Basis Sceince wants to use its lead to race ahead of the rumored Apple iWatch.
Nok Nok, a company that uses your device's hardware to authenticate you, raised $15M from DCM and Onset Ventures.
Editor's Pick Game investments were red hot in the first half, but slowed after Zynga's sinking market value crushed valuations.
The plan to disrupt consoles has venture backing now.
The seemingly mythical FreedomPop, which aims to disrupt the mobile broadband landscape by offering a freemium 4G service, is one step closer to reality. The company has raised $7.5 million in a first round of funding, led by ManGrove and …
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Venture capital investment is hitting the skids in China, the world’s largest Internet market.
VC investment fell to its lowest level in six years this quarter, as reported by Dow Jones VentureSource. A slew of unprofitable companies going public have …
Bridgelux, a company that produces low-cost LED light bulbs, announced today it has raised $25 million in funding from Chinese lighting company Kaistar Lighting.
“We want people to think about lightbulbs and the innovation behind them, we want you to …
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Game fundings destroyed the record book for fundings this year as 145 companies raised more than $1.540 billion in 2011, not counting initial public offerings.
In 2011, games took center stage. Game investment changed fundamentally during the year, as investors …
Investment firm DCM, which launched its $100 million A-Fund for Android startups back in April, today announced its first round of investments with seven promising startups.
The A-Fund is the first dedicated entirely to Android, and it competes directly with …
Video recruiting software company OVIA, received a $2.5 million first round of funding from DCM today, with the goal of removing the phone screening process and introducing video.
“Productivity process-wise, this is the future of recruitment,” said David Chao, co-founder …
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Game maker Trion Worlds, which successfully launched its first major online role-playing fantasy game, Rift, back in March, is now unveiling a game platform to publish games created by other companies.
While Trion will continue making massively multiplayer online games …
