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Venture Capital News Archives for November 2009

Monday Nov 30 | StartupJournal

The Daily Start-Up: IBM Picks Up Guardium

Close WSJ Blogs November 30, 2009, 9:49 AM ET By Hillary Canada This morning's roundup of the latest venture capital news and analysis across the Web: Art by Mike Lucas Guardium Plays Hard To Get - IBM is offering to buy database security start-up Guardium for as much as $225 million, Reuters reports, citing Israeli newspaper TheMarker.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Monday Nov 30 | The Spokesman-Review

P&G's growth is now tied to delivering value

Procter & Gamble has been busy slashing prices and realigning its product portfolio to compete a bit more on a value platform.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Mutual Funds, Personal Finance

Sun Nov 29, 2009

ReporterNews.com

The Motley Fool 11/29/09

Q: What do venture capitalists do? - A.N., West Hills, Calif. A: Partners in venture capitalist firms pool their money and invest in fledgling companies, sometimes specializing in certain industries or areas, such as computer-related technology or biotechnology.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, West Hills, CA, Mutual Funds, Personal Finance, Financial Markets

Sat Nov 28, 2009

Caribbean Net News

Barbados government guarantee praised

Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson's announcement last week of a government guarantee for the principal amount invested in the newly launched Barbados Entrepreneurs' Venture Capital Fund is sweet news to the ears of the local, regional and international investment community.

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Related Topix: Barbados, Central America, World News, David Thompson, Emerging Technology

The Toledo Free Press

Nextronex announces financing for new solar inverter

Nextronex Energy Systems has secured $1 million in local investments to finance the production of the companya s new solar inverter manufacturing program in Northwest Ohio.

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Related Topix: Marcy Kaptur, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Politics, Ohio, Emerging Technology, Solar Energy, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Alternative Energy, Millbury, OH

Digital Producer

SupportSpace Secures $10 Million in Series B Funding

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- SupportSpace, the leading provider of on-demand remote tech support solutions, announced today that it has raised $10 million in funding.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, San Francisco Metro, South San Francisco, CA, Marketing

Fri Nov 27, 2009

The Post Chronicle

Tax Break For Financiers Hard To Kill

A tax break for U.S. financiers up for debate in the House Ways and Means Committee is indefensible, but not ready for termination, a committee member said.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Richard Neal, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Emerging Technology

American Chronicle

Two Columbia Men Sentenced for $3 Million Investment Fraud

Matt J. Whitworth, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two Columbia, Mo., men were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a multi-million dollar investment fraud.

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Related Topix: Columbia, MO, Prison, Emerging Technology, Fulton, MO, Federal Prisons, Opinion

China Daily

China to give high-tech VC funds a hand

BEIJING: China's top economic planner has issued guidelines to channel central government money into new venture capital funds to support the high-technology sector.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Thu Nov 26, 2009

China Daily

China pilots VC funds for innovation, restructuring

China's central government Thursday announced it is to join local governments and private investors in a pilot program to facilitate venture capital funds for innovative and high-technology industries, and industrial restructuring.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

TechCrunch

Facebook Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz Raises $9 million For New Collaboration Startup, Asana

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz is starting a new startup called Asana to solve enterprise collaboration, and he just closed a $9 million series A round from Benchmark Capital and Andreessen-Horowitz. this follows $1.2 million angel round last spring from investors including Ron Conway, Peter Thiel, Mitch Kapor, MySpace CEO Owen van Natta, ...

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Emerging Technology

Total Telecom industry news

TDC to merge with NTC

Transaction aimed at simplifying the company's group structure. Danish telecom operator TDC AS said Thursday it has signed a plan to merge with Nordic Telephone Company ApS in order to simplify the company's group structure and optimize its capital structure.

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Related Topix: TDC aS, Telecom, Emerging Technology

Canada.com

VCs are looking for great ideas

Total venture-capital investments could fall below the $1-billion mark this year for the first time since 1995.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Wed Nov 25, 2009

VC Adventure

The VC Model is "broken"

In the latest lob into the morass that has become somewhat of a sport amongst journalists and those that follow the venture capital industry, Carl Schramm and Harold Bradley write in BusinessWeek about " How Venture Capital Lost Its Way ". The evidence? Venture capital funding is down - from an "astonishing" 1.1% of US GDP in 2000; and in the 3rd ...

