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- Chegg Buys Cramster
Chegg, an online textbook rental company, has bought Cramster, which provides online homework help. Financial terms weren't disclsoed. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Chegg has raised around $144 million in private equity and debt, from groups that include Kleiner Perkins, Foundation Capital and Insight Venture Partners.
- After A Near 20-Year Break, Pittsford Ventures Seeks $400M Pool
After a near 20-year hiatus from fundraising, Pittsford Ventures Management is back in the market with a new pool, this one earmarked for emerging markets. The fund, the firm’s fifth, is expected to raise $400 million and could hit $500 million, sources say. A first close is expected in April when the fund could total $75 million, a person says. New York-based Pittsford is a special situation firm with a VC focus. The firm targets cleantech, healthcare, informatics, and telecommunications. Pittsford has identified potential investments in a U.S. drug discovery firm that targets HIV and certain cancers, as well as a Russian company that has developed water purification technology, according to a Pittsford pitch letter obtained by peHUB.
- peHUB Second Opinion 12.1
By 2015, one in ten of your online "friends" won't be human http://www.allfacebook.com/report-one-in-ten-of-your-friends-will-not-be-human-by-2015-2010-12?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+allfacebook+(Facebook+Blog) according to Gartner Group. Amazon axes Wikileaks from its servers, apparently after some calls from Joe Lieberman's office http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/12/how_lieberman_got_amazon_to_drop_wikileaks.php From the better late than never files: Looks like Kleiner Perkins is successfully jockeying to lead Twitter's next massive funding round at a reported $4 billion valuation http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/30/bidding-war-for-twitter-raises-valuation-to-nearly-4-billion-kleiner-perkins-currently-in-pole-position/ Why aren't you more powerful, dammit? Oh, here's why http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2010/12/01/why-arent-you-more-powerful/ according to our favorite Stanford professor https://admin.venturecapitaljournal.com/84587/why-nice-guys-finish-last-at-startups/ The New York Times tries putting the government's insider inquiry into perspective, with the help of a former prosecutor and Wall Street exec http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/putting-insider-inquiry-into-perspective/ Bethany McClean asks us to mull nine unanswered questions http://www.slate.com/id/2276319/ about the economy. Hulu is open to new investors http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704594804575649050239898456.html?mod=e2tw giving it some moolah to fund a global expansion. Click here http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/tech-talk-podcast-current-camera-trends/?src=twt&twt=nytimesbits for the low-down on this season's popular camera trends.
- Best of peHUB - November
The top 10 posts on peHUB.com in November, as judged by the editors of VCJ
- Fund Briefs, December 2010
CSC wants to work with VCs; Aussie startup program launches; Australia supports more VC; Provident launches with $25M; 10-year VC returns still negative
Doerr and Wilson Get BubblyThe People Page: Items about Fred Wilson, John Doerr, Michael Moritz, Joe Lacob, Dick Kramlich, Christine Herron, Deepak Kamra and Mona DeFrawi