Topic - VantagePoint

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Archives, General news, Cleantech, Finance

VC Cash Rains on BrightSource

Utility scale solar developer raises $115M from VantagePoint, Google, BP, and others; company plans plants in Mojave Desert.
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Computers, General news, Communications, Finance

YouMail Lands $4.5 Million

VantagePoint leads round for company that puts the voice of Homer Simpson or George Bush in users' voice mail messages.
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Computers, General news, Internet, Finance

VCs Count on Multiply.com

A $16.6M funding round will bolster the infrastructure of a social network that courts an older demographic than Facebook or MySpace.
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Finance

Piper Jaffray Raises Cleantech Fund

VCs say the investment bank’s first clean fund of funds represents a maturing of the sector.
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Media, Cleantech

Thin-Film Startup Raises $35M

As the silicon shortage continues, investors focus on thin-film solar technologies.
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Cleantech

Three Huge Solar Trends

As solar industry prepares for its largest U.S. conference, three big trends are already clear.
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Finance

Too Late to Get Into Cleantech?

Reality Check: With more money chasing cleantech investments, it’s getting harder to make money by the minute.
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Cleantech, Finance

DFJ Closes $284M for Cleantech

Total for DFJ Element fund nearly doubles venture firm’s target.
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Cleantech, Finance

Q&A: Tesla’s Martin Eberhard

He couldn’t buy the electric sports car he wanted, so he started a company to make it.
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Finance

Widevine Gains $16M from Cisco

Video-tracking software startup secures funding from Cisco and Telus, among others.
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General news, Media

Video-Store-in-a-Box Funded

VCs pump $48.5 million into MovieBeam, which delivers the latest movie releases to a set-top box in customer homes.
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Computers, Communications

Visto Sues Good Over Patent

After suing Microsoft, Visto says Good Technology infringes on its patents.
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Cleantech

DFJ’s $150M Cleantech Fund

Draper Fisher Jurvetson’s fund represents ‘solidification’ of cleantech sector.
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Cleantech, Finance

More Cash for Clean Energy

Investments in clean energy include $270 million for wind farms, and a $30-million addition to clean-energy fund.
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General news, Communications, Finance

Mobile Startups Struggle

At the ‘Under the Radar’ convention, mobile application companies seek to prove their worth in an increasingly difficult market.
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Cleantech

U.S. Lags in Clean Energy

Red Herring panelists say the U.S. has investors and technology, but is missing the opportunity to be a leading renewable-energy market.
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Communications

TechSpin: Qwest’s VoIP Play

Qwest launches VoIP quietly; wealthy startup targets top tier; Juniper splurges on startups.
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Finance

Entrisphere Gets Another $75M

Network device firm’s $75-million third round underlines why fewer companies are going public.
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Cleantech, Finance

Cleaning up

Nonprofit clean energy investment fund CalCEF has enlisted three major VC firms to manage $25.5 million.