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As Florida economy revives, venture capital investing sets new lows in state
Tampabay.com
Overall, venture capital nationwide suffered a weak 2012 but nowhere near the declines registered in Florida, according to the MoneyTree report assembled by Pricewaterhouse Coopers and the National Venture Capital Association which began tracking ...
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Spanish banking group ventures into venture capital with $100M fund
VentureBeat
In 1857, the U.K. and France waged the Second Opium War, the U.S. Supreme Court tried the Dred Scott case, and the world's first global economic crisis began. Amid the panic, financial services group BBVA formed in Spain to drive growth in the region.
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Report Challenges Myths About European Venture Industry
Wall Street Journal (blog)
... a lot of ways–the currency they use, the beer they drink and what they call football come to mind–but one thing that isn't very different in either place is the venture industry, a new report from the British Private Equity and Venture Capital...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Venture capital deals
Fortune (blog)
AppDynamics Inc., a San Francisco-based application performance management solution, has raised $50 million in Series D funding. Institutional Venture Partners led the round, and was joined by return backers Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield ...
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Venture capitalist Mark Ashida takes reins at cloud storage startup Symform
GeekWire
Well, here's one job you can score if your venture capital firm starts to wind down: Take over the CEO post at one of your portfolio companies. That's what is occurring at Symform, the cloud storage and backup startup which just last week scored $3 ...
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Great VCs Come From a Range of Backgrounds
Wall Street Journal (blog)
BEN HOLMES: The most successful venture-backed companies are those with great entrepreneurs, disrupting a market at just the right time. Clearly the capital and claimed expertise of VCs do not on their own create a winning company. The entrepreneur ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Proposed Regulatory Uniformity to Boost Venture Capital Investments in ...
PR Newswire (press release)
23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In a shaky economic climate, where fund raising has become tight and there are decreasing opportunities to exit the market, venture capital (VC) firms have become extremely cautious in choosing their investments. This has led ...
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Walker ready to work with lawmakers on venture capital bill
Wisbusiness.com
Scott Walker said he'd like to work with lawmakers on a structure for a venture capital fund before putting it in the state budget he'll unveil next month. If that doesn't happen, Walker said he'd be inclined to continue working on an outline for such ...
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Wisbusiness.com
Venture Capital In The Rockies Deadline Approaches
techrockies.com
The deadline for applying to present at Venture Capital In The Rockies Winter Conference, which is held somewhere in the Mountain West region every winter to help showcase local startups, is quickly approaching, and is now set for January 31st. The ...
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3 Myths Busted about European vs. US Venture Capital success
The Rude Baguette
The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) just published a report dispelling many of the stereotypes and myths about the performance of Europe's VCs. The conventional wisdom has been that Europe's risk-adverse nature and ...
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The Rude Baguette
Flexera Software Awarded Illinois Venture Capital Association's 2012 Private ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Flexera Software Awarded Illinois Venture Capital Association's 2012 Private Equity Portfolio Company of the Year. SCHAUMBURG, IL, Jan 23, 2013 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Flexera Software, the leading provider of application usage management ...
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Ottawa's Mistral Venture Partners Raises Initial C$10M
Private Equity Hub (press release)
Mistral Venture Partners, an Ottawa-based venture capital firm established in 2012, has closed the first phase of its fund-raising activity. Mistral's debut partnership raised C$10 million of its targeted C$35 million, the proceeds of which will go ...
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Ribbit Capital Closes $100M Venture Capital Fund; Launches Inaugural Fund ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
Ribbit Capital, a new Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm led by serial entrepreneur Meyer "Micky" Malka, has set its sights on changing this by raising a significant amount of venture funding that will be aimed singularly at driving innovation ...
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Spain's BBVA Launches $100 milion Venture Initiative
Private Equity Hub (press release)
23, 2013) – Based in Silicon Valley, BBVA Ventures is already establishing ties with startup firms, incubators and venture capital funds in order to identify possible opportunities and offer insight into the financial industry's most innovative ...
