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| Velocity Venture Capital, NVCA, and Kauffman Kick off the 4(th) Year of the ... Wall Street Journal In collaboration with the National Venture Capital Association and the Kauffman Fellows Program, Velocity Venture Capital announced today the kick off of its fourth annual Entrepreneurs Showcase to identify and support new technology companies in the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Seasoned venture capitalists set up new Israeli fund Haaretz Seasoned venture capitalists set up new Israeli fund. As Israeli high tech enjoys a wave of favorable global exposure following Google's acquisition of Waze, Aleph, established by Michael Eisenberg and Eden Shochat, will announce a $120 million closing ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Rich Guy Wants To Raise Minimum Wage to $15-Per-Hour Politix Hanauer, founder of Second Avenue Partners, a venture capital company in Seattle specializing in early-stage startups and emerging technology, writes in Bloomberg View that a minimum wage boost would help boost not just low-income workers. It would ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Venture capital deals Fortune (blog) 3-V Biosciences Inc., a Menlo Park, Calif.-based developer of therapeutics that modulate key pathways in oncology and infectious disease, has raised $20 million in Series C funding from return backers Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and New Enterprise ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Google Ventures and its investing tactics a new formula for venture capital... Boston.com This is decidedly not how Google, that apotheosis of our data-driven economy, wants to approach the high-stakes business of investing in the next, well, Google. Unlike venture capitalists of old, the company's rising VC arm focuses not on the art of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Trendlines to raise NIS 300m venture capital fund Globes Trendlines Group Ltd. today announced that it is embarking on raising capital for a new NIS 300 million venture capital fund, which will invest in medical devices and cleantech companies. Trendlines, owned by co-chairmen and CEOs D. Todd Dollinger and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Aleph to raise $100m first venture capital fund Globes Serial investor and former Genesis Partners partner Eden Shochat has teamed up with Benchmark Capital partner Michael Eisenberg to establish a new $100 million venture capital fund, to be called Aleph. Eisenberg will apparently leave Benchmark for the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| How has crowdfunding changed the venture capital landscape? MedCity News bigstock-crowd-funding-crowdfunding-or--42061870 Crowdfunding has stormed the startup scene. Many entrepreneurs are turning to platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo to raise funds rather than seeking traditional seed capital. Success stories like ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Bill Draper: Why venture returns have fallen dramatically and will likely stay ... PandoDaily (blog) The concept is less scary for Bill Draper, one of the earliest venture capitalists to set up shop in Silicon Valley. He remembers a time in the early 1960s before deal flow ever existed. Back then the concept of venture capital was so new, he had to go ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Dropbox CEO, 24, shares screenshot of the moment $950000 was wired to his ... Daily Mail It's an eye-watering amount of money, but the CEO of Dropbox, Drew Houston, 30, decided to share the balance of his bulging bank account during a speech to graduating students. He displayed a screenshot of his bank account, showing the moment when ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Investor urges start-ups to consider Asia for funds and markets StartupSmart ... for a "significant return", has also questioned complaints of a lack of funding for start-ups in Australia, pointing out that earlier this year three new venture capital funds shared $100 million in funding from the federal government's Innovation ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Betting on the next big exit Haaretz "We were the first to give them a term sheet," recalls Levy, a managing partner at Vertex Venture Capital. That turned out to be a wise decision. Investors who injected between $5 million and $6 million dollars into the mobile navigation startup early ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Flying robots company Cyberhawk Innovations backed by venture capital firm GrowthBusiness.co.uk Scottish Equity Partners' Environmental Energies Fund is a £95 million secondaries pot created to buy and invest in UK-based green energy businesses which were originally supported by energy company SSE as well as the fund's blue-chip capital ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| FundAmerica CEO: Crowdfunding Is 'Bigger Than the Internet' Wall Street Journal (blog) Purcell spoke with Venture Capital Dispatch about the nascent crowdfunding industry. An edited version of that interview follows: Do you think crowdfunding is as big as the Internet? Even bigger, actually–but it's important for different reasons. In ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Snapchat gets $60 million in venture financing San Jose Mercury News SAN FRANCISCO -- Snapchat, a service that allows users to exchange fleeting photo messages, raised $60 million in a funding round led by venture-capital firm IVP, the company said Monday. Snapchat also attracted a high-profile board member: Sony of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Michigan's Huron River Ventures Partners Announces $11M Fund For Energy ... TechCrunch based early stage venture capital firm, just announced that it recently closed the final round of its first fund, Huron River Ventures I at $11 million. Tim Streit and Ryan Waddington, managing directors of Huron River Ventures, are ready to invest in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| At Google Ventures, data drives investing Upstart The UpTake: Gut-driven investing is out at Google Ventures. But even if the data lines up, you won't get money if you're a jerk. Google Ventures, aside from its famous corporate parent, is pioneering a new path for venture capital, one based on big data. