October 2007
[Posted on October 31, 2007 - 11:56 PM]
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Just as Facebook took a huge step forward earlier this year by opening up its platform to outside applications, person to person lending startup Prosper raised its ambitions today by...
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[Posted on October 30, 2007 - 1:40 PM]
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Electric cars have been around for decades, and much of the new development in this area has simply taken advantage of incremental improvements in technology of existing components. By contrast,...
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[Posted on October 26, 2007 - 3:12 PM]
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A $30 million Series B investment round for Allozyne Inc. represents the third B round graduation for biotech incubator Accelerator Corp., with the monoclonal antibody engineering company following autoimmune and...
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[Posted on October 25, 2007 - 5:49 PM]
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While long-time investors in Atrica Inc. must have winced at the reported $100 million sales price for the optical networking startup, more recent backers are breathing a sigh of relief...
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[Posted on October 25, 2007 - 12:20 AM]
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JibJab's founders and creative minds, the Spiridelli brothers, are brilliant. But the laughs they will create in the coming years will exceed the profits. The numbers just don't add up...
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[Posted on October 24, 2007 - 11:32 PM]
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Local online commerce startup Judy's Book said today it is scaling back its operations and seeking a strategic buyer. The news shouldn't come as a shock. What began as an...
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[Posted on October 24, 2007 - 5:00 PM]
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Intel Corp. is jubilant over the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union's decision to include WiMax among the third-generation wireless standards. And given the company's active investment in startups depending on...
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[Posted on October 24, 2007 - 4:39 PM]
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The smoke surrounding who would grab a chunk of Facebook finally cleared Wednesday afternoon, with Microsoft Corp. announcing a $240 million equity investment that values the social networking company...
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[Posted on October 22, 2007 - 3:37 PM]
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Company: SocialMedia Networks Description: Ad network for social networks Competitors: RockYou, Slide Location: Mill Valley, CA Amount Raised: $3.5 million Round: First Date Announced: 10/17/07 VC Firms: Charles River Ventures...
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[Posted on October 19, 2007 - 4:27 PM]
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Well on its way to closing its seventh fund since inaugurating investment in 1985, Southern California venture firm Enterprise Partners has told the San Diego Union that it's stopped raising...
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[Posted on October 19, 2007 - 1:57 PM]
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I had the pleasure of introducing Vinod Khosla yesterday afternoon at a Menlo Park cleantech symposium cosponsored by Goodwin Procter LLP and The Deal. The legendary venture capitalist walked...
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[Posted on October 18, 2007 - 3:54 PM]
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The market for wireless applications must be particularly frustrating for venture investors who invested in strong core technology a few years back, then sat back and watched as an evolving...
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[Posted on October 16, 2007 - 4:57 PM]
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Oil giant Chevron Corp. has boosted the amount of capital committed to its VC program, Chevron Technology Ventures, in a fourth fund that will invest $75 million in startups,...
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[Posted on October 15, 2007 - 6:54 PM]
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Motricity Inc. is putting the finishing touches on a $185 million round of private funding, Ryan Wuerch, chairman and CEO of the mobile content software company, tells Tech Confidential. The...
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[Posted on October 15, 2007 - 4:15 PM]
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Venture capitalists and other private equity investors continue to reshape the plant biotechnology world by investing in biofuel development, the latest example being a deal of undisclosed but...
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[Posted on October 12, 2007 - 6:44 PM]
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Even as some of the largest VC firms focus increasingly on late-stage investments and even create specialized quasi-PC vehicles to put large amounts of money to work, early-stage specialists are...
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[Posted on October 12, 2007 - 11:33 AM]
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Every industry has its old guard and its up-and-comers; its nine-to-fivers coasting on past accomplishments and its all-nighters looking to make a name for themselves. Panelists at International Business Forum's...
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[Posted on October 10, 2007 - 4:34 PM]
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Silicon Valley venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson has been busy expanding its international network of affiliates. Wednesday it announced Israeli venture firm Tamir Fishman Ventures has become the latest...
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[Posted on October 10, 2007 - 2:43 PM]
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Life sciences investment lands a clean bill of health again from New Leaf Venture Partners, which has increased the size of its second fund since spinning off of Sprout Group...
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[Posted on October 10, 2007 - 2:28 PM]
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NTT DoCoMo Inc. and KT Freetel Co. Ltd. announced plans to start a $33 million venture capital fund next month that will back mobile and IT firms in South Korea...
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[Posted on October 9, 2007 - 1:44 AM]
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Sequoia Capital general partner Michael Moritz refers to them as "the engineers". But, the employees at the Google and Yahoo venture capitalist's latest portfolio company are not developing breakthrough technology....
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[Posted on October 8, 2007 - 6:22 PM]
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Federal legislation sought by the biotech industry is a step closer to removing hurdles that blocked venture-backed companies from programs that foster small business.The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed...
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[Posted on October 8, 2007 - 4:55 PM]
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GreenFuel Technologies Corp., which has raised about $20 million in venture capital from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Polaris Venture Partners to develop technology for creating biodiesel and ethanol from...
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[Posted on October 5, 2007 - 10:48 AM]
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Virtual Worlds Management, sponsor of the Virtual Worlds Conference taking place next week in San Jose, Calif., put together a thorough compilation of investment in the ultra-geeky sector of online...
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[Posted on October 4, 2007 - 5:08 PM]
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BabyCenter LLC chairman Tina Sharkey said today that the online media company is worth between $500 million and $1 billion. Speaking during the keynote interview at the Momentum Conference in...
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[Posted on October 4, 2007 - 5:07 PM]
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One of the companies benefiting most from Facebook's growth is widget maker RockYou. The Silicon Valley startup has developed about 25 different communications and photo applications that Facebook's users can...
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[Posted on October 4, 2007 - 1:28 PM]
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After taking over as president of Intel Capital in 2003, John Miner was faced with the task of redefining the chip giant's role in an environment where its deep pockets...
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[Posted on October 3, 2007 - 4:54 PM]
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Used to be that even the smallest venture fund focusing on the smallest deal sizes would adamantly insist they weren't interested in any investment that didn't have the promise...
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[Posted on October 2, 2007 - 6:00 PM]
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Intel Capital on Tuesday continued its support of social media and user-generated content, leading a round of an undisclosed amount as the first professional investor in Punchbowl Software Inc. Intel...
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[Posted on October 2, 2007 - 12:33 PM]
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Ignition Partners was one of the first early-stage venture firms to form a later-stage private equity-style fund alongside their traditional investment vehicles in a move to capitalize on mounting investor...
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[Posted on October 1, 2007 - 1:37 PM]
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Web 2.0 technologies were a key topic of discussion Friday at IBM Corp.'s Venture Partnering Symposium, but company executives and many of the venture capitalists in attendance confessed they were...
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