Alastair Goldfisher

Flowdock, which offers a subscription-based group chat service, was judged by a panel of VCs to be the best of 10 startups that competed at Vator Splash.

Canadian investors Extreme Venture Partners, OMERS Ventures, Rho Canada Ventures, BlackBerry Partners Fund and BDC have co-invested $7 million in a new accelerator program called Extreme Startups. Companies in the program will receive up to $200,000, including an initial investment of $50,000, with up to $150,000 in a convertible note provided by BDC. PRESS RELEASE […]

Aydin Senkut, founder and president of Felicis Ventures, says that he has some 20 exits to his credit. But his investment in Milo.com wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for what he called “an epic game of pool” with Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie. Speaking at the Startup Exits event last week at RocketSpace […]

San Francisco-based Practice Fusion, which provides Web-based electronic medical record management for physicians, has raised $2 million in funding from angel investors Jed Stremel (who formerly oversaw Facebook’s mobile strategy), Ali Partovi and Hadi Partovi. Practice Fusion has now raised more than $38 million in total funding since early 2009 from Founders Fund, Band of […]

I’m ready to declare 2011 as the year of the pivot. I haven’t kept any stats on it, but the term “pivot” came up at least once a week. Or so it seemed. Sometimes, it was in the negative context of, say, a Color Labs and what that company was going to do now with […]

Drum roll, please. The most active U.S.-based VC firm in 2011 was New Enterprise Associates. Check out the slideshow below to see how active. The firm, which is investing from its $2.5 billion 13th fund, put nearly $900 million to work in 2011 and invested more than $8.7 million per company. The stats are based […]

As the U.S. Congress considers whether it should loosen restrictions on crowdfunding, MicroVentures has raised a round through its crowdfunding service. MicroVentures, an Austin, Texas-based provider of online peer-to-peer crowdfunding investment services for accredited investors, plans to announce today that it has raised $150,000 in funding. This latest round was raised by using the company’s […]

A group of Silicon Valley VCs are betting that homegrown shopping networks will keep on growing in China. GGV Capital, Sequoia Capital, BlueRun Ventures and Zero2IPO recently, and quietly, invested a Series C round in Meilishuo, which operates a Chinese shopping social network and microblog for women. As part of the funding, Ray Hu, vice […]

Twilio, a 500 Startup’s portfolio company that provides cloud-based telephony services, has raised a $17 million Series C round from Bessemer Venture Partners and Union Square Ventures. The San Francisco-based company has now aised more than $15 million in venture funding from 500 Startups, Bessemer, Union Square, Founders Fund, Lowercase Capital and numerous angel investors, […]

I know way too much about Ashton Kutcher. I know about his tweets, his marital issues and about his investments. Our cover story this issue, by frequent contributor Tom Stein, takes a deep dive into how Kutcher and other celebs, including Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, MC Hammer and others, are investing more often lately in […]