The energy at Library House’s Essential Web Forum this week in London reflected the excitement UK entrepreneurs and VCs are feeling following the Last.fm sale. But will web 2.0 solve its monetisation conundrum? Dave Keating reports.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
The past two weeks saw both the first and the second live intellectual property auctions held in Europe. Dave Keating reports on the very different outcomes of each.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
The private equity secondaries specialist has partially revealed its plans to begin acquiring patents and other forms of intellectual property.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
With a new report showing that VC activity in Canada is falling as big buyout funds suck up all the oxygen, the industry continues to shift from being primarily a VC market to one dominated by buyout funds. Dave Keating reports.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
As both Yahoo and Microsoft see their share of the internet search market lose ground to Google, they are quickly seeing executives leave. Yahoo’s web search VP is the latest to make the move from internet giant to venture capital firm. Dave Keating reports.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
The first quarter of 2007 saw the highest level of VC investment in the US since 2001, and the increase was largely driven by life sciences. Dave Keating reports.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Yesterday’s Library House conference in London highlighted the need for VCs to identify the most promising sectors in cleantech investment and not get caught up in the hype. Dave Keating reports.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
With fundraising down and exits up in the first quarter of 2007, US venture capital is continuing on the tail end of its current cycle. But as the NVCA’s Mark Heesen points out, the quarter’s results shows a subtle change in the psychology of the market. Dave Keating reports.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
European cleantech investments have surpassed €1b, and analysts are predicting that the sector is now ready to mature, moving from component solutions to commercial packages. Dave Keating reports.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Despite high levels of VC investment, mobile phone web surfing has yet to take off in the US, with just six percent of users regularly using the feature. Still, mobile web start-ups have high hopes for the future. Dave Keating reports.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
