What venture capital drought? Chipmaker Achronix Semiconductor Corp. has just raised $52 million in a Series B funding round, one of the largest chip sector fundraisings of the year.... Continue Reading.
No shock here, but an index that measures the confidence of venture capitalists (aptly named the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index) reached a new low in the third quarter.... Continue Reading.
Still independent three years after its chief rival Upcoming.org was acquired by Yahoo Inc., local event information distributor Eventful Inc. has taken in a new Series C round of funding... Continue Reading.
The third-quarter data on venture fundraising is arguably old already, given all that's happened with the economy since the beginning of October, but for what it's worth, the latest data... Continue Reading.
Solar cell material developer Innovalight Inc. has added an extra $5 million to the $42 million it has already raised since the startup was founded in 2002. Innovalight is developing silicon ink-based... Continue Reading.
As a venture firm founded during the last gasp of the dot-com boom in April 2000, San Francisco's Azure Capital Partners got a crash course early on about rough economic... Continue Reading.
With much of America in belt-tightening mode, the timing could not have been better for personal savings adviser BillShrink.com to announce an $8 million Series B funding round. The round... Continue Reading.
Wix, a two-year-old company that makes tools to help individuals and small businesses build sophisticated Web sites cheaply and quickly, has raised $3.5 million in a Series B funding... Continue Reading.
Sign of the times: Noted Silicon Valley startup Seesmic has laid off seven employees, with founder and CEO Loïc LeMeur attributing the move to the souring economy. "Of course this... Continue Reading.
Alan Patricof, founder and managing director of New York venture capital firm Greycroft Partners LLC and an éminence gris of the U.S. investment community, sent us a statement today urging... Continue Reading.
What impact with the growing financial crisis have on venture capitalists and their portfolio companies? Just ask top Silicon Valley VC firm Sequoia Capital, which predicts hard times ahead in... Continue Reading.
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What venture capital drought? Chipmaker Achronix Semiconductor Corp. has just raised $52 million in a Series B funding round, one of the largest chip sector fundraisings of the year.... Continue Reading.
