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NanoH2O Raises $14.8M
Socal Tech &bull Dec 15, 2011
El Segundo-based NanoH2O, the UCLA spinout which is developing reverse osmosis membranes for water desalination, has raised $14.87M as part of an ongoing, $30.6M fundraising effort, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. No details of the funding have… Full Story »
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Nicole Stata ready for 2nd year with Boston Seed Capital
Biz Journals &bull Dec 13, 2011
The life of an entrepreneur is rarely easy, but it might've come more naturally for Nicole Stata to start another company than to found a tech seed investing firm on her own. Yet Stata says a passion for helping other… Full Story »
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MIT Club of Northern California to Present "Clean Tech Investing for 2012 - What's Hot and What's Not?" To Take Place on December 7
Green VC &bull Dec 5, 2011
The MIT Club of Northern California will present a program entitled Clean Tech Investing for 2012 - What's Hot and What's Not? on December 7. This event will feature the following panelists: Pierre Lamond, Khosla Ventures Steve Goldby, Venrock Partners... Full Story »
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eBay Buys VC-Backed Hunch
Private Equity Hub &bull Nov 21, 2011
eBay has acquired data analytics startup Hunch in effort to build more recommendation technology into its online marketplace, Reuters reported Monday. Terms of the acquisition were not released. Formed in 2009, Hunch raised capital from venture firms including General Catalyst… Full Story »
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EBay snaps up taste-recommendation site Hunch for $80M
Vator News &bull Nov 21, 2011Ecommerce service eBay announced Monday its acquisition of Hunch, an online platform that scans user data and offers user recommendations based on taste. Hunch's core technology, which it calls a "taste graph," collects data from a wide array of online sources, including social networking, to compile… Full Story »
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New York Startups Rake in Cash
X-Conomy &bull Nov 21, 2011
Shapeways, a 3D printing company says in a blog post it raised $5.1 million in a funding round with prior investors Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures. The company's 3D printing services let customers create products from their own designs… Full Story »
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Headless UTI AMC Hits T. Rowe's Asia Growth plans
VC Circle &bull Nov 18, 2011
A leadership vacuum at UTI Asset Management is taking a toll on the health of India's oldest mutual fund, dealing a setback to the Asian growth ambitions of its joint venture partner, USA money manager T. Rowe Price Group Inc. Baltimore-based T. Rowe, a conservative investor which negotiated the 2008 financial crisis better than most rivals, paid $140 million two years ago to acquire about… Full Story »
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The Year Of Crazy Growth That Led To HowAboutWe's New $15 Million Series B Round
Silicon Alley Insider &bull Nov 18, 2011
HowAboutWe just told us some exciting news: it has raised a $15 million Series B round led by Khosla Ventures with participation from RRE, ff Venture Capital and some angels. HowAboutWe focuses on the fun part of dating -- the dates themselves. Users post what they want to do and… Full Story »
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Branson backs Twitter co-founder's mobile biz
The Register &bull Nov 9, 2011
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's mobile payments startup Square continues to attract high-octane investors, this time welcoming Sir Richard Branson on board. I'm very passionate about helping people start and grow successful businesses and Square is an incredible technology that inspires… Full Story »
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The 20 Most Innovative Startups In Tech
Silicon Alley Insider &bull Nov 8, 2011
Very few startups have the potential to become big businesses. There are also very few with innovative ideas. We compiled a list of our favorite tech startups and asked investors and entrepreneurs to do the same. Some of the companies we… Full Story »
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News Roundup: Carlyle To Buy Stake In Fabindia
VC Circle &bull Nov 8, 2011
Carlyle To Buy Stake In Fabindia - Global private equity major Carlyle has outbid rival firms to close an equity investment in ethnic wear chain Fabindia. The deal values the company at Rs 1,400 crore. Top private equity firms, including Bain Capital, Everstone Capital, KKR, New Silk Route, Premji Invest, Sequoia and Temasek, were vying to… Full Story »
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Kaggle Raises $11M For Crowdsourced Analytical Competitions
Alarm Clock &bull Nov 3, 2011
San Francisco-based Kaggle has raised $11M in series A led by Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures. Stanford University's endownment, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, Google chief economist Hal Varian and Applied Semantics' co-founder Gil Elbaz. Kaggle joins the crowd-sourcing field, and… Full Story »
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Opportunity to Meet with Khosla Ventures on December 1 (Discount Available)
Green VC &bull Oct 25, 2011
On December 1, the Environmental Business Cluster (EBC) will provide an opportunity to meet with Khosla Ventures. This program is part of EBC's "Meet with" series - a partnering and coaching series designed to facilitate meetings between cleantech entrepreneurs and... Full Story »
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Khosla Ventures Raises $1.05 Billion in New Investment Fund
Green VC &bull Oct 25, 2011
More green jobs... Khosla Ventures, a venture capital firm baed in Silicon Valley, announced earlier this month that it has raised a new $1.05 billion fund - Khosla Ventures IV. The firm will continue its strategy of investing in early… Full Story »
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SAN-banner scores $25m from ex-Sunner
The Register &bull Oct 25, 2011
Khosla Ventures, the private equity fund set up by Sun Microsystems cofounder Vinod Khosla, is kicking in a hefty chunk of dough in the second round of funding for cloud appliance maker Nutanix. Nutanix was founded in 2009 by file system experts from Aster Data and Google as well as system clustering experts from Oracle, and came… Full Story »
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My Back Pages
Union Square Ventures &bull Oct 20, 2011
For many years, I have been a reader of this blog. I'm excited, and humbled, by the opportunity to now be a contributor and to announce here that I have joined Union Square Ventures. In early 2007, when I joined up with John Borthwick and began discussing something that would later be called betaworks, we spent hours talking about how the next phase of Internet growth -… Full Story »
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SunBorne Partners With IPP Eoxis Energy For Solar Project In Gujarat
VC Circle &bull Oct 19, 2011
Solar projects developer SunBorne Energy has joined hands with Europe-based IPP Eoxis Energy for executing a 15 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) project being built in Gujarat, the company has said in a statement on Wednesday. This project marks Eoxis' first investment in the country. We are excited that an… Full Story »
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BillGuard - Fends Off VCs in $10M Series B Round
VC Cafe &bull Oct 19, 2011
BillGuard has raised $10 Million in their Series B round of financing. Investors include bigtime funds like Khosla Ventures, Peter Thiel's Founder's Fund, Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors; previous investors Bessemer Venture Partners and IA Ventures also contributed to this round… Full Story »
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BillGuard Brings In $10 million, Big Names With Series B Funding
Yahoo Finance &bull Oct 18, 2011
I like when technology and finance meet and make something cool. I've written about business for a dozen years. My work has recently appeared in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Monocle and the Washington City Paper. You can reach me at tomanderson@gmail.com.… Full Story »
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Lookout Mobile Security releases app for iPhone
Vator News &bull Oct 18, 2011Lookout Mobile Security made a splash with its security app for Android devices, drawing the attention of several big name investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, Accel Partners, Index Ventures, and more, raising some $76 million since the company's founding in 2007. Now, Lookout is announcing that it's… Full Story »
