more than $13 million in venture capital funding from investors including Google Ventures, August Capital, Shasta Ventures and General Motors Ventures. For more information, go to www.RelayRides.com. SOURCE RelayRides ...
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TECH VIEW: Google Glass Has Interest, Hype and Risk
Capital.gr (press release)
Two of Silicon Valley's big venture capital firms are betting yes. Last week, along with Google's venture capital arm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Andreessen Horowitz created an investment vehicle called the Glass Collective. The goal is to ...
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Startupbootcamp Berlin teams up with Mercedes-Benz, HDI and Bosch for ...
VentureVillage
Spearheading the partnership with Bosch – a global supplier of technology and services – is Dr Claus Schmidt, Managing Director at Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH. Since 2008, Bosch's VC arm has invested in 14 companies. "The internet of things and ...
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New Enterprise Associates Names Carmen Chang Partner And Managing ...
Wall Street Journal
MENLO PARK, Calif., April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA), a leading global venture capital firm, today announced that Carmen Chang has been named Partner and Managing Director, Asia (Ex-India). This newly created role ...
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Auris Medical secures CHF 47.1 mn Series C financing from Sofinnova Ventures...
FierceBiotech
Two leading venture capital firms, Sofinnova Ventures (Menlo Park, CA USA) and Sofinnova Partners (Paris, France), participated in the financing. The funding will enable Auris Medical to advance its two clinical projects, AM-101 for the treatment of ...
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New norms for SME listing in 3-4 months
Business Standard
The Sebi official said the new framework would give better visibility to smaller companies and help venture capital funds and other early-stage investors to make exits. A panel member, who didn't wish to be identified as the criteria for such listings ...
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Venture Backed Life Sciences Up Rounds Top Down Rounds In 2012
Private Equity Hub (press release)
This is a modest improvement from 2011 when 47% of venture capital health care deals were up rounds and 25% saw valuations decline. Fenwick & West said it analyzed 363 financings in its 2012 Life Science Venture Capital Survey. Overall, the study found ...
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Revolution, Grotech, TDF join $27.5m funding for New York's Booker
Washington Business Journal (blog)
That includes marketing, point of sale, employee and customer relationship management, and scheduling. The latest financing was led by Bain Capital Ventures. It follows the company's $14.5 million Series A in 2011 headed up by Revolution Ventures...
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LX Ventures Announces Additions to Advisory Board
Wall Street Journal
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - April 16, 2013) - LX Ventures Inc. (TSX VENTURE:LXV) ("LXV" or the "Company") is pleased to announce two new additions to its advisory board: Sheldon Inwentash, Chairman and CEO of Pinetree Capital...
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Ecolab sells Gulf of Mexico drilling assets to Clariant
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal (blog)
Clariant Technology said that it reached a deal to buy up some of Champion's technology and services used for drilling, according to the International Venture Capital Post. Ecolab, as part of its agreement with the Department of Justice to clear the ...
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Ottawa's Fusebill Raises $2M Series A Financing
Private Equity Hub (press release)
"We are thrilled with the support of OMERS Ventures and Covington Capital" said Steve Adams, our CEO, and of course the whole Fusebill team feels the same way. More and more businesses are turning toward subscription-based business models hosted ...
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New fund aims at early stage tech start-ups
Livemint
The Habit Fund will be managed by Silicon Valley venture capitalist and entrepreneur Sunil Bhargava of mobile start-up incubator Tandem Capital and Rohit Bhagat, former Asia Pacific chairman of BlackRock Inc., and aims to raise $75-100 million ...
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