Financial services executive Kevin Grieve is taking the helm at mobile payments provider Mocapay. A 20-year financial services industry veteran, his most recent position was as First Data Corp. president...
After 10 years in business, Paltalk has done little in the way of mergers and acquisitions, but that may soon change as president and chief operating officer Joel Smernoff predicts a year...
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...
Iminlikewithyou may not have any revenue yet, but founder and CEO Charles Forman tells Tech Confidential he has a business model he will soon execute -- unlike many a Web...
Investment banker Michael Glazer (pictured, right) used to receive a steady stream of calls pitching him on various startup ideas from his childhood pal Jason Feffer (left). A member of the...
Matt Cohler, an early employee of Facebook Inc., will join Silicon Valley venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in the fall as a general partner. Cohler is not cutting all ties...
John Huston, whose one-year term as the elected chairman of the Angel Capital Association, or ACA, begins July 1, hopes to continue the trade group's impressive growth and raise its...
"Seventy percent of the investment in cleantech has been in energy, but cleantech innovation runs much more through our economy," says David Kirkpatrick, managing director and cofounder of SJF Ventures,...
John Gage, who retired as Sun Microsystems Inc.'s chief researcher earlier this month, is joining Sun co-founder Bill Joy as a partner at venerable venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield...
Charles Forman, founder and CEO of Iminlikewithyou, is the likely heir apparent to Spark Capital's next investment and to the title of Web 2.0 whiz kid currently held by Tumblr Inc.'s 21-year-old founder David Karp,...
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