Investment in technology companies in Silicon Valley is not just on the rise; it’s increasingly taking funding away from other sectors, according to research from CB Insights. Technology is dominating funding in…
Honda’s Open Innovation Arm Reaches Silicon Valley
Some view corporate venture with suspicion, as signing up for funding from industry behemoths doesn’t come without strings. However, CVC fits many firms better than institutional investment, as corporates fortify startups with…
Pinterest Raises Huge Round……Again
America’s prettiest social media platform just raised a massive Series E to develop, monetize and globalize its service. Pinterest, the e-community built on image-sharing and “pinning,” today confirms a $225 million funding…
ff Venture Capital to Public: We Are Fundraising
An eighty-year-old ban on general solicitation, officially lifted in September, denied startups and VCs alike the power to announce fundraising plans publicly. Suddenly ungagged, some startups jumped to declare they sought money,…
Twitter Goes NYSE for IPO
A rear view mirror lets Twitter map a different path to IPO than Facebook, one planned perhaps in the hopes of evading pitfalls that plagued the latter’s 2012 public offering. On Tuesday,…
Lessons Learned from Silicon Valley’s Pioneers
By Igor Sill, Geneva Venture Group The ability to select and recruit exceptionally talented and capable management leaders is very possibly the greatest talent of a world class entrepreneur and, I believe…
Searching for a Cold War
The Russian government could drag the world back in time to the Cold War era with plans to develop and deploy a state-owned search engine named Sputnik. According to Russian business daily…
Numerify makes cloud analytics easy, picks up $8 million in Series A
Cloud analytical solutions company Numerify has raised more than $8 million in an oversubscribed Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. A long list of angels with impressive résumés contributed to the…
Krehbiel Family Leaves 75-year-old Molex to Koch Industries at $7.2 Billion
Last Monday, Wichita-based Koch Industries acquired Molex, the 75-year-old connector company and Apple parts supplier. Both companies look to close the deal by the end of this year, which depends on both…
Skyera’s Latest Gen Boosts Data Capacity by 10X for ½ the Price
Last year, Skyera released skyHawk, a product that blew the lid of flash storage which, at a price tag of $3 per a gigabyte, essentially made flash pricing comparable to traditional storage…