Although Australia has its share of venture capital firms, Southern Cross Venture Partners is aiming to be the first one that's expressly dedicated to grooming startups for the transition from...
Many startups have hitched their wagons to Facebook Inc.'s application programming interface since it was opened last summer, but few share as close a connection as Chirp Interactive Inc. does....
European venture fund Index Ventures is best-known for lucrative exits on its early-stage investments in Skype Technologies, Last.fm Ltd. and MySQL AB. Now, the firm will target expansion-stage investments with...
While some are pondering the utility of microblogging, the folks at Pownce were celebrating the impending launch of its mobile blogging and file-sharing service with an evening of cocktails...
Facebook held up Microsoft Corp. [MSFT] for $240 million in funding, then tapped Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing for another $60 million. Now, it has turned to three German entrepreneurs...
Leo Linbeck III has a famous name around Houston: His family's business, Linbeck Construction Co., is plastered across construction projects all over the city, particularly in the Texas Medical...
Planning for retirement can be scary. Whether you're buried in debt or have consistently put away 20% of your income since the age of 20, there's always someone out there...
Knowlera Media LLC today launched MonkeySee, another in the growing scrum of instructional video sites. Seeded with more than $1 million from angels, including at least one former AOL executive,...
Digital content management software maker Freepath Inc. on Monday announced a $1.5 million Series A from Velocity Venture Capital, Strategis Early Ventures, Sacramanto Angels and Sierra Angels. The Folsom, Calif.-based...
After funding a handful of niche social networks over the past couple of years, early-stage investor Jeff Clavier is already worried about what will happen to those startups when they...
Seesmic co-founder and CEO Löic Le Meur will test the video blogging startup's planned mobile service in February at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, according to BeetTV's...
Silicon Valley's venture capitalists are, by their own admission, wary about funding any more companies in the already crowded social networking space. But it was a social networking site,...
New healthcare investment fund Santé Ventures plans to hone in on its territory with surgical focus. "We're a $130 million fund, but we're still looking to do $100,000 seed checks,"...
Balderton Capital is wagering on Open Vantage Ltd., the creator of London mobile-phone gambling service betNOW. The firm, known until last summer as Benchmark Capital Europe, has invested an undisclosed...
I've just spent a half hour watching videos on 5min.com learning the Sicilian defense, how to make Thai egg salad (it's all in the pickled garlic) and how to cut...
While last month's merger of travel sites Kayak.com and SideStep may have signaled consolidation in one area of the vertical search market, the job recruitment search sector is still very...
It's rare these days to write about Web 1.0 companies, particularly when there's money involved. But online kitchen and housewares retailer Cooking.com on Wednesday said it entered into a $7 million loan agreement...
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