Not many A-round startups can say they were once worth $1B. One that can is Esperion Therapeutics, which drug giant Pfizer Inc. [PFE] said this morning it will spin out...
Early Salesforce.com Inc. [CRM] employee Tien Tzuo resigned last year to co-found Zuora Inc., a provider of outsourced subscription management services to on-demand software companies. Now, Salesforce founder Marc Benioff...
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 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...
Amateur sports team planning site TeamPages Inc.has raised $477,000 in first-round financing from Burda Digital Ventures and several angels. What's interesting is how forfeiting soccer matches led the founders to...
I love hanging out with entrepreneurs, so it was fun to attend a FundingPost event held Tuesday in Austin, Texas. I was surrounded by people who have way more guts...
A small deal announced in mid-September by MoneyGram International Inc. for PropertyBridge Inc. highlights a growing trend in early-stage investing. Claremont Creek Ventures, the backers of PropertyBridge, an electronic payment...
Online collaboration software company Wikinvest said on Monday it has raised a $2.5 million Series A round from DCM, a $1.6 billion fund that makes investments in early-stage companies, and...
Seed- and early-stage investors are acutely aware that their liquidity events depend on later investors, possibly a venture fund, seeing their deal and believing that it can be sold...
ThromboVision Inc., a Houston life sciences company, has raised $4 million in first-round funding for clinical trials of its individual platelet monitoring system used after heart attacks and strokes. The...
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