The top 20 tech venture capital firms of 2012
February 18, 2013 6:37 PM
Dean Takahashi
Intel Capital comes out on top.
Pinterest sees $30M from SV Angel in secondary sale
January 24, 2013 8:35 AM
Tom Cheredar
SV Angel raised a $30 million fund to purchase shares of the popular online pinboard social network Pinterest from current investors, SV Angel's David Lee confirmed to VentureBeat today.
Mobile-and-social app analytics firm Swrve raises $6.25M (exclusive)
November 12, 2012 6:00 AM
Dean Takahashi
Swrve enables game publishers to test different outcomes and see which path leads to the best monetization.
SV Angel files for a $40 million fund, ‘SV Angel IV’
August 31, 2012 11:39 AM
Christina Farr
SV Angel, Ron Conway and David Lee's investment firm, is in the process of raising a new fund, "SV Angel IV".
Activision taps Swrve for mobile game analytics and A/B testing
July 25, 2012 5:03 AM
Devindra Hardawar
Activision Blizzard and Swrve are proving that mobile games are as important as those for consoles.
42Floors: hacking commercial real estate so you can find a dream office
March 19, 2012 8:20 AM
Michael Sinanian
Zillow, Redfin, Trulia: all familiar names to anyone who’s looked for a home lately. But where in this digital landscape would you go to look for office space?
Starting today, 42Floors is finally the answer to that question. It’s a …
Flickr co-founder announces newest startup & newest funding
February 16, 2012 5:42 PM
Jolie O'Dell
Caterina Fake (pictured), who previously co-founded photo-sharing megalith Flickr, has just taken the wraps off Pinwheel, her brand-new app.
Pinwheel is currently in private beta; Fake says it’s a way to “find and leave notes all over the world… A …
CardSpring links coupons directly to your credit card, raises $10M
January 31, 2012 1:23 PM
Sarah Mitroff
CardSpring, a company that creates mobile applications specifically for credit and debit cards, announced today it has raised $10 million in its first round of funding.
CardSpring has produced an Application Programming Interface (API) that developers can use to make …
BestVendor is the utility belt for small business apps
December 8, 2011 12:08 PM
Chikodi Chima
Being successful in business is about knowing what your competitors know and being able to act on it. If you could find out what kinds of work tools are helping your competitors stay lean and mean, it could be a …
Want to know what Ron Conway got up to in 2011? Here’s his full list of investments
November 22, 2011 12:58 PM
Jolie O'Dell
Editor's Pick
Someone close to SV Angel, the investment firm headed by Silicon Valley living legend Ron Conway, has leaked the firm’s entire list of investments to date.
Altogether, according to the SV Angel spreadsheet, the firm placed 75 bets on various …
Develop on Twilio, get cash from super angels Dave McClure and Ron Conway
September 21, 2011 5:15 PM
Meghan Kelly
Twilio announced today 500 Startup‘s Dave McClure (pictured left) and SV Angel‘s Ron Conway (pictured below, right) started a second $250,000 seed fund for startups built on top of Twilio.
“We’re giving access to some of the best angels in …
Rentcycle raises $1.4M from Andreessen-Horowitz, cast of internet stars
August 4, 2011 7:20 AM
Meghan Kelly
What do venture firm Andreessen-Horowitz and successful internet companies Opentable, Paypal, Netflix, Yelp and Shopzilla have in common? Rental eCommerce company, Rentcycle and its first $1.4 million round.
Finding the right investors, let alone advisors and board members, can be …
