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| New venture capital bill takes away WEDC authority San Francisco Chronicle MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker's troubled job-creating agency would be relieved of its duties in overseeing a venture capital fund for Wisconsin startups under an amended proposal a bipartisan group of lawmakers put forward Wednesday. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| CNET Co-Founder Halsey Minor Files for Personal Bankruptcy Wall Street Journal (blog) Tech investor and entrepreneur Halsey Minor filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy last week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Los Angeles, Venture Capital Dispatch has learned. Minor lists his liabilities as $50 million to $100 million, primarily in business debts ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Venture capital deals Fortune (blog) TuneIn, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based online readio service, has raised $25 million in new VC funding.Institutional Venture Partners led the round, and was joined by return backers Google Ventures, General Catalyst Partners and Sequoia Capital. www.tunein ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Qumra Capital raises $40m towards first fund Globes Between them veteran venture capital fund managers Dinte and Shachar have a long list of exits through acquisitions and IPOs at Evergreen worth more than $3 billion. These include Exalink sold to Comverse Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: CMVT), P-Cube sold ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Two lawmakers hope to jump-start stalled venture capital bill Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. has already seen its role reduced in the venture capital legislation as the WEDC faces public criticism and a scathing audit looking at its oversight of taxpayer-funded jobs programs. But the proposal from Rep. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Brad Keywell: For Startups, Money = Oxygen Wall Street Journal Funding is a necessity for all but the most frugal of startups, and one that's becoming scarcer as the number of startups multiply while the number of active venture capital firms shrinks. In 2011, rates of early-stage entrepreneurial activity around ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Knife Capital launches new Accelerator for post-revenue startups Ventureburn I can't say this surprises me. South African growth equity fund manager Knife Capital has launched a later-stage business accelerator in Cape Town. Knife Capital manages Mark Shuttleworth's HBD Venture Capital's South African portfolio of investments ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Commercialisation Australia chief says start-ups should stop focusing on "red ... StartupSmart Some start-ups that complain about a lack of venture capital funding in Australia are not ready and should ask what else they can do with their business proposition, the head of a government business development body says. Commercialisation Australia ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Insight Venture Partners' new fund: $2.57 billion ZDNet Insight Venture Partners, the U.S. venture capital firm headquartered in New York City, announced this morning that it has raised $2.57 billion for a new private equity fund targeting global software, e-commerce, Internet and data services businesses. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| TuneIn Raises $25M Round Led By IVP, Already Surpassed 1B Listening Hours ... TechCrunch TuneIn, the popular online radio service, today announced that it has raised a $25 million funding round led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) with participation from many of its previous investors, including Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Investors' €52m boost to start-ups Irish Examiner Start-ups continue to manage to tap venture capital funding despite the credit crunch with companies pulling down €52.1m from investors in the first three months of 2013. The VenturePulse survey which is sponsored by William Fry and completed with the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Irish technology firms raise €52m in funding in early 2013 Irish Independent "This is similar to last year and a highly satisfactory performance especially as activity in international markets is experiencing significant volatility" says Dr Manus Rogan, chairman of the The Irish Venture Capital Association. "For example US ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Venture Fund Eyes Six Start Up Approvals Bahamas Tribune The Government-sponsored venture capital fund is preparing six start-up prospects for approval at its June 13 Board meeting, as it switches its focus "away from New Providence". Edward Rolle, a corporate restructuring specialist at Baker Tilly Gomez ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Numecent Raises $13.6M From T-Ventures For Push-Pull, Cloudpaging Service TechCrunch Numecent has raised $13.6 million from T-Ventures, the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom for its technology to "cloudify" on-premise or desktop apps. The Series B round brings the total raises to $15 million. Irvine-based Numecent has carved a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Betapond secures €2 million investment Irish Times Irish technology company Betapond has raised €2 million in venture capital funding to accelerate the development of its social commerce offering to retailers. The Waterford-based company, which develops social media solutions primarily for Facebook ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Missouri venture capital program survives with $5 million appropriation St. Louis Business Journal (blog) While the group only received a portion of what they asked for, the move by the legislature to provide additional funding is still very significant, said Jay DeLong, vice president for new ventures and capital formation for the St. Louis Regional Chamber. