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Jeff Clavier, First Round Capital invest in yummy startup Foodzie

Early-stage investors Jeff Clavier's SoftTech VC and Josh Kopelman and Howard Morgan's First Round Capital along with strategic angel investors are backing Foodzie, an online marketplace for high-end artisan food...


Betaworks entrepreneurs rub elbows with tech dealmakers at Betaday

Entrepreneurs backed by New York incubator Betaworks got an enviable opportunity Tuesday to pitch their startups to more than 50 of the best-known names in tech dealmaking from major media and advertising companies, established technology...


At @vctips, VCs tweet it like it is

Attention entrepreneurs: Before you pitch the next venture capitalist on your list, read this blog post. Better yet, follow @vctips, a new Twitter account that anyone can follow but only...


Video: Get Satisfaction's Lane Becker on Web 2.0-style customer service

At least one startup is using Web 2.0 technology to do something more ambitious than tossing virtual sheep: Get Satisfaction uses social networking to provide customer service to companies."We help companies...


Mayfield Fund leads Gigya Inc.'s $9.5M Series B

Advertisers including Kimberly-Clark, Levis, MTV, Sprint and Toyota are increasingly using "widgets," clever little online applets, to market their brands, says Eyal Magen (pictured), cofounder and CEO of Gigya Inc. The company, which...


Chris Sacca, ex-Google wireless guru turned angel investor, lists admired startups

  Chris Sacca, the open wireless spectrum advocate who left Google Inc. last month to focus on early-stage investing, unwittingly got the blogosphere guessing this week about the identity of...


Gmail interface designer Kevin Fox joins Google alumni at FriendFeed

We've tracked down Kevin Fox, the playful designer who crafted the look and feel of Gmail and other Google Inc. programs and who told the world last Friday that he...


First Round's Morgan touts Yapta, but competition abounds for online travel startup

First Round Capital's Howard Morgan paid Tech Confidential a visit this week to chat about some of his recent investments, including online travel service Yapta Inc. After launching in May, the...


Google's Sacca: VC funds are too big

Google Inc. wireless guru Chris Sacca, who is leaving the search titan to launch his career as an angel investor, graced us with a quick e-mail interview: Tech Confidential:...


Chris Sacca exits Google, enters land of angels

Just a few years after paying off his student loans and only about one year after making his first private investment in Photobucket Inc., Chris Sacca is leaving Google Inc....


Dyson still bullish on Linkstorm

Esther Dyson, an early investor in Linkstorm, remains a fan of the online advertiser despite not participating in its latest round of funding. Linkstorm's technology is less intrusive than that...


Howard Morgan invests "way too early"

  "I work with companies at two stages, early and way too early," Howard Morgan told the entrepreneurs, investors and advisers assembled for Alan Brody's VC Outlook iBreakfast in New...


Angels, "micro"-VCs team up

"If it cost $10 million to start a technology company 10 years ago and $1 million four years ago, today it's come down to $100,000," David S. Rose, chairman...


Kopelman's take on Mashery

News that Mashery Inc. has closed its first institutional round of funding from a syndicate led by Formative Ventures provides a good opportunity to glimpse into the strategy of an...



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