Venture Capital News

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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)

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

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."

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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