Vysr, online communications co., raises $1.5 million
We’d reported earlier that Vysr, a secretive Palo Alto consumer Internet software start-up, had raised $865,000. Now its total raised is $1.5 million, led by Sand Hill Group, according to a regulatory filing cited by PE Week. The company is being run by Tetlier co-founder Guda Venkatesh.
Silicon Valley’s search for Fountain of Youth; Thiel joins Ellison in quest
Peter A. Thiel, co-founder and former chief executive officer of the online payments company, PayPal, has pledged $3.5 million “to support scientific research into the alleviation and eventual reversal of the debilities caused by aging,” and has invested in the Methuselah Foundation, a Springfield, Va., a nonprofit started and run by a colorful but controversial expert (pictured above) in aging research: Aubrey de Grey.
De Grey, a 43-year-old English researcher says he hopes to “radically… Continue Reading