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Longtime Sequoia Capital Partner Greg McAdoo To Depart The Firm
TechCrunch
Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, McAdoo served as CEO of Sentient Networks, which he steered through its $445 million sale to Cisco in 1999. Earlier on, McAdoo was trained as an engineer — according to his bio on Sequoia's website, his first ...
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TechCrunch
Venture Gains
Florida Trend
Harbert Venture Partners, an Alabama-based venture capital firm that has a Gainesville office at the University of Florida's new Innovation Hub, was the lead investor in a $4.1-million funding round that closed in October. "It's good to have a ...
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Why Charlotte will host the Southeast Venture Conference
Charlotte Business Journal (blog)
This will be Charlotte's first time hosting the event, and local startup boosters have pinned high hopes on the conference lifting Charlotte's profile in the venture capital and tech scene. The conference is organized by TechMedia, a Raleigh-based ...
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NVP's Promod Haque on the biggest opportunities in the tech sector
Silicon Valley Business Journal
Norwest Venture Partners, a global venture capital and investment firm with $3.7 billion in investments under management, today announced a slew of new promotions. I thought that was as good an opportunity as any to catch up with the firm and see what ...
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Apperian adds Intel Capital funding for mobile app management biz
Boston Business Journal (blog)
In the news release, Intel Capital VP Lisa Lambert said her firm, the venture capital arm of Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC), invested in Apperian because it is "helping enterprises transform the way they do business," through "enabling the secure ...
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Best Buy Capital Invests in Solegear Bioplastics
Private Equity Hub (press release)
The Best Buy Capital investment follows a Series A financing of Solegear in June, 2012, led by Canadian venture capital firm Yaletown Venture Partners and was joined by a number of angel investors. PRESS RELEASE. Best Buy Capital Makes Strategic ...
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For Bessemer Venture Partners 2012 Proved a Banner Year: Highlights Include ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Bessemer Venture Partners, a top venture capital firm backing great entrepreneurs who lead transformative startups and other high growth companies, ended 2012 on a high note counting five IPOs and a number of major M&A exits. The partnership, known ...
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Wercker Makes Code Delivery Easy, Gets Seed Funding From Shamrock ...
TechCrunch
NexusLabs, a foundation based in Amsterdam and at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., fosters innovation and supported Wercker with refining their pitch and helped bring venture capital parties from the United States to the table. Wercker is a new breed of ...
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Blogs4 new results for Venture Capital
 
Venture capital investing sets new low in Florida | The Starting Gate
By Nancy Dahlberg
By ROBERT TRIGAUX, Tampa Bay Times Business Columnist Drip drip drip If venture capital investing in Florida firms made a noise, it would sound like a garden hose slowly running out of water. It fell to historic lows last year, whether ...
The Starting Gate
Greg McAdoo Exits Sequoia Capital - Kara Swisher - News ...
By Kara Swisher
Longtime Sequoia Capital venture capitalist Greg McAdoo will be leaving the Silicon Valley firm. McAdoo, who will stay aboard for a few more months to smooth the transition, has made a number of significant investments as a VC over the ...
AllThingsD
DealCurry.com : Update: Exide To Acquire Remaining Stake In ING ...
By Charmi Gutka
ING is under a restructuring process and prior to this deal it exited its insurance ventures in Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong while it plans to leave the markets of China, Japan and South Korea as well. ING Life Insurance is a JV between ING Insurance International BV and Exide Industries (50%). ... During 2010-11, promoters have invested capital of R240 Cr in the company. ING was also planning to sell its Indian mutual fund business - ING Investment Management (India) Pvt. Ltd ...
DEALCURRY - Mergers & Acquisitions,...
LS9 brings in new CEO, says "not shutting down" — Tech News and ...
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Venture capital-backed startup LS9 has brought on a new CEO, Tjerk de Ruiter, who previously led biotech company Genencor, now owned by DuPont. Ruiter has been Chairman of the Board of LS9 since August 2012, and LS9′s former ...
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