Founders: Bid for pitch slots with Tim Draper, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, and more VCs

How much would you donate to charity to have a private pitch meeting with your favorite venture capitalist?

The 20 biggest private exits of 2012 (for the top 20 VC firms of the year)

Private company research firm Privco has ranked the top 20 merger and acquisitions of the top 20 technology VC firms of 2012, including Ancestry.com's $1.6 billion sale to private equity firm Permira and other top tech acquisitions such as Yammer, Meebo, Instagram, and NextG networks.

How were these Silicon Valley VCs so wrong about Facebook’s IPO?

Before Friday, almost every Silicon Valley insider was saying Facebook stock would finish its first day between $50 and $60 per share.

In reality, the share price at the closing bell was a pathetic $38.37.

How were these masters of …

PlayPhone enables instant multiplayer across Android and iOS devices (exclusive)

PlayPhone is announcing a technology today that will enable instant multiplayer gaming across iOS and Android devices. The technology will be part of the company’s mobile social gaming network and is now available for developers to implement in their games.…

After 10M downloads in 1 year, Scan gets $1.7M from Menlo and Google Ventures to perfect QR codes

Like most people, Garrett Gee thought the experience of creating and using QR codes kind of sucked. “They were not visually appealing or user friendly,” he told VentureBeat. So as a sophmore at Bringham Young University in Utah, Gee and …

Fab.com is gonna be big — Amazon big, says CEO

When Fab.com won a Crunchie for best shopping app, no one was more surprised than the startup’s CEO, Jason Goldberg (pictured).

“To be honest, I didn’t think we were going to win, mostly because Fab isn’t very much integrated into …

YuMe grabs $11.9M, video advertising industry seeing more action

YuMe, a video advertising network, has raised $11.9 million in funding, according to a Form D filed with the SEC.

A YuMe spokesperson told VentureBeat the company is not ready to comment.

YuMe connects advertisers and video content creators, so …

Menlo Ventures starts $20M early-stage investment fund

Menlo Ventures has started a $20 million fund, called the “Menlo Talent Fund,” led by the firm’s managing director Shervin Pishevar (pictured right).

The fund will invest $200,000 in companies geared toward finding new talent. The turnaround time for a …

Fab.com, profitable at 6 weeks old, nabs an $8M Series A

Fab.com, a design-focused flash sale site that launched June 9, has announced an $8 million Series A round of investment led by Menlo Ventures.

Fab co-founder and CEO Jason Goldberg also told VentureBeat exclusively that the company is already turning …

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, …

SGN’s Shervin Pishevar joins Menlo Ventures, plans incubator

Shervin Pishevar, the entrepreneur and investor who founded the Social Gaming Network, has joined Menlo Ventures as a managing partner.

The move was first reported in The New York Times and was then confirmed on Twitter by Pishevar himself.

He’s …