Shasta Ventures pools a $200M fund, invests with Google Ventures and KP

Early stage venture firm Shasta Ventures raised $200 million dollars, according to a form D filed with the SEC. This is a growth fund intended to support start-ups.

This is a pooled investment fund, with the form citing Rob Coneybeer, …

Google Ventures partner: Venture capitalists are bad at picking games

Investors haven’t been very good at figuring out which gaming companies will be successful, said Google Ventures partner Joe Kraus.

That’s not limited to social gaming companies like Zynga or Kabam but also hardcore game makers like Trion Worlds, he …

Google Ventures’ Rich Miner talks about the mobile revolution

Google Ventures announced Tuesday that it is investing in Astrid, a task management app, and Crittercism, an SDK that helps provide customer support for mobile.

Google Ventures’ partner Rich Miner made the announcement during VentureBeat’s fourth annual MobileBeat conference. (We …

MobileBeat 2011 speakers round four: Keith Rabois, Bill Maris and more!

Preparations for our fourth annual MobileBeat conference are speeding along. Today, we’re announcing our fourth round of speakers for the event: Keith Rabois, COO at Square; Bill Maris, managing partner at Google Ventures; David Williams, VP of …

17 reasons to attend GamesBeat 2011

We’ve been writing a lot of posts about our speakers at GamesBeat 2011. But here’s a summary of why we think this will be the must-attend game conference for you.

We’re gathering the industry’s top CEOs, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, investors, …

Google Ventures-backed Shopobot tells you the best time to buy

If you buy that shiny gadget now, you may be paying a lot more money than necessary. At least, that’s the message of a new startup called Shopobot.

The San Francisco company leaves private beta testing today, and it also …

Copious raises $2M to help turn social capital into cash

Social marketplace Copious opened its doors for business Wednesday, helped by $2 million in seed funding.

The site plans to facilitate commercial transactions by letting individual buyers and sellers expose their social capital on Facebook and, later, Twitter, Tumblr and …