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This week's release of a list of their "Top 100" venture capitalists by AlwaysOn -- based roughly on number and dollar amount of successful M and IPO deals between October 1, 2005 to September 30, 2009--seems to have skipped local Southern California venture capitalists, with only one Southern California VCs listed. According to the list, just Jim Gauer of Palomar Ventures, made the cut. AlwaysOn highlighted Gauer's involvement in firms...
- AlwaysOn Names Top Venture Capitalists in Inaugural VC 100 List (businesswire.com)
- Local startups impress VCs (thestar.com.my)
Wells Fargo committed $1.2 billion to finding and funding technology startups through affiliated venture capital firm Norwest Venture Partners Tuesday, nearly doubling the amount it had given the firm to invest just three years before.
Norwest Venture Partners will invest the money in technology startups and other growth-stage private companies based in the U.S., India, Israel [...]
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Fourteen Swedish startups are in SIlicon Valley this week as part of a trip organized by Invest In Sweden. On Monday they met with 15 top VC firms that included Atrium Capital, Advanced Technology Ventures, California Technology Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Plus representatives from strategic investors Applied Materials, General Electric, Intel Capital, Qualcomm Ventures and SAP Ventures.Over the past five years Swedish VCs have...
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From siliconvalleywatcher.com
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Innovative startups in the U.S. continue to attract capital from investors, and in turn are doing their part to counter the trend of the rising unemployment rate in the country, reports TechCrunch.
According to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and StartUpHire.com, thousands of jobs are available at venture-backed startups today, despite the overall job-cutting trend [...]
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- How Many VCs Besides Frazier Tech Are Winding Down? (feedburner.com)
Tom Huseby says he’s finally able to go home and not worry about seeing his family’s savings stuffed under his mattress. “The panic is over,” he says. “All of a sudden, things are getting a lot better. It doesn’t feel much better now, but it is.”
Huseby, a noted Seattle-based venture capitalist with SeaPoint Ventures, Oak [...]
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- What Startups Need to Know About the VC Upheaval (gigaom.com)
MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fifteen prominent venture capital investment firms met with fourteen Swedish startup companies this week on Silicon Valley’s legendary Sand Hill Road. Organized by the Invest in Sweden Agency (www.isa.se), the second annual conference introduced promising early-stage Swedish technology companies to venture capital firms and corporate investors in Silicon Valley. Participants at the invitation-only event...
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- 575-million-dollar fund targets technology startups (france24.com)
A few weeks ago, I met with Mark Solon, managing partner of Boise, Idaho-based Highway 12 Ventures, while he was in Silicon Valley to attend some meetings. In addition to our lunchtime chat about the Boise State football team (BCS rank No. 6) and how my San Jose Sharks beat his New York Rangers, Solon [...]
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http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/32741 Tuesday, December 8, 2009 8:30am Ballroom 1 Opening Remarks Co-Host: Tony Perkins, Founder, AlwaysOn Co-Host: Arden Pennell, Program Director, AlwaysOn 8:45am Ballroom 1Keynote: What is Really Happening to the VC Industry? Bill Gurley, Partner, Benchmark 9:15am Ballroom 1 The VC Industry in Transition -- What's Next for Sand Hill Road?Experienced VCs Discuss The Future of the Asset Class, as LPs...
From edodds.blogs.com
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- LaunchCapital adds loans to VC model (masshightech.com)
- November Events Rocking Silicon Valley! (blogs.sun.com)
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A panel of leading venture capitalists (VCs) will discuss breakthrough opportunities in payments available to entrepreneurs at PayPal X Innovate 2009, PayPal’s first developer conference. Moderated by GigaOm blogger Om Malik, the panel will include Brian Ascher from Venrock, Roger Lee from Battery Ventures, Eric O’Brien from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Dana Stalder from Matrix Partners. “Payments are...
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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/4a7a58/updating_your_valu) has announced the addition of the "Updating Your Value Proposition & Presentation to Prospective Investors in Your VC Fund" audioconference to their offering. In Updating Your Value Proposition & Presentation to Prospective Investors in Your VC Fund, the analyst examines how venture capital firms are updating their strategy and...
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