Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=239e7b2f-6cf3-4989-b78b-c905875e8dda&Preview=1 Date 8/17/2010 Company Name Runa Mailing Address 520 San Antonio Rd. Mountain View, CA 94040 Company Description The company helps online retailers convert site traffic more efficiently. Website http://www.runa.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $9,231,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. M&A Terms … Continue reading “Runa Garners $9,231,000 New Funding”
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HP Acquires Fortify Software for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c60ff851-1fb2-4902-90a7-f5a370e26f44&Preview=1 Date 8/17/2010 Company Name Fortify Software Mailing Address 2215 Bridgepointe Pkwy San Mateo, CA 94404 Company Description Fortify Software products protect companies from today’s greatest security risk: the software applications that run their businesses. Nearly every application deployed today contains vulnerabilities that can be exploited to cause considerable loss or business … Continue reading “HP Acquires Fortify Software for Undisclosed Sum”
Invoke Solutions Secures $1,750,000 New Funding
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=e45f4609-39c0-477a-8c2f-24054d21199b&Preview=1 Date 8/17/2010 Company Name Invoke Solutions Mailing Address 611 Mission St. 7th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Invoke Solutions has developed a revolutionary mass interaction technology that radically improves the way organizations understand and respond to their key constituencies. The Invoke software platform is driving transformation from traditional researching … Continue reading “Invoke Solutions Secures $1,750,000 New Funding”
Sonatype Garners $10,000,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3c0d28ac-d7e7-464e-a7aa-4579399fc6a8&Preview=1 Date 8/17/2010 Company Name Sonatype Mailing Address 800 West El Camino Real Mountain View, CA 94040 Company Description Nexus is a powerful and robust Maven repository manager, created to provide reliable access to artifacts required for development and provisioning. Nexus can control access to, and deployment of, every artifact in your … Continue reading “Sonatype Garners $10,000,000 New Financing”
Edmund Shea Jr. Dies at 80
Edmund H. Shea Jr., a venture investing pioneer at San Francisco-based investment bank Hambrecht & Quist in the 1960s, passed away August 13 at his home in San Marino, according to an announcement today from J.F. Shea Co., Inc., the family-owned civil contracting and home-building company Shea helped to lead. Between 1960 and 2000, Shea … Continue reading “Edmund Shea Jr. Dies at 80”
The Y Combinator Class of Summer 2010
This summer and fall we’re featuring profiles of selected companies participating in the Summer 2010 session at Mountain View, CA-based startup school Y Combinator. “YC S10” companies spent the summer gearing up for the program’s climax, “Demo Day” pitches to investors on August 24. August 11: InDinero Co-founder Sees “Humungous” Market in Small Business Expense … Continue reading “The Y Combinator Class of Summer 2010”
Dell Offers $1.15B for 3Par
Fremont, CA-based 3Par (NYSE: [[ticker:PAR]]) which makes software and servers for data storage in virtualized cloud environments, is the target of an $18-per-share tender offer from Round Rock, TX-based Dell (NASDAQ: [[ticker:DELL]]). The deal, already approved by both company’s boards, would amount to $1.15 billion, net of 3Par’s cash, according to an announcement today. The … Continue reading “Dell Offers $1.15B for 3Par”
Felicis Closes Fund at $40M
Former Googler Aydin Senkut has closed fundraising for Felicis Ventures, super-angel/micro-VC fund, at $40 million, according to reports over the weekend in VentureBeat, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications. That’s more than the $30 million Senkut said he intended to raise in a regulatory filing in June. Limited partners in the fund include both … Continue reading “Felicis Closes Fund at $40M”
Report: Facebook Drinks in Chai
Mountain View, CA-based stealth mode startup Chai Labs has been acquired by Palo Alto, CA-based Facebook, Kara Swisher of the Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD blog reported Sunday. Founded and led by former Google AdSense product manager Gokul Rajaram, Chai Labs has developed software that helps publishers and retailers make their online content more easily searchable, … Continue reading “Report: Facebook Drinks in Chai”
