FundersClub forms Accelerate Series so regular investors can be more like Ron Conway

The online venture capital firm has raised a $1.1 million fund as part of its new "Accelerate Series" that will support startups from Y Combinator's Winter 2013 batch.

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: PRISM

So the government is secretly mining our data from major tech companies. If that hasn't scared you away from the Internet, here is today's funding roundup.

Bloomberg enters world of venture capital with $75M fund

Bloomberg is launching a new $75 million venture capital fund to support early-stage companies. The fund will be called Bloomberg Beta and will invest in startups that are "producing insights from data" and "making the experience of work better."

Signia Venture Partners forming $100M fund for mobile, gaming, ed-tech startups

Signia Venture Partners is raising a $100 million fund. It was formed by Playdom Inc founder Rick Thompson-- who sold his company to Disney for $763.2 million in 2010-- and fellow tech industry veterans

Launch founder Jason Calacanis raising $10 million venture fund

Launch founder Jason Calacanis will be starting a fund aimed at investing in 5-10 startups per year, all of which will come out of the events he produces.

Attention digital health startups: VCs say now is a ‘great’ time to raise money

Partners at Sequoia, Norwest Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers discuss health industry trends and what they look for in potential investments.

Canada’s startup visa program in ‘hyperdrive’ but U.S. is ‘dysfunctional’ (interview)

Give me your smart, your educated, your startup founders yearning to build companies?

Grotech closes new $225M fund to support startups in ‘underserved markets’

Grotech Ventures announced the close of its eight fund at $225 million. The Vienna-based firm invests in early-stage companies along the East Coast and in Colorado.

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.

How Ontario plans to become the world’s top technology hub

"Something very interesting is happening here," Google's top Canadian employee, Steve Woods, told me. "This area has a very high proportion of startups to population. Google loves startups … and we love to hire entrepreneurial people."

Funding Daily: Survival of the fittest

Surviving in the tech world and surviving in the wild are not as different as you may think. Here are 11 companies that added venture capital into their survival packs.

Funding Daily: Sun, moon, and stars

It's not often that child television stars go onto launch startups, but today the hottest funding story involved Soleil Moon Frye's (formerly known as Punky Brewster) new mobile startup

Silicon Valley VC confidence up for third straight quarter — and angels are ‘filling the hole’

"That's the hope for the future, that Silicon Valley continues to attract many of the best and brightest of the entrepreneurs around the world."

Venture capital activity ‘sluggish’ and continuing to decline in Q1 2013

Reports issued by PricewaterhouseCooper, the NVCA, and Pitchbook find that 2013 is off to a slow start for venture capital, although software continues to reign in the dollars.

Funding Daily: Brain booster

Funding Daily will test the limits of your brain power today, so unless you have a deep understanding of 'flow processing,' make sure you bolster up with cognitive function enhancing foods.

Funding for health IT is continuing at a ‘torrid pace,’ report finds

Funding for digital health startups skyrocketed in the first quarter of 2013, according to a newly released report.