Capital Chaos

We recently came across a very unique means of pitching your company called FundingUniverse. The clever speed pitching event is designed to let select pre-qualified companies have 7 minutes to sell their business idea one-on-one to a pre-qualified angel investor. After 7 minutes is up, you are on to the next angel investor. All in […]

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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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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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 Crains reported today that a new Illinois-based venture capital fund for start-up firms announced Monday that it has invested in its first three companies — two in technology and one in consumer products.
The Illinois Innovation Accelerator Fund, which recently achieved its $10-million goal in capital commitments, chose Viewpoints.com in Chicago, One Llama Media Inc. of […]

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