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| Government unveils €175 million venture capital scheme for SMEs Irish Times The Seed and Venture Capital Scheme, promised under the Government's action plan for jobs, is aimed at providing additional funding for high-growth Irish companies with the potential to generate large amounts of additional export sales and grow jobs. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Morning briefing: Charter schools, venture capital bill, Medicaid expansion ... Capital Times New venture capital bill takes away WEDC authority: An Associated Press story reports: "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 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Solomo Technology raises $1.7 million in venture capital Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Solomo Technology Inc., which provides mobile technology tools to retailers and other businesses, has raised $1.7 million of venture capital funding. The Madison company operates in the emerging software category of indoor location services and has ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Harsh Patel Joins Foundation Capital as Entrepreneur in Residence Wall Street Journal Foundation Capital today announced that veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur and venture capitalist Harsh Patel has joined the firm as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR). Patel comes to Foundation Capital with strong experience in the technology startup ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| NM out of the loop as VC firms reap high returns Albuquerque Business First There's a lack of data on return on investment for venture capital deals in New Mexico, but the state should be on track to mirror national VC trends, David Blivin, managing partner of the Cottonwood Technology Fund, said Thursday. Dan Mayfield ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Change to venture capital bill would cut out WEDC Wisbusiness.com Change to venture capital bill would cut out WEDC 5/30/2013. A proposed change to the venture capital bill would cut the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. out of the venture capital process altogether. The original bill gave WEDC two seats on a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Canadian VCs urge young entrepreneurs to break 'unrealistic' expectations Financial Post Each of the panelists agreed with Mr. Varma that it was time for venture capitalists "to make some risky decisions about changing the dynamic and make-up of our economy," by making better investments in what is commonly referred to as the knowledge ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Government wants to increase the fund to €700m through private investment RTE.ie The Government has launched a new scheme which will see €175m in seed and venture capital funding made available for Irish companies which have the potential to grow jobs and generate large amounts of export sales. Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| S.Korea to boost small businesses via new capital market Xinhua SEOUL, May 31 (Xinhua) -- South Korea planned to incubate and nurture small companies through a new capital market called "KONEX " that would enhance access of growth venture companies to the equity capital market, a senior official of the main bourse ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Dering Hall Gets $1.4M From Lerer Ventures, Softbank, And Others To Bring ... TechCrunch Dering Hall, a New York City based startup that runs a digital platform focused on high-end home design, has landed $1.4 million in a new round of venture capital. The investment, which serves as a seed round, included participation from Lerer Ventures ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Venture capitalist becomes director at Hays Stock Market Wire During his career, he has worked at Booz Allen Hamilton and Deutsche TelekomAG in senior executive positions and since 2005 has been a partner in Grazia Equity, a Munich-based venture capital firm. In addition to his venture capital activities, he has ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Will improving venture returns reach D.C.? Washington Business Journal (blog) Venture capital performance, nationally, is getting better. Average returns for the 10-year period ending Dec. 31, 2012, stood at 6.9 percent, the National Venture Capital Association announced this week. That's more than double the returns from the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Softbank Capital Raises $51M to Invest in New York Tech Startups The Next Web Softbank Capital, a venture capital group in the US affiliated with Japanese telecommunications company Softbank, has raised $51.02 million in new funding to invest in technology startups based in New York. The firm said in a statement that its New ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Atlantic Venture Forum Only Three Weeks Away with Less Than 30 Tickets Left Techvibes (blog) The inaugural Atlantic Venture Forum is next month in Halifax and it's already being tagged as Atlantic Canada's premier access to capital event. Just three weeks away, less than 30 tickets remain for sale. The lineup of keynote speakers is impressive ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Thoughts on Why Good Venture Investors Turn Down Good Deals The National Law Review If you know anything about venture capital investing, you probably know that most plans that come across the desks of venture capitalists (and angels, for that matter) are not fundable. They are of so little merit that no half-way competent investor ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| TuneIn raises $25m to keep streaming radio to its 40m listeners The Guardian TuneIn's latest funding round was led by venture capital firm Institutional Venture Partners, with previous investors Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures and General Catalyst Partners chipping in. The round brings TuneIn's total funding so far to $47m ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Capital injections for SMEs Budapest Times State venture capital fund Széchenyi Tõkebefektetési Base (SZTA) has received European Union approval to increase its maximum single capital injection from EUR 200,000 to EUR 750,000, deputy state secretary of the Ministry of National Development ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Silicon Wadi Hopes Waze Becomes 'Instagram of Israel' Businessweek Last year, Israeli venture-capital funds raised $607 million, down 30 percent from 2011, according to the IVC Research Center, which tracks Israeli startups. Magma Venture Partners and Vertex Venture Capital, both based in Israel, are among the early ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| TubeMogul gets $10 million, Asia bound San Francisco Business Times (blog) The lead investor in the funding was SingTel Innov8, the corporate venture capital arm of the SingTel Group. Cross Creek Capital, a venture fund associated with Wasatch Advisors, also committed capital, along with prior investors Digital Advertising ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Health-care startups see an Obama bump MarketWatch "The number of providers and venture capital organizations that want into our next program is more than we can deal with," says David Whitlinger, executive director of the New York eHealth Collaborative, which runs a digital health accelerator program ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Cooley, Steptoe, Gibson Dunn, Sidley, Hogan: Business of Law Businessweek "Our venture capital group has been involved more frequently with structurally complex international funds that raise intricate tax issues," Craig Dauchy, head of the firm's venture capital practice, said in a statement. "Jeremy has the international ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Startup city: Berlin as tech magnet Globe and Mail But, particularly over the past six months, the cluster in Mitte has started to gain global attention, including from U.S. venture capital funds. The Berlin scene is sometimes referred to as Silicon Allee, though people who actually live locally would ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Venture's Cleantech Retreat Hits Early & Late Stage Deals Equally Thomson Reuters' peHUB (press release) Venture capital going to companies in the sector fell 61% in the first quarter to $369 million and deal volume dropped 25% year-over-year. This data comes from the MoneyTree Report, put together in April by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| SoftBank Capital Raises $51 Million for Early-Stage Investments in Technology ... WebWire (press release) New York, NY – SoftBank Capital, a venture group affiliated with Japan's SoftBank Corp., today announced that it raised an additional $51.02 million to invest in early-stage New York State technology startups. The additional capital extends SoftBank ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| TV Dragon launches estate agency B&C Distributor A former TV Dragon's property-focused venture capital firm Hamilton Bradshaw Real Estate (HBRE) has launched its latest venture, a Surrey-based estate agency. The James Cann-backed estate agency Ivy Gate, founded by Jason Tebb, formerly Regional ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Energy's red lines blur between green, fossil Vancouver Sun And its starkest example is California-based Glasspoint Solar Inc., backed by Vancouver-based clean-tech fund Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, which began working on old oil fields initially in California, and is now in Oman this month. "We need to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UK's first VC-backed equity crowdfunding platform to launch Real Business The UK's first venture capital backed equity platform for buying shares in unlisted companies is to launch next week. Actively recruiting investors from next Wednesday, InvestingZone enables early stage UK companies to raise investment through ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Private equity the way to promote EU growth - Frontier Economics report Investment Europe The report, commissioned by the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA), analysed more than 60 academic and professional studies, as well as publicly available data. It found that private equity contributes to the creation of up ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Busbud Inks $1M First-Time Deal with iNovia and Real Ventures Thomson Reuters' peHUB (press release) As part of the deal, VCs David Nault (iNovia Capital) and JS Cournoyer (Real Ventures) are joining as board members, while Chris Arsenault, Managing Partner of iNovia Capital, joins Sylvain Langis, 25-year bus industry veteran and founder of Canadian ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Too Many 'Wanta-preneurs' In China Can't Be A Good Thing Forbes Speaking at Silicon Dragon Beijing 2013, William Bao Bean of SingTel SingTel Innov8 