Venture Capital News

Let's face it. Venture capitalists who take credit for successful startups at the expense of their firms are about as common as seagulls at a beach-side picnic.

A high profile sex discrimination lawsuit in Silicon Valley should be taken private via arbitration, lawyers for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers argued on Wednesday, but the plaintiff, former partner Ellen Pao, wants the chance to tell her story before a judge.

In the wake of recent school closings and teacher layoffs, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis took aim Tuesday at the two R's of her education reform effort - racism and revenue.

To V.C. or not to V.C.? The New York Times profiles two successful tech start-ups- GoodData , which at its start raised more than $50 million in venture capital funding, and RJ Metrics, which held out with self-financing for as long as possible-that went after the same market at the same time, and contrasts their approaches to finance.

The National Venture Capital Association has named Bobby Franklin, currently the executive vice president of CTIA-The Wireless Association, as president and chief executive , as the trade group's board seeks to revitalize the shrinking organization.

North Bridge Venture Partners and GigaOM Research released the results of their third annual Future Of Cloud Computing Survey today, providing a glimpse into cloud computing adoption trends, inhibitors and drivers of long-term growth.

The UpTake: In the Midwest, the newest venture capitalists are regions. And they're raising millions of dollars from their biggest corporate patrons to make bets on startups within their bounds.

With grand ambitions to become the world's design store, Fab has raised the first part of a Series D funding round that looks to add a large flow of cash to the company's efforts.

What began as a social gathering for like-minded entrepreneurs and VCs has evolved into one of the Valley's most dynamic accelerators.

Venture capital funds run in-house by companies defended their ability to serve entrepreneurs at the Bloomberg Next Big Thing Summit after Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson ridiculed them earlier this month.

Bobby Franklin, the executive vice president of CTIA - The Wireless Association, will take the helm of the trade group for investors this fall.

Carl Icahn has became the largest outside shareholder in Dell Inc. , as part of his continuing effort to scuttle a $13.65 per share buyout bid from Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners.

Working Opportunity Fund Ltd. reported today that weekly redemptions for the Venture Series have been closed until further notice.

Apps startup FiftyThree , which makes iPad notebook app Paper , has raised $15m in a Series A funding round.

On-demand car service Uber is not currently raising new venture capital funding, according to comments made by CEO Travis Kalanick last Friday at the Northside Festival in Brooklyn.

Accel Partners Tuesday announced a $100 million fund to back software companies exploiting the technology foundation built by the first wave of Big Data start-ups.

June 18, 2013 - SpaceCurve, the creator of a new big data platform designed to meet the increasing volume, velocity and variety demands of data in real time, today announced it has raised a $10M Series B round of financing.

This week there are job vacancies at venture veteran Benchmark Capital and secondaries specialist Coller Capital .

Not only do Venture Capital and Private Equity investments provide efficiency in business processes and ensure high level of corporate governance, they provide access to capital for business.

Every weekday morning, sleek buses with smoked glass windows whisk tech workers down major thoroughfares through the city's neighborhoods, to the freeways and ultimately to Silicon Valley.