Venture Capital

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...  

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...  

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 [...]  

Sometimes I just shake my head in wonder and disbelief. Before the story, yet another “If I did this to you during the past 8 years, I’m sorry” admission. A couple of VCs in the US heard about what I was doing and both (partners...  

Fundraising by venture capital firms during the third quarter continued to decline, the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters said Monday. For the three months ended Sept. 30, just 17 firms raised a combined $1.6 billion. That was the lowest number of firms in 15 years and the smallest amount of dollars since the first quarter of 2003 when $938 million was raised.  

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...  

Possibly over 50, according to the National Venture Capital Association -- and that doesn't include firms that have not renewed their memberships in the trade association for next year. The NVCA won't name names, but reports that its membership has fallen from 480 firms in 2007 (an all-time high) to 450 firms in 2008 to 425 firms in 2009 -- a decrease of 55 firms, over 11%. Most of the firms dropping out did so because they're not raising a...  

NEW YORK (Reuters) - TeleNav Inc, a Silicon Valley-based provider of voice-guided navigation services for mobile phones, filed plans with U.S. regulators on Friday to raise as much as $75 million in an initial public offering. TeleNav, whose largest backer is venture capital firm Menlo Ventures, provides its services through carriers such as Sprint Nextel Corp [...]  

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...  

Just got this… we gotta boycott AlwaysOn until they stop charging startups. Here are the details from a CEO who is being pitched on $10k for six minutes. Notice how they don’t discuss the fees until the last minute. Such a scam! best j ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Date: Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at [...]  

Jon Steinberg now former Strategic Partner Development Manager on Googles SMB Small Medium Business Partnerships team has accepted a position as Executive in Residence at Polaris Venture Partners. Steinberg will be working from the VC firms New York offices where hell help identify new investment opportunities as well as working with existing portfolio companies. The investors portfolio is of course listed on CrunchBase in its entirety but the...  

Silicon Valley venture capital firms will be pleased that "Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank has rejected a Treasury plan to subject venture capital firms to "systemic risk" regulation."The Wall Street Journal reports that VCs haven't gotten away scot-free.While Mr. Frank and colleague Paul Kanjorski (D., Pa.) plan to exempt VCs from the most onerous regulation, their draft directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to define...  

In the third quarter of 2009, we saw a slight rebound in venture funding from earlier in the year. But which venture capital firms were the most active in the quarter? One of my favorite new tables in our latest TechCrunch Trends report, which is based on company data we collect in CrunchBase, is the ranking of the most active venture capital firms. We've reproduced that ranking below in two interactive tables which show the top 25 most...  

Paging Dr. Chu, venture capitalistGrist MagazineAlex Kinnier is a partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Khosla Ventures, which recently raised $1.1 billion to invest in green tech startups. ...and more »  

The venture capital market appears to be bottoming out after a long decline, according to a Fenwick & West survey of the venture capital market for the third quarter of 2009.