Venture Capital News

Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape and co-founder of Opsware, and Ben Horowitz, also co-founder of Opsware, are launching on Monday a new venture fund, cleverly named Andreessen Horowitz .

Registering venture capital firms -- along with hedge funds and private equity firms -- with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as President Obama's administration plans to do, would be "very burdensome" for small VC firms, said Michael Stark, co-founder and general partner at Crosslink Capital.

SUCCESS in Silicon Valley often emerges through trial and error. Willingness to buck popular trends can help, too.

While the U.S. venture capital industry struck down the notion of the federalA government handing over money to venture capital firms to bail out start-ups,A the mood is quiteA different overseas.

Dan Primack sited a study on PE Hub today that found that over 50% of VC professionals believe that the VC industry is "broken". My response: WHO CARES? Seriously.

SpineGuard Raises $4 Million from Delta Partners, and Elects Two New Directors: Maurice Bourlion and Dr.

On June 19, I sat down with Bob Borchers, senior director of worldwide product marketing for the iPhone, to talk about the launch of the iPhone 3GS.

Posted on July 2nd, 2009 10:51 AM By Thomas Lee Yee gads!A We already know that Wisconsin has superior angel tax credits than Minnesota but this is getting ridiculous.

Democrat Creigh Deeds got support from some corporate captains and venture capitalists in his run for governor and said he supports Virginia's right-to-work legacy.

Venture capitalists are inherently an overly optimistic bunch, betting millions of dollars on high-risk business ventures that are always running out of cash.

Earlier this week, John Fitzgibbon, founder of IPOScoop.com, said that LogMeIn was an IPO "candidate that should blow the socks off people." Looks like he was right.

LogMeIn , which offers on demand remote access software, goes public Wednesday at $16 a share and is getting a nice round of applause from the folks following the venture capital world.

Even with the end of a nine-month drought in initial public offerings, the second quarter was one of the worst for venture capital-backed liquidity since the doldrums of early 2003, according to a report Dow Jones VentureSource released Wednesday.

Fifty-seven percent. That's how much overall venture-backed liquidity decreased in the second quarter of 2009 compared to that of last year: from $6.48 billion to $2.8 billion, if you want the hard numbers.

Venture capital investment in green technology worldwide jumped 43 percent in three months to $1.2 billion in the second quarter, Greentech reported Tuesday.

Hyperion Therapeutics raised $60 million in its third round of venture funding. Bay City Capital and Panorama Capital - both new investors - led this round and put Daniel Perez, M.D. and Gaurav Aggarwal, M.D., respectively, on Hyperion's board of directors.

San Diego-based MojoPages , which operates a white-label, online directory of local businesses, said today that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding round.

Century Payments, Inc. , a payment processing solutions provider, announced today that Christian Fadel, former Sage Payment Solutions Chief Financial Officer, has joined Century as Chief Financial Officer.

High Gear Media , a publisher of automotive digital media, announced today it has completed a $5.5 million Series B funding round that brings the company's total capital raised to $12 million.

Medical device pioneer Stentys announced today that it has secured the second tranche of its Series B financing from Sofinnova Partners and SEP-closing an additional $4.2 million investment from new investor Credit Agricole Private Equity-bringing the total B round financing to more than $22m. Stentys was founded in 2006 to develop a new-generation ...