Venture Capital News

Matt J. Whitworth, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two Columbia, Mo., men were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a multi-million dollar investment fraud.

BEIJING: China's top economic planner has issued guidelines to channel central government money into new venture capital funds to support the high-technology sector.

China's central government Thursday announced it is to join local governments and private investors in a pilot program to facilitate venture capital funds for innovative and high-technology industries, and industrial restructuring.

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz is starting a new startup called Asana to solve enterprise collaboration, and he just closed a $9 million series A round from Benchmark Capital and Andreessen-Horowitz. this follows $1.2 million angel round last spring from investors including Ron Conway, Peter Thiel, Mitch Kapor, MySpace CEO Owen van Natta, ...

Transaction aimed at simplifying the company's group structure. Danish telecom operator TDC AS said Thursday it has signed a plan to merge with Nordic Telephone Company ApS in order to simplify the company's group structure and optimize its capital structure.

Total venture-capital investments could fall below the $1-billion mark this year for the first time since 1995.

In the latest lob into the morass that has become somewhat of a sport amongst journalists and those that follow the venture capital industry, Carl Schramm and Harold Bradley write in BusinessWeek about " How Venture Capital Lost Its Way ". The evidence? Venture capital funding is down - from an "astonishing" 1.1% of US GDP in 2000; and in the 3rd ...

Covestor Investment Management and kaChing are online ventures that seek to challenge traditional mutual funds.

In a desperate bid for survival, long-time office software maker Corel has agreed to a takeover by its majority investor, Vector Capital, a move that could help keep classic software packages such as WordPerfect and CorelDraw around as Microsoft Office alternatives, at least for a while.

Earlier today GigaOm reported that Dropbox raised a new $7.25 million funding round over the summer .

Is it possible that the Mac is making inroads with Enterprise IT?A Intel Capital announced at CEO SummitA that it is leading a Series A investment round in Active Storage of Torrance, CA, which builds high-performance storage solutions for the Mac platform.

Last week in New York, a group of 70 CIOs and soon-to-be-CIOs were asked how they were spending their time by the CIO Posse, a collection of active, transitioning and just-retired Forbes 1,000 CIOs.

Willard Ahdritz, the CEO and Founder of Kobalt Music Group , has received the Venture Capital backed CEO of the Year Award - Southeast and London region, from the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association Ltd.

Money will be hard to come by for venture capitalists next year as they struggle to lure skittish investors whose portfolios are still recovering from the recession.

Google Inc.'s acquisition of online advertising start-up Teracent Corp., announced Monday, marks yet another payday courtesy of the Internet giant for a member of one of the most prominent families in Silicon Valley.

Nov. 23 -- Alan Patricof, founder and managing partner of Greycroft Partners LP, talks with Bloomberg's Betty Liu, Jon Erlichman and Adam Johnson about venture capital funding.

As any entrepreneur who's spent some time trying to understand the venture capital universe will tell you, VCs typically invest locally.

TORRANCE, Calif.-- --Active Storage, Inc. today announced that it has completed its Series A funding round lead by Intel Capital with top-tier venture capital firms Mission Ventures and... OAKLAND, Calif.-- --There is encouraging economic news in the 5th Annual Greater San Francisco Bay Area Compensation Survey.

Roadmaps aren't inherently sexy, unless you're lost and hungry. But when they demonstrate plausible visions for the future, they can be well worth reading.

The Washington Business Journal is pleased to announce the 2010 Venture Capital Awards for Greater Washington.