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Venture capitalists to tech bigwigs: Mea culpa
News The clubby world of venture capitalists is all about making money, not apologies. But with an endless parade of grim news from Wall Street amid disclosures of yet more dot-bombs, guess who some venture capitalists are blaming for the souring...
[October 13, 2000, 9:36]
Venture capitalists turn off the tap on funding
News It's no secret that the stock market downturn has forced venture capitalists to look sceptically on wild-eyed entrepreneurs. But as the downturn approaches its first anniversary, venture capitalists' scepticism is spreading to more mature...
[February 19, 2001, 14:18]
Venture capitalists pour money into nanotech
News But corporations and venture capitalists are beginning to eye the field as a potential source of new products and profits, according to Packard and other executives who spoke at this year's Nano Science and Technology Institute Nanotechnology...
[March 10, 2004, 8:30]
Web 2.0 drives venture capitalists crazy
News Venture capitalists can't work out how to profit from the rising popularity of Web 2.0 services, the UK Technology Innovation & Growth Forum heard on Monday. Web 2.0 is bedevilling venture capitalists — they can't invest in these companies because...
[February 20, 2006, 13:50]
VC money floods back to tech
News The first two months of 2004 have brought with them more tech companies looking for venture capital, and more venture capitalists looking to invest, than any time since the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, according to anecdotal evidence from venture...
[March 2, 2004, 14:10]
IBM lures VCs and their start-ups
News IBM on Tuesday unveiled a specially tailored cross-licensing program for venture capitalists and their start-ups, as it seeks to populate emerging businesses with its technology. It spends less time making direct investments in start-ups as a...
[December 14, 2005, 16:25]
Red Herring: Park the new venture market in Garage.com
News Proving that even those with the best money connections can sometimes run short of cash, Garage.com, a matchmaker for entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, has filed for a $68m (£42m) initial public offering.
[February 16, 2000, 13:37]
High-speed Ethernet service providers snare cash
News Yipes Communications and Telseon, two fledgling communications service providers, have done what many startups have found difficult in recent months: they've captured the hearts of venture capitalists and corporate investors.
[February 8, 2001, 14:31]
Hauser sugar sweetens UK entrepreneurs
News Acorn founder Hauser has promised an initial pool of $50 million to invest in IT start-up projects which catch his eye and is promising to cover ground often deemed too risky by venture capitalists who specialise outside the IT industry.
[June 6, 1997, 16:05]
Five years ago: Hauser sugar sweetens UK entrepreneurs
News Acorn founder Hauser has promised an initial pool of $50 million to invest in IT start-up projects which catch his eye and is promising to cover ground often deemed too risky by venture capitalists who specialise outside the IT industry.
[June 6, 2002, 7:02]
IT's role in the clean-energy debate
News Up until a little while ago, venture capitalists, quite understandably, focused on other areas. That's one of the great themes that is jazzing mainstream venture capitalists -- they're saying: "Hang on: real convergence, real cross over.
[November 10, 2004, 10:43]
Tech missionaries spread the Net
News The San Francisco-based company, founded by a former Microsoft executive and funded largely by donations from technology workers and venture capitalists, developed its "Computer Room" project with cash from Microsoft, Global Catalyst Foundation...
[May 23, 2002, 7:32]
The cast of the ongoing peer-to-peer drama
News Copyright companies are pitted against technology manufacturers; conservative Christians are allied with Hollywood; government agencies at all levels are opposing venture capitalists. Silicon Valley: Led by Intel and venture capitalists, technology...
[June 28, 2005, 18:10]
Tech stock woes rocking Europe
News He and executives of more than 100 other startups from Europe and North America now find themselves on the receiving end of tough questioning from venture capitalists, bankers, and prospective partners -- who are all taking extra pains not to get...
[October 12, 2000, 14:12]
techTrader Special Report: Internet IPO bubblers
News Venture capitalists seem to see it that way too. Last year, venture capitalists invested E1.5bn in startup businesses in all sectors, but Internet venture-capital investments worth more than E1bn have been announced in the last few weeks alone.
[October 26, 1999, 15:17]
Cuban offers Web 2.0 a reminder of things past
News After all, this was billed as a coming-out party for the new Web, and the Internet executives and venture capitalists in attendance would much rather forget the excesses of the old -- or admit that they might live on.
[October 7, 2004, 15:30]
The Day Ahead: IPO flop-o-meter runs amok
News And venture capitalists and investment bankers are only looking to make a buck, at the expense of the individual investor. Will these young companies, investment bankers and venture capitalists ever learn?
[April 12, 2000, 11:52]
Netscape co-founder eyes up video blogs
News In the past 18 months, venture capitalists have increasingly turned their attention toward the consumer market and, in particular, making video a more integral element of the computing experience. To get around this problem, some venture...
[June 15, 2005, 9:50]
3G: The next dot-com stock-rush?
News He is confident that venture capitalists are going to "fall over themselves" in the rush to invest in 3G startups, but is concerned that mobile operators may act as a barrier to startups entering this market in a big way.
[August 23, 2000, 14:58]
BIBLE: View from Silicon valley
News This attracts the venture capitalists. Increased interest from US venture capitalists in the centres of British technological innovation, particularly Cambridge, has also brought to Britain the phenomenon of "e-commerce incubators.
[November 10, 1999, 13:40]