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Biotech, Science / Technology

Belleville News-Democrat

A look at startup firms challening mutual funds

Covestor Investment Management and kaChing are online ventures that seek to challenge traditional mutual funds.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Emerging Technology

NetworkWorld

Corel Saves Itself, WordPerfect, CorelDraw from Brink

In a desperate bid for survival, long-time office software maker Corel has agreed to a takeover by its majority investor, Vector Capital, a move that could help keep classic software packages such as WordPerfect and CorelDraw around as Microsoft Office alternatives, at least for a while.

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Related Topix: Microsoft Office, Emerging Technology

TechCrunch

Dropbox Raised $6 Million Sequoia-Led Series A In October 2008

Earlier today GigaOm reported that Dropbox raised a new $7.25 million funding round over the summer .

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

The Apple Blog

Intel Capital Invests in Mac-focused Active Storage

Is it possible that the Mac is making inroads with Enterprise IT?A Intel Capital announced at CEO SummitA that it is leading a Series A investment round in Active Storage of Torrance, CA, which builds high-performance storage solutions for the Mac platform.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Torrance, CA

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Computerworld

Opinion: Rediscovering start-up technologies

Last week in New York, a group of 70 CIOs and soon-to-be-CIOs were asked how they were spending their time by the CIO Posse, a collection of active, transitioning and just-retired Forbes 1,000 CIOs.

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Related Topix: CIO News, Emerging Technology, Opinion

Earth Times

Kobalt Music Founder and CEO Willard Ahdritz Wins BVCA Venture...

Willard Ahdritz, the CEO and Founder of Kobalt Music Group , has received the Venture Capital backed CEO of the Year Award - Southeast and London region, from the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association Ltd.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

The Boston Globe

Grim forecast for venture capital firms

Money will be hard to come by for venture capitalists next year as they struggle to lure skittish investors whose portfolios are still recovering from the recession.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Boston, MA Metro, Boston Metro, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Investor's Business Daily

Teracent: Another Google-related win for a Sonsini

Google Inc.'s acquisition of online advertising start-up Teracent Corp., announced Monday, marks yet another payday courtesy of the Internet giant for a member of one of the most prominent families in Silicon Valley.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Menlo Park, CA, Emerging Technology, Law, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, San Mateo, CA

ClipSyndicate

Patricof Discusses Venture Capital Funding, IPO Market: Video

Nov. 23 -- Alan Patricof, founder and managing partner of Greycroft Partners LP, talks with Bloomberg's Betty Liu, Jon Erlichman and Adam Johnson about venture capital funding.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Video, Business News

Fast Company

The Secret to Finding Venture Capital: Not "How" but "Where"

As any entrepreneur who's spent some time trying to understand the venture capital universe will tell you, VCs typically invest locally.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Business Wire

Public relations, press release distribution, investor relations, SEC filing

TORRANCE, Calif.-- --Active Storage, Inc. today announced that it has completed its Series A funding round lead by Intel Capital with top-tier venture capital firms Mission Ventures and... OAKLAND, Calif.-- --There is encouraging economic news in the 5th Annual Greater San Francisco Bay Area Compensation Survey.

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Related Topix: Business Wire, Startups, Public Relations, Emerging Technology, San Francisco Metro, San Francisco, CA, Healthcare Law, Law

Sun Nov 22, 2009

GreenCarReports

CEO Group Goal: 75 Percent of U.S. Miles in Electric Cars By 2040

Roadmaps aren't inherently sexy, unless you're lost and hungry. But when they demonstrate plausible visions for the future, they can be well worth reading.

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Related Topix: Electric Vehicle, Emerging Technology, Transportation, FedEx, Air Courier, Hybrid Vehicles, Chevrolet Volt, Chevrolet

Washington Business Journal

2010 Venture Capital Awards

The Washington Business Journal is pleased to announce the 2010 Venture Capital Awards for Greater Washington.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Customer Interaction Solutions

Damballa Announces Plans for Company-Wide Growth and Charges Ahead...

