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LanzaTech Raises $18 MillionLanzaTech, a New Zealand-based company that uses bacteria to convert industrial waste gases into fuels and chemicals, has raised $18 million in Series B funding. Qiming Ventures led the round, and was joined by return backers Khosla Ventures and K1W1.
- Exit watch, week of July 5, 2010
News about VC-backed Tapulous and Vendio acquired last week
- Disney buys iPhone Game Maker Tapulous
Walt Disney Co said on Thursday it has acquired startup iPhone app developer Tapulous, as the company continues its push into mobile games. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
- European People, July 2010
News about hirings, departures and promotions at Apax, Moelis, Maven, Khosla Ventures, AVG, Simmons & Simmons, EVCA, Climate Change Capital, BNP Paribas, Palamon and more
- It's Official: Foursquare Gets a $20M Venture Round
It’s official: Highly-hyped location-based startup Foursquare just closed on a $20 million round of funding at a $95 million pre-money valuation. Andreessen Horowitz led the round, with previous investors O’Reilly AlphaTech and Union Square Ventures also participating. Foursquare famously materialized from the vestiges of Dodgeball, a mobile service cofounded by Dennis Crowley, who sold the company to Google in 2005. When the search giant killed the service, Crowley, who'd logged roughly two years at Google, quit and quickly revived the idea. Today, the 18-month-old company employs 27 people and has attracted 1.7 million users. It’s also in a race against a growing number of location-based services, including those of Gowalla and Loopt, and soon to include Twitter and possibly Facebook. A few moments ago, I talked with Marc Andreessen about why his venture firm, Andreessen Horowitz, was so hot on the deal despite all that competition, whether he or Ben Horowitz use FourSquare, and how he’ll reconcile his involvement with the startup with his role as a director at Facebook, which is widely believed to be developing its own location-based service. Read the Q&A after the jump...
- Week in deals, June 28, 2010
Summary of tech companies and other startups in North America that raised venture financing in the past week
- Executive moves, week of June 28, 2010
Hires and promotions at various other PE and VC firms.
- 5 questions with Noubar Afeyan
Noubar Afeyan of Flagship Ventures talks about the honor recently bestowed on portfolio company LS9
- Mr. Afeyan Goes to Washington
Noubar Afeyan, managing partner and CEO of Flagship Ventures, was in Washington D.C. yesterday, to pick up an honor on behalf of portfolio company LS9. It's called the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, and LS9 won the "small business" category for its technology to produce hydrocarbon-based biofuels and chemicals. I spent a few minutes on the phone with Afeyan, just after the ceremony wrapped up: peHUB: What, from a business prespective, did this award mean to LS9? Afeyan: Well, the award is recognizing substanstial innovation in making a greener version of chemicals and fuels. From a business standpoint, that's precisely what LS9 has enabled -- allowing our partners to use sugar as the starting raw materials for fuels rather than petroleum.