Google Buys Jambool
Continuing its push into online social gaming, Google has acquired Jambool, the San Francisco- and Seattle-based maker of the Social Gold platform for managing virtual currencies and virtual goods sales, according to a post last Friday on Jambool’s blog. Terms of the acquisition weren’t disclosed. Founded in 2006, Jambool had raised $6 million in venture … Continue reading “Google Buys Jambool”
PacBio Seeks $200M IPO to Gain Edge in Booming DNA Sequencing Market
Pacific Biosciences, the Menlo Park, CA-based company developing faster and cheaper gene sequencing technology, has filed a regulatory prospectus in which it says it hopes to raise as much as $200 million through an IPO. The PacBio investors who stand to gain the most from an IPO are Mohr Davidow Ventures (12 percent ownership), Kleiner … Continue reading “PacBio Seeks $200M IPO to Gain Edge in Booming DNA Sequencing Market”
1000Memories Confronts Death by Celebrating Lives
This is the second in a series of profiles of companies emerging this summer from Mountain View, CA-based startup incubator Y Combinator. When I met the founders of 1000Memories, a new website where family and friends of people who’ve died can create free multimedia memorials to their loved ones, my mind flashed first to The … Continue reading “1000Memories Confronts Death by Celebrating Lives”
$52 Million for Solazyme, $25 Million for Nanosys, $7.5 Million for WePay, & More Bay Area Biztech News
The news in San Francisco and Silicon Valley last week hit every stage of the innovation process, from new tech companies being born to mature ones finding new investors, to old ones firing their CEOs and suing each other. —I profiled inDinero, a Y Combinator-backed startup offering an online finance tracking tool that it bills … Continue reading “$52 Million for Solazyme, $25 Million for Nanosys, $7.5 Million for WePay, & More Bay Area Biztech News”
Innovating When You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know: The View from PARC
Innovation, construed as broadly as it is today, is seen as a universal panacea for all that ails developed economies. In the U.S., innovation has been credited with driving dramatic growth, productivity, and an unprecedented standard of living. Add the disintermediation of the Web, and innovation can also be credited with empowering the individual in … Continue reading “Innovating When You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know: The View from PARC”
Facebook Acquires Chai Labs for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5ee4b9b0-00af-485a-a964-8a7879c64e12&Preview=1 Date 8/16/2010 Company Name Chai Labs Mailing Address Undisclosed Mountain View, CA 94041 Company Description Our Technology platform enables publishers to easily customize and launch scalable, search-friendly sites in several verticals. We seamlessly complement our partners’ editorial teams, and some of our most compelling implementations have occurred when editors and journalists … Continue reading “Facebook Acquires Chai Labs for Undisclosed Sum”
Dell Acquires 3PAR for $1,150,000,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5727dd65-e967-4a1b-9bfd-d92e33deb929&Preview=1 Date 8/16/2010 Company Name 3PAR Mailing Address 4209 Technology Drive Fremont, CA 94538 Company Description 3PAR is the leading provider of Utility Storage, a simple, efficient and scalable tiered-storage array for utility computing that lets customers serve more with less. Website http://www.3par.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount $1,150,000,000 Transaction Round Proceeds … Continue reading “Dell Acquires 3PAR for $1,150,000,000”
Dell Acquires 3PAR for $1,600,000,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=5727dd65-e967-4a1b-9bfd-d92e33deb929&Preview=1 Date 8/16/2010 Company Name 3PAR Mailing Address 4209 Technology Drive Fremont, CA 94538 Company Description 3PAR is the leading provider of Utility Storage, a simple, efficient and scalable tiered-storage array for utility computing that lets customers serve more with less. Website http://www.3par.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount $1,600,000,000 Transaction Round Proceeds … Continue reading “Dell Acquires 3PAR for $1,600,000,000”
