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42 min ago | ClipSyndicate

Gullicksen Says Apple Application Store Is Game Changer: Video

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.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Morgenthaler Ventures, Startups, Video, Business News

5 hrs ago | Boston Business Journal

SiCortex co-founder John Mucci dies

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

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, High Performance Computing, Wayland, MA, Maynard, MA, Emerging Technology

13 hrs ago | International Herald Tribune

Redpoint Closes $400 Million Early-Stage Fund

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.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Redpoint Ventures, Startups, Social Software, Cloud Computing, Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science

Mon Feb 08, 2010

PR-inside.com

Essex Woodlands Partners With Dan Lemaitre to Target Growth Equity...

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

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Startups, Essex Woodlands Health Ventures

Mass High Tech

Veracode pulls in $12.3M in VC financing

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

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Cupertino, CA, Computer Security, Symantec, Science / Technology, Software

Sun Feb 07, 2010

Minyanville

The Biggest Challenges Facing Biotechs

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.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Science / Technology, Emerging Technology, Financial Services, Accounting

SiliconValley.com

Ustream gets $75 million in venture funding for live video streaming

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.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Banking, Financial Services, Silicon Valley Bancshares, Campbell, CA, Santa Clara, CA, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Metro

SeacoastOnline

Venture capital: Flat is new normal

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

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, University of New Hampshire

Sat Feb 06, 2010

StartupJournal

Venture Capital's Most Trafficked Web Sites

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.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Financial Services, Investment Services, Blog News, Sequoia Capital, Startups, Internet, Science / Technology

Burnham's Beat

Don't Take Angel Investments From VCs

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

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Alarm

Social List-Maker Ranker Raises $750K

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

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Fri Feb 05, 2010

TechCrunch

TheFunded Ranks The Most Loved VCs Of 2009

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

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Startups, Financial Services, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Investment Services

SanLuisObispo.com

All Business: What weak IPOs say about bull market

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

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Related Topix: Startups, Yelp, Emerging Technology, Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, Arlington, VA, Bill Gates

KMVT Twin Falls

Democrats propose break for venture capitalists

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.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Idaho

Mass High Tech

Tepha pulls in $3M for medical biomaterials

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.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Emerging Technology, Biotech, Metabolix

Thu Feb 04, 2010

San Jose Mercury News

LensVector gets funding for camera autofocus technology

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.

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Related Topix: Cameras, Emerging Technology, Science / Technology

SF Gate

Out-of-state donors to Whitman, Brown at a glance

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.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Emerging Technology, Urban Outfitters, Retail, Apparel, Publishing, New York Times, Procter and Gamble, Household Products

MyFoxLA

Outside Donors Giving Big to Whitman

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.

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Related Topix: California, California Government, Emerging Technology, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, US Governors, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Restaurant Management, Starbucks

Wed Feb 03, 2010

680News

Report: China's sovereign wealth fund investing $956 million with UK private equity firm Apax

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.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Apax Partners, Startups, Energy, Enel SpA

Northeast Suburban Life

P&G invests in Calif. genetics firm

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.

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Related Topix: Procter and Gamble, Household Products, Emerging Technology, California, California Government, Startups, Financial Services, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Investment Services, Mohr, Davidow Ventures

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