Private Equity
San Francisco-based Brightpearl, a software-as-a-service company that integrates orders, inventory, and customer data for small and medium-size businesses, has raised $8 million in Series B funding. The round was co-led by seed investors Eden Ventures and Notion Capital, which had previously given the six-year-old company $5 million in funding.
3 min read · 21 May 2013
Will Griffith, a venture capitalist who spent a dozen years with Technology Crossover Ventures, is raising a fund for a firm called Iconiq Strategic Partners.
2 min read · 21 May 2013
Since Yahoo announced it was acquiring Tumblr, venture capitalists have probably pondered how the deal impacts the value of their stakes in still-private social networks like Pinterest. The early consensus is that it's good news, indeed.
3 min read · 21 May 2013
Will Tumblr "screw up" Yahoo? GE Ventures officially opens for business in Silicon Valley. Seamless and Grubhub have merged into an online food-ordering hydra. And so much more!
1 min read · 20 May 2013
Is Yahoo acquiring Tumblr? We may find out on Monday. The IPOs of business software companies Tableau Software and Marketo both soared today. And SAC says it's done cooperating with federal securities regulators. And so much more!
1 min read · 17 May 2013
A first close can be a very happy milestone for those on the fundraising trail. Unfortunately, the first close is also becoming more elusive, according to new findings from the private equity data provider Preqin.
1 min read · 16 May 2013
A new comedy series about Silicon Valley written by Mike Judge was just picked up by HBO. It's looking likely that Groupon won't have a new CEO until next year. And 23andMe gene analysis shows this week's NVCA conference attendees have a higher-than-average chance of going bald. And so much more!
1 min read · 16 May 2013
This week marks the one-year anniversary of Facebook’s public offering, and the market is still feeling its impact. Here's how.
3 min read · 15 May 2013
Demi Moore is after a piece of Ashton Kutcher's venture capital fund, Google+ gets more Pinteresting, and a tech M&A machine hits the brakes. And so much more!
1 min read · 15 May 2013
A new survey by IPO advisory Class V Group finds that most fund managers believe that smaller, non-bookrunner banks are being underpaid, hampering how much small-cap research gets produced and hindering the number of IPOs by small companies.
4 min read · 15 May 2013