Damballa, Inc., the company that stops Internet-based criminal use of enterprise networks, announced today that Val Rahmani has joined the company as its Chief Executive Officer .

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Sat Nov 21, 2009

San Jose Mercury News

Bay Area firms grab 46 percent of VC funding as it surges nationwide

With clean tech leading the way, Bay Area companies scooped up a remarkable 46 percent of venture capital investments in the third quarter of 2009, including the seven largest deals.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Science / Technology

BusinessWeek

How Venture Capital Lost Its Way

When people around the world try to explain the American system of entrepreneurship, they often point to venture capital.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Telecom, Computers, Cisco Systems, Apple Computer, Google, Startups, Microsoft, Software, Restaurant Management, Starbucks

Newkerala.com

Manthan gets $15-million second round venture funding

Bangalore, Nov 19 : Leading software product firm Manthan Systems secured $15 million from three venture capital partners in the second round of funding, the company said Thursday.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Marketing

Daily Herald

Twitter sales top $4 million

Twitter Inc., the social-networking company valued at $1 billion by venture capitalists, said it is generating sales of more than $4 million a year and plans to build on that revenue with advertising.

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Related Topix: Twitter, Social Software, Emerging Technology

Fri Nov 20, 2009

All About Jazz

WEB/TECH: Reports: Myspace Buys Imeem at Fire Sale Price

MySpace has completed the purchase of imeem, which has been rumored since Monday, at a price that could make venture capitalists wary of investing in any startup that requires music licensing.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Startups, TechCrunch

BusinessWeek

Fund manager Gartmore pla...

Private equity-owned fund manager Gartmore plans to list in London in a move which could kick-off a much-touted run of initial public offerings among companies owned by cash-hungry buyout firms.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

CNET News.com

Electric-car maker Tesla preparing IPO

U.S. electric-car maker Tesla Motors plans to go public soon, two sources familiar with the matter said, amid growing interest in green technology and battery-powered vehicles.

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Related Topix: Tesla Roadster, Electric Vehicle, Hybrid Vehicles, Emerging Technology

ABC News - Brian Ross

Warner Chilcott Prices Secondary Stock Offering

Warner Chilcott PLC, which makes women's health and dermatology products, said a secondary offering of 20 million shares priced at $22.25 per share.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Dermatology, Emerging Technology

TechCrunch

eBay Completes Skype Sale At $2.75 Billion Valuation

The investor consortium who is the buying party and will control an approximately 70 percent stake is a group led by Silver Lake Partners and includes Joltid and "certain affiliated parties", the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and VC firm Andreessen Horowitz .

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Silver Lake Partners, Startups

Thu Nov 19, 2009

AlwaysOn

The 2009 VC 100 Winners

The last 15 months have been highly uncertain for both the venture capital industry and the companies they fund, but history shows that funding entrepreneurs takes patience and endurance.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Menlo Park, CA

ClipSyndicate

Kramer Says NBC Universal Deal Would `Test' Regulators: Video

Nov. 19 -- Larry Kramer, an adviser to Polaris Venture Partners, talks with Bloomberg's Betty Liu about plans by General Electric Co.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Emerging Technology, Investment Services, General Electric, Aerospace-Defense, Business News, Video

Boston Business Journal

Ma joins ranks of female VC partners

Jiong Ma spent a decade in scientific research before stepping into the fast-paced world of venture capital, a world sparsely populated by minorities and women.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Science, Computer Science, Richardson, TX

WLTX-TV Columbia

Should Workers Suck Up To The Boss Or Not?

CEOs say they are experts at recognizing the brown-nosers, the Dwight Schrutes of The O ffice .

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Related Topix: Insurance, John Hancock Financial Services, Emerging Technology, Financial Services, Investment Services

Creative Mac

New iPhone Application From GoodGuide Lets Users Scan Barcodes to Get ...

The newest version of GoodGuide's iPhone application, now available for free from Apple's iTunes App Store, will make it easier and faster for consumers to find healthy and environmentally friendly products from socially responsible companies while standing in the aisle of a store.

