Even after a few years, a startup still has an uphill battle against more entrenched competitors.
Indian kidswear retail startup Unamia has raised $1.2 million in seed funding.
French VC firm CapHorn Invest recently closed a new $150 million fund (€130 million). Around 250 CEOs and executives of big established companies invested..
Runa Capital, an international VC firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, has now closed $70 million for its third fund aimed at backing early-stage startups in so-called “deep tech.” There are rumors Runa is aiming for a $135 million final target for the fund. Last year, its total funding in the U.S. increased by 30%, tallying […]
Flagship Ventures, a VC firm focusing on technologies for healthcare and sustainability, has closed its 2011 fundraising efforts with $270 million in the bank.
Primary Venture Partners, a seed firm that invests exclusively in New York City startups, has raised a second fund of $100 million. That focus is unusual — even Lerer Hippeau, a firm that’s closely associated with New York, makes some investments outside the region. Primary’s Ben Sun (pictured above with his co-founder Brad Svrluga) said […]
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David Drummondby darthdowney (CC) Google is ready to launch a venture capital arm, opening up the possibility to invest in startups, rather then just buy them. Senior vice president and chief legal officer David Drummond will lead the new investment part of Google. “The move would make Google the latest technology giant to take on …
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We’ve all heard of venture capital firms — they’re the guys who have enough money to risk investing in startups. Some of the big names include 3i, Advanced Technology Ventures, Accel Partners, and…
Spark Capital, which mostly backs early-stage consumer web and mobile firms, may be based in Boston. But in the first years after its 2005 founding, t ...
"As early-stage investors we use the same approach in the US and India."
There’s a new venture fund in Michigan and it aims to have deep pockets. Grand Ventures is the result of longtime Michigan businessman McKeel Hagerty teaming up with Huron River Venture co-founder Tim Streit. The two came together to found Grand Ventures and an SEC filing reveals the venture firm is looking to raise up […]
Despite all the capital that venture firms have managed to raise in the first and second quarters of this year, VCs at an investor panel at Fortune’s Brainstorm conference this morning said that early-stage valuations are softening, reality is “setting in” for unicorn companies that are too richly valued to be acquired and too immature to […]
When Josh Kopelman — one of the best partners anyone could ever have — first suggested the idea of starting a new fund together in 2004, it was not top of mind for me. I’d already started a fund and…
Los Angeles-based VC firm GRP Partners has closed its fifth venture fund for $200M and in doing so, rebrands itself as Upfront Ventures.
Harry Stebbings sat down with Rob Hayes of First Round Capital. Hayes joined First Round in 2006 and has led investments in companies such as Mint.com, Gnip (acquired by Twitter), Square, Planet…
The Palo Alto firm thinks real-world industries will define the next decade of tech.
For months I’ve been bouncing around this topic in my head. However, I’ve been struggling with how to outline this problem in a way that does not call people out for what they’re doing to impact the…
Conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley is that diverse portfolios and diverse founding teams are more likely to succeed. We believe the conventional wisdom, and also believe that we have benefitted…
The evidence is increasingly clear: 2018 is the year of the Chinese venture deal.
/PRNewswire/ -- Rocketship.vc, an early-stage venture capital firm that uses data science to democratize venture capital for the global startup community,...
Aside from a good pitch deck, one of the most important factors in a successful funding round and a prosperous investor relationship is knowing who to pitch and when. New data reveals who the active VCs are now, and who might be the best investors to pitch with your deck.
The contract management software maker gets $10 million...Kadiri has a $7.5 million fourth round...Encover nabs $6 million.
When it comes to raising money from venture capitalists, the gender of an entrepreneur matters, according to new research from Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research. VCs have confidence in a man with a business background leading a tech company, but not in a woman with a comparable profile. Lynn LeBlanc is [...]
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A decade ago, Atlas Venture operated as a large global venture capital firm: Based in Waltham at the time, the firm had 22 partners and five offices, ...
