The head of the CTEK Boulder Venture Center business incubator has resigned to form a new angel fund called Mountain Angel Capital. Marc Silverman, the former head of CTEK...
New Mexico startup Holochip Corp. scored a $2.7 million Series A round from ITU Ventures this week. The company previously had raised an undisclosed seed round from ITU and...
For those of you unfamiliar with Tech Coast Angels chair Frank Peters, now might be the perfect time to download a few of his podcasts on venture capital and angel investing...
Medical technology startups based on research licensed from Purdue University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have both scored seed financing. MatrixBio LLC, which received an undisclosed...
Extreme Venture Partners has raised a $10 million fund to make seed investments in Toronto-area consumer Internet and wireless startups. Amar Varma, who has held down a job at...
Paul Kedrosky, a venture capitalist and senior fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, recently posted a few thoughts on Peter Thiel and his PayPal buddies raising their $220 million...
Elemental Technologies Inc., a software company that is developing a way to stream movies over multicore processors, raised $1 million led by the Oregon Angel Fund, with participation from the...
Much like choosing the next hit TV show, picking the next hot social network to invest in may come down more to luck than to technology or market analysis. Jeff...
Longtime Silicon Valley angel investor Hal Nissley says he has a foolproof test for deciding whether to invest in one of the thousands of startups that approach him each year:...
B-Side Entertainment is building a business by collecting and analyzing information gleaned from attendees at film festivals. The startup, which was founded in 2005 by Chris Hyams (left), is effectively...
Attention angels, a newcomer has joined your ranks. And he comes with a pedigree. Chris Sacca, the guy behind Google Inc.'s efforts to open up wireless spectrum, has decided to...
This may not be a new debate, but it's one worth revisiting as the competition for stakes in capital-efficient early-stage startups pits angel investors against venture capital firms. Knox Massey,...
Micro-machining company Atometric Inc. has received $450,000 from Illinois' Stateline Angels. Atometric makes tiny parts for factories and other industrial uses. It's also building a self-contained production unit that a...
Two seed fundings announced this week would have escaped mention on this blog if it weren't for the fact that the Web sites for each company are so strikingly...
Four Canadian angels have teamed up to create a resource for those interested in angel investing and forming angel groups. The self-published book, "Age of the Angel: Best Practices for...
St Andrews Fuel Cells Ltd. has scored a £700,000 ($1.4 million) round of investment led by Sigma Capital Partners plc. Sigma, a private equity fund, invested £250,000 in the startup...
Things have been a bit hectic over here for the last few days, but I'm still embarrassed that I missed the creation of a $2 million fund to invest in...
A few ex-Googlers walked away with a $50,000 prize after winning the Amazon.com Startup Challenge. Ooyala, a startup that takes information from online video to enable mashups and other...
ESP Systems LLC, the maker of a wireless system that connects waiters with restaurant patrons, has raised $250,000 of a planned $2.6 million round from the Virginia Active Angel...
British blog posting and feed reader company Favorit Ltd. has raised an undisclosed seed round from angel investor David Richmond. Favorit was formed in 2007 and competes with blog...
The Association of University Technology Managers released its annual report earlier this week detailing how universities, hospitals and institutions fared in 2006 in transferring research to the private sector. Essentially,...
Many failed tech startups could've enjoyed a happier fate by acknowledging their troubles early on and courting corporate buyers while there is still money in the bank, longtime angel investor...
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