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Mobile Commerce Is Finally Living up to HypeMobile payment transactions are exploding, with one research firm predicting they’ll top $600B worldwide within four years. What’s your strategy to cash in?
European People Briefs, OctoberExecutive moves by Jonathan Russell of 3i, Kevin Albert of Pantheon, Sven Hansen of Zouk Ventures, Sarah Sandström of Atlantic-Pacific Capital, Jitesh Gadhia of Blackstone, more
- Executive moves, week of Sept. 20, 2010
Bob Grady heads to New Jersey LP, 3i shakeup in Europe and personnel changes at other PE and VC firms
- Exit watch, week of Sept. 20, 2010
News about Green Mountain and OpenPages
- Week in deals, Sept. 13, 2010
Summary of tech companies and other startups in North America that raised venture financing in the past week
- Matrix Hires Vincenzo Narciso as Partner in the Private Funds Group
Matrix hired Vincenzo Narciso as a partner in its private funds group, where he will focus on both originating and raising capital for international private equity and venture capital funds. Prior to joining Matrix, Narciso was head of UBP Private Equity activities.
- peHUB Wire: Thursday, September 9, 2010
Why Venture? Why Now?
- peHUB Wire: Thursday, September 9, 2010
Why Venture? Why Now?
- Wow! $30M Series A for a People Search Company
It’s easy to laugh off a $30 million Series A round for two largely unproven young entrepreneurs, in a space where there are a great many small players as well as large ones. But then, you might make the same mistake that industry observers first made about Google and Facebook. And Brian and Matthew Monahan, the 23- and 26-year-old brothers behind 4-year-old Inflection http://www.inflection.com don’t want you to feel silly years from now if their company accomplishes what it’s setting out to do: transform the public records industry and become the go-to place for people search. While you can find out plenty about people via search giants like Google and Yahoo -- and despite a succession of other sites like PeopleFinders.com http://www.peoplefinders.com and PublicRecordFinder.com http://www.publicrecordfinder.com that make it easier to find public records online -- the Monahan brothers say they’ve already compiled so many public records that any firm that tries to catch up now will be eating their dirt. It's a claim that Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures plainly agree with. Matrix led the company’s Series A, giving it $15.25 million, while Sutter Hill Ventures chipped in another $14.75 million. (The company isn’t disclosing its pre-money valuation, though the brothers say they are “happy with it” and that they raised as much capital as they did because they didn’t want to seek out a second round any time soon.)
- Copiun Inc. Gets $1.9 Million in Series A Financing
Copiun Inc., a Marlboro, Mass.-based provider of corporate endpoint data management solutions, secured $1.9 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Hub Angels and RRE Ventures. They were joined by Beacon Angels, Launch Capital and Launchpad Venture Group.