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Venture-capital Firms Oppose US Patent Changes
News A rift has arisen among larger technology companies and smaller venture capital firms over whether dramatic changes to US patent law are necessary. But the legal changes those companies advocate have garnered mixed reviews from some smaller start...
[April 2, 2007, 11:36]
Venture Capital Slowly Flowing Back To IT
News The MoneyTree survey was issued by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Venture Economics and the National Venture Capital Association. The survey noted that venture capital investments in all industries increased to $4.28bn in the second quarter, up...
[July 30, 2003, 9:25]
Google Developing A Venture Capital Arm
News Google is revisiting efforts to create a venture capital arm, according to a report on The Wall Street Journal's website on Wednesday. Other Silicon Valley companies with extensive venture-capital track records include Intel, HP and Motorola, among...
[July 31, 2008, 8:37]
Investing In Homeland Security Technologies: A Venture Capital Perspective
White Papers Many venture investors are asking if start-up companies will be able to play a major role in the new homeland security technologies (HST) industry, and whether, HST start-ups will make good venture capital investments.
[November 6, 2004, 2:00]
Intel Sets Up Venture Capital Fund For China
News As Intel expands its reach into China, Intel Capital has established a $200m (£111m) venture fund to invest in companies there. Intel Capital, now one of the largest VC firms in the world, seeks to get a return on its investments, but its primary...
[June 14, 2005, 15:15]
Microsoft Loses Interest In Venture Capital
Talkback Unfortunate that Microsoft has decided to take the low road of civilized society. Not helping ones own peoples and those who make a difference by creating new products thru innovation. Oops ! Sorry Bill.
[May 7, 2004, 17:48]
Venture Capital Directed At Open Source
News An investment venture will try to replicate the model of Gluecode, an open source start-up acquired by IBM, with a fund dedicated solely to open source software. The venture, called Simula Labs, will take open source development projects and seek...
[May 20, 2005, 9:40]
Women Haven't Broken The Venture Capital Ceiling
News Recent studies show that women-owned firms receive only four percent of venture funding even though they make up close to half of all new companies. Women In Technology International is looking to software and schools these days to give women a leg...
[June 22, 2000, 10:24]
Net Leads In US Venture Capital Funding Boom
News Fuelled by the Internet, venture capital investments nearly doubled in the second quarter compared to a year ago, according to a new study. The National Venture Capital Association and Venture Economics reported that investments increased to...
[August 7, 2000, 13:18]
Intel Puts Millions Into Home Technology
News Intel has created a $200m (£110m) venture capital fund to invest in start-ups and small companies that specialise in technology for the home. The Digital Home Fund, which will be managed inside Intel Capital, will help hardware, software and...
[January 8, 2004, 9:50]
The Day Ahead: Sizing Up The Internet Incubators
News Here's our list of top US publicly-traded venture capital firms. It's no wonder why being an Internet incubator -- part mutual fund, part publicly traded venture capital firm -- is becoming so popular.
[February 7, 2000, 11:56]
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. The company has about 100 customers for Clearspace, and it will use the venture capital to fund...
[August 21, 2007, 13:33]
The Day Ahead: VCs Reevaluate Their Portfolios
News Venture capital funding soared to record heights in the first quarter, but don't expect the funds to flow as freely for the next two quarters. Brad Garlinghouse, general partner for CMGI's @Ventures unit, said the great "public venture capital...
[May 30, 2000, 11:48]
After 30 Years, Valentine's Still Picking Winners
News The founder of Sequoia Capital, the $3bn venture capital fund that has helped launch Apple, Cisco and Oracle, tries to explain where he sees tech going Some think of Don Valentine as the grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital.
[November 29, 2004, 11:00]
Science Fiction To Become Science Fact?
News Here you had Kleiner Perkins, perhaps Silicon Valley's premier venture capital firm, accepting into its midst a guy painted in some corners as the fifth horseman of the apocalypse. Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun, recently joined a major venture...
[April 1, 2005, 12:55]
Intel Capital Reveals Prime Tech For Investment
News The five technologies have been highlighted by Intel Capital, the venture investment arm of the microprocessor giant. Intel Capital scouts for promising technology companies and invests in them either as acquisitions or to exit when they end up...
[December 19, 2007, 7:27]
Intel: European Start-ups Starved Of Funding
News Intel Capital, the investment arm of the chipmaker, has said that European venture funding has slowed down. We continue to be well in the shadows of the US in terms of the amount of dollars being committed to the venture industry," said Ashish...
[December 18, 2007, 15:28]
Yanks Bring Golden Promises To UK Net Co's
News Two formidable US-based venture capital funds were established in Britain last week. Adam Twiss, co-founder and director of UK-based technology startup Zeus technology, an Internet server software firm that has benefited from The Cross Atlantic...
[September 29, 1999, 9:53]
Divine Gobbles Up MarchFirst Assets
News Divine, a former venture capital company trying to reinvent itself as a software maker, said on Friday it has agreed to acquire some assets of troubled Net consultancy MarchFirst. For Divine, which slashed 42 percent of its work force last November...
[April 2, 2001, 11:13]
Startup Spotlight: Matchco.co.uk
News Is the UK's high-tech venture capital bubble going to burst? How much venture capital does the typical e-entrepreneur require? Launched this month, the site intends to act as a sort of dating agency for online businesses in order to provide access...
[February 16, 2000, 16:04]
