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  • Fidelity Growth Equity Invests in InnoGames
    VCJ Staff- 18 May 2010

    InnoGames, a Hamburg, Germany-based developer of free-to-play online games, has raised an undisclosed amount of VC funding from Fidelity Growth Partners Europe. This is FGPE's first investment out of a £100 million fund raised after Fidelity Ventures split into two firms (FGPE and Volition Capital).

  • peHUB Wire: Tuesday, May 18, 2010
    Brad Meikle- 18 May 2010

    Random Ramblings

  • peHUB Wire: Tuesday, May 18, 2010
    Brad Meikle- 18 May 2010

    Random Ramblings

  • The Small Fund Advantage
    PEI Staff- 14 May 2010

    Silicon Valley Bank came out with a report today, called Dialing Down http://www.svb.com/2147483692/Dialing_Down__Venture_Capital_Returns_to_Smaller_Size_Funds/ that puts some data around the commonly held belief that better returns come from smaller funds. In this case – conventional wisdom is clearly true. Their fundamental conclusion is that venture capital funds are getting smaller – and that’s a good thing because it’s the small funds that generate outsized returns. The most compelling statistic compared the returns of large funds versus small funds (large funds being defined as above the median size for their vintage year). The result:

  • Week in deals, April 26, 2010
    Brad Meikle- 26 April 2010

    Summary of tech companies and other startups in North America that raised venture financing in the past week

  • Prosper.com Closes Series D Round
    VCJ Staff- 16 April 2010

    Prosper.com, a San Francisco-based peer-to-peer lending marketplace, has closed its Series D round with $14.7 million. It previously announced that it had signed term sheets to raise between $13.3 million and $15.8 million. New backers TomorrowVentures and CompuCredit Holdings Corp. were joined by existing shareholders Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, Omidyar Network, DAG Ventures and Volition Capital (fka Fidelity Ventures). Prosper previously raised over $40 million.

  • peHUB Wire: Friday, April 16, 2010
    Brad Meikle- 15 April 2010

    All About Steve

  • peHUB Wire: Friday, April 16, 2010
    Brad Meikle- 15 April 2010

    All About Steve

  • Week in deals, April 12, 2010
    Brad Meikle- 12 April 2010

    Summary of tech companies and other startups in North America that raised venture financing in the past week