Venture Capital News

The San Francisco private aircraft charter and aviation asset management company appointed Doug Giese senior vice president.

The firm invests in early stage companies focusing on information technology, business services, communications and healthcare & medical devices sectors.

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Greylock Partners said Monday it has 575 million dollars in a new fund to back promising technology startups.

A Middleton company that won the Governor's Business Plan Contest earlier this year has raised $1 million from angel investors.

LogMeIn Inc. is planning to raise an additional $60 million via public stock offering.

More investments are starting to be made by state venture capitalists as the economy comes out of recession and the recent sale of Ann Arbor-based HandyLab Inc.

Metabolex, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of proprietary new medicines for the treatment of metabolic diseases, today announced it had closed an additional $8.6 million in financing.

One of the more contentious things in the negotiation between an entrepreneur and a VC over a financing, particularly an early stage financing, is the inclusion of an option pool in the pre-money valuation.

Five Nashville firms have been selected by the state to be part of a $120 million venture capital program.

Altruik, Inc. , a technology innovator in search engine optimization , today announced the closing of its Series A round of financing.

New Delhi, Bangalore: Just a month after Infosys chairman and chief mentor NR Narayana Murthy offloaded 0.13% of his stake in Infosys worth Rs 174 crore to set up a venture capital fund, his wife Sudha N Murthy has sold 22% of her stake in the company.

Ever since Blake Krikorian left Sling Media , the place shifting startup that he sold to Echostar for $380 million in September 2007 , he's been lying low.

Bayer CropScience has acquired Athenix Corp. in a deal that has an initial value of $365 million and could reach $400 million, Athenix's venture-capital owner said Wednesday.

CubeTree, a freemium enterprise collaboration suite built on a social networking platform, today announced that it has secured $8 million in Series B financing, led by InterWest Partners.

Two weeks after President Barack Obama announced a special conference to discuss increasing the flow of credit to small businesses, no information about the date, time, location or attendees has been made available.

Myth: The venture-capital-backed IPO market is going to rebound to the levels of the 1990s.

The news that Google Sites chief Joe Kraus has moved to Google Venture , Google's venture capital arm, is part of a larger strategy that has more to do with human resources than capital investments.

The bitter battle over the future of the Internet calling service Skype appears to be nearing an end.

Even amid the contraction of the venture capital industry, which fertilizes the seeds of new technology start-ups, some firms are expanding.

Former Vice President Al Gore thought he had spotted a winner last year when a small California firm sought financing for an energy-saving technology from the venture capital firm where Mr.