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While at Zynga from 2009 to 2011, Rao built the social gaming company's NASDAQ:ZNGA) marketing practice from 2009 to 2011.

Daly joined Accel's London office in 2009 as a principal, and led the firm's investment in Russian online travel company Ostrokok.

Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System , Nashville, committed $25 million to Canaan IX and $15 million to Bain Capital Venture Fund 2012, confirmed Blake Fontenay, spokesman for David H. Lillard Jr., Tennessee state treasurer.

Advertisers are increasing their investment in online advertising across multiple channels to drive greater lead generation, customer acquisition, and revenue.

They have new ambitions, and they're determined to go places. Especially Silicon Valley.

It's not just that, as the founder of PayPal, president of the hedge fund Clarium Capital, managing partner of the venture-capital firm Founders Fund, and one of the early angel investors in Facebook , he's vastly and maddeningly wealthier than I am.

Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography.

IEEE's John Blyler takes a close look at what fundamental changes to the investment funding model may mean to the ongoing global financial crisis as well as the semiconductor industry.

Armed with $5 million in second round of funding, payments processor Dwolla must now plot out its course.

Derek Gabbard wasn't dreaming of California when he sought to raise investment capital for his Baltimore-based cybersecurity firm.

Two start-up companies were taking shape in Harvard Square in 2004. One was founded by Jeremy Allaire in the offices of venture capital firm General Catalyst Partners.

OUT companies from Edinburgh University will have access to a 150 million investment fund being raised by London-based MTI Ventures in an effort to close Scotland's "venture capital gap". The Orion Fund will be the UK's largest unlisted vehicle investing in university technology companies and will also pump money into start-ups at Manchester ... (more)

SEVEN years ago they were in school and one was winning BT Young Scientist of the Year, now the Collison brothers are in California at the top of a company worth $100m . Limerick natives Patrick and John Collison moved into the top tier of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs yesterday after their company, Stripe, gained $17m in investment from one of the ... (more)

After seeing many of its portfolio companies come to life with newfound traction after participating in its Start-Up University program, Google Ventures has decided to expand the program, and will soon move it from the 12,000-square-foot building it occupies to a space nearly twice that size.

Chemical maker DuPont has started the auction of its car paint business, which could bring in more than $4 billion and has drawn early interest from a number of private equity firms, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers may kick off a fund dedicated to cloud computing companies, according to a Bloomberg news report.

Ruckus Wireless, a Sunnyvale-based wireless networking company, said in a regulatory filing on Friday that it has raised about $21.7 million of a $25 million round of funding.

We chose this period because investors need to hold these securities also known as labour-sponsored investment funds for eight years to get federal and provincial tax credits.

HarQen CEO Kelly Fitzsimmons delivers a presentation to Silicon Pastures, a Milwaukee-based angel investment group that has already put more than $1 million into her company.

Would you invest tens of thousands of dollars in a company founded by 21-year-old former bartender and college dropout, and his partner, a recent business grad from College of Charleston, whose work experience was selling charter yacht rides, working as a valet, and tutoring classmates? If not, you don't understand the hot world of start-ups, where ... (more)