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Seedrs will allow individuals invest as little as 10 pounds through its site and plans to tap investors across Europe
bitcoin investor, Micky Malka Ribbit Capital_Venture Alpha West 2013
Watch a bitcoin discussion featuring Micky Malka of Ribbit Capital, Barry Silbert of SecondMarket, and Adam Draper of Boost at Thomson Reuters’ Venture Alpha West 2013 conference. 
Venky Ganesan, managing director at Menlo Ventures, gave the following keynote presentation at the Thomson Reuters’ Venture Alpha West conference on Oct. 9 at The Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, Calif. [pehub_video post_id=”285150″]
This post was originally published on Nov. 02, 2010. We are republishing it today in light of the great interest in Reid Hoffman’s Oct. 15 blog post about how he convinced Greylock Partners to invest in LinkedIn.
Battery Ventures’ Roger Lee plays a perfect straight man
We want help five students working on startups by getting them in front of venture capitalists at our Venture Alpha West conference in Half Moon Bay, Calif., on Oct. 8-9. Send us a 300-word essay explaining why your startup is awesome. The five winners will get free passes to Venture Alpha West.
Ellen Pao, a former partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, filed a discrimination suit against the famous venture capital firm on May 10, 2012. Here are all of the stories peHUB has published about the case, in chronological order.
San Jose has become a "rust belt," private equity firms are "looking more aggressively" at tech investments, and European tech companies are able to "retain engineers a great deal longer" than their U.S. counterparts, Index Ventures General Partner Danny Rimer said in a video interview with Reuters.
Programma 101 launches in Italy, while H.I.G. raises its second European fund with an oversubscribed $1.1 billion
Applied Predictive Technologies, a cloud-based data analytics software company, has received a $100 million minority investment from the merchant banking division of Goldman Sachs, the company announced today. APT, founded in 1999, was recapitalized in 2006 with $54 million from Accel-KKR and Adams Street Partners, according to Thomson Reuters (publisher of peHUB). APT says that 80 of the world's largest corporations use its products. Its customers include American Greetings, OfficeMax and Owens Corning.
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