The team at Cambridge's Atlas Venture has noticed something about its seed investments from its seventh venture capital fund: The inexpensive deals ha ...
Atlas Venture announced on Thursday that it raised a $950 million venture fund. Atlas Venture VI will provide early rounds of financing to young technology companies in the United States and Europe. Atlas focuses on communications, information technology and life sciences companies. In addition to the nearly $1 billion fund, the Boston-based company is raising a parallel fund for entrepreneurs and individual members of Atlas' portfolio companies, allowing them to invest in the same companies as
Three Boston-area venture capital firms are working to shake up the notion of how a VC company does business with novel models around investing in sta ...
Cambridge-based Atlas Venture has closed its ninth venture capital fund at $265 million — which Atlas partner Jeff Fagnan called a validation of the f ...
At public events and closed-door meetings around the Boston area, the investment community’s conversation about early-stage venture funding is turning ...
The team at Cambridge’s Atlas Venture has noticed something about the seed investments from its seventh venture capital fund: The inexpensive deals ha ...
There’s a new crop of small venture capital firms in Boston, and while several of them are led by familiar faces from large, traditional firms, they are determined to do things differently this time around.
Boston remains a very conservative investment community, say many respondents in a recent survey.
Kaszek Ventures, Venture Capital Fund and ARCAP's founding member, has announced the final closing of its Fund 3, for a total of 200 million dollars. In this way, Kaszek Ventures turns into the…
Atlas Venture's separate tech group wants you to title its new firm, and they'll reward the winner with $50k in carry.
Innovation is one of the most over-used words in business today, particularly in the worlds of startups and venture capital. But Cambridge VC firm Fla ...
Late on Friday we launched the new website of Atlas Venture. The launch prompted me to tour our...
When it comes to doing seed rounds for Boston area startups, no venture capital firm is more prolific than Atlas Venture — a main reason why the firm ...
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Ryan Moore could've landed at a big-name Silicon Valley venture capital firm, if that's what he was after. But what the 38-year-old VC wanted more was ...
AngelList has had close ties to the East Coast from the start, says Atlas Venture partner Jeff Fagnan. His Cambridge-based firm has backed the startup ...
The most active venture capital investors in New England during the first half of 2013 were Atlas Venture and Polaris Partners, according to data from ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Science2Startup (S2S TM), an invitation-only symposium, convened close to 300 members of the biotech ecosystem at ...
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Atlas Venture, the Cambridge, Mass.-based early-stage, biotech-focused venture firm, has for the first time raised an opportunity fund designed to help it support its most promising, maturing portfolio companies. The $250 million fund, announced by the firm this morning, is pretty well-timed, as these things go. Though the public markets have bounced back a bit […]
Except for a handful of companies, crossing the Atlantic has often meant entering "a territory of failure."
The Boston venture firm will consolidate its AngelList syndicates and "scout" networks.
But with venture funding scarce, the young and untried go wanting
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Within weeks of launching a Facebook game based on popular HBO series “Game of Thrones,” Boston’s Disruptor Beam found itself with a torrent of traffi ...
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Women entrepreneurs are finding it increasingly difficult to access venture capital funding for start-up businesses and remain much less likely to attract funding than male entrepreneurs, according to a new study published in Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance.
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Biden and the Democrats have significantly outraised Trump and the Republicans, with cash from Wall Street and Silicon Valley accounting for much of the difference.
Over the past few years, Europe has been catching up in terms of both size and professionalism of its venture capital industry. However, let’s not forget that we still see significantly less venture…
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Why The JOBS Act isn't good for the health of the startup industry.
Zynga, the social games company that is now expanding its business into real-money online gambling, is today announcing a new heavyweight on its board of directors: John Doerr, a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Since I got home from China last week, I've found myself in a lot of conversations where phrases like "the next Silicon Valley," or "just like Silicon Valley used to be," keep coming up. But while China is swimming in capital and littered with start-ups, I'm going to argue it's not the next Silicon…
It has been more than 8 years since Marc Andreessen coined the phrase “Software is eating the world.” Looking back, not too many people will argue he was wrong. Software is changing nearly every…
During the past several years, new companies have been bubbling up out of American business schools, corporations and garages at a dizzying clip.
