Website blocker Websense goes private after years of sluggish trading and PR problems over web censorship.
Naya Ventures announces a new $50 million for early-stage mobile and cloud companies.
Flag Capital Management expands Asian presence with purchase of Squadron Capital.
It’s official: Elevation Partners has announced the resignation of Marc Bodnick from the high-profile private-equity firm, just a couple days after VentureBeat first reported his impending departure.
While Bodnick hasn’t commented on his plans, he’s widely understood to be joining …
One of the most-watched private-equity partnerships in Silicon Valley is coming apart.
Marc Bodnick, a cofounder of Elevation Partners, is planning to leave, according to a source close to the firm.
His departure could threaten Elevation’s plans to raise a …
E-recruiting company RealMatch scored two major coups Monday, swooping up $4.7 million in second round venture capital funding, and a new CEO who was previously a senior vice president at rival Monster.com.
The Israeli recruitment ad network has made a …
Discount deal site Offers.com said today it has closed first-round funding of $7 million as it seeks to add more staff and take on an already-crowded online coupon marketplace.
Unlike the spate of online deal site fundings we’ve seen over …
The annual Forbes 400, which attempts to measure and rank the richest Americans in terms of their net-worth, came out today with a big surprise: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, who has been the world’s youngest billionaire to date, is now worth …
It’s unseasonably warm in San Francisco. But is top Valley investor Marc Andreessen planning for winter? PEHub’s Dan Primack reports that Andreessen’s venture-capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, is raising a $650 million fund, little more than a year after it raised …
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Venture capital funds in the U.S. raised $4.1 billion across 34 funds in the first quarter of 2010 — a 41 percent jump from the same period in 2009. The figures, collected by Dow Jones LP Source, suggest a …
Are venture capitalists really shunning biotechnology, as I wrote a few days ago? A deeper look at the data suggests the answer is still yes, although not exactly for the reasons I first suspected.
First off, the most striking data …
(UPDATED: See below.)
At first glance, life-sciences investments seemed largely to hold steady in the third quarter, despite failing to match a 7.6 percent rise in overall funding, according to data from VentureOne and Ernst & Young. A closer …
Over at VentureBeat proper, Matt highlights a theory advanced by venture capitalist Keith Benjamin, who argues that the credit crunch now threatening the private-equity boom may have the unexpected effect of boosting returns in technology investments. (Keith puts this all …
Galen Partners, a Stamford, Conn., private-equity firm that concentrates solely on the healthcare industry, closed a $250 million fund, its fifth. The fund will focus on healthcare IT, medical devices and specialty pharmaceuticals.…
Forget the Web 2.0 bubble, which is in the process of bursting.
Start worrying about the private equity bubble instead.
Our capitalist system has a habit of swinging between fear and greed (see Stu Phillips’ column today), and right now …
Dan Primack, the guy who holds court at PE Week each morning and rants about the world of private equity, is launching a blog site Monday. It is called PEHub.
He’ll be blogging, there will be columns from buyout and …
U.S. private equity firms have raised a record $177.89 billion, according to Dow Jones VentureOne.
Private equity firms have an unprecedented amount of cash sitting in their treasure chests. Since they are typically mandated to invest it within a certain …
