Connie Loizos
This week, every member of Congress is receiving a copy of a new, NVCA video. I hope they bring their popcorn. Take a look after the jump...
Even with its latest round of funding, I don't see how Ooma makes it. It's too bad. Ooma's device is so smooth and sexy, Barry White might have paid it tribute if he were still alive (Rest in peace, Velvet Voice)...
Earlier today, I talked with CMEA managing director Faysal Sohail, an entrepreneur turned tech investor, about which startups would be hardest hit by this week’s implosions on Wall Street — and which might benefit from the fallout. Sohail had a few ideas about who might die and who might thrive. In his view, the hardest […]
In case anyone is wondering, Fluidigm, which is slated to become the fourth venture-backed outfit to go public this year, is now going out tomorrow on Tuesday, according to the company. (The biotech startup was scheduled to debut on the market today. It was then decided that it would be priced tonight and go out […]
At the Web 2.0 Expo in New York, venture capitalist Fred Wilson just threw down the gaunlet. According to a roundup by Wired, he told conference goers that "there's something that goes on here in New York that's different than what goes on in Silicon Valley. It's more creative, more artistic, more connected to media and advertising," Wilson said. "There will come a time when New York might be 70 or 80 percent of Silicon Valley as it relates to Internet companies."
I'm sure plenty of VCs in Silicon Valley will take issue with that perspective, but you sort of have to admire Wilson's unabated optimism, especially during a week like the one that New Yorkers in particular are having.
Poor Lehman. Its biotech startup Fluidigm in San Francisco is slated to go public tomorrow in what may be the most inauspiciously timed debut ever. Though Fluidigm might become just the fourth venture-backed company to go public this year, its timing could only be lousier had it been slated to go public on Monday. The company — […]
According to Forbes, which just published its list of the 400 richest Americans, PayPal cofounder and investor Peter Thiel is worth an astonishing $1.3 billion. Talk about good times for the 40 year-old. When PayPal, sold to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002, Thiel, a brainiac Stanford grad with a law degree, walked away with […]
Last week, I wrote a few posts about the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which distributes slightly more than $2 billion a year in grants to companies with fewer than 500 employees and whose R&D efforts have the potential to be commercialized. I’ve been wondering if it would be retooled by the end of […]
Though it was a minuscule piece of Lehman Brothers’ overall business, the beleaguered investment bank began dabbling in venture capital in 1999, which raises the question: what now? Just last year, the firm’s venture arm raised its fifth vehicle, a $365 fund that holds stakes in the video surveillance company VideoIQ, travel planning website the […]
According to the IDG News Service, the Kenyan government has established a $39 million venture capital fund, with the help of some remarkably optimistic private investors in Kenya, South Africa, the United States, and the United Kingdom.