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Venture Capital

Industry Moves: GMG Adds Accel's Gibbons To Board For Added Digital Juice

Guardian Media Group is adding Accel Partners VC partner Judy Gibbons as a non-executive director - a sign of further digital focus. Gibbons' Accel investments include Weeworld, Autoquake and - most notably - mobile web...

When a smart adviser really matters

Believe it or not, someday you'll feel like buying stocks again. It will no longer seem that the end of the financial world is at hand, and that even hiding money (if you have any left) under your mattress may not be safe enough.

Entrepreneurs are worried, but some are not worried enough

Webware survey, 491 respondents. Even in good times, when venture capitalists are spreading money on entrepreneurs like farmers spread manure, they expect only a few roses to bloom. But a healthy amount of fear is a good...

Bowmark hires Julian Masters, Tom Shelford

UK lower mid-market private equity firm Bowmark Capital has appointed two new investment profeesionals. Julian Masters has joined the firm as a partner and Tom Shelford as an investment director. Masters most recently worked at...

Student Entrepreneurs Win Top Prizes at UC Berkeley Venture Competition

Eighteen semifinalist teams competed on the UC Berkeley (UCB) campus October 2 for four first prizes, each including $10,000 cash, $2,000 in supplies, mentoring from experts, and a space in the new Venture Lab housed in the...

DSM invests in incubator to strengthen position in biomedical materials

DSM Venturing, the corporate venturing unit of Royal DSM N.V., today announces that it has made an investment in the new business incubator in the field of medical devices Accelerated Technologies I.. - Read more

Foundation Capital Warns Its Startups - BusinessWeek

The Silicon Valley venture capital firm tells its portfolio companies to cut costs and spending because funding is likely to dwindle Over the last few weeks, Silicon Valley has been jolted out of its fantasy that it could...

vator story - VC gloom means entrepreneur and angel boon

There has been a lot of very sagacious advice offered by Venture Capitalists and investors to their portfolio companies in the last week. I’ve read them all 3x. Dogster, Inc. is not VC-funded, and we have a negative burn rate...

Bollywood remains flamboyant despite global slowdown

Farokh Balsara, media analyst, Ernst & Young, says any player looking at international funding will face some heat. "Tie-ups like Sony Pictures and Disney who want to 'experience' Bollywood by making films with top directors...

KidZui, The Internet for Kids, Expands With New Kid-Safe Social Networking Features: Kids Can...

SAN DIEGO, CA, October 13 / MARKET WIRE/ -- KidZui, The Internet for Kids (www.kidzui.com), today announced a major expansion incorporating new kid-safe social networking features, a Homework Helper, and that they have reached...

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