Capital Chaos

Magnify.net (New York, NY) announced that it has secured its first round of funding which included investors from the New York Angels, Next Stage Capital, Rose Tech Ventures, Active Angel Investors, Ogden Capital, Gideon Gartner and Chris Anderson (Author of The Long Tail).
The company has developed a creative way to aggregate user generated videos and […]

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There was a very interesting Op-ed piece in VentureBeat written by Sumant Mandal who is managing director at Clearstone Venture Partners in Santa Monica, Calif.  Clearstone is a firm whose recent transactions we have covered (ThisNext, Rubicon Project and SoonR to name a few).
There’s no doubt that California is regarded as the “mecca” of venture […]

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Yelp! (San Francisco, CA) is about to announce its latest round of funding for $15M led by DAG Ventures (Duff Ackerman & Goodrich) according to TechCrunch.  The company which has created one of the more successful local review sites has started to post some very significant numbers so far this year in terms of traffic […]

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Dow Jones VentureWire had a great story which was written by Ty McMahan which gave a great perspective of the life of a start up and the ensuing drama.  The article also discusses the funding of a company we covered here called Earth Class Mail. 
Ty reports, “While watching “Start-Up Junkies,” my weekly dose of VC […]

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