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Y Combinator's Paul Graham says graduates of his program have now raised more than $1 billion. But investors in Y Combinator companies are betting it'll look like chump change once more of the program's companies mature.
German automaker BMW is investing in Coulomb Technologies, a Campbell, California-based provider of electric-vehicle charging stations and software. BMW declined to disclose the amount of the investment in Coulomb, which has EV development agreements with General Motors Co, Ford Motor Co, Nissan Motor Co and luxury hybrid vehicle manufacturer Fisker Automotive. In May, Coulomb closed $47.5 […]
Until he met movie honcho Harvey Weinstein, Erik Wachtmeister was leading a very charmed life. But he isn't letting the media mogul permanently derail him.
Four-year-old Harvest Power, a Waltham, Mass.-based company that produces renewable energy and soils, mulches and natural fertilizers raised, has raised a $15 million extension to its $110 million Series C financing. The newest funds come for Tur Partners and Industry Ventures. True North Venture Partners led the initial round, alongside existing investors that include Kleiner Perkins […]
London-based RollUp Media, an online platform for publishers, has secured €1.2M in funding from venture capital firm Arts Alliance and other investors, including individuals Assaf Topaz, David Rosenblatt, Anil Hansjee, Peter Read, and Karim Attia. The company’s total funding since its founding is €2M. PRESS RELEASE: RollUp Media today announced that it has secured €1.2M in funding from […]
San Francisco-based Lending Club, an online peer-to-peer lending platform, says Peter Thomson — chairman of Thomvest and director of peHUB parent company Thomson Reuters — has become a “cornerstone investor” in Broad-Based Consumer Credit Fund, a vehicle managed by LC Advisors, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lending Club. Thomson is also an investor in the […]
Venture capitalist Manu Kumar has raised a new, $40 million fund, just three years after launching his investment K9 Ventures in the spring of 2009.
Most investors and entrepreneurs couldn’t care less about Mayer’s personal shopping. What they really want to know is where the Stanford-trained engineer and self-described “geek” will seek out acquisitions for Yahoo, and when she’ll begin writing checks.
Andy Miller, who co-founded and served as CEO of Quattro Wireless; worked for Steve Jobs as VP of mobile advertising at Apple; and worked, most recently, as a general partner at Highland Capital Partners, has joined San Francisco-based Leap Motion as president and COO. Leap makes motion-control software and hardware and has raised $14.1 million […]
Hypergrowth at any cost doesn’t make much sense, but being overly cautious can be a recipe for failure, too, agree some high-profile Web entrepreneurs.