Mark Boslet

Dasaint Inc. received an undisclosed round of financing led by Google Ventures and joined by existing investors Benhamou Global Ventures, Floodgate and Radar Partners. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company said Monday it would use to the money to reach into new markets and support research and product development. The company previously had raised $2 million from […]

I don’t often daisy chain onto other people’s blog posts, but I couldn’t resist when I ran across a genuinely insightful post from Steve Blank. Blank is a long time entrepreneur and co-founder of the enterprise software developer E.piphany. (Remember the bubble days!) Blank also participated in a video games company more than a decade […]

Tens of thousands of peaceful protesters flooded Tahrir Square in central Cairo on Friday calling in ever louder voices for President Hosni Mubarak to leave office. So what’s a private equity fund manager to do? Up to now, the answer was close the office door. In a statement Reuters reported on Thursday, the Egyptian firm […]

Epic Ventures of Salt Lake City is halfway to a new $100 million fund. The firm, which is an affiliate of Zions Bank, has four previous funds and has invested for Novell Ventures and through a Zions Bank strategic account. It is a frequent co-investor with Draper Fisher Jurvetson and vSpring Capital. The small Utah […]

Massive Health, a stealthy health care startup, nabbed an impressive seed round from top named venture investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and Mohr Davidow Ventures in just six weeks. The company came together when co-founder Aza Raskin (pictured) left Mozilla in December and joined with entrepreneur Sutha Kamal. It hopes to develop a mobile app that […]

By most measures, cleantech venture investing reached a respectable total just shy of $4 billion last year. The precise calculation was $3.7 billion, according to the MoneyTree survey released last month by the National Venture Capital Association, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Thomson Reuters (publisher of this blog). That is unless you are at Ernst & Young and […]

San Francisco Equity Partners closed a $100 million fund that will be focused on consumer products and services investments. The private equity firm said its second fund will target equity investments of $5 million to $20 million and take on larger transactions with partners. The firm favors buyouts and significant minority stakes. The new fund […]

Secondary exchanges are offering IPO alternatives with a new approach to private placements, as money managers are eager to get a piece of a Facebook, Twitter and Groupon