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Related Topix: iPhone, Emerging Technology

Wed Nov 18, 2009

SYS-CON MEDIA

Cloud AntiVirus Company Secures $2 Million in Funding

Immunet, developer of next generation AntiVirus technologies, announced today that it has raised $2 million in an oversubscribed Series A round led by Altos Ventures with participation from Atlanta-based TechOperators.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Startups, Altos Ventures, Computers, Search Engines, Social Software

Electronics Weekly

picoChip raises $20m in venture capital

This investment strengthens our balance sheet and fully funds us through to IPO." That suggests Toon and picoChip's VCs have pencilled in 2010 as the year for the company's IPO.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

TechCrunch

Placecast Raises $5 Million For Location-Based Advertising Platform

Location-based marketing platform Placecast has raised $5 million in funding from Quatrex Capital, Onset Ventures and Voyager Capital.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Startups, Voyager Capital

Computerworld

Convey and its VC backers bet on hybrid servers

PORTLAND, Ore. - High tech startup companies today are most likely to be software application vendors or social networking sites.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Social Software, Computers, CPU, Science / Technology, Richardson, TX, High Performance Computing

New York Times

Silicon Valley Firm Raises Big Fund for Mix of Deals

Norwest Venture Partners has raised $1.2 billion for a new venture capital fund, an optimistic sign for technology start-ups. LifeSize Norwest Venture had invested in the videoconferencing start-up LifeSize Communications, which Logitech bought this month.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Startups, Norwest Venture Partners, Financial Services, Investment Services, Science / Technology

Tue Nov 17, 2009

East Bay Business Times

Bigfoot Networks gets $8M

Bigfoot Networks , a maker of gaming software and hardware, has raised $8 million in a Series B financing round led by existing investors North Bridge Venture Partners , Palomar Ventures and Raven Venture Partners .

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Glu Mobile, Startups

Tampa Bay Business Journal

New Enterprise gets $4M investment

The Florida Opportunity Fund will invest $4 million with venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates to help boost some of the company's investments in the state.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Computers, IT Services

Bioscience Technology

Healthcare Mergers Thrive, Focus of iiBIG Nashville Conference

According to the Wall Street Journal, merger activity in the healthcare sector is showing no signs of weakening -- in fact, deal-making in this sector has been setting records notwithstanding the downturns in the economy at large.

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Related Topix: Nashville, TN, Emerging Technology

TechCrunch

RockYou Raises A Whopper a " $50 Million In Venture Capital

Social Network application developer and advertising platform RockYou has raised a whopping $50 million in a Series D round of financing from existing investor Softbank , we've confirmed with the company.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Social Software

BioSpace

Fate Therapeutics Closes $30 Million Series B Financing

Fate Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that it has completed a $30 million Series B financing led by OVP Venture Partners.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Stem Cell Research, Science / Technology, Cell Biology, Biology, Science, Lymphoma, Health

MocoNews.net

VCs Say The Biggest Opportunities In Mobile Are Not Sexy Apps

It's been a year since Sequoia Capital distributed a memo that later became to be known as "panic notes," which warned their portfolio companies of a deep impending economic downturn.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Sequoia Capital, Startups

Mon Nov 16, 2009

New York Times

Evernote Raises $10 Million From Investors

Imagine you are at a dinner meeting. You receive a business card from your guest and scribble notes about your conversation.

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Related Topix: Computers, Mountain View, CA, US Politics, Nancy Pelosi, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Emerging Technology, iPhone, Science / Technology

MyFoxAtlanta

Gay Newspaper Publisher Closes

The nation's largest publisher of newspapers serving the gay and lesbian community has shut down.

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Related Topix: Atlanta Metro, Emerging Technology

MyFox St. Louis

Bain Capital to pay $1B for Citigroup's controlling stake in Japanese call center operator

In this Jan. 12, 2009 file photo, Citigroup headquarters is seen in New York. Citigroup Inc.

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Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Citigroup, Startups, Emerging Technology, Bain Capital

The Baltimore Sun

Mobile ads firm Millennial Media gets $16M in new funding

Baltimore-based Millennial Media, one of the country's largest advertising networks for mobile devices, said Monday that it raised $16 million in new funding that it will use to fuel its growth and international expansion.

