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Fulcrum Equity Partners, an Atlanta-based growth equity firm, has closed its second fund with more than $93 million; the firm says it was targeting $75 million. Fulcrum's first, $40 million, fund closed in 2006.
Reputation.com, the six-year-old Redwood City, Calif.-based company that focuses on reputation management and digital privacy, has acquired Reputation 24/7, a U.K.-based online reputation management company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
A new, Boston-based analytics software company, the Internet Time Machine Project, has raised $1 million in funding. The sources of the round were not disclosed. The Internet Time Machine Project focuses on the investment markets.
The situation certainly isn’t as grim as in 2010, when venture capital firms in Israel raised zero dollars, but 2012 didn't produce much to cheer about, suggests a new report out of the Israel Venture Capital (IVC) Research Center.
There are plenty of people who aspire to be entrepreneurs but who lack the know-how, the network, or the risk profile to succeed in that ambition.
Serial entrepreneurs Ryan Koonce and Robert Afshar think they’ve struck on a business model that can benefit some of those people, while also minting money for themselves.
New York-based AppNexus has a lot to crow about, given how quickly it has grown over the last five years. The question is: What happens now?
ReliOn, a Spokane, Wash.-based maker of fuel cells, has received a strategic investment from the publicly traded power generation company Cummins Inc. The amount of the funding was not disclosed, but ReliOn, founded in 1995, has raised roughly $30 million over the years, including from Oak Investment Partners and Chrysalix Energy.
KnowRe, a year-old online education company with offices in New York and Los Angeles, has received $1.4 million in funding from SoftBank Ventures Korea. KnowRe is a member of the first class of SparkLaps, a startup accelerator designed to support Korean entrepreneurs who are looking to grow their business outside of Korea.
Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) today announced that they are dedicating $194 million over the the next five years to six new university microelectronics research centers to support the continued growth of the U.S. semiconductor industry. Recipients include the University of Michigan; the University of Minnesota; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Notre Dame; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and the University of California, Berkeley.
Symform has a traction problem, and interestingly, it's turning to the National Association of Realtors for help.