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It’s hard to not get a sinking feeling in my stomach when I watch the stock market drop and hear smart people talk about a 25 percent correction.
Those of us in the startup world are all too familiar with …
Music-sharing service Turntable.fm is close to signing a new $7.5 million round of funding led by Union Square Ventures, reports BetaBeat.
Turntable.fm has been on a hot streak since its launch in late May and has reportedly denied many interested …
GSV Capital Corp. has invested a stake in Facebook that values the social network at $70 billion, reports Reuters.
In an official statement Monday, Woodside, California-based GSV Capital said it purchased 225,000 shares in Facebook for a total of $6.6 …
Investment firm DAG Ventures is starting a $500 million fund called DAG Ventures V-QP, according to a recent filing with the securities and exchange commission.
DAG Ventures joined the Web 2.0 investment fray around 2006 by backing companies like Podshow, …
On the heels of filing its $750 million initial public offering, online coupon startup Groupon is under heavy scrutiny from critics.
Until recently, most people praised Groupon for its simplistic business model and its incredible growth, which some have called …
The largest provider of digital coupons, Coupons.com has received a $200 million investment from institutional investors, the company announced Thursday.
The company plans to use roughly half of the investment to help push the newspaper-dominated coupon market into digital deals …
Greylock Israel Partners, the affiliate fund of Greylock Partners – well-known for investing in companies like Facebook, Groupon, LinkedIn, and Pandora — is reportedly raising a new venture fund valued at $160 million for startups in Europe and Israel.
The …
Clean technology investments top $1 billion, according to the latest MoneyTree report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association.
The Clean Technology sector, which crosses traditional MoneyTree industries and comprises alternative energy, pollution and recycling, power supplies and conservation, …
Online investing service Betterment announced today that it has raised $3 million in a first round of funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
Betterment lets users transfer money to their accounts and decide how much of it they want invested …
The VC market may be shrinking in the U.S. but there are still opportunities in Europe. So says Fergal Mullen, a General Partner in Highland Capital Partners, which is a mid-sized VC firm with $3 billion of committed capital in …
A new report from the World Resources Institute and partners claims that the market for clean energy products among India’s rural poor is potentially worth $2.11 billion per year. $2.04 billion of this market is for decentralized renewable energy such …
A good business plan is like the trailer for a movie; it should be eye-catching enough to make an investor want to see more. After wading through too many long-winded business plans, Dutch investment firm Lunatech Ventures has built a …
A truism in the venture capital industry is that firms “invest in people,” not just great business ideas. So what if that premise was literally true?
Three entrepreneurs are offering a share of their life’s income in exchange for cash …
Venture capital investment activity rebounded to $3.7 billion in the second quarter, but the gains are only enough to put the sector on track to match annual levels from more than 12 years ago.
While the change in direction is …
Mobile banking continues to heat up as Banc of America Strategic Investors Corp, the investing (and strangely Francophone-spelled) arm of Bank of America, announced the completion a strategic investing round in mobile banking platform maker mFoundry.
While mobile banking to …
