Private Equity
Ten things you probably didn't know about the National Security Agency. It’s back (again): NY courts approve Uber, Hailo, green taxis in one fell swoop. The real reason that Google Reader was given the axe. And so much more!
1 min read · 06 June 2013
The Indiana Economic Development Corporation, in partnership with the private venture development organizationElevate Ventures, is launching the Indiana Diversity Investment Fund (IDI Fund), the two outfits announced today. A sub-program under the Indiana Angel Network Fund, which is itself a seed and early-stage co-investment program for Indiana companies under the U.S. Department of Treasury’s State Small Business Credit Initiative, the IDI Fund is dedicated to supporting women, minority and veteran-owned businesses in Indiana in particular.
3 min read · 06 June 2013
San Diego-based weMonitor, an analytics startup focused on the home energy efficiency market, has raised $5.3 million Series A investment from Dominion Investment Group of Norfolk, Va., a firm that provides funding for companies, as well as sells insurance, investment and trust services.
2 min read · 06 June 2013
Blackford Capital, a private equity firm based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has acquired Mopec, a full-service maker of pathology and mortuary equipment based in Detroit. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
4 min read · 06 June 2013
The entrepreneur-turned-investor chats about how Ron Conway helped him, the future of bitcoin and why people think he needs to get out more
9 min read · 06 June 2013
President Obama orders regulators to root out "patent trolls," why you'll never know why you didn't get a job, and how one Twitter user grew famous by allegedly stealing comedians’ tweets. And so much more!
1 min read · 05 June 2013
Sean Parker's wedding was excessive and destructive. The California Coastal Commission let it happen anyway. Amazon just wrote its largest-ever check for a subscription-streaming deal, securing hundreds of mostly childrens' TV programs from Viacom Inc for its Internet video service. And five questions regarding Apple's new streaming music platform. And so much more!
1 min read · 04 June 2013
Zynga announces that it's laying off more than 500 people, details of Sean Parker's lavish "fairy tale" wedding in the forest begin to emerge, and why Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, needs to sell 540,000 vehicles a year for the company to be worth $43 billion by 2022. And so much more!
1 min read · 03 June 2013
Serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis is raising $10 million for a new venture fund to back startups coming out of his Launch conferences.
4 min read · 03 June 2013
Through April 2013, just 11 VC-backed companies have gone public this year, but May saw more than half that many
4 min read · 01 June 2013