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Related Topix: Baltimore Metro, Emerging Technology, Computers, IT Services, Business News

Bizjournals

Venture capital activity down in San Antonio, but deals still getting done

A lone San Antonio company managed to attract a venture capital investment during the third quarter of this year, according to the latest PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP /National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree Report, based on data from Thomson Reuters .

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Fairlawn, OH

Sun Nov 15, 2009

New York Post

Clear Channel cornered

As Clear Channel Communications sets the stage to launch its fourth debt restructuring plan, some of the company's biggest lenders are trying to seize control of the company's outdoor unit in order to further squeeze the radio and billboard giant.

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Related Topix: Clear Channel Communications, Media, Radio, Television, Advertising, Startups, Bain Capital, Emerging Technology

Earth Times

Bain Capital Agrees to Purchase BELLSYSYTEM24 from Citi

Bain Capital today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Citigroup Inc.'s controlling stake in Japan's leading call center operator, BELLSYSYTEM24, in a tender offer valuing the company at approximately 100 billion yen .

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Related Topix: Startups, Bain Capital, Emerging Technology, Banking, Financial Services, Citigroup, Outsourcing, Marketing

M2.com

Analyzing Venture Capital Options in the Energy Industry Serves To Be ...

The Energy Industry has seen the constant interest of financial activity from various sectors often inter linked or sometimes cross industry.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Sat Nov 14, 2009

The Peninsula

Technology fund to offer 1bn boost

A government-backed fund to invest in early-stage technology companies is set to be launched at the end of this year with up to 300m in initial funding, the science and innovation minister said on Thursday.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Business News

StartupJournal

Start-Up CEOs Gripe About VCs' Lack Of Operating Experience

Close WSJ Blogs November 11, 2009, 3:33 PM ET By Scott Austin Start-up CEOs often spend nearly all of their waking hours building their companies.

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Related Topix: Blog News, Emerging Technology

Domain-B

Hollywood's MGM puts itself up for sale

Legendary Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc said on Friday that it is exploring a potential sale of the company as it struggles to deal with looming debt payments and attempts to come up with a long-term business plan.

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Related Topix: Media, Viacom, Emerging Technology

CNW Group

Qu bec's venture capital results for Q3 2009 - Qu bec in the lead with improved results

Deal activity in Québec's venture capital market improved in the third quarter of 2009, as $87 million was invested in total, or 25% more than the $69 million invested in the second quarter of 2009.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Fri Nov 13, 2009

WBZ-TV

Wary Green-Tech Venture Investors Shift Gears

Share + Nov 13, 2009 7:20 pm US/Eastern BOSTON Green tech has been a hot venture capital investment category the past few years, but that doesn't mean investors are actually earning money.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

SYS-CON MEDIA

Consumer Watchdog Calls On Senators To Skip Fundraiser Set For Google Headquarters

Warning that a Democratic Senate Campaign Committee Fundraiser scheduled to be held at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA., on Friday created an appearance of a conflict of interest, Consumer Watchdog called on the seven Senators scheduled to appear not to attend.

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Related Topix: Barbara Boxer, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Mountain View, CA, Non-Profit, Cable & Satellite, Comcast, Emerging Technology

WNED.org

Bain in $1.1 billion deal for Citi's Bellsystem: sources

U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital is finalizing a roughly 100 billion yen deal to buy Japanese telemarketer Bellsystem24 from Citigroup Inc , three sources familiar with the matter said.

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Related Topix: Startups, Bain Capital, Emerging Technology, Banking, Financial Services, Citigroup

PE Hub

VCs Bank on Credit Score Startup

With consumer loans increasingly difficult to obtain, Americans are putting more effort into attracting lenders by monitoring and improving their credit scores.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Startups, The Founders Fund

Thu Nov 12, 2009

CiteULike

Tolerance for Failure and Corporate Innovation

Abstract We examine whether tolerance for failure spurs corporate innovation and increases firm value based on a sample of venture capital backed IPO firms.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

TechCrunch

Already Profitable Redfin Raises Another $10 Million

Seattle based Redfin , an online real estate startup, has raised another $10 million in a venture capital round led by Greylock Partners .

