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VC Funding Tops $9bn In 3Q
News The number of Net companies getting VC funding tripled to 473 from 162. Internet-related companies' VC funding also jumped nearly five times to $5.2 billion in the third quarter, up from $1.1 billion in the same quarter a year ago.
[November 16, 1999, 10:30]
VC Funding Rains Down On The Cloud
News The deal sees The Cloud emerge from under previous parent Inspired Broadcast Networks and is the first round of VC funding. Wi-Fi hot spot 'wholesale' provider The Cloud has received venture capital funding from 3i and Accel Partners Europe.
[July 12, 2004, 16:10]
VC Money Floods Back To Tech
News Over the past couple of years a lot of companies were simply surviving, with VC money being pumped in just to keep them going," said Fewer. The first two months of 2004 have brought with them more tech companies looking for venture capital, and...
[March 2, 2004, 14:10]
Applied Materials Starts VC Fund
News According to Venture Economics and to the National Venture Capital Association, VC funding fell 42 percent in the second quarter compared with the first quarter. According to Growthink, a company that tracks venture capital investments, VC funding...
[October 26, 2001, 15:30]
Hermann Hauser Plans VC For Euro Hi-tech Start-ups
News Acorn founder Hauser plans to replicate the venture capital model of funding new companies that is common in Silicon Valley but a rarity here where the relatively small number of VC firms that exist take a much more conservative approach.
[June 5, 1997, 10:52]
VC Backs Challenger To Broadcast.com
News This could be the picture-perfect example of VC nepotism," said analyst Jae Kim of media research firm Paul Kagan Associates. After big scores investing in Lycos and Geocities, CMGI hopes to pull off the trifecta with a $100 million (£60 million...
[February 18, 1999, 9:54]
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[November 5, 2003, 14:52]
WiMax Firm Gets A Slug Of VC Cash
News A US manufacturer of WiMax equipment has won $20m (£10.8m) of investment, as venture capitalists show renewed interest in the high-tech sector. Aperto Networks, which makes a range of equipment based on the 802.16 wireless standard, announced the...
[March 8, 2004, 16:20]
Microsoft Enlists VC Firm In .Net Push
News The software giant on Tuesday chose Madrona Venture Group to take part in a program to persuade start-up companies to participate in its software-as-a-service initiative. Under the terms of the agreement, companies that are funded by Madrona will...
[August 15, 2001, 8:30]
VC-funded Start-up Takes On MS Sharepoint
News Fuelled by a round of venture capital, Jive Software is pushing into the corporate technology market with lightweight web collaboration software. Jive Software, which has been self-funded and profitable until now, is expected next week to announce...
[August 21, 2007, 13:33]
Bush Snubs Tech VC For Commerce Post
News President-elect George W Bush on Wednesday will choose longtime Texas friend Donald Evans as his secretary of commerce, passing over Silicon Valley venture capitalist Floyd Kvamme, according to transition sources.
[December 20, 2000, 15:44]
FEI Plans To Feed VC Cash To UK IT Startups
News The Federation of the Electronics Industry (FEI) is hoping to inject some life into the moribund market for UK IT venture capitalism with a meet and greet two-day event. The idea of the event is for entrepreneurs and money men to discuss investment...
[January 29, 1998, 14:46]
Mitsubishi VC Bundle Is Pure Marketing
News Mitsubishi Electric has promised to offer videoconferencing as standard on its desktop PCs following a bundling deal to ship Microsoft's NetMeeting 2.0. Rivals are dismissing the move as pure marketing, as NetMeeting 2.0 can be downloaded for free...
[May 23, 1997, 10:47]
How To Instrument With TrueCoverage Or TrueTime From The Command Line Using MSDev.EXE For VC++
White Papers There are two ways to instrument your Visual C++ program from the command line using TrueCoverage or TrueTime. This white paper answers 'how-to' about some questions user may have and illustrate some of the problems that can be introduced when...
[November 21, 2003, 23:00]
CIA Starts 'fun' High-tech Fund
News Breyer added that "Historically, large corporations have failed in their VC efforts because they didn't get the structure right from the start. But just as the Central Intelligence Agency is not your typical VC, Gilman Louie is not your typical spook.
[September 30, 1999, 10:08]
BSA Figures Do Not Add Up
Talkback One of the reasons is that if they want a VC to fund the company, they need something patented or patentable. I expect that a large percentage of the patents are granted to companies hoping to attract a VC.
[June 27, 2005, 18:33]
Microsoft Spreads DVD-succession Bets
News The Blu-ray Disc Association is making three video compression-decompression technologies mandatory in its read-only disc specification, and one of those codecs is Microsoft's VC-1, a Panasonic representative said on Tuesday.
[September 1, 2004, 10:05]
Intel Sets Up Venture Capital Fund For China
News Intel Capital, now one of the largest VC firms in the world, seeks to get a return on its investments, but its primary objective is to jump-start companies that could help expand the number of places and ways computers are used.
[June 14, 2005, 15:15]
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
White Papers Video conferencing is one of the most interesting new subjects in the modern data communication field , more and more we here of new companies which make video conferencing systems and some of the main computers manufacturers provide VC stations...
[July 19, 2007, 0:00]
Start-up Employees: Read The Fine Print
News Buried in the legalese of a venture capitalist's term sheet, a liquidation preference is a predetermined rate of return that the VC requires in the event of sale or liquidation of your company. Timothy Tomlinson, founder of law firm Tomlinson Zisko...
[October 3, 2001, 12:56]