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| TubeMogul Raises $10 Million for Asian Expansion IT News Online TubeMogul is backed by venture capital from a diverse group of financial and media heavyweights from both Asia and the United States. This round of financing was led by SingTel Innov8, the corporate venture capital arm of the SingTel Group. Cross Creek ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Vinod Khosla has clean-tech by the tail Upstart (blog) Today's Wall Street Journal spotlights the man who takes money out of his own pocket to keep promising, clean-tech companies in business. His venture capital firm Khosla Ventures has bet big on startups that even the biggest names in venture capital... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| VC returns continue to climb on IPO, M&A Boston Business Journal (blog) Venture capital performance for the past decade continues to inch upward, according to a new report from the National Venture Capital Association. The report, compiled by the NVCA and Cambridge Associates, says that the return for the benchmark 10-year ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| GlaxoSmithKline to buy Swiss biotech firm Okairos domain-B Basel-based Okairos, which is backed by venture capital investors, including BioMedInvest, the Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund, Novartis Venture Funds and Versant Ventures, is developing a new vaccine technology based on chimpanzee viruses. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Irish tech firms raise €52m in first quarter – IVCA survey Siliconrepublic.com Irish technology companies raised €52m in funding in the first quarter of 2013, new figures released today by the Irish Venture Capital Association (IVCA) suggest. It warned, however, that there could be a potential shortage of seed capital down the line. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Ex-bank advice exec secures £350k IFA software funding ifaonline.co.uk A former Co-op Bank executive has received £350,000 from Enterprise Ventures' North West Fund for Venture Capital to market his new software product for IFAs. Former operations director of the Co-operative Bank's IFA business Paul Alkins received the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Raise Money For Your Business With Crowdfunding Forbes Many businesses reach the point where, to fuel their dreams of expansion, they need to turn to outside investors to get the capital needed to grow. But raising funds from a venture capital or private equity firm can be a tricky and expensive process ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Cooley Bolsters Fund Formation Group; Expands National Tax Practice Wall Street Journal (press release) Naylor joins Cooley from White & Case where he specialized in the representation of private equity, real estate, venture capital and hedge fund sponsors in connection with the tax aspects of structuring investment funds. At Cooley, Naylor will work ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Promotora Venture Capital Exits Easy Solutions PR Web (press release) Promotora, the leading Venture Capital Fund in Colombia, is pleased to announce that it has divested from another of its portfolio companies, Easy Solutions, the only security vendor focused on Total Fraud Protection®, selling its stake of ownership to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Insight Venture Partners Closes New Fund Totaling $2.57 Billion MarketWatch (press release) Insight Venture Partners is a leading global private equity and venture capital firm investing in software, eCommerce, internet and data-services companies. Founded in 1995, Insight has raised more than $7.6 billion and made more than 190 investments ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Gust to Host Second Annual Venture Forward Conference 2013 DigitalJournal.com (press release) The day-long event, taking place at the TriBeCa Rooftop, will convene the world's leading angel investors, venture capitalists, non-traditional investors, and select members of the media to discuss and debate the accessibility, growing interest, and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| VCs distributed more cash in 2012 than they brought in, report says WRAL Tech Wire Returns in that time period continued its upward climb for the 11th consecutive quarter, according to a new study from the National Venture Capital Association and investment consultancy Cambridge Associates. But returns across the one, three, five and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Getting into VCTs early Investors Chronicle Most investors think