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VC fundraising sank in fourth quarter

  Far from immune to Wall Street's woes, venture capital firms raised 71% less money in the fourth quarter of 2008 than they did in the same quarter of 2007,...


Q&A: Casual angels pull back, but serious angels step up, says NY Angels chair David S. Rose

It would be difficult to find someone more passionate about angel investing than David S. Rose (pictured). In 1997, he founded New York Angels Inc., an investment group that has spent more...


Q&A: TheFunded.com's Adeo Ressi offers advice to LPs on picking VC funds

Continuing Tech Confidential's year-end series of Q&As with tech dealmakers, we ask Adeo Ressi, the founder of TheFunded Inc., for his advice to limited partners and other investors considering putting...


Video: Iminlikewithyou's Charles Forman on selling virtual goods

Casual game site Iminlikewithyou will soon start selling virtual goods, founder and CEO Charles Forman (pictured) tells Tech Confidential in our Behind the Money video interview.Games on the mulitplayer site, such...


'You can get a robust return and take care of the planet,' Al Gore tells investors

"If you've got a lot of money tied up in sub-prime carbon assets, watch out," former Vice President Al Gore warned an audience of institutional investors in New York on...


Kodiak Venture Partners backing new startups and supporting older ones

We have continued to report on a relatively steady stream of venture capital fundings over the last several weeks despite Wall Street's woes. But many of the fundings coming to light now...


Forbes lectures Obama on the dangers of the welfare state

Addressing an open letter to President-elect Barack Obama, technology pundit Sramana Mitra demonstrates that she knows a lot more about tech than she does about politics. Writing in Forbes, she...


Video (Part 2): Alan Patricof compares NY and LA with Silicon Valley

"I would say there is an entrepreneurial energy boom in New York and Los Angeles, which is going to give a good race to Silicon Valley," says Alan Patricof (pictured)...


VC StarVest buys Iron Solutions, sees big things for DaaS

Venture capitalists don't often make acquisitions--especially not of companies that cater to farmers. But that's not stopping StarVest Partners LP from planting its capital in a business that it expects...


Spark Capital's Dennis Miller has his hands on the "next David Karp"

At paidContent's EconAds seminar this week in New York, Spark Capital general partner Dennis Miller said the early-stage VC firm is set to announce its investment in a startup launched...


Betaworks under the microscope

Betaworks might be the most influential early-stage investment firm no one's ever heard of. If it's take on Web 2.0 is right, that's sure to change. Tech Confidential takes...


Braemar's Suslak: Commercial opportunity abounds in cleaning traditional energy

"We're putting more capital to work earlier on and throughout the life of a company," says managing director Neil Suslak about Braemar Energy Ventures' second fund, announced Thursday. The new...


Florida VCs form new venture firm

A trio of seasoned venture capitalists is aiming to wake up Florida's sluggish VC market. Tate Garrett, Matthew Shaw and Jeffrey Wolf have launched Sunrock Ventures, raising an initial fund...


Intel Capital fills in mobile gaps

People want access to information using whatever device is at hand, said Stephen Saltzman, who leads Intel Capital's investments in wireless networking, fixed-mobile convergence and mobile Internet devices. "If it's their cell phone,...


Time Warner invests in ad startup ScanScout

Time Warner Inc. funds early-stage media and technologies companies that complement its various businesses. "Where the strategic fit is high, we're prepared to go in earlier and take more financial risk,"...



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