Private Equity
Gild, which is backed by Globespan Capital Partners, has acquired Coderloop. Financial terms weren't announced. Coderloop has developed an automated code evaluation and scoring platform.
2 min read · 08 September 2011
3 min read · 06 September 2011
3 min read · 06 September 2011
(Reuters) - Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch and one of the highest-profile U.S. technology bloggers, has created a $20 million venture capital fund to invest in promising startups, Arrington told Reuters. Fortune magazine's Term Sheet blog was the first to report the news. The fund, called CrunchFund, raised an inaugural $20 million fund in September, according to TechCrunch's CrunchBase. "Investors in CrunchFund include AOL, Accel Partners, Austin Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Greylock Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, the founding partners of Andreessen Horowitz, each of the general partners of Benchmark Capital, Ron Conway, Yuri Milner & Kevin Rose," CrunchBase reports. Investor AOL bought TechCrunch in September 2010. The move comes months after Arrington publicly announced that he had ...
2 min read · 01 September 2011
Despite a few large acquisitions, foreign investment in Italy has dropped
6 min read · 01 September 2011
3 min read · 31 August 2011
Andrew Trader was named a venture partner with Maveron. Trader, who is based in San Francisco, joined Maveron in 2010 as an Entrepreneur in Residence. He was previously a member of Zynga's founding team.
2 min read · 29 August 2011
1 min read · 25 August 2011
2 min read · 25 August 2011
Awarepoint Corp. said Wednesday that it has closed $27 million in Series F financing. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led the round while Top Tier Capital Partners also invested. Existing investors Cardinal Partners, Venrock, and Jafco Ventures also participated. Awarepoint, of San Diego, provides real-time location systems for U.S. hospitals.
3 min read · 24 August 2011
