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by tj on October 09, 2006
Daniel Primack asks this question in his latest newsletter: Sevin Rosen Funds has indefinitely postponed fundraising for its tenth fund, which had been scheduled to hold a first close this week. This...
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by tj on October 08, 2006
Meet the money is ETRE's section where companies have time to pitch for some minutes and then get grilled by 4 VCs in the panel. Though questions and not an easy format for the presenting CEO I...
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by tj on October 08, 2006
We are here for the keynote session at ETRE'06 listening to John Thompson, CEO of Symantec. The kick off session is focusing on the developments and trends that John has identified in the last 10...
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by tj on September 13, 2006
RedHerring reports about Murdoch's newest investment: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. paid VeriSign $188 million Tuesday to buy a 51 percent controlling interest in VeriSign's mobile phone...
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by tj on September 05, 2006
A heavily quoted deal in Germany that was announced today: ProSiebenSat1 Media, Germany's largest commercial television company, has bought a 30 per cent stake in MyVideo, a German video website...
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by tj on August 23, 2006
Video Sharing site Grouper.com has exited to Sony for $68 million: Silicon Beat says:This is one of the more impressive management turnaround stories in Silicon Valley's short Web 2.0 history....
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by tj on August 21, 2006
Two companies I have been watching for quite some time are reporting new rounds today: CNN reports: Friendster, the social networking site that helped introduce the service to the online world, is...
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by tj on August 18, 2006
PE Week Wire reports that Box.net has taken an investment from DFJ: Box.Net Inc., a Berkley, Calif.-based provider of online file storage solutions, has raised $1.5 million in Series A funding led by...
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by tj on August 18, 2006
E-Consultancy reports on the spectacular round for Euopean Web 2.0 start up Netvibes: The Paris and London-based start-up, which claims to have recruited five million users of its customisable Ajax...
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by tj on August 18, 2006
Blog Search Engine company Technorati raises a third round to become the all encompassing blog search engine (that never works): Technorati received a $10.52 million investment in June from Draper...
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by tj on August 09, 2006
HassoPlattner Ventures sponsors the European Venture Market on October 5th - 6th, 2006 - in Potsdam, Germany. Do you know about your possibillities for equity financing? - Learn about them! * Find...
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by tj on August 05, 2006
Steve Rosenbush at Businessweek reports about the Skype founders' newest baby: Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the entrepreneurs who created the pioneering Web applications Kazaa and Skype, are...
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by tj on July 13, 2006
CinemaNow - the movie download service has raised fresh money: Movie download service CinemaNow late on Wednesday said it raised $20 million in financing from new investors, including satellite TV...
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by tj on July 05, 2006
Alexander Hüsing reports in his German blog about the activities of Holtzbrinck elab GmbH apparently a holding company for many online projects sponsored by Holtzbrinck. - Pointoo - a Plazes-like...
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by tj on June 27, 2006
In response to the announcements from Skype and others to make specific calls free, Jajah comes with an announcement on its own: "The deal applies to calls placed within the top two zones of...
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by tj on June 27, 2006
Alarm:Clock reports about the angel network that the Samwers have started: "In business as investors for about nine months now, the European Founders Fund has enetered the equity of 7 startups, 4...
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by tj on June 27, 2006
Hasso Plattner, co-founder of SAP has started his retirement do-good fund called HassoPlattnerVentures. No big guessing who invests here and runs the fund - here is what Tech Confidential says:...
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by tj on June 27, 2006
Akimbo the company that produces that TV box that works with your internet connection has convinced investors to put another $15.5m into the company: "AT&T and Cisco, as well as venture...
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by tj on June 27, 2006
Hamburg, Germany based eprofessional GmbH, probably the largest Search Engine Optimization Company in Germany has been sold to Zanox. Co-founder Christian Petersen (pictured) and Michael Scheland...
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by tj on May 26, 2006
Steve Hall has some interesting thoughts about the differences between the 1999 bubble and the Web 2.0 bubble right now. "The late 1990s was a bubble on four major fronts: exit valuations, VC...
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by tj on May 19, 2006
According to Daniel Primack, Kayak.com has raised a Series B: "Kayak Software Corp., a Stanford, Conn.-based comparison shopping website for travelers, has raised around $2.97 million in Series...
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by tj on May 08, 2006
last.fm the 'social radio' pioneer announced a new round of investment today from business angels and Index Ventures: "Fast-growing music site Last.fm has taken its first round of...
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