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Related Topix: Seattle Metro, Emerging Technology, Financial Services, Investment Services, Real Estate

The Times

TV guide for the Internet age launched

Comment about "TV guide for the Internet age launched " Phone Name Comment 0 Thursday, 12th November 2009 - 16:41CET TV guide for the Internet age launched Clicker.com launched a TV Guide for Internet television today, designed to provide a new way to find everything from old Seinfeld episodes to cooking shows.

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Related Topix: Internet, Science / Technology, Emerging Technology

StartupJournal

New Study Peers Into Venture-Backed Company Boardroom

Close November 10, 2009, 7:58 AM ET By Scott Austin Venture capitalists and chief executives of venture-backed companies don't exactly see eye-to-eye when it comes to their respective roles as board members.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Wed Nov 11, 2009

PaidContent.org

Confirmed: Playdom Raises $43 Million In Part For Acquisitions

Playdom , the social gaming startup behind uber popular titles like Mobsters and Social Life , has raised $43 million in its first round of funding, we have confirmed.

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Related Topix: Electronic Arts, Startups, Video Games, Software, Emerging Technology, Mountain View, CA

VentureBeat

Stretch raises $10 M to expand production of security camera chips

Chip makers don't raise much money these days. But things must be getting better, because Stretch has just raised $10 million in a mezzanine funding round to expand production of its security camera chips.

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Related Topix: Sunnyvale, CA, Emerging Technology

PR-inside.com

SandForce Closes $21 Million Series C Funding

SandForceTM Inc., the pioneer of SSD Processors that enable commodity NAND Flash deployment in enterprise and client computing applications, today announced that it has closed $21 million in Series C funding.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, Emerging Technology, Science, Computer Science, Semiconductors, Electronics, LSI Logic

Domain-B

Logitech acquires LifeSize Communications for $405 million

In its largest ever acquisition so far, Logitech International , a world leader in computer peripherals, agreed to acquire LifeSize Communications , leader in video conferencing, for $405 million in cash, and take on rival Cisco Systems and Tandberg in the highly competitive video-conferencing equipment market.

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Related Topix: Austin, TX, Austin Metro, Emerging Technology

National Post

Venture capital investment lowest in 14 years

Investments in Canada's venture capital industry have slipped to their lowest levels in 14 years, a new report said Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Real Estate, Equity Residential

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Reuters Video

Small biz: Business plans still key

Nov. 10 - Dan Primack of peHUB says that while entrepreneurs may not need a business plan to get venture capital funding, writing one is still an important part of creating a good company.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Video, Business News

San Jose Mercury News

Biz Break: Valley housing is nation's most expensive

Today: Nationwide, housing prices are stabilizing, Realtors say. Gamers line up for "Call of Duty" launch.

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Related Topix: Real Estate, Housing, Emerging Technology, Startups, Accel Partners, San Francisco Metro, Sunnyvale, CA

Boston Business Journal

BioVex tops off $70 million venture round

BioVex Inc. , a developer of potential cancer-fighting technologies, has added $30 million in venture capital.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Woburn, MA

This Is Bristol

Bright future for the Regional Development Agency

It is hard to believe but it has been five years since we completed our first investment in the South West.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Seeking Alpha

Green Energy Investing for Beginners, Part I

Investing in green energy can be good for both the climate and your wallet. How good depends on choosing the right investment vehicles and sectors to invest in.

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Related Topix: Mutual Funds, Personal Finance, Financial Markets, Emerging Technology

Mon Nov 09, 2009

BioSpace

Tethys Bioscience, Inc. Raises $25 Million in Series D Financing

Tethys Bioscience, a privately held company, announced today that it has closed a $25 million Series D round of financing led by aeris CAPITAL AG and including Wasatch Advisors as a new investor.

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Related Topix: Tethys Bioscience, Startups, Emerging Technology, Medicine, Diabetes, Health

TechCrunch

Google Acquires AdMob For $750 Million

Google has just announced that it has acquired AdMob , the mobile ad platform that has been especially popular on the iPhone, for $750 million.

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Related Topix: Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, AdMob, iPhone

Reuters

Morgan Stanley looks to sell China investment bank stake

Morgan Stanley is seeking a buyer for its 34 percent stake in investment bank China International Capital Corp, Wei Sun Christianson, the U.S. bank's China chief executive, said on Monday.