AppBistro Garners $550,000 New Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=7368970c-483a-4e8f-950a-ba447070ec1d&Preview=1 Date 8/15/2010 Company Name AppBistro Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94105 Company Description Created by ex-Facebook employee, Ryan Merket, and ex-Zappos consultant, Nalin Mittal, Appbistro is changing the way brands and companies use Facebook Pages. Website http://www.appbistro.com Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $550,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds … Continue reading “AppBistro Garners $550,000 New Round”
Latterell Thinking: Ken Widder, Latterell Venture Partners’ Man in San Diego, on Early Stage Life Sciences Investing
Before he joined San Francisco-based Latterell Venture Partners almost four years ago, Ken Widder says the VC venture firm was trying to recruit a partner willing to work full time in Latterell’s Embarcadero Center headquarters. “I’ve known Pat for 24 years,” Widder says, referring to Pat Latterell, the namesake founder who started the life sciences … Continue reading “Latterell Thinking: Ken Widder, Latterell Venture Partners’ Man in San Diego, on Early Stage Life Sciences Investing”
Oracle Sues Google over Java Patents
Oracle (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ORCL]]), the Redwood City, CA-based database giant, filed a patent infringement complaint yesterday against Mountain View, CA-based Google (NASDAQ: [[ticker:GOOG]]) in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The suit alleges that the Android mobile device operating system developed by Google includes Java code that infringes on patents Oracle … Continue reading “Oracle Sues Google over Java Patents”
GreenVolts in $7.5M Debt Round
GreenVolts, a Fremont, CA, startup developing high-end photovoltaic panels for utilities that include sunlight-concentrating optics, has raised $7.5 million in debt financing, and could eventually borrow as much as $11.25 million, according to a regulatory filing this week. Oak Investment Partners in Westport, CT, put $30 million into GreenVolts in a 2008 Series B round.
MLC Dx Raises $6M
MLC Dx, a San Francisco-based maker of molecular diagnostics, has secured $5.9 million in a Series B financing, according to a report in VentureWire. Mohr Davidow Ventures participated in the round, VentureWire said. MLC Dx is led by CEO Thomas Willis, who previously ran another Mohr Davidow portfolio company, ParAllelle Bioscience, before it was sold … Continue reading “MLC Dx Raises $6M”
Lighting Up the World’s Text: A Talk with Vook Founder Brad Inman
The San Francisco Bay Area is one of those places where the new is always coming up against the old, with strange and often delightful results. You’d think, for example, that anyone who has an iPad would want to show it off. But in the Potrero Hill neighborhood, not far from my office, there’s a … Continue reading “Lighting Up the World’s Text: A Talk with Vook Founder Brad Inman”
Affymax Isn’t Dead Yet, ZeaChem Pursues Wood Chip Ethanol, Third Rock Heads West, & More Bay Area Life Sciences News
This was a light week on the biotech beat, because yours truly was out climbing mountains for a couple days in the Northwest. But I’m here in SF for the Xconomy open house from 5 pm to 9 pm today. Come have a glass of wine and say hi if you can. —Affymax (NASDAQ: [[ticker:AFFY]]), … Continue reading “Affymax Isn’t Dead Yet, ZeaChem Pursues Wood Chip Ethanol, Third Rock Heads West, & More Bay Area Life Sciences News”
MLC Dx Lands $5,900,000 Series B Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b7dea71b-4ab9-4aa6-bc42-17505f438876&Preview=1 Date 8/13/2010 Company Name MLC Dx Mailing Address Undisclosed San Francisco, CA 94134 Company Description The company is developing molecular diagnostic technologies. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $5,900,000 Transaction Round Series B Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor Mohr Davidow Ventures Venture Investor … Continue reading “MLC Dx Lands $5,900,000 Series B Financing”
Google Acquires Jambool for Undisclosed Sum
