IPOs from FireEye and Rocket Fuel debuted to, well, a combination of fire and fuel on Friday, finishing their first day of trading with 80% and 89.7% share price rises, respectively.
1 min read · 23 September 2013
Portfolio from the period shows mixed results, slow progress
2 min read · 23 September 2013
Corporate participation in venture capital hit a more than decade-long peak in the first half of this year, with nearly 11% of investment dollars in startups coming from corporate programs.
2 min read · 20 September 2013
Mohr Davidow’s Rocket Fuel position worth $629 million, Sequoia’s FireEye holdings total $778 million
1 min read · 20 September 2013
Intel Capital added four new areas of technology for targeted investing, bringing to nine the technology sectors its partners follow. The venture arm of chipmaker Intel also promoted three investment managers to managing directors to run the new groups. The new groups are data center software, new devices and wearables, security, and ultrabooks and perceptual computing. The new managing directors are Rob Rueckert, Ken Elefant and Ramamurthy Sivakumar.
3 min read · 19 September 2013
Early-stage scrutiny grows as an excessive supply of companies and larger round sizes make picking winners trickier
2 min read · 16 September 2013
Jeff Lipton, a VP at Juniper’s venture arm, chats about dealmaking and a new hire
5 min read · 13 September 2013
Portfolio sees advances in funds from LLR Partners, Psilos Group, Cross Atlantic and Aisling
2 min read · 13 September 2013
Active angels include David Tisch’s BoxGroup, New York Angels, David Cohen and Golden Seeds
2 min read · 12 September 2013
Mobile ad company MoPub said it has agreed to be acquired by Twitter. No financial details were provided. MoPub raised a $12 million Series B round from investors including Jafco Ventures, Accel Partners and Harrison Metal Capita in September 2012.
1 min read · 09 September 2013