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Lyons: Coordinated lobbying push helped with VC bill success WisPolitics.com After multiple false starts on a venture capital bill last session, those connected to the early stage investment industry knew they had to come up with a new plan this time around. An initial effort in 2011 to set up a venture capital fund for the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Snapchat lands $60 million and new board member Michael Lynton Reuters SAN FRANCISCO | Mon Jun 24, 2013 1:39pm EDT. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Snapchat, a service that allows users to exchange fleeting photo messages, raised $60 million in a funding round led by venture-capital firm IVP, the company said on Monday. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Osprey Capital invests 35% into Mansard Capital IVCPOST Osprey Capital Limited, a venture capital firm from the United Kingdom, has announced an investment of 35% in Mansard Capital. Mansard Capital is a company which manages specialist investments and also performs discretionary management services, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Joint venture buys 16 industrial buildings in NE Ohio as part of larger purchase Crain's Cleveland Business A joint venture led by Hackman Capital of Los Angeles has acquired 16 buildings in Northeast Ohio as it bought a portfolio of 24 multitenant industrial properties in Ohio for an undisclosed price. The portfolio consists of industrial buildings built or ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Voices: Benefits of Growing a Startup in San Diego Voice of San Diego The model of launching a business solely to go public or exit as quickly as possible is valued by many over the "lifestyle" businesses that venture capitalists quickly overlook. However, launching a company based on deep passion and expertise, along ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| June 23, 2013|By Wailin Wong, Chicago Tribune reporter Chicago Tribune Chicago venture capital firm Lightbank has steered numerous startups through the pivot process. (Phil Velasquez, Chicago Tribune). It requires emotional detachment yet total passion. It might involve killing a business in order to save it. It's by ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Donner Metals Announces Financing Junior Mining Network MONTREAL, QUÉBEC--(Marketwired - June 24, 2013) - Donner Metals Ltd. ("Donner" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:DON)(FRANKFURT:D4M) reports that it has entered into an agreement with Secutor Capital Management Corp. and Marquest Capital ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| VC Dispatch Wall Street Journal FitStar Labs Inc. recently raised $4 million in venture capital to back iPad apps that would feature a variety of fitness celebrities acting as trainers for custom-video workouts. The apps adapt workout to an individual's vital signs, picking them up ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Clarabridge Appoints Karl Knoll as General Counsel The Herald | HeraldOnline.com While there, Knoll's team focused on the representation of a broad array of domestic and international technology companies and venture capital (VC) investors in mergers and acquisitions (M&As), VC and private equity investment transactions ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Sir Ronald Cohen to establish Israeli social investment bank Globes Cohen, a pioneer in British venture capital, founded Apax Partners in 1972. Over the years, Apax has invested more than $2 billion in Israel - the acquisition of control in Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Co. Ltd. (TASE: BEZQ) and Tnuva Food Industries ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Karping About Creativity MediaPost Communications Last week I attended True University, a two-day seminar for startups hosted by True Ventures, the West Coast venture capital firm. The event, held at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., brought together over 250 people from True's 150-plus companies. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Big pharma turns to smaller firms for innovation Globe and Mail "The pharma guys have come to a big cycle in the last five years where a lot of products are coming off patent," says Peter Van Der Velden, managing general partner of Lumira Capital, a venture fund that specializes in investments in life sciences and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Snapchat raises $US60m in funding Business Spectator Snapchat, a service that allows users to exchange fleeting photo messages has raised $US60 million in a funding round led by venture-capital firm IVP. Snapchat has also attracted a high-profile board member: Sony Corp. of America chief executive ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Steve Blank: The 6 Types of Startups Wall Street Journal (blog) Scalable startups require risk capital to fund their search for a business model, and they attract investment from equally crazy financial investors – venture capitalists. They hire the best and the brightest. Their job is to search for a repeatable ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Hackman Capital JV buys 16 Cleveland-area industrial properties as part of 28 ... Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A joint venture led by Hackman Capital Partners LLC, a Los Angeles company with Ohio ties, has purchased 28 industrial buildings and two land parcels scattered across the state. Sixteen of the multi-tenant buildings, comprising ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Cleantech Investing: The Missing Secondary Fund Greentech Media The best venture capital firms pride themselves on finding business opportunities in the gray zones between established and adjacent industries in a value chain. It is in these gray zones where promising startups satisfy unmet market needs and accrue ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Snapchat Raises $60 Million to Grow Staff, Monetize Los Angeles Business Journal Snapchat Inc., the Venice company that makes the almost unimaginably popular eponymous messaging app, has closed another venture capital round. The investment – a series B – is worth $60 million according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Snapchat sees 200 million snaps a day, announces $60 million funding Los Angeles Times Institutional Venture Partners, a later-stage venture-capital firm based in Menlo Park, Calif., said in its own blog post that the financing round for Snapchat was "intensely competitive -- one of the most competitive financings we have been a part of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Chris Horn: exits and HR tactics the key to a thriving local tech scene Siliconrepublic.com Horn, who has been involved in starting cloud-based technology companies such as CloudSmith, is currently a partner at Dublin-based venture capital firm Atlantic Bridge, where he looks at European and US start-ups. He will be speaking tomorrow night at ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mohr Davidow Ventures Partner Scott Hartley Selected as a Presidential ... Wall Street Journal Hartley has been a partner of Mohr Davidow Ventures, a Silicon Valley early stage venture capital firm, since July 2011. His experience prior to MDV included scaling two operations teams for Google in India, acting as Google's rich media and display ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Live Long and Prosper Through Open-Data Innovations StateTech Magazine In a series examining changes in the venture capital industry, The Atlantic Cities identified 20 of the top metro areas for venture capital investment in the United States. These "cradles of innovation" are a magnet for venture capitalists looking for ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Honest Buildings raises $5.5M, expands beyond energy data GigaOM New investor the Westly Group joined the round, which also included current investor RockPort Capital. Honest Buildings also counts early investors Mohr Davidow Ventures, Spring Ventures, Jason Scott, managing partner at EKO Asset Management ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| EPIC, Dowling Capital Form Protector Holdings to Capture Hispanic Market Insurance Journal Protector Holdings, based in San Francisco, was formed by Edgewood Partners Insurance Center (EPIC) and Dowling Capital Partners (DCP), which is financially backing the venture. "We saw an opportunity to serve this demographic with a bigger breadth of ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Sonendo Raises $18M in Venture Capital Funding - FinSMEs By FinSMEs Sonendo, a Laguna Hills, Calif.-based provider of technologies for endodontic therapy, raised $18m in venture capital funding. The company completed the second of two equity financings announced last year, for a total of $27m. The round ... FinSMEs | ||
| DealCurry.com : Nereus Capital Raises $100 Mn For India Fund By Pranav Puri Author: Pranav Puri , Category: Private Equity , Industry: Cleantech , Title: Nereus Capital Raises $100 Mn For India Fund , Snippet: Nereus Capital Management LLC has raised as much as $100 Mn for its Nereus Capital's India Alternative Energy Fund from ... PE-funded Indian wind and solar developers include Morgan Stanley's Continuum Wind Energy Pte Ltd. and Kiran Energy Solar Power Pvt. backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, an early funder of Skype Technologies SA. DEALCURRY - Mergers & Acquisitions,... |
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| Evidence, Finally, that VCs Are More Important than Their ... - peHUB The National Venture Capital Association this week named a new president after sifting through more than 100 resumes during a. Author : mboslet. Stratasys To ... www.pehub.com/.../evidence-finally-that-vcs-more-important-... | ||
| Renaissance Venture Capital Fund Invests. MI Businesses Grow ... DETROIT, Mich., June 17, 2013 – The Renaissance Venture Capital Fund (RCVF ), Michigan's innovative venture capital fund-of-funds, today announced that its ... www.businessleadersformichigan.com/.../renaissance-venture-... | ||
| Velocity Venture Capital, NVCA, and Kauffman Kick off the 4th Year ... In collaboration with the National Venture Capital Association and the Kauffman Fellows Program, Velocity Venture Capital announced today the kick off. www.businesswire.com/news/sacbee/20130624006285/en |
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