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Sat, 7 Nov 2009 11:58:00 GMT

VCs: Thousands Of Companies Will Exit Next Year&

Posted on: November 6th, 2009 Emergence CapitalInstitutional Venture Partners Scale Venture Partners Weathergage Capital Four VCs — Sharon Wienbar at ScaleVP, Sandy Miller at Institutional Venture, Brian Jacobs at Emergence and Courtney McCrea at
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 11:58:00 GMT

Venture capital scene 'benefits from its size'

$32m for World Expo, but what for? Hill swims against tide in big 'pool' Synlait float to raise $150m Nuplex points to shift from NZ Telecom posts 9pc profit rise Korea eyes bigger investment in NZ Lingering recession hits property market Digital age new
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 07:54:00 GMT

Welcome Reid Hoffman to the VC Side of the Table

Source: Venture Blog. First came the announcement earlier in the year that Marc Andreessen was joining the ranks of 'capital' -- a welcomed defection from 'labor.' And now my friend Reid Hoffman has jumped into the fray as well, joining Greylock Partners
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:10:00 GMT

Sudha Murthy Sells Shares Worth $92M For NRN's VC Fund

Murthy Sells Shares Worth $9M For NRN's VC ( 'domready', ) div.wrapper #left-column #right-column #center-column The collections of private equity, venture capital and entrepreneur blogs and news feeds from around the world Saturday 07November South
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:09:00 GMT

The alternative to an IPO: an increasingly attractive option for VC and PE portfolio companies

Source: Paragon Capital. Kevin Pollack For the past two years the market for initial public offerings for promising private companies has been slow. The number of US IPOs in 2008 plunged from 234 in 2007 to just 43, the slowest year for IPOs since 1978.
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:23:00 GMT

BRIEF: Boise venture capital company funds Colorado online firm

(The Idaho Statesman - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Highway 12 Ventures is funding Everlater, which has developed an online travel journal that enables users and partners to record, share and discover travel experiences.
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 04:42:00 GMT

DailyCandys Sheinbaum Gets Funding For His New Startup

Mandelbrot Project, a stealth startup led by former DailyCandy CEO Pete Sheinbaum has raised $500,000, according to an SEC filing. PEHub says the backer is the Foundry Group, which declined to comment. Sheinbaum oversaw the $125 million sale of
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 04:13:00 GMT

BRIEF: Boise venture capital company funds Colorado online firm

Highway 12 Ventures is funding Everlater, which has developed an online travel journal that enables users and partners to record, share and discover travel experiences. The investment, whose amount and terms weren't disclosed, will enable Everlater to
Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:05:00 GMT

Beware Sand Hill Road

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Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:15:00 GMT

Beware Sand Hill Road

Rebecca Fannin Less than a decade ago, young Chinese entrepreneurs with degrees from Stanford and Berkeley and experience at Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Oracle returned to their homeland to launch copies of eBay, Amazon.com, Google and Facebook. They
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:24:00 GMT

DailyCandy's Sheinbaum Gets Funding For His New Startup

Mandelbrot Project , a stealth startup led by former DailyCandy CEO Pete Sheinbaum has raised $500,000, according to an SEC filing . PEHub says the backer is the Foundry Group, which declined to comment. Sheinbaum oversaw the $125 million sale of
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:42:00 GMT

Optimism in Venture Capital and IPO Outlook

Always On previewed its December Venture Summit with a breakfast at the offices of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR) this morning where it examined trends in finance and the VC outlook for 2010. Tony Perkins runs Always On, christened Silicon
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:56:00 GMT

Optimism in Venture Capital and IPO Outlook

Always On previewed its December Venture Summit with a breakfast at the offices of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR) this morning where it examined trends in finance and the VC outlook for 2010. Tony Perkins runs Always On, christened Silicon
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:56:00 GMT

Venture capital scene 'benefits from its size'

Market Data New Zealand's mid-market and venture capital investment scenes are showing robust health despite the global private equity industry suffering its worse hangover in its 50-year history. While the rough ride continues for buy-out barons in
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:42:00 GMT

VCs: Thousands Of Companies Will Exit Next Year…

But they may not be going public. Four VCs — Sharon Wienbar at ScaleVP, Sandy Miller at Institutional Venture, Brian Jacobs at Emergence and Courtney McCrea at Weathergage (a fund of funds) — appeared earlier this week on a panel at Dow Jones LP
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:33:00 GMT

How To Explain Venture Capital To A 5th Grader

DFJ Gotham 's co-founder and managing director Daniel Schultz crafted this deck to explain what venture capital is to his son's class. Maybe the follow up presentation will be about how the 5th grader founder gets replaced by a more experienced 8th
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:23:00 GMT

Vision 2009: VC debuts compact cameras, touts solar and other applications

Vision Components says its VCSBC4012 nano intelligent board camera and VC4012 nano enclosed...
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:33:00 GMT

Qingdao 1st Hi-tech VC Fund Debuts

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Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:25:00 GMT

Qingdao 1st Hi-tech VC Fund Debuts

Qingdao Yongwan Hi-tech Venture Capital Fund, the first hi-tech VC fund in Qingdao, a coastal city of China's eastern Shandong Province, has been established with CNY 100 million in capital. The VC fund was sponsored by and is under management of Qingdao
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:49:00 GMT

Software Co Nabs RMB 20m Fortune Venture Funds

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Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:34:00 GMT

Apax Asia chairman retires

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Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:25:00 GMT

Apax Partners Asia loses chairman

Apax Partners Asia chairman Max Burger-Calderon has retired and will now serve as part-time non-executive chairman, according to Dow Jones. No one is taking up his full-time chairman role at the company. Last month, the Apax Mumbai office named two new
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:58:00 GMT

GERMANY - Apax, EQT and Warburg in race for EUR 2bn ratiopharm

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Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:56:00 GMT

TECHNOPOLIS: Microsoft and Venture Capitalists Seek Next Mobile Stars at Finland's Number 1 Matchmaking Event - Technopolis Hooks Up Financers and Finnish Mobile Innovators at Money Talks Forum Nov 12-13

Technopolis is giving international venture capital investors a fast line to meet with Finland's mobile start-up community. The Money Talks Forum matches the most prominent Finnish start-ups with Finnish and international venture capital investors and
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:38:00 GMT

Clean Tech VC Funding On Rebound, Up 50% Since 2nd Quarter

Venture capital funding for the clean tech industry, beleaguered for most of the year, finally rebounded in the third quarter, according to figures from DowJones VentureSource, as analyzed by Ernst & Young LLP. About $965 million in venture capital was
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:36:00 GMT

BRIEF: Memphis venture capital firm Innova to participate in state program

(McClatchy-Tribune Informa) Innova Fund II LP is one of six venture capital firms to participate in the TNInvestco program, state officials announced Thursday. The initiative is aimed at bolstering entrepreneurial communities and helping create new
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:27:00 GMT

Eventbrite raises USD 6.5 mln in 1rst round venture capital

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Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:14:00 GMT

Eventbrite raises USD 6.5 mln in 1rst round venture capital

"Telecompaper is the most comprehensive single source of daily news across the telecoms industry. We have been impressed by this product excellence, the customised solutions & overall flexibility from Telecompaper. We have been happy customers for over 3
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:06:00 GMT

Cambrios Announces Closing $14.5 Million in Series D Financing Round

— Cambrios Technologies Corporation, an electronic materials company commercializing ClearOhm™ coating material for producing transparent conductive films, announced today that the company has received investments totaling $14.5 million in a first
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:32:00 GMT

Music has power to nurture humanity: VC

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Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:25:00 GMT