Venture Capital News

After seeing many of its portfolio companies come to life with newfound traction after participating in its Start-Up University program, Google Ventures has decided to expand the program, and will soon move it from the 12,000-square-foot building it occupies to a space nearly twice that size.

Chemical maker DuPont has started the auction of its car paint business, which could bring in more than $4 billion and has drawn early interest from a number of private equity firms, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers may kick off a fund dedicated to cloud computing companies, according to a Bloomberg news report.

Ruckus Wireless, a Sunnyvale-based wireless networking company, said in a regulatory filing on Friday that it has raised about $21.7 million of a $25 million round of funding.

We chose this period because investors need to hold these securities also known as labour-sponsored investment funds for eight years to get federal and provincial tax credits.

HarQen CEO Kelly Fitzsimmons delivers a presentation to Silicon Pastures, a Milwaukee-based angel investment group that has already put more than $1 million into her company.

Would you invest tens of thousands of dollars in a company founded by 21-year-old former bartender and college dropout, and his partner, a recent business grad from College of Charleston, whose work experience was selling charter yacht rides, working as a valet, and tutoring classmates? If not, you don't understand the hot world of start-ups, where ... (more)

More than a decade ago, IBM spent the dot-com boom making sure it made money selling to start-ups. In the current tech boom, it says there's more to gain from partnering with the start-ups than just selling to them.

Nabeel Hyatt. Firm: Spark Capital. Previously: Founded Conduit Labs in Cambridge, which sold to Zynga in 2010 .

How is the venture capital industry doing?A The short answer is not as well as it didA 15 to 20 ago.A A One measure of industry performance - exits as a share of investments made five years earlier - still have not returned to 1990s levels.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Feb 09, 2012 -- Node Summit, the only conference to focus on how Node.js is transforming the future of computing, concluded last week, drawing a sold-out crowd of over 650 business leaders and technology experts.

Online Art Market Paddle8 Secures Series A Funding of c.$4MM Led by Prominent Technology Investors Founder Collective with Luxury Investors Mousse Partners Founder Collective , one of the most reputed early-stage venture capital funds, with previous successful bets on the likes of Makerbot, Milo and Uber, now turns its attention to online art ... (more)

A few years ago, one of the general partners at Trinity Ventures , Dan Scholnick, started floating the idea to his colleagues that the VC firm should expand from its headquarters on Sand Hill Road by establishing a beachhead in San Francisco.

Early investors in Facebook signed away their voting rights to Mark Zuckerberg in exchange for $100 cash, reports The New York Times .

The first two rounds of funding for the i6 Project resulted in the launch of eight new bioscience companies in St.

The venture capital industry has commissioned work to chart the level and performance of venture capital and private equity in New Zealand.

TruTouch Technologies secured $3 million for its biometric system that can measure intoxication via a finger .

DESPITE the uncertainty arising from the European debt crisis and the slow recovery of the US economy in America, the scale of fund raising by private equity and venture capital funds in China reached a record high in 2011, in terms of both the number of new funds established and the aggregate amount of funds raised.

Internet video website operator Blip announced it has secured more than $12 million in venture capital from existing investors, including Bain Capital Ventures and Canaan Partners, and debt from Silicon Valley Bank.

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