Startups often dance between selling dreams and building products, and we’ve enlisted the help of noted investor Charles Hudson to help founders sell an idea before they've built a product. Hudson is speaking at TechCrunch’s inaugural virtual event, TechCrunch Early Stage. Hudson has seen a lot
Preference for sons is a real problem, but a House bill to ban sex-selective abortion is the wrong way to solve it.
The tech giant is quietly grooming companies overseas in a strategic move to bring the next billion online.
These shifts define the state of VC today -- and the direction it will go in 2017.
Luxembourg may be a small country landlocked in between France, Belgium, and Germany, but it’s stable, the high-income economy is attracting global investors especially powerhouse women to further move the needle in a globalized economy.
In Reuters, Sarah McBride takes a hard look at Silicon Valley’s meritocratic ideals. Reviewing the evidence, she concludes that “the keys to success in...
“Our differences were never about editorial independence,” says Omidyar.
Young Chinese are taking the country, and increasingly, the world, by storm with their Internet startups. Here’s how — and what’s next.
Business Insider spoke to eight leading venture capitalists about what the tech landscape looks like from their point of view — and where startups go from...
President Obama is facing fresh criticism for engaging in
Editor's note: Harley Finkelstein is the Chief Platform Officer at Shopify, the Canadian-based company behind the commerce platform that lets anyone sell..
Funding news has an international flair today, with companies from around the world closing rounds.
Venture capital, even from angel investors, has become scarcer.
Some of the Twin Cities’ largest hospitals and insurers are betting that the future of health care lies with fledgling companies.
Lydia Ko shot a 9-under 63 to take a 2-shot lead over Danielle Kang in the Gainbridge LPGA at Boca Rio.
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UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) -- Officials in Prince George's County say no one was injured when a car drove through the front of a 7-Eleven store in Camp Springs.
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To increase ticket sales, concert promoters pursue strategy of two headliners are better than one.
More lenders are willing to secure loans on ideas and trademarks
Goldman Sachs said to cut about 3,260 jobs
Local law firm recruiting may be down from pre-recession levels, but the numbers appear to be keeping pace with last year
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After years of virtually unchecked leverage, Denver metro office tenants appear to be feeling some pushback from landlords. It’s probably still a bit ...
Disney's iconic mouse turns 92 this year, but it's not a typical birthday.
Business aviation is playing a key role in helping with the economic recovery in Europe, a new study finds, saying that each passenger flown on a business aviation flight generates the same gross domestic product as nine business passengers on a scheduled flight.
WHY THE ECONOMY SUCKS: Because American Companies And Their Owners Are Greedier Now Than At Any Time In History If corporations and shareholders are making such gargantuan piles of money, why is the economy so crappy? There's also no "law of capitalism" that says that companies have to pay their employees as little as possible or "maximize profits" to please their owners. [...] the longer American corporations and shareholders insist on taking an ever-greater share of the
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The pandemic hit home in March and caused domestic-focused airlines to rapidly draw down operations.
A new breed of tough young manufacturers, hardened by recession, is emerging in Japan
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Area businesses see rooms for improvement by managing or buying up distressed hotels.
Here's how great entrepreneurs can set themselves up for success despite economic uncertainty.
Visteon, the auto parts supplier, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday. The company, which was spun off from Ford in 1997, is one among dozens of auto parts suppliers facing bankruptcy amid the economic crisis and the downturn in the auto industry.
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Analysts have linked some of the decline to political unrest abroad and the general uncertainties surrounding the Trump Administration. However, a bigger influence on the dealmaking downturn is pricing.
Rising costs, flat revenues, and global turmoil pose stiff challenges for the hotel business, says Interstate Hotels CFO Carrie McIntyre.
Disney combines theme park functions in prelude to job cuts
Chris Burns travels across Poland to look at why both international and local businesses are investing heavily in the country.
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