Capital Chaos

PriceWaterhouseCoopers released their MoneyTree Report which provides some great insight into deal flow both in terms of dollars, stages and geography.  The report is a sate of the union for transactions and the Q3 2007 report provides some interesting data.
According to the report, there was $7.1B invested in 887 deals in Q3.  While the investment […]

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Kayak (Norwalk, CT) raised $193M - of which we are told $175M was used to purchase rival Sidestep (the remaining $18M will fill the coffers of Kayak).  The deal which really puts Kayak ahead of the pack as it relates to travel information (flights, hotels, pricing etc).  According to TechCrunch, Sidestep generates about $35M in revenue […]

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Kyte (San Francisco, CA) aka Decentral.TV is an online video service that really focuses on two-way interacting. It’s a pretty neat service in a space that is seemingly becomming more and more cluttered.  The Series B was lead by Telefonica and also included Nokia, DoCoMo, Swisscom, Holtzbrinck Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurveston.  Total funding to date […]

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Validity (San Jose, CA) just completed a second round of financing lead by Crosslink Capital.  The company develops technology for fingerprint sensors used in laptops and other devices (I wonder if they ever speak to those guys at PayByTouch who have burned through an un-godly sum of money). 
The company is run by Jalil Shaikh who […]

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