Venture Capital News

It's not just that, as the founder of PayPal, president of the hedge fund Clarium Capital, managing partner of the venture-capital firm Founders Fund, and one of the early angel investors in Facebook , he's vastly and maddeningly wealthier than I am.

Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography.

IEEE's John Blyler takes a close look at what fundamental changes to the investment funding model may mean to the ongoing global financial crisis as well as the semiconductor industry.

Armed with $5 million in second round of funding, payments processor Dwolla must now plot out its course.

Derek Gabbard wasn't dreaming of California when he sought to raise investment capital for his Baltimore-based cybersecurity firm.

Two start-up companies were taking shape in Harvard Square in 2004. One was founded by Jeremy Allaire in the offices of venture capital firm General Catalyst Partners.

OUT companies from Edinburgh University will have access to a 150 million investment fund being raised by London-based MTI Ventures in an effort to close Scotland's "venture capital gap". The Orion Fund will be the UK's largest unlisted vehicle investing in university technology companies and will also pump money into start-ups at Manchester ... (more)

SEVEN years ago they were in school and one was winning BT Young Scientist of the Year, now the Collison brothers are in California at the top of a company worth $100m . Limerick natives Patrick and John Collison moved into the top tier of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs yesterday after their company, Stripe, gained $17m in investment from one of the ... (more)

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.

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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)