Capital Chaos

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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 BlueRun Ventures (Menlo Park, CA) recently raised $200M for its fourth fund.  The company which was initially backed by Nokia, is now on its own has been pretty aggressive in the past year (Slide).  This new fund was originally targeted at being $350M according to an earlier article by Venture Beat back in October, 2007.  […]

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 St. Petersburg Times staff writer, Kris Hundley, is down at the 17th annual Floria Venture Capital Conference which is being held this week at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort.  The two-day event which kicked off yesterday has seen an overwhelming number of both participants (1,200) and VC firms (200) ready to be engaged. 
Kris reports that, “venture […]

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