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Related Topix: Startups, Bain Capital, Emerging Technology

M2.com

Apprenda closes investment round

Saas application creator Apprenda announced on Monday it has closed a USD5m investment round led by venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates Inc .

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

Venture Capital Access Online

EmSense Raises $9 Million Series C Round of Financing Technology Partners Leads Investment

EmSense Corporation, the company that created the first scalable physiological and brainwave measurement technology, today announced the completion of a $9 Million Series C round of funding, led by an investment from Technology Partners with existing investor the Foundry Group also participating.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Startups, Technology Partners

Sun Nov 08, 2009

San Jose Mercury News

People on the move, Nov. 8

The San Francisco private aircraft charter and aviation asset management company appointed Doug Giese senior vice president.

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Related Topix: San Francisco Metro, San Jose Metro, Emerging Technology, Worldview Technology Partners, Startups, U.S. Venture Partners

PR-inside.com

TL Ventures - Clean Technology - Investment Profile - new report released

The firm invests in early stage companies focusing on information technology, business services, communications and healthcare & medical devices sectors.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

PhysOrg Weblog

575-million-dollar fund targets technology startups

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Greylock Partners said Monday it has 575 million dollars in a new fund to back promising technology startups.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Greylock Partners, Startups, Social Software, LinkedIn, Computers

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Medical company raises $1 million

A Middleton company that won the Governor's Business Plan Contest earlier this year has raised $1 million from angel investors.

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Related Topix: Toys, Middleton, WI, Real Estate, Middleton Doll Company The, Emerging Technology, Hartland, WI

Boston Business Journal

LogMeIn to raise $60M in stock sale

LogMeIn Inc. is planning to raise an additional $60 million via public stock offering.

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Related Topix: Woburn, MA, Computers, Needham, MA, Emerging Technology, Waltham, MA

Crain's Detroit Business

HandyLab Inc. sale may signal that life science companies are good investment

More investments are starting to be made by state venture capitalists as the economy comes out of recession and the recent sale of Ann Arbor-based HandyLab Inc.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Detroit Metro, Michigan, Biotech, Johnson and Johnson, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Farmington Hills, MI

Fri Nov 06, 2009

BioSpace

Metabolex, Inc. Closes $8.6 Million Financing Round

Metabolex, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of proprietary new medicines for the treatment of metabolic diseases, today announced it had closed an additional $8.6 million in financing.

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Related Topix: Metabolex, Startups, Emerging Technology, Medicine, Diabetes, Health

Silicon Alley Insider

Valuation And Option Pool

One of the more contentious things in the negotiation between an entrepreneur and a VC over a financing, particularly an early stage financing, is the inclusion of an option pool in the pre-money valuation.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

DNJ.com

State names venture capital winners

Five Nashville firms have been selected by the state to be part of a $120 million venture capital program.

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Venture Capital Access Online

Altruik Secures $4.7 Million in Series A Round of Financing

Altruik, Inc. , a technology innovator in search engine optimization , today announced the closing of its Series A round of financing.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Marketing, Internet, Science / Technology

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Express India

Sudha Murthy sells Infy shares worth Rs 430 cr for VC fund

New Delhi, Bangalore: Just a month after Infosys chairman and chief mentor NR Narayana Murthy offloaded 0.13% of his stake in Infosys worth Rs 174 crore to set up a venture capital fund, his wife Sudha N Murthy has sold 22% of her stake in the company.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Infosys Technologies, Software

GigaOM

SlingMedia Founder Invests In Clicker, Joins BOD

Ever since Blake Krikorian left Sling Media , the place shifting startup that he sold to Echostar for $380 million in September 2007 , he's been lying low.