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c27f8b64-3f89-4c78-be83-121acb497903&Preview=1 Date 8/13/2010 Company Name Jambool Mailing Address Pier 38 The Embarcadero San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description Social Gold is a full feature virtual economy platform that developers can use to create their currency systems, monetize it using in-game payments by Social Gold, and manage and grow their economy using Social … Continue reading “Google Acquires Jambool for Undisclosed Sum”
US WorldMeds Acquires Solstice Neurosciences for $35,700,000
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=04f8d810-27b9-4247-9c64-798b800550d8&Preview=1 Date 8/13/2010 Company Name Solstice Neurosciences Mailing Address 701 Gateway Boulevard South San Francisco, CA 94080 Company Description Solstice Neurosciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, manufacturing, sales and marketing of specialty products. Website http://www.solsticeneuro.com Transaction Type M&A Transaction Amount $35,700,000 Transaction Round Proceeds Purposes M&A Terms Additional … Continue reading “US WorldMeds Acquires Solstice Neurosciences for $35,700,000”
Highland Capital Leads $7.5 Million Series B Round for Group Payments Startup WePay
Lexington, MA-based Highland Capital Partners is the lead investor in a $7.5 million series B round for WePay, the group payments startup that emerged from the Mountain View, CA-based Y Combinator startup incubator last year. WePay co-founders Rich Aberman and Bill Clerico confirmed news of the funding round, which was first reported tonight by the … Continue reading “Highland Capital Leads $7.5 Million Series B Round for Group Payments Startup WePay”
Put Xconomy San Francisco’s Open House on Your TGIF To-Do List
Being new to the neighborhood here in the Bay Area, we thought it was time to have a little housewarming. So as we noted a few days ago, we’re inviting all fans and friends of Xconomy San Francisco to an open house tomorrow night (that’s Friday, August 13). The festivities start at 5:00 p.m. We’re … Continue reading “Put Xconomy San Francisco’s Open House on Your TGIF To-Do List”
Search Engine Strategies
The Search Engine Strategies (SES) conference from Incisive Interactive Marketing comes to San Francisco. Delegates will learn about “search engine marketing (SEM), including optimization (SEO) and advertising strategies, tactics and best practices,” according to the event website. “SES Search Marketing Events provide instruction from the industry’s top Search experts, including representatives from the Search Engines … Continue reading “Search Engine Strategies”
Third Rock Ventures, Firm With Hunger for Audacious Biotech Ideas, Sets up SF Shop
Boston’s Third Rock Ventures, the relatively young firm with an appetite for investing in some of the most disruptive ideas in biotech, is opening up a new office in San Francisco’s Mission Bay district. Third Rock principal Jake Bauer is moving to San Francisco, and will be joined by another partner at the firm. The … Continue reading “Third Rock Ventures, Firm With Hunger for Audacious Biotech Ideas, Sets up SF Shop”
Nuon Adds $10M Debt, Options
Nuon Therapeutics, the San Mateo, CA-based developer of treatments for autoimmune diseases, has raised $10 million in a financing composed of debt and option securities, according to a regulatory filing. The document doesn’t say who invested, although its board of directors includes representatives from Domain Associates, Frazier Healthcare Ventures, and GBS Venture Partners. Affymax CEO … Continue reading “Nuon Adds $10M Debt, Options”
Plastic Logic Closes Book on Que Reader
Mountain View, CA-based Plastic Logic announced this week that it will not proceed with production of its Que ProReader e-reader device, a prototype of which was demonstrated at the International Consumer Electronics Show in January. The large-format, $650 device was to have been similar to the Amazon Kindle, except with a thinner, color, plastic display … Continue reading “Plastic Logic Closes Book on Que Reader”
If You’re Just Joining Us: Eight 1/2 Weeks of Bay Area Innovation Stories, Xconomy Style
We’re still pretty new to the Bay Area, having turned on our San Francisco site just eight weeks ago Monday, on June 14. Our web stats tell us that quite a few of the people who visit every day are arriving at the site for the first time. So as a quick introduction, I thought … Continue reading “If You’re Just Joining Us: Eight 1/2 Weeks of Bay Area Innovation Stories, Xconomy Style”
