7 startups step out of ‘entrepreneur clubhouse’ at Founders Den demo night

At Founders Den's Spring 2013 demo event, seven founders pitch their startups to a room filled with elite investors.

Westly Group ‘more bullish than ever’ with new $160M fund for clean tech

Venture firm The Westly Group closes its latest fund of $160 million to invest in up-and-coming clean tech startups.

YC startup Teespring, the ‘Kickstarter for T-shirts,’ growing 50% monthly, hits $750K monthly sales

Apparently there's a growth market in T-shirts. But it's not in the shirts themselves.

Eric Schmidt tells India to choose- internet freedom or censorship?

In an article in the Times of India, the Google chairman said India must choose between "an open internet that benefits all or a highly regulated one that inhibits innovation."

Greenstart axes accelerator program to focus on building great design

Clean tech accelerator program Greenstart loses the three-month mentorship model to become a venture firm with a built-in design studio.

Get in line: Investors flock to hot anti-fraud startup Sift Science

SiftScience has raised $5.5 million from high-profile investors, including Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, Union Square Ventures, First Round Capital, and more.

Queen Elizabeth bestows royal honors on Internet pioneers

Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Louis Pouzin, Tim Berners Lee and Marc Andreesseen win the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.

Jimu makes building Android apps as simple as playing Lego … but still developer-friendly

"We want to make it possible for a lot more people to create apps," Jimu founder Linkton Ye told me yesterday via Skype. "Everyone should be able to play with the software that surrounds us."