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EcoMotors has secured a $200 million investment for a plant to construct its Opoc engine, a clean, efficient, lightweight, and low-cost internal combustion engine.
Former Square COO Keith Rabois took to Twitter today to bash social location app Foursquare, but Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley did not simply sit back and take it. He punched back.
Keith Rabois, a longtime entrepreneur and angel investor who recently resigned as the chief operating officer of Square, will be joining Khosla Ventures.
Security firm Cylance received $15 million in its first round of funding today. It hopes to use data and analysis to determine your likelihood of attack.
Khosla Ventures and RiceHadleyGates form a strategic partnership to help startups tackle regulatory, political, and public policy issues.
Editor's Pick Accomplished Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla likens modern healthcare to witchcraft, and says technology will replace 80 percent of doctors. His views, offered up in a talk last week in San Francisco, made doctors hopping mad. But criticisms were mostly knee-jerk. Khosla has a point.
LittleBits is a maker/hacker startup through and through, and it’s just taken a sizable round of venture funding from a few of the bigger names in Silicon Valley.
Its product is half building block, half circuit board, and it’s intended …
FuzeBox, a pioneer in real-time visual collaboration, raised a significant $21 million in its first round of institutional financing today.
The FuzeBox application allows people on any device, on any operating system, from anywhere in the world to conduct live …
Anyone who grew up with ear infections can recognize an otoscope — a light with a plastic cone at end used by doctors to look inside your ears and throat. The device, typically found in doctor’s offices, might soon find …
It’s always funny when crowdfunding companies get their own funding. IndieGoGo, which competes with Kickstarter to help those with interesting projects raise money from people on the Internet, has raised $15 million from Khosla Ventures. I guess you gotta spend …
Liquid Metal Battery Corporation, which says it found the solution to storing energy from renewable sources, is getting a new charge in funding.
Led by cleantech investor Khosla Ventures, the battery tech company has raised $15 million in a second …
Smoking-hot mobile video-sharing startup Viddy has closed a $30 million financing round and is fast-approaching 30 million registered users.
If you’ve taken a two-month hiatus from the Internet, then you’ve most certainly missed Viddy’s overnight comeuppance. The one-year-old company makes …
Security company OneID is helping to eliminate one of the weakest links on the internet: the password. The company received $7 million in its first round of funding today, led by Khosla Ventures.
OneID says that to make accounts more …
Cloud phone systems startup RingCentral has partnered with Dropbox, Box, and Google Docs for what it dubs the “first ever cloud-based, fully integrated fax service,” the company announced today.
The new CloudFax product, which is available for free to all …
At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we decided to round up the quick-and-dirty details for the funding deals of the day and put them in …
LanzaTech, a biofuel company that turns waste gasses into fuel, announced Monday that is has secured $55.8 million in its third round of funding.
Creating biofuels and biochemicals from factory waste emissions is LanzaTech’s specialty. The company uses carbon monoxide …
We have only a few days before the new year ball drops and 2012 is upon us. Many will hope for good health, good fortune and good friends, but in this economy, even more may hope for jobs.
If you’re …
Jawbone, the maker of Bluetooth headsets for cell phones and other cool hardware, announced today that it has raised $40 million.
That amount is one of the biggest raised by a mobile hardware company, but San Francisco-based Jawbone has always …
Social TV service Miso has raised a new $4 million round of funding, the startup announced on its blog today.
Miso’s service, which has about 250,000 users, works by allowing people to check-in, rate, comment, earn badges and complete quizzes …