ZeaChem, Pursuing the Dream of Ethanol from Wood Chips, Faces First Large Scale Test
The political classes chattered about cellulosic ethanol after President Bush’s 2006 State of the Union address. Bush used that speech to raise the profile of fuels made from ordinary biomass like wood chips, cornstalks, or sugarcane, making it sound like a potential key to the U.S. strategy to break the addiction to foreign oil. Four … Continue reading “ZeaChem, Pursuing the Dream of Ethanol from Wood Chips, Faces First Large Scale Test”
10gen Expands to Bay Area
New York-based 10gen, maker of the MongoDB open-source distributed database much beloved by Web developers and software engineers, said today that it’s opening an office in the San Francisco Bay area in order to “meet the demand for support and services among the growing MongoDB user base.” The Bay Area office will include engineering, support, … Continue reading “10gen Expands to Bay Area”
Nuon Therapeutics Lands $10,000,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=2fcb5dbd-4520-47a3-9b35-32282aabb060&Preview=1 Date 8/12/2010 Company Name Nuon Therapeutics Mailing Address 2755 Campus Drive San Mateo, CA 94403 Company Description Nuon Therapeutics Inc., located in the San Francisco Bay Area, is focused on the development and commercialization of new therapies in inflammation and neurological diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), multiple sclerosis (MS) and neuropathic … Continue reading “Nuon Therapeutics Lands $10,000,000 New Financing Round”
GreenVolts Obtains $7,500,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=3028fa59-045f-4341-8d89-5d43dd00f01a&Preview=1 Date 8/12/2010 Company Name GreenVolts Mailing Address 46400 Fremont Blvd. Fremont, CA 94538 Company Description The company develops solar concentration technology for utility applications. Website http://www. Greenvolts.com Transaction Type Debt Transaction Amount $7,500,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A Terms Venture Investor Undisclosed
Embed.ly Secures $250,000 New Financing
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=8666dc1e-9fa5-40cb-ad57-6e160cf166bf&Preview=1 Date 8/12/2010 Company Name Embed.ly Mailing Address 1556 Taylor St. San Francisco, CA 94133 Company Description The company provides a service that allows users to embed photos on social networking sites. Website http://www.embed.ly Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $250,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. M&A … Continue reading “Embed.ly Secures $250,000 New Financing”
iScience Interventional Corp Receives $3,600,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=73965618-9876-4e8e-be3a-e0adf929d834&Preview=1 Date 8/12/2010 Company Name iScience Interventional Corp Mailing Address 4055 Campbell Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 Company Description iScience Interventional™ discovers and develops microcatheter and imaging technologies that enable ophthalmologists to deliver site-specific ocular therapies. This new category of therapy is called Interventional Ophthalmology. It encompasses microcatheter-based therapies designed to access … Continue reading “iScience Interventional Corp Receives $3,600,000 New Financing Round”
PURE Storage Garners $18,400,000 New Financing Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=4013199f-3afc-42c9-8783-c9f7b3a9dc27&Preview=1 Date 8/12/2010 Company Name PURE Storage Mailing Address 650 Castro St. Mountain View, CA 94041 Company Description The company develops storage solutions. Website Undisclosed Transaction Type Venture Equity Transaction Amount $18,400,000 Transaction Round Undisclosed Proceeds Purposes Proceeds purposes were not disclosed. SEC regulatory filing. M&A Terms Venture Investor Undisclosed
The Singularity Summit
The Singularity Institute, founded in 2006 by Ray Kurzweil and Peter Thiel, hosts the Singularity Summit 2010, a “rare gathering of thinkers to explore the rising impact of science and technology on society,” in the words of the event website. “The summit has been organized to further the understanding of a controversial idea – the … Continue reading “The Singularity Summit”
