Posts Tagged with ‘VC’

The latest news from Silicon Valley is that key investors appear to be redirecting their focus. VC entrepreneurs have shoveled untold millions into startups that target primarily teenagers and younger demographics on social networks. Was this a well thought out investment strategy for the long term? I have said many times before that the “numbers” [...]

Me.dium has just announced receiving $15 million in series B funding from various venture partners. According to our communique with Me.dium this round of investing was led by Commonwealth Venture Partners. Me.dium's existing investors Spark Capital, Appian Ventures and Brad Feld also took part in what is to be the driving push to open the doors to [...]

I caught a press release from ADiFY announcing that they received $19 million in series B funding. ADiFY is a leading provider of technology servicing vertical ad networks. There seems to be no end in sight in the race to secure advertising models and platforms directed at Web 2.0. According to ADiFY, funding resources over the [...]

Pandora.TV, South Korea's top ranked video sharing site just secured Series B financing in the amount of $10 million from DCM, a Silicon Valley VC firm. Existing investors Altos Ventures, STIC and Saehan Ventures also participated in this round. This funding is earmarked to support the Pandora's rapid growth and expand its service offerings. Founded [...]

FON made news recently with its jab at Starbucks’ WiFi biz. The Spanish success (it boasts the largest number of hotspots in the world) offered a free wireless router to anyone within the immediate vicinity of one of thousands of Howard Schultz’s establishments that had broadband Internet access. Such a move by anyone, in the [...]

We’re hearing about the dawning of another dot-com explosion on a daily basis. The new bubble, as it’s being called, is full of Web 2.0 startups that are routinely receiving millions in investment cash, and 2007’s slated to be an extra good year for the tech sector as a whole, some even say too good. [...]

We can definitely say that online video advertising marketplace booms. During the last year the market surged 82.2%. eMarketerpredictsthat in 2007 online video ad spending will grow 89% faster than last year and will reach $775 million. These bright prospects are supported by the key metric releasedby online video solutions provider Klipmart: online video ads [...]

Four Hundred Fifty Five million dollars. That’s the estimated investment made by venture capitalists in 79 Web 2.0 ventures, in the first three quarters of this year, based on a study by Dow Jones Venture One and Ernst & Young. A related statistic – that Web 2.0 investments are 28% of an estimated $1.6 billion [...]

You want to be a venture capitalist? You should definitely pass the Venture Capital Aptitude Test laid out by Guy Kawasaki. Is it difficult to answer his question “Who doesn’t want to have an easy job that pays half a million annually and in the same time owning a private jet?” It’s obvious, no one would [...]