Mercatus raises $2M to introduce energy industry credit score

The credit score, a first for the industry, is calculated using eight different criteria that are assembled to create an economic and risk profile for a project.

Funding Daily: The Great Gatsby

Whether you are closing a round of funding or pretending to live in the 1920s, champagne is in order. Check out today's 12 funding stories.

Lending Club shuffles around shareholders to make room for Google

Google takes a minority stake in online investment community Lending Club as part of a $125 million secondary transaction.

What are investors really thinking? Morgan Stanley poll finds ‘cooling’ interest in startups

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management conducted a survey of high net worth investors and found that fewer than 23% of respondents plan to invest in startups in the near future.

Paul Graham: when a handshake deal is not a handshake deal

The new Silicon Valley handshake is a four-step digitally-enhanced process.

New York’s ‘big data’ investor gets scooped up by First Mark Capital

One of New York's most prominent "big data"-focused investors, Matt Turck, has joined First Mark Capital as a managing director.

500 Startups’ Paul Singh: ‘This decade will be the rise of the angels’

"If you can wipe your nose, you can be a VC," Singh said. "Please don't tweet that."

Funding Daily: Super hot chocolate

Just like the hot chocolate I made over the weekend, today's Funding Daily has a pinch of 'this' and a sprinkle of 'that'.

Members Only: NVCA admits FundersClub into its ranks

Online investing platform FundersClub gains acceptance and legitimacy as a member of the National Venture Capital Association.

Funding Daily: 111

Thanks to investors and the alleged "energetic gateway" that opened today, an unusually high number of startups announced fundraising today.

Funding Daily: Survival of … everyone

Strong, weak, investor, entrepreneur, kitten, soldier, journalist. We all survived, and with it, so did Funding Daily.

General Catalyst hires Adam Valkin from Accel’s London office

Six months after the departure of cofounder John Simon, General Catalyst Partners has scooped up Adam Valkin from Accel Partners, where he has worked since April 2010.