Venture Capital News

Investors hoping for an IPO as an exit to liquidity are going to be waiting a while to cash out, according to finance executives in a new survey from financial services firm KPMG.

The Zero2IPO Research Center announced today that China's VC industry has been extraordinarily active during Q2'08. Both new funds and the capital raised reached historic highs.

ResponseLogix, Inc. announced today the close of an $8 million Series A round of financing, led by GRP Partners and Shasta Ventures with support from A. H. Belo Corporation and the Belo Corp.

From the gooddata press release: CAMBRIDGE, MA July 23, 2008 Good Data Corporation, an emerging provider of on-demand collaborative business intelligence solutions, today announced the closing of a seed round ...

Online game company Zynga raised $29 million in venture funding. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner Bing Gordon, who helped start game maker Electronic Arts , joins the board at Zynga as part of the ...

New Delhi, July 23: The US-based legal outsourcing firm UnitedLex, which is planning a major expansion in India, announced Wednesday that it will raise $6 million from global venture capital majors Canaan ...

Verimatrix, setting the standard in content security technologies that enhance the value of pay-TV networks, today announced its Series C round of new funding led by Goldman Sachs.

Funny or Die, the Will Ferrell-fronted online humor hub, has suffered a death in the family.

A venture capital fund upped its investment in video technology firm Agent Video Intelligence Ltd.

The next big thing in venture capital is small investments, according to a panel of Silicon Valley investors who appeared at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference on Tuesday.

NCBR Article Venture funding up 8 percent statewide By Staff July 21, 2008 -- Venture capital funding in Colorado during the second quarter saw an 8 percent increase compared to last year.

ContextWeb , the parent company of the ADSDAQ ad exchange , garnered $26 million in Series D funding.

Appian, a global provider of business process management technology, announced today that it has received $10 million from Novak Biddle Venture Partners in the first round of venture funding in Appian's ...

Matrix Partners Rohati Systems, the leader in high-performance Network-Based Entitlement Control solutions, today announced it has secured $12 million in a second round of funding from Foundation Capital and ...

Private equity firms Silver Lake and Providence Equity Partners have teamed up to bid for a stake in a unit of China's Huawei Technologies, sources involved in the process said on Monday, in a deal that could ...

The economic malaise stalking the U.S economy appears to be taking a toll, albeit small, on high-tech startups, according to a report analyzing venture capital investments in the second quarter of 2008.

Appirio Inc. on Monday announced a second round of funding with $5.6 million. San Mateo-based Appirio said the funding was led by Sequoia Capital , which has an office in Menlo Park.

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Venture funding dropped significantly for Series A rounds in the second quarter, as later-stage companies are forced to "live at home" till the IPO drought lifts.

ProQuest Investments III, L.P., a U.S.-based private venture capital fund, announces that it acquired ownership of $3,000,000 principal amount of subordinated secured convertible debentures and 7,500,000 common ...