about putting money into venture capital trusts (VCTs) at the end of the tax year as part of their tax planning strategy, as the attractions of these funds include 30 per cent income tax relief if held for five years, as well as ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| TrackMaven secures $1.25M from investors Washington Post (blog) The company has attracted $1.25 million from a slate of investors, including AOL Ventures, the Internet company's venture capital arm. Among the remaining investors are EmployInsight chief executive Sean Glass, former Condaptive chief executive Hemang ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 10 new early stage investors for Indian tech startups VC Circle Even as a Series A funding crunch is felt in the country with venture capital firms turning cautious, the new funds are coming in to provide an early lifeline for new ventures. "Startup investors help seed the ecosystem, as they are willing to fund ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Dorm Room Fund gives students $500000 to invest in student startups The Stanford Daily Six Stanford undergraduate and graduate students will allocate $500,000 over two years to student startups as investors for the Bay Area Dorm Room Fund, a 10-member investment team run by students and funded by Philadelphia-based venture capital firm ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Numecent lands $13.6 million investment from Deutsche Telekom ZDNet numecent-logo-300px. Silicon Valley startup Numecent announced this morning that it raised $13.6 million from T-Venture, the venture capital arm German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom. Of interest is the company's "cloudpaging" technology, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Do entrepreneurs make the best VCs? Pittsburgh Business Times (blog) We talked about his role at Birchmere Ventures and the fact that being a founder and helping to build a startup is, in his view, the best foundation for a career in venture capital. "I tell people this — I get calls regularly from people in their ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Bain Capital eyes Latin America private equity fund Reuters Private equity and venture capital firms committed $7.9 billion to investments in Latin America in 2012 - a five-year high and a 21 percent increase from 2011, according to the Latin American Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. "I think ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Choosy VCs keep start-ups on their toes Business Standard These activities caught the attention of venture capital (VC) fund Sequoia Capital, which pumped in Rs 25 crore in December last year to fund Practo's expansion plans in India and abroad. However, Practo's case is a rarity today. Unlike two to three ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Just Eat readies plans for listing Financial Times Although the venture capital-backed takeaway specialist says it has plenty of cash on its balance sheet, an IPO is expected to be on the menu at some point soon as demand for ordering food online grows. Mr Buttress, who joined Just Eat from Coca-Cola ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mary Meeker Peers Into the Future of Mobile, Wearables and Facebook New York Times (blog) On Wednesday, Ms. Meeker, who is now a partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, presented the latest version of her influential report at the All Things D conference in California. Here are some major takeaways from her ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| WSJ: Venture capital for clean tech has plunged 44% since 2011 By MS The loans underscore how Mr. Khosla and his firm are sticking with one of the loneliest corners of the venture-capital world—clean technology—as other venture firms have fled following expensive bets on solar and other areas that yielded ... THE HOCKEY SCHTICK |
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| Go as Long as Possible Without Taking Venture Capital - LinkedIn Often I get asked the question: When is the right time to take venture capital? My answer is: Never. Unless you absolutely need to take a round, the best way to ... www.linkedin.com/.../20130528144430-3569651-entreprene... | ||
| Venture Capital and Capital Markets - Academic Earth All of the sources of funding (capital) for a business. academicearth.org/courses/venture-capital-and-capital-markets/ | ||
| Venture Capital Sees Continued Improvement in 10-Year Returns ... If the 2012 trend continues through 2013, venture capitalists will have something to smile about. www.inc.com/.../venture-capital-sees-continued-improvement-... | ||
| Venture capital bill takes away WEDC authority - WLUK Fox 11 Gov. Scott Walker's troubled job-creating agency would be relieved of its duties in overseeing a venture capital fund for Wisconsin startups under an amended ... www.fox11online.com/.../venture-capital-bill-takes-away-wisc... | ||
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| New venture capital bill takes away WEDC authority - WMTV ... A bipartisan group of lawmakers have changed their original proposal for a venture capital fund for Wisconsin startups to remove oversight from Gov. www.nbc15.com/.../New-venture-capital-bill-takes-away-WE... |
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