Private Equity
Larry Page explains why he lost his voice. The payments startup Square unveils Stand, a countertop point-of-sale system. And does an MBA make you happy? And so much more!
1 min read · 14 May 2013
Can a snooping scandal break Wall Street’s Bloomberg addiction? Bill Gates on Steve Jobs: We grew up together. And New York's attorney general asks Google, Apple and Samsung why, exactly, they can't render stolen phones inoperable. And so much more!
1 min read · 13 May 2013
Work Market has raised $10 million in a round led by Softbank Capital and joined by existing backers Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures.
2 min read · 13 May 2013
Bay City Capital, a San Franciso-based venture capital firm that focuses on life sciences companies, has hired David Beier as a managing director. Beier was a senior officer for nearly a decade at each of the two largest biotechnology firms, Genentech and Amgen, where he was most recently a senior VP responsible for global government affairs.
2 min read · 13 May 2013
Early-stage IT and healthcare investor Grotech Ventures announces it has raised a new $225 million fund after a 20-month process.
3 min read · 13 May 2013
The Virginian venture firm raised $109 million for its previous fund, which closed in 2009
3 min read · 13 May 2013
LPs were slow and methodical in their due diligence process, more so than in 29 years that the firm has been in business
4 min read · 13 May 2013
Roughly one-third of air passengers neglect to turn off their electronic devices during take-off or landing. By accident, really! The new proposal by Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management for Dell presents some new complications. And so much more!
1 min read · 10 May 2013
Amazon is developing a smartphone with a 3-D screen, a former Intel employee is suing over a kick in the pants, and hedge fund manager Phil Falcone just received a two-year ban from the SEC. And so much more!
1 min read · 09 May 2013
CapLinked, a Los Angeles, Calif.-based startup whose cloud-based platform enables investors to manage business transactions like mergers, acquisitions, financings, asset sales and reporting, has closed on a Series A round that the firm has been assembling since last year. The round, which is being closed with $2.1 million, includes new investors Conversion Capital, Inflection Ventures, and The Artesian Group. Previous investors in the company include 500 Startups and venture capitalist Peter Thiel. To date, CapLinked has raised more than $3 million.
3 min read · 09 May 2013
