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NVCA data shows more money & fewer new VCs
Fewer venture firms raised more money during 2011, and the money is being concentrated in the hands of fewer firms, according to the National Venture Capital Association. The venture capital industry...
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VC funding to web startups hits decade-long high in 2011
If you thought 2011 seemed like a big year for web startup funding, you were absolutely right. According to the latest MoneyTree report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the National Venture...
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How Jeff Clavier will spend SoftTech’s biggest VC fund yet
SoftTech VC founder Jeff Clavier SoftTech, the venture capital firm headed up by Jeff Clavier, is officially bulking up the “micro-VC” space to enter the investment world’s big leagues. The firm has...
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How Marc Andreessen makes Silicon Valley magic
Marc Andreessen There’s no question that Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capital firm headed up by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, has become a major force since it was founded back in 2009. The...
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Just-Eat plans to devour rivals with $64m funding
Just-Eat, the European online food delivery service, has set its sights on global domination after raising a new $64 million round of funding. The London-based company, which acts as the middleman for...
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Why is £1m startup contest keeping its terms secret?
On the surface, The Million Pound Startup looks like a great piece of promotion for London: a global talent competition for startup businesses, aimed at drawing talent into the British capital and...
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Realtime gets $100M to create a real-time overlay for the web
Realtime, a 15-year-old business, is trying to speed up the web and just scored $100 million in investment to make its real-time web platform the gold standard for developers and web sites everywhere....
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Could former Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo take a suffering T-Mobile private?
The U.S. telecom industry’s globetrotting and controversial CEO Sol Trujillo may be returning home, not to head up a U.S. operator but to buy one. Trujillo, who formerly headed up baby Bell US West,...
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McGraw-Hill sells off education unit for $2.5B
McGraw-Hill, the longtime education textbook publishing giant, announced Monday that it will sell its education unit to private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $2.5 billion. The news wasn’t...
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Exclusive: Silver Lake eyes digital media, makes Ex-NDS CEO Dave Habiger...
Private equity firm Silver Lake has tapped Dave Habiger to expand its work in the digital media space. Habiger, who until last year served as the CEO of U.K.-based pay TV set-top box maker NDS, is...
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Flash analysis: the Fisker debacle and its implications on investing,...
Electric car startup Fisker Automotive, along with its plug-in sports car, is turning out to be one of the worst venture capital bets of all time. We asked GigaOM readers a variety of questions about...
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Alert Logic follows siren call of private equity
It may not be an epidemic, but it’s getting more common in this age of IT transition for tech vendors to go with private equity firms, either instead of launching an IPO, or perhaps, at least in one...
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How to harness the power of crowdsourcing
The outsourcing market as a whole is approximately a $115 billion industry, and the top 14 crowdsourcing firms alone brought in about $50 million in revenue in 2011. Here’s how companies can harness...
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Private equity firm KKR sinks $100M into improving rural mobile networks
Kohlberg Kravis and Roberts, a multinational private equity firm, has taken an interest in the state of rural mobile connectivity. The company said on Monday it has taken minority stakes in three rural...
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Venture capital in an age of algorithms
We live in an age of algorithms. Cheap computing and abundant software have brought huge advances in all kinds of fields. Data scientists are accurately making algorithmic predictions about weather,...
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Avast takes fresh private equity investment at $1B valuation
The Czech security firm Avast, which provides popular consumer antivirus software, has taken an investment from European private equity outfit CVC. The amount has not been disclosed, but Avast says it...
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Why is £1m startup contest keeping its terms secret?
On the surface, The Million Pound Startup looks like a great piece of promotion for London: a global talent competition for startup businesses, aimed at drawing talent into the British capital and...
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The Slippery Definition of Risk in Cleantech
Here’s how many renewable-energy startups envision their road to success: Raise venture-capital financing, prove their technologies in pilot and demonstration projects, secure project financing to...
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Silicon Valley should wake up to clawback culture
There's been a storm over Skype's private equity investors and their treatment of stock options, but is that storm a remnant of Silicon Valley’s cash-rich, founder-happy culture? Evidence from...
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Belfast investor revealed as convicted fraudster
Controversy in Northern Ireland after an investigative reporter uncovered the criminal background of a prominent new business investor -- a revelation which has led to a series of critical questions...
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