venture capital
UK software industry - alive and kicking
News While the US has ready-made communities of developers working together with leading universities to secure investment, British software developers often struggle much more to gain access to venture... [23 Oct 2009]
Nicholas Negroponte
AS Profile He also serves on the board of directors for Motorola and as general partner in a venture capital firm specialising in digital technologies for information and entertainment. Nicholas Negroponte, the man... [30 Sep 2009]
Marten Mickos
AS Profile He recently joined venture group Benchmark Capital as entrepreneur in residence. Marten Mickos left MySQL, the open source database company founded in 1995, at the beginning of the year, less than 12... [29 Sep