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Related Topix: Startups, Sling Media, Science / Technology, Apple, iPod, Media, Ask Jeeves, Inc., Search Engines, Emerging Technology

Local Tech Wire

Bayer CropScience takes Athenix for $365 million and incentives

Bayer CropScience has acquired Athenix Corp. in a deal that has an initial value of $365 million and could reach $400 million, Athenix's venture-capital owner said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Biotech, Bayer AG, Chemicals, Emerging Technology, Agriculture, Science, Research Triangle Park, NC

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Venture Capital Access Online

CubeTree Secures $8 Million in Series B Financing Led by InterWest Partners

CubeTree, a freemium enterprise collaboration suite built on a social networking platform, today announced that it has secured $8 million in Series B financing, led by InterWest Partners.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Startups, InterWest Partners, Social Software, Blog News

The Huffington Post

Lloyd Chapman: Details of Obama Small Business Conference Remain a Mystery

Two weeks after President Barack Obama announced a special conference to discuss increasing the flow of credit to small businesses, no information about the date, time, location or attendees has been made available.

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Related Topix: Small Business, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Emerging Technology

Hispanic Business

Don't Bet on a Return to a 'Normal' IPO Market

Myth: The venture-capital-backed IPO market is going to rebound to the levels of the 1990s.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology

BNET

Google Drains Brains To Google Ventures

The news that Google Sites chief Joe Kraus has moved to Google Venture , Google's venture capital arm, is part of a larger strategy that has more to do with human resources than capital investments.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Oracle, Software, Salesforce.com

Tue Nov 03, 2009

New York Times

End to a Fight Over Skype May Be Near

The bitter battle over the future of the Internet calling service Skype appears to be nearing an end.

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Related Topix: eBay, Startups, Business News

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Despite Slump, Venture Firm Sets Up $575 Million Fund

Even amid the contraction of the venture capital industry, which fertilizes the seeds of new technology start-ups, some firms are expanding.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Social Software, LinkedIn, Startups, Greylock Partners

New York Times

Gore's Role as Goad for Cause and as Investor Is in Spotlight

Former Vice President Al Gore thought he had spotted a winner last year when a small California firm sought financing for an energy-saving technology from the venture capital firm where Mr.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Nancy Pelosi, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, California, Al Gore, Emerging Technology, Silver Spring Networks, Startups, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Express

Chinese movie studio eyes NYSE listing

A third leading Chinese movie studio is aiming for a listing _ this time on the New York Stock Exchange _ as the country's entertainment companies turn to the capital markets to raise funds.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Emerging Technology

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Boston.com

Pagliuca: Kennedy aired 'inaccurate' ads in 1994

Stephen Pagliuca, running as a liberal Democrat to succeed the late Edward M. Kennedy in the Senate, said Monday that Kennedy aired "inaccurate" ads in 1994 as his fellow Democrat fended off a re-election challenge from Pagliuca's boss at Bain Capital, Republican Mitt Romney.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Michael Capuano, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, 2008 Presidential Election, Emerging Technology, Mitt Romney, Consulting

TechCrunch

CubeTree Raises $8 Million For Enterprise-Focused Collaboration Platform

CubeTree, a freemium enterprise collaboration suite and social networking platform has secured $8 million in Series B financing led by InterWest Partners with existing investor Trinity Venture s also participating in the round.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Emerging Technology, Startups, InterWest Partners

Times of Oman

China to launch Nasdaq-style index

BEIJING: China will launch trading on its long-awaited Nasdaq-style board on Friday in the hope of harnessing the vast amount of liquidity circulating in the economy for cash-strapped businesses, experts say.

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Related Topix: China, Asia, World News, Emerging Technology

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Cut in funds could deter tech startups

One of the engines of Pittsburgh's dynamic economy is sputtering slightly this year.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Pittsburgh, PA, Pittsburgh Metro

Sun Nov 01, 2009

BusinessWeek

It's Cloudy, but When Will It Rain?

The innovation coming out of the cloud computing market has, in many ways, made infrastructure startups interesting to venture capitalists again.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technology

PE Hub

Cleantech Investment Still Down Compared To 2008a

Dow Jones and Thomson Reuters agree on this one - although venture investments in cleantech have been climbing this year, they're down anywhere from 4% to nearly 39% compared to a year ago.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Small Business, Personal Finance

Scotsman.com Business - Management

Buy-out champion Baxi looks to venturers

BAXI Partnership, the specialist trust that funds and supports employee buy-outs , expects to complete its first investment involving venture capitalists next year.

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