Venture Capital News

The National Venture Capital Association has named Bobby Franklin, currently the executive vice president of CTIA-The Wireless Association, as president and chief executive , as the trade group's board seeks to revitalize the shrinking organization.

North Bridge Venture Partners and GigaOM Research released the results of their third annual Future Of Cloud Computing Survey today, providing a glimpse into cloud computing adoption trends, inhibitors and drivers of long-term growth.

The UpTake: In the Midwest, the newest venture capitalists are regions. And they're raising millions of dollars from their biggest corporate patrons to make bets on startups within their bounds.

With grand ambitions to become the world's design store, Fab has raised the first part of a Series D funding round that looks to add a large flow of cash to the company's efforts.

What began as a social gathering for like-minded entrepreneurs and VCs has evolved into one of the Valley's most dynamic accelerators.

Venture capital funds run in-house by companies defended their ability to serve entrepreneurs at the Bloomberg Next Big Thing Summit after Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson ridiculed them earlier this month.

Bobby Franklin, the executive vice president of CTIA - The Wireless Association, will take the helm of the trade group for investors this fall.

Carl Icahn has became the largest outside shareholder in Dell Inc. , as part of his continuing effort to scuttle a $13.65 per share buyout bid from Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners.

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."