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Slow Funding Events

February 19th, 2008 · No Comments

The past few days have yielded very few newsworthy stories about VC transactions so my apologies for the slow leak of info.  While other sites like Mashable, TechCrunch, VentureBeat are all covering sites/products, we prefer to stick with the transactions and the meat behind who is investing in them (they do a great job and […]

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Venture Summit East Being Held at Four Seasons Hotel, Boston, MA

February 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Like its sister event in Silicon Valley, Venture Summit East is a two-day gathering on April 8th-9th that highlights the significant economic, political and technology trends impacting the global growth investor. Venture Summit East features the most influential institutional investors, venture capitalists, corporate buyers, investment bankers and research analysts in the Eastern US in keynote […]

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BlueRun Ventures Launches New Fund for Consumer and Mobile Investments

February 11th, 2008 · No Comments

 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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Tags: New Funds · Raising Money · State of Venture · Venture Capital · Wireless

Florida Venture Forum Update - Over 200 Firms Present and Ready to Invest

January 30th, 2008 · No Comments

 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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