Connie Loizos
NXT Capital Venture Finance has provided a $3 million venture loan to Boston-based Open Mile, an online logistics provider backed by Charles River Ventures and Globespan Capital Partners. The money will be used to “finance key growth initiatives,” according to a release. NXT Capital Venture Finance, a months-old arm of the commercial finance company NXT Capital, […]
Modeled after N.Y.-based Betaworks, the L.A.-based tech studio Science has similar and big ambitions In the battle of New York vs. Los Angeles for the current hottest VC metropolitan area, there is no comparison. In 2007, VCs invested $465 million in 75 companies in the New York metro region, according to Thomson Reuters data. Last […]
Matt Harris and Bo Peabody, co-founders of Village Ventures, chat about the lessons learned from their venture Village Ventures—a venture firm that helped pioneer a regional model of investing by making seed and early stage investments alongside venture firms Orlando, Fla., Tucson, Ariz., and other spots outside of Silicon-Valley—is slowly winding down. As firm co-founders […]
A Harvard Business School professor discusses his controversial contention that institutional LPs are largely to blame for the unprecedented wealth investment managers have accumulated -- despite their performance.
Charles Hudson, a venture partner at the early-stage venture firm SoftTech VC, thinks his colleagues’ fascination with all things Pinterest makes good business sense.
Look across the Web and you see it. While content surfers “like” plenty of content, they’ve fallen hard for LinkedIn’s “inshare” tab.
When Facebook goes public as expected this spring, a casual observer might assume that Facebook alums will begin investing in startups. That person would be wrong, says one former insider with deep ties to the company.
CapLinked, an L.A.-based startup backed by investors Peter Thiel, Dave McClure, and David Sacks, among others, is launching new monthly subscription accounts to users of its proprietary platform, which connects privately held companies with accredited investors. The company, which has signed up more than 100,000 users, who currently use the service at no cost, will charge […]
IDG Ventures India, along with SAIF Partners, has invested $14 million (Rs 68 crore) into the e-commerce firm Brainbees Solutions, which runs the baby-care portal First Cry and the newer site GoodLife, which sells beauty and wellness products. SAIF had invested $4 million in Brainbees last May. Brainbees was founded in late 2010. PRESS RELEASE: […]
“When you go to a partners meeting, and you look across the table at one other guy, and you say, ‘I want to do this cross border mobile payments company,’ and he says, ‘I want to do this vertical subscription company,’ well, it was clear we needed [help].”