Funding daily: Money, money, money, as no fewer than 13 companies get funded or acquired

Femtocells, human organs, and space: funding daily for April 3 is full as 13 companies raised money, financing, or were sold.

Lightspeed bets on enterprise with new hire (exclusive)

Tim Danford will be focused on building out the firm's incubation program for exceptionally early-stage startups and exploring new opportunities in the mobile and enterprise security space.

AppDynamics nets $50M from IVP, Greylock, & others to dominate app performance management

App performance management startup AppDynamics has raised $50 million from top-tier investors in its fourth round of funding, cash that will help the company expand and fight for more users.

Silicon Valley VCs predict 2013 trends: Space, robots, self-driving cars

What do Silicon Valley's top VCs expect from 2013? Brace yourselves for self-driving cars, true AI, and much more.

The DeanBeat: 10 takeaways about game investments from GamesBeat 2012

We examined many investment issues at GamesBeat 2012. This week's DeanBeat distills them to the 10 most important.

Gaming investors say the iPad will be this generation’s console

Anticipating an explosion in mobile gaming in the next five years, investors say they are placing bets on what they see as the underserved market for iPad and tablet games.

“People say tablets have been overhyped…but I say they haven’t …

GamesBeat 2012 analyzes the state of game investments

We’re pleased to announce that we have a panel on investing in the game business, one of the hottest investment categories of the past couple of years, at our annual GamesBeat 2012 conference on July 10-11 in San Francisco.

This …

Our latest round of GamesBeat 2012 speakers

VentureBeat is pleased to announce the latest speakers added to our roster for GamesBeat 2012 in San Francisco on July 10-11. We’re inviting 500 movers and shakers from throughout the games industry — social, mobile, online, and console — to …

Entrepreneur “student fair on steroids” brings heavy hitter VCs to Stanford

Silicon Valley’s brightest young minds will vie for $150,000 in rewards as part of a full-day entrepreneurial challenge at Stanford University this Tuesday.

The Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES), the student-run organization behind the event, has birthed a …

Skyfire gets $8M to stream mobile videos without any wait

Mobile browsing and video optimization company Skyfire announced today it has raised $8 million in its third round of funding.  The round was facilitated by Verizon Investments, Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Skyfire gained popularity as an …

Live tonight: Steve Wozniak, Leonard Nimoy highlight an evening of disruptive tech (updated)

Update: Scroll down to see a gallery of Nimoy and Wozniak on the DEMO stage!

Come kick off the new year with a celebration of disruptive enterprise technology featuring two huge geek heroes: Steve Wozniak and Leonard Nimoy.

The VentureBeat …

Slice brings its ecommerce tracking smarts to Gmail

Shopping-tool startup Slice is available for for Gmail users today, the company announced, which opens up the ecommerce tracking tool to an additional 200 million users worldwide.

Previously available for Yahoo Mail users, Slice helps shoppers track their purchases from …

DataStax lands $11 million to further the “NoSQL” data store revolution

DataStax, which sells products built on top of the open source “NoSQL” data store Apache Cassandra, just announced a $11 million investment from Crosslink Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.The company also announced a new enterprise product which will be available …