Venture Capital

Venture Funds Sweeten Terms

Venture-capital funds are cutting fees as they scrounge for cash amid a bruising fund-raising environment. Battery Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Opus Capital are among venture-capital firms that have dangled lower costs...

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More 'Patient Capital' for Social Ventures - BusinessWeek

An increasing number of venture investors are hunting for small companies that could yield social benefits as well as high profits sounds like an unlikely candidate for venture capital. Ric Scalzo, a medical herbalist, founded...

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Designing Change

How venture philanthropy fund Acumen uses design thinking to help solve real-world problems Travel northeast out of New Delhi, and long after the paved roads have given way to dirt, you'll reach Thathia, a tiny village in...

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DLA Piper Advises On US$15 Million Funding of China's Leading Travel Search Engine

China - DLA Piper today announced that it advised GGV Capital (formerly known as Granite Global Ventures) in connection with its US$15 million investment in Beijing-based travel search engine Qunar.com. GGV Capital was the lead...

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5 top mutual fund houses

Leveraging the brand BIRLA SUN LIFE MF ( Graphics ) Despite having been around for about a decade, the variables in its favour—brand name, product range, performance and partnership with Sun Life—were not reflected in its scale...

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Landreth Seed Co. launches African-American collection

Christmas Pole Lima seeds are featured at Landreth Seed Company in New Freedom, Pennsylvania. A vintage seed catalog painting from 1909 is displayed at Landreth Seed Company in New Freedom, Pennsylvania. As part of its 225th...

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Evaluating San Diego’s Entrepreneurial Spirit

How attractive is San Diego as a place to start a company compared with the Silicon Valley? Santa Barbara? Los Angeles? As a great place to live, it is impossible to beat Southern California. As a place to build a company, the...

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Online Backup Provider, QuorumLabs, Completes $5.3 Million In Funding

Elegant, Cost-Effective Business Continuity Solution for SMB Market Fuels Investor Interest FREMONT, Calif., November 17, 2009 - QuorumLabs, Inc. today announced it has completed $5.3 million in Series A funding. The investors...

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Clean-tech industries ripe for investment

Daniel Goldman, co-founder of Environmental Entrepreneurs and New Energy Capital Corp., a private-equity fund focusing on renewable energy. (Special to The Denver Post ) Q: You have been involved in cleantech venture capital...

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Clicker.com aims to be Net's TV guide

Web surfing is becoming more like channel surfing as television shows, movies and music videos pour onto the Internet. That's why pointing people to their favorite TV episodes and flicks could emerge as next big opportunity in...

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