Venture Capital News

Madison, Wis. - One of the speakers at last month's World Stem Cell Summit in Madison wasn't a scientist, a patient advocate, or a university administrator.

SAN MATEO, CA, October 8 / MARKET WIRE/ -- Trilibis Mobile, the leading publisher of interactive network applications for mobile phones, announced today that it has raised $5.7 million in Series B financing.

Venture capitalist and "cleantech" evangelist Vinod Khosla is placing his bets on alternative technologies that could potentially make at least 80 percent of global energy consumption cleaner in the next few ...

ReverbNation , an online music community service used by artists to market their wares, has received $3 million in its second round of funding.

Recent startup WEbook bills itself as a "next-generation" publisher. The concept behind WEbook is that multiple authors collaborate on a work, and the company publishes it and splits the revenues with the ...

" Fitbit, a company who has made its mission to make America "healthier through motivation and awareness," has raised $2 million in financing.

NEW YORK, NY, October 09, 2008 /24-7PressRelease/ -- FundingPost proudly announced today the winning companies from its fifth annual Pitching Across America competition.

In the last few days, venture firms have begun to realize they are not immune from the credit crunch.

In the lingo familiar to the kids toiling away at Web startups, the U.S. financial system is on the verge of an epic fail.

The good times are over, the partners of Sequoia Capital are telling the entrepreneurs they fund.

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Venture capital investments will probably fall this year for the first time since 2003 as the financial crisis cripples the markets for acquisitions and initial public offerings.

"Solar power company Solyndra, one of many fledgling "clean energy" firms trying to kick-start operations as the nation's economy swoons, said Tuesday it has raised more than $600 million in venture capital ...

VENTURE capitalists are optimists by nature. They bet on start-ups that are little more than ideas and hope they have found the next Google.

"The creaking electricity grid got a shot in the arm on Tuesday from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which is leading a $75 million investment in smart-grid start-up Silver Spring ...

TOWSON, MD. October 7, 2008-- Spectrum K12 School Solutions Inc, the leading provider of student achievement management software solutions for K12 school districts today announced that it has completed a round ...

SMS GupShup, Indiaa TMs version of Twitter, has raised $11 million in funding from Charles River Ventures and Helion Ventures.

Wireless access specialist Kineto Wireless, Inc., has raised an additional $15.5 million in funding, including a strategic investment from Motorola as part of a broader commercial relationship with the ...

If Bill Gates and Boeing are right, pond scum could be the salvation for our nation's energy woes.

" BlackArrow, a provider of multiplatform ad-management systems for viewer controlled video, today announced that it has secured $20 million in a Series B round of funding.