Venture Capital News

Feb. 9 -- Ken Gullicksen, a partner at venture capital and buyout firm Morgenthaler Ventures, talks with Bloomberg's Margaret Brennan about the outlook for applications for the Apple Inc.'s new iPad tablet computer.

John Mucci, co-founder of the recently closed high-performance computing company SiCortex Inc.

Redpoint Ventures said Monday that it has closed a new $400 million fund, which will target early-stage investments in social networking, and mobile products, cloud computing and clean technology.

White Pine Medical is led by CEO Dan Lemaitre, former President and CEO of CoreValve, which was acquired by Medtronic in April 2009.

Security software developer Veracode Inc. has raised $12.3 million in venture capital.

It's clear to most health-care investors and industry insiders that biotech drugs are the future of the pharmaceutical industry, but those tiny biotechs that seem so promising need a lot of support from the government and venture capitalists.

Ustream, a Silicon Valley startup that specializes in Internet video streaming services, on Tuesday announced it had secured $75 million in second-round funding, topping a flurry of venture capital deals this week for valley companies involved in a range of technologies.

For entrepreneurs seeking seed and venture capital investments to take their companies to the next stage of development, these are difficult days.

Close February 2, 2010, 5:08 PM ET By Scott Austin Venture capitalists often invest in start-ups whose business models are dependent on Internet traffic, or in companies whose technology isA geared towardA delivering those eyeballs.

The guys over at Venturehacks have come up with an excellent idea to create a curated list of tech-focused angel investors .

The round was led by Siemer Venture Capital with angel investors. Ranker is a riff on the online publishing staple of top ten lists.

Some VCs are getting an early Valentine's Day gift from TheFunded , the site where CEOs rate venture capitalists and their firms.

You know it's a weak IPO market when a hot technology company prefers Bono to the Nasdaq.

The measure, introduced Thursday in the House Revenue and Taxation Committee for a full hearing later, is part of the minority party's six-bill package aimed at helping revive the state's lagging economy.

Tepha Inc., a Lexington-based medical devices company, has raised almost $3 million in financing, according to a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

After nearly four years of secrecy, a Silicon Valley startup called LensVector came out of stealth mode Thursday touting a $30 million round of venture capital and a technology that it says should find its way into millions of micro-cameras in the next few years.

Here are some donors of $5,000 or more from outside California to the gubernatorial campaigns of Republican Meg Whitman and Democrat Jerry Brown, who is expected to enter the race.

Former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman has collected nearly $2.2 million from donors outside California in her quest to become governor, leaning on an elite roster of executives, hedge fund managers, venture capitalists and wealthy associates, an Associated Press review of campaign finance documents shows.

China's main sovereign wealth fund has agreed to invest $956 million with British private equity fund Apax Partners LLP and might buy a stake in the company, a newspaper reported Thursday.

Procter & Gamble has joined two Silicon Valley venture capital firms in funding a three-year-old firm that has developed a genetic test to help in early detection of disease.