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Clean-tech investors take cue from biotech
News Venture capitalists continue to stay bullish on green tech but more people in the field say start-ups need to reconsider how best to successfully fund their businesses.
Tags: Green IT, Angel investing, Investments, Clean Technology, Investor, financing, venture capital, Boston, financial, entrepreneur
VCs hanker for hunk of China, India
News Up to 20 percent of venture capital firms expect to expand investments in those countries over the next five years, new survey says.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Venture capital
VC bets for '07: Energy, Internet, Asia
News U.S. venture capitalists expect consistent levels of investment in 2007, says industry survey.
Tags: Entrepreneurship
Venture funding deals hit 11-year low
News U.S. venture capitalist investment plummeted 50 percent from the same quarter last year with IT hit particularly hard, VentureSource reports.
Tags: Venture capital, Quarter, information technology industry, venture capital industry, National Venture Capital Association, software, Dow Jones & Company Inc., industry, information technology, U.S. company
Contrarian Google launches investment fund
News Google's new investment arm will focus on start-ups working on the Internet, biotech, green tech, software, and health care.
Tags: Venture capital, Investment, Google Inc., IPO, National Venture Capital Association, venture-capital company, Silicon Valley company, Silicon Valley, Wall Street Journal, Web Site
Ballmer says venture freeze will spare startups in key fields
News Though the pullback in venture capital investing will winnow the field of startups, “there’s really not a better time to start a business”, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tells a Stanford University audience.
Tags: Venture capital, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, oil & gas, National Venture Capital Association, computer, software, alternative energy, CEO, Stanford
Tech IPOs 'rise from the ashes'
News The 2004 market debuts of some dot-com era survivors bode well for IPOs in the coming year.
Tags: Investments
Start-ups take Q3 beating
News Funding to VC-backed companies continues to dry up, but the grim news isn't shaking up the communications industry--yet.
Fourth-quarter VC funding stabilizes
News Venture capitalists are handing out a little more cash to private companies than they have for a while--but analysts caution that times will remain difficult for fledgling businesses.
What's India's next big thing?
News Industry watchers are divided over the future of the prominent IT services market.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Leadership, Entrepreneurship
Stagnant market hastens demise of some Net firms
News For every Net company that has received a financial lifeline in recent months, another has quietly given up the search and shut down.
Does Web 2.0 bubble have a silver lining?
News Not all of today's Web start-ups will survive. But the relatively low cost of getting one going means Web services are being developed fast.
Tags: Web sites
US venture funding up nearly 11 percent in 2007
News U.S. venture capitalists invested a total of US$29.4 billion in 2007, and the number of deals grew by 5 percent over 2006 to reach 3,813 last year.
Tags: Venture capital, Open source, Web 2.0
Software recaptures venture crown
News The sector is once again the top recipient of venture capital funding, after losing out to biotechnology for two quarters in a row, according to a new survey.
Tags: Business applications
Tech companies, investors clash over patent law
News Larger companies have been lobbying for surgery on what they call a "broken" system; smaller venture capital firms aren't convinced.
Tags: Patents, Investments, Regulations
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