Connie Loizos
The SEC fined VC Matt Crisp $50,000 and banned him from investing for one year in a settlement over his failure to disclose to Adams Street his involvement in AV Partners.
SV Angel is in the market for a fresh $40 million, according to a new SEC filing.
Threadsy, a four-year-old startup that had raised $6.3 million from investors including August Capital and Harrison Metal Capital, was acquired last Friday by Facebook, according to a company blog post. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, though follow-on reports characterized the deal as an “acqui-hire,” meaning Facebook might have been more interested in the […]
Tripbirds, a Stockholm-based startup that started life as a travel site, one that seized on data from Facebook, Instagram and other social networks, has been relaunched as a “social hotel-booking site” that combines “traditional” hotels with recommendations from users’ social networks. The company raised $740,000 in seed funding last year from Index Ventures, Passion Capital, […]
In recent weeks, there’s been some talk that investor Peter Thiel should step down from the company’s board, given that his financial interests are no longer as closely aligned with the success of the company as they once were. But Merih Sevilir, an associate professor finance at of Indiana University, politely calls B.S. on such logic.
Sam Hamadeh, head of private company research firm PrivCo, has a history of making bold and bearish statements about hot social media companies, including his recent comment that Facebook's Zuckerberg is "in over his hoodie" as CEO. Is he just trying to get attention?
Before Accel and Redpoint, before BV Capital and a growing list of other players that are flocking to Brazil, there was Monashees Capital, a firm whose brand few recognize in the U.S., but that is among the top firms to partner with -- and which LPs appear eager to back.
OneMove Technologies, a Web-based real estate transaction platform based in Vancouver, British Columbia, has appointed Serge Salager as CEO. Previously, Salager was an investment and portfolio manager at Inventages Venture Capital, Nestle’s global strategic fund manager. PRESS RELEASE: The Board of OneMove Technologies Inc. (“OneMove” or the “Company”) CA:OM -10.00% , provider of the leading […]
Three months ago, BMW introduced its short-term rental service DriveNow — which allows user to locate and rent a nearby available car — in San Francisco. Now the company is introducing a service called ParkNow that helps users to find an open parking space, among the roughly 448,000 spaces available in the city at any […]
Earlier today, a number of outlets reported on a new, San Francisco-based startup that is making it easy for women to turn their unused clothing into cold hard cash. Interestingly, those same outlets refer to the founders as ex-Googlers, despite that one spent less than four months at the company, which is two months less than his cofounder.