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Venture Capital news continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

2 hrs ago | Market Wire

Working Opportunity Fund Provides Update on Venture Series Redemptions

Working Opportunity Fund Ltd. reported today that weekly redemptions for the Venture Series have been closed until further notice.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

2 hrs ago | The Guardian

Paper app firm FiftyThree raises $15m to move into hardware

Apps startup FiftyThree , which makes iPad notebook app Paper , has raised $15m in a Series A funding round.

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Related Topix: Ipad, iPod touch App, Science / Technology, iPad App, Twitter, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Emerging Technology, Apple, Startups, Facebook

3 hrs ago | Fortune

Uber CEO talks funding, regulation and what really happened during NYC free taxi week

On-demand car service Uber is not currently raising new venture capital funding, according to comments made by CEO Travis Kalanick last Friday at the Northside Festival in Brooklyn.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

3 hrs ago | ComputerWorld

Venture firm Accel makes another huge Big Data bet

Accel Partners Tuesday announced a $100 million fund to back software companies exploiting the technology foundation built by the first wave of Big Data start-ups.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

3 hrs ago | Directions Magazine

SpaceCurve Raises $10M Series B Financing

June 18, 2013 - SpaceCurve, the creator of a new big data platform designed to meet the increasing volume, velocity and variety demands of data in real time, today announced it has raised a $10M Series B round of financing.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Marketing

7 hrs ago | PE Hub

Jobs of the Week: Benchmark Capital, Blackstone's Park Hill and...

This week there are job vacancies at venture veteran Benchmark Capital and secondaries specialist Coller Capital .

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Benchmark Capital, Startups

8 hrs ago | Rediff.com

Why India, China are hot spots for VC/PE investors

Not only do Venture Capital and Private Equity investments provide efficiency in business processes and ensure high level of corporate governance, they provide access to capital for business.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

8 hrs ago | MarketWatch

Therese Poletti's Tech Tales: San Francisco's haves and have-nots

Every weekday morning, sleek buses with smoked glass windows whisk tech workers down major thoroughfares through the city's neighborhoods, to the freeways and ultimately to Silicon Valley.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, The Mission (San Francisco, CA), Startups, Facebook, Emerging Technology

8 hrs ago | Bloomberg

Unemployment Spurs Challenge to Colleges Online

Acupuncturist Courtney Wallace was struggling to pay off $60,000 in student debt.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Carpinteria, CA, Heritage Foundation, Charitable Organizations

9 hrs ago | Forbes.com

CareCloud Raises $20 Million In Crowded Market For Electronic Health Records

Tenaya Capital, a technology venture capital firm, led the investment which included returning investors Norwest Venture Partners and Intel Founded only four years ago by Albert Santalo who describes himself as a technologist, CareCloud is making strides in a market cluttered with hundreds of electronic health records, and where consolidation is ... (more)

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Related Topix: CareCloud, Emerging Technology, Startups, Norwest Venture Partners, Nursing, Miami Children's Hospital, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry

12 hrs ago | GamesIndustry.biz

Oculus VR raises $16m in series A funding

According to a report from Panodaily - later confirmed by AllThingsD - the series A round was led by Spark Capital and Matrix Partners.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Spin

Guitar Center's Financial Frets Won't Impede Store Openings

Guitar Center has fallen on hard times. According to Reuters , American finanical services company Standard & Poor's has dropped the music retailer's corporate credit rating to "CCC+" from "B-," citing struggles with "weak operating trends."

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Related Topix: Startups, Bain Capital, Emerging Technology

GigaOM

Accel Partners putting another $100M toward big data apps

Accel has launched its Big Data Fund 2, a followup on the equally large fund the venture capital firm started in November 2011.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

PE Hub

General Catalyst Says CLEAResult Sale Illustrates Success of EIR Strategy

For several years now, General Catalyst , the Cambridge, Mass.-based investment firm, has been seeking out executives who have run large companies in order to establish what's become its executive-in-residence program.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Unica, Software

PE Hub

VCs Angle for Big Gains in RetailMeNot IPO

Digital coupon provider RetailMeNot filed with U.S. regulators on Monday for an initial public offering of common stock of up to $230 million.

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Emerging Technology

Emmy Advanced Media

Before You Boot-Strap Yourself in For The Ridea

Before you execute your million dollar idea, be aware that the nature of one's business affects the process of bootstrapping.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Internet Retailer

CDW to go public

CDW Corp. once again plans to join the ranks of publicly traded companies. The computer parts and electronics retailer filed an initial public offering Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, aiming to raise $738 million by selling stock.

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Related Topix: Retail, Computers, CDW, US Securities and Exchange Commission, Financial Services, Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Emerging Technology

The Janesville Gazette

Should lawmakers pass venture capital bill?

The Assembly is expected to take up the state budget Tuesday, and moderate Republicans might make a pitch for major changes.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Janesville, WI, River Hills, WI, Opinion

Wall Street Journal

The Daily Startup: Food Runner Hungry for Asia Acquisitions

Singapore's Food Runner has become the latest online food-ordering company to seek venture capital to expand across Asia as Internet usage and consumer demand around the region soars.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Startup, WA, Internet, Science / Technology

Business Journal

San Francisco unseats Silicon Valley as top venture capital attraction

The UpTake: The smart VC money is shifting to denser urban centers and away from the office parks of yore.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, San Francisco, CA, World News, United Kingdom, Lincolnshire County, England, Palo Alto, CA

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