InDinero Co-founder Sees “Humungous” Market in Small Business Expense Tracking
As the summer term for Paul Graham’s Y Combinator incubator program builds up to its climax—“Demo Day” pitches to investors on August 24—Xconomy San Francisco is profiling selected “YC S10” startups, beginning with inDinero. Jessica Mah had a problem. She was running a managed hosting company, renting Web server space to small businesses. Demand was … Continue reading “InDinero Co-founder Sees “Humungous” Market in Small Business Expense Tracking”
Insights From St. Bernard’s CEO on Red Condor Acquisition
When San Diego’s St. Bernard Software announced last week that it was acquiring the assets of Rohnert Park, CA-based Red Condor, CEO Lou Ryan was not available to explain the deal, which was a somewhat-involved transaction. When I finally caught up with Ryan by telephone, he explained that in addition to buying Red Condor’s e-mail … Continue reading “Insights From St. Bernard’s CEO on Red Condor Acquisition”
Kendall Square Wants an Entrepreneurial Walk of Fame—and So Should Every Innovation Hub
Local legends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck rose from the bowels of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (the high school’s drama department really is in the basement) to become international movie stars—and Damon was chosen three years ago to get a star along the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame. But the business leaders who have … Continue reading “Kendall Square Wants an Entrepreneurial Walk of Fame—and So Should Every Innovation Hub”
Netpulse Obtains $2,000,000 New Funding Round
Feed Type Link http://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=b6d43366-69ce-4abf-b81f-4d288486b4e6&Preview=1 Date 8/11/2010 Company Name Netpulse Mailing Address 2331 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Company Description Netpulse provides an interactive media platform for fitness centers and active lifestyle consumers. The Netpulse platform enables a customizable entertainment experience that offers live HDTV, on-demand video and music, iPod/iPhone connectivity, personalized workout data and … Continue reading “Netpulse Obtains $2,000,000 New Funding Round”
LearnBoost Unveils Free Online Gradebook for Teachers
Last month I met with Rafael Corrales, CEO of a small San Francisco startup called LearnBoost, and got the inside story about the company’s audacious plan to help teachers and schools by bringing Apple-style elegance and simplicity to the educational software market. Today LearnBoost took the lid off the first component of its grand plan: … Continue reading “LearnBoost Unveils Free Online Gradebook for Teachers”
Nanosys Raises $25 Million, Unveils Three-Pronged Deal with Samsung
Palo Alto, CA-based Nanosys, the nanotechnology startup that has struggled to regain altitude after a high-flying debut in 2001, is switching on the afterburners this week. To finance a move to a larger facility where it will have more space to manufacture its nano-engineeered materials for lighting and digital displays, the company is about to … Continue reading “Nanosys Raises $25 Million, Unveils Three-Pronged Deal with Samsung”
Lisa Suennen, Voice of Venture Valkyrie, Has No-Nonsense Take on Health IT
There are a slew of venture capitalists who populate the blogosphere with their opinions and pearls of wisdom on, well, just about everything. But many of those VC bloggers—predictably—come from the tech side of the house. Fewer are blogging about healthcare investing. And fewer still are women. Now enter Lisa Suennen, a managing member of … Continue reading “Lisa Suennen, Voice of Venture Valkyrie, Has No-Nonsense Take on Health IT”
Who Are You? Part 2: Gender and Education Backgrounds of Venture-Backed Internet Startups
As we reported last week, there wasn’t much to surprise the sociologists of innovation in Part 1 of the data CB Insights gleaned about the race, age, and experience of the founders at 165 Internet startups that raised venture capital funding during the first half of 2010. But there are some interesting, and perhaps unexpected, … Continue reading “Who Are You? Part 2: Gender and Education Backgrounds of Venture-Backed Internet Startups”