With its new $250 million fund, SoftBank Capital wants to make it easier for growth-stage companies to make headway in tough Asian markets.
Sequoia's latest VC fund is big, global, and aimed at later-stage growth companies.
It was only a matter of time before MESA, a NYC-based investment bank focusing on small deals, launched a fund of its own.
David Marcus, PayPal's new president, is stepping in where his customers service fails. He sent out a personal e-mail to Build Conference creator Andy McMillan after the distraught PayPal user nearly lost $62,000 when two of his accounts were locked down.
Superstar investor Peter Thiel launched a new fund today called Mithril Capital Management that’s already raised $402 million for late-stage investments in private companies.
Mithril (yes, it is named after the light-but-strong substance from the Lord of the Rings) …
Sequoia Capital, a Silicon Valley venture firm, is raising new money for a number of different funds in the U.S. and China, that in aggregate would be around $1 billion.
Fortune is reporting these new funds may be used for …
Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital firms, has closed its fifteenth investment fund.
The company announced today that it has raised $525 million for KPCB 15, which will invest in “early-stage digital consumer …
ATP Capital, the firm that manages the BlackBerry Partners Fund, Clairmont Capital, and JLA Ventures, is today re-branding itself as Relay Ventures to sex up its image. (And let’s face it, anything is better than three capital letters.)
Relay Ventures …
Showing that there’s plenty of untapped potential in the Indian startup scene, Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel Partners announced its $155 million Accel India III fund today for seed and early-stage investments in the country.
Accel, which already has …
Investment firm DCM, which launched its $100 million A-Fund for Android startups back in April, today announced its first round of investments with seven promising startups.
The A-Fund is the first dedicated entirely to Android, and it competes directly with …
New York City-based Union Square Ventures, investor in Twitter and Zynga, is planning to raise another $150 million to $200 million for a fourth startup fund, reports the Wall Street Journal.
If all goes well with the fund, it would …
TechCrunch editor and founder Michael Arrington is no longer employed by AOL, clearing up some confusion about his standing with the company after his $20 million CrunchFund was announced yesterday.
Both Arianna Huffington, head of AOL’s media group, and AOL …
Michael Arrington, founder of the influential technology blog TechCrunch, is raising a $20 million fund to invest in early-state tech startups.
According to Fortune, the primary partner in the fund will be TechCrunch parent company Aol.
UPDATE: An Aol spokesperson …
