March 2008
[Posted on March 31, 2008 - 6:12 PM]
|
First-time private equity vehicle Cordjia's $27 million debt and equity deal for retailing software developer Goliath Solutions marks the maiden investment for the new fund, displaying its strategy of identifying...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 31, 2008 - 5:02 PM]
|
Energy 6N Silicon 6N Silicon Inc. of Toronto, a developer of solar-grade silicon purification technology, has secured $20 million in second-round financing. The company previously raised a $5.7 million first...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 31, 2008 - 4:48 PM]
|
Triage Wireless Inc. bulked up with a pair of strong strategic ties in closing a $20.3 million Series B round with Qualcomm Ventures as lead investor, with Intel Capital also...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 31, 2008 - 12:17 PM]
|
We first reported that Universal Music Group had taken a stake in social music site operator BuzzNet Inc. in mid-January, but more details about the funding have begun to emerge,...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 28, 2008 - 12:00 PM]
|
NGP Energy Technology Partners, which operates a family of funds that invest in a variety of energy technologies, is also active in financing wind power companies. Managing partner Philip Deutch...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 28, 2008 - 12:00 PM]
|
A gathering wind is helping to propel the shift toward clean energy production.Indeed, although the market for wind-generated electricity is nascent in North America, the wind industry is an attractive...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 27, 2008 - 4:05 PM]
|
Semiconductors StretchProgrammable chipmaker Stretch Inc. has added $15 million to its second round to close the Series B with $27 million. The funding brings total investment in the company to...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 27, 2008 - 1:39 PM]
|
Since the first closing of its Series B round last year, programmable chipmaker Stretch Inc. has chosen to target the video surveillance sector, selling to security companies in China and...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 27, 2008 - 12:39 PM]
|
Sign of the times: CMEA Ventures now describes itself as focused on "energy & materials, information technology, and life sciences," upon the closing of its new $400 million seventh fund....
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 26, 2008 - 5:04 PM]
|
Software BSG AllianceBSG Alliance, an Austin, Texas, provider of on-demand software for business, has raised $50 million in a private financing led by Oak Investment Partners of Westport, Conn. Also...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 26, 2008 - 3:12 PM]
|
For the second time in a week, a startup positioned at the crossroads of voice-mail and text messaging has received a follow-on round of investment. This time it's Bubble Motion...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 25, 2008 - 9:00 PM]
|
China-focused venture capital firm Granite Global Ventures and Shanghai's SIG Capital are headed to the altar together. Granite is welcoming Zhuo Fumin and Jessie Jin as managing partners and...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 25, 2008 - 6:21 PM]
|
Internet Become Mountain View, Calif., comparison-shopping site Become Inc. has received a $17.5 million third-round investment from TPG Growth, a fund operated by TPG of Fort Worth. The deal...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 25, 2008 - 6:12 PM]
|
Online shopping and price comparison startup Become Inc. has raised $17.5 million in a third round of investment from TPG Growth, a fund operated by private equity firm TPG. The...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 20, 2008 - 2:22 PM]
|
The conversation last night in the screening room at Dolby Laboratories' headquarters centered on ways of monetizing video content, hub and spoke strategies for Facebook and new opportunities for online...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 20, 2008 - 1:55 PM]
|
Voice-mail-to-text-messaging service SpinVox Ltd. reportedly explored a public offering before opting to raise more than $100 million in private capital, retaining Goldman Sachs & Co. as a financial adviser. The...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 20, 2008 - 1:30 PM]
|
San Francisco law firm Fenwick & West LLP released results of its annual Bay Area Life Science Venture Capital Survey, showing healthy increases in valuations of venture-backed biotech companies for...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 20, 2008 - 1:13 PM]
|
I hear a lot about how difficult it is to launch a startup. So, when an entrepreneur in the midst of taking on one of the most arduous business challenges out...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 19, 2008 - 7:03 PM]
|
TechCrunch's Michael Arrington says that changes in the business and practice of blogging make it an auspicious time to form a "dream team" of technology bloggers, a recipe that could...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 19, 2008 - 4:35 PM]
|
Internet product advice company FixYa Inc. said Wednesday it raised $6 million in a second venture capital round from previous investors to support growth of a three-year-old consumer product support...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 18, 2008 - 5:22 PM]
|
InternetIsangoLondon- and Westborough, Mass.-based Internet travel operator Isango! Ltd. announced an $8 million institutional funding round, led by British early-stage venture investor Spark Ventures plc. Alongside Spark's $4 million contribution,...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 18, 2008 - 5:00 PM]
|
Blood monitoring device maker Luminous Medical Inc. on Tuesday announced that it raised $23.5 million in a second round of venture capital to advance regulatory approval of its lead product...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 18, 2008 - 4:49 PM]
|
Vovici Inc., Austin Ventures' two-year-old roll-up play in the area of enterprise feedback management -- or EFM -- software, raised its first outside funding since the venture firm formed the...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 18, 2008 - 2:49 PM]
|
Venture powerhouse Sequoia Capital recently added four new companies to its portfolio--all headquartered outside the U.S.--although only one has announced a new investment round. That company, telephony systems developer Data...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 18, 2008 - 12:48 PM]
|
Continuing to reach along the retail technology food chain, consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co. [BBY] is assembling its own corporate venture arm to act as a source of...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 18, 2008 - 10:35 AM]
|
A technology development consortium founded by Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp. and the Russian National Commonwealth of Business Angels will hold a field business session next month, the first of three...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 17, 2008 - 5:15 PM]
|
Mobile content publisher Thumbplay Inc. said Monday it picked up a pair of late-stage crossover investors and $18 million in expansion capital in a fifth investment round that brings total...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 17, 2008 - 4:53 PM]
|
Internet WebVisibleLocal interactive advertising startup WebVisible Inc. of Irvine, Calif., has received $12 million in Series B funding. Sutter Hill Ventures of Palo Alto, Calif., led the round with participation from...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 17, 2008 - 3:33 PM]
|
LED startup Luminus Devices Inc. announced Monday a $72 million round of financing aimed at expanding its PhatLight products into new markets beyond the solid-state lighting technology it provides for...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 17, 2008 - 2:25 PM]
|
Newly re-christened Flybridge Capital Partners raised a follow-on fund to two funds previously operated under the IDG Ventures Atlantic aegis, dropping the sponsorship of International Data Group to go...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 14, 2008 - 4:05 PM]
|
Call center software provider Five9 Inc. raised $12 million in a third round of venture capital from previous investors to boost in marketing and take the company to profitability by...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 14, 2008 - 1:47 PM]
|
Venture-backed social recommendation technology developer MyStrands Inc. is going into the venture capital business in its own small way, offering seed investment to the best early-stage startup or project...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 13, 2008 - 4:49 PM]
|
The rapidly growing digital medical technology market helped Aperio Technologies Inc. raise a $20 million third round to broaden its offerings beyond microscopy hardware and image management software to more...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 13, 2008 - 4:42 PM]
|
Internet ShareThisShareThis of San Francisco has received $15 million in funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson of Menlo Park, Calif. ShareThis makes technology designed to simplify social media services by consolidating...
Continue Reading
| |
[Posted on March 13, 2008 - 10:22 AM]
| | |
E-mail
del.icio.us
Technorati
Digg