and an angel investor, observes that the venture capital market is shrinking in China while angel money is on the rise though still small. Compared to a U.S. angel pool ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| What's happening at Agate Medical Globes Valeritas is an American company that has two Israeli investors: Pitango Venture Capital, and Agate Medical Investments, which apparently invested several million dollars each in the current round. From a presentation to investors by Agate that has ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Money and talent drive East Coast business revival Globe and Mail Halifax-based Build Ventures launched on May 14, fuelled by investments from the Government of Nova Scotia ($15 million), the Government of New Brunswick ($15 million), the Government of Prince Edward Island ($2.5 million), BDC Venture Capital ($10 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Orchestro Selected to Present on Main Stage at MAVA Capital Connection 2013 PYMNTS.com ... Main Stage at Mid-Atlantic Venture Association's Capital Connection 2013, a prestigious gathering of top executives, institutional investors and venture capitalists discussing the breakthrough applications and transformative strategies in growth ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Small-cap manager: There are too few investment opportunities, so I'm handing ... What Investment The Artemis Venture Capital Trust, which focuses on AIM-listed companies, has revealed that it plans to return money to shareholders due to a dearth of attractive investment options. The fund - which has beaten the AIM index over one, three and five ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Revival in private equity Financial Mail A fund-raising cycle is under way in SA's private equity industry, says Erika van der Merwe, CE of the SA Venture Capital& Private Equity Association (Savca). It ends a period of stagnation in which private equity funds under management rose ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Aavishkaar II nears final close at $95M; to take impact investing to Southeast ... VC Circle Aavishkaar Venture Management, a venture capital firm focused on India's rural areas and bottom-of-the-pyramid (BoP) space, expects to make the final close of its second venture capital fund Aavishkaar India II Company Ltd next month with around $95. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Fiber Optic Machine Maker's Fast Growth Likely To Slow With Defense Cuts Hartford Courant Six years ago, when Nufern had 71 employees, the fiber optic and laser machine manufacturer's president was selling a vision of expansive growth to venture capitalists and to the state's own venture capital arm, Connecticut Innovations. Martin Seifert ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| GrowthWorks Amends Secondary Investment Agreement with Roseway Thomson Reuters' peHUB (press release) GrowthWorks Canadian Fund, managed by Vancouver-based GrowthWorks, has amended an agreement with Roseway Capital LP, managed by British venture capital firm Rosetta Capital, pertaining to a $20 million secondary investment made in the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| GUEST EDITORIAL — Michigan is becoming a smart investment HollandSentinel.com Money attracts money, and Michigan is attracting a lot more venture capital today than it has in a decade and at a faster pace than the rest of the nation. A new report from the Michigan Venture Capital Association says the state jumped to the 15th ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Former SAP exec is newest Andreessen Horowtiz partner USA TODAY Today, the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm added its eighth general partner, former SAP executive board member and SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard, who stepped down from SAP last week. "I've wanted to be an investor for 20 years," Dalgaard told ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Visier Raises $15M Series B Financing Round Thomson Reuters' peHUB (press release) Vancouver-based Visier Inc., which provides cloud-based workforce analytics for business managers and human resource professionals, has raised a $15 million Series B financing round led by U.S. venture capital firm Summit Partners. Existing backer ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Venture capitalists blurring green energy's red lines | Energy | News ... By Yadullah Hussain Instead of the perceived epic battle between renewables and fossil fuels, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs are discovering practical ways for traditional and alternative energy sectors to converge, collaborate and co-exist. Financial Post - Top Stories | ||
| Qriously Raises $3.5 Million Led By Spark Capital For Its Question ... By Steve O'Hear Founded eight years ago, Spark Capital is a leading venture capital firm focused on early stage startups. Spark's portfolio includes companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, AdMeld, OMGPOP (acq Zynga), ThePlatform (acq Comcast), ... TechCrunch » Europe |
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| BDC Venture Capital Commits $20 Million to EnerTech Capital ... EnerTech Opens Two New Canadian Offices in Calgary & Montréal. TORONTO , May 27, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - Today, BDC Venture Capital announced a ... finance.yahoo.com/.../bdc-venture-capital-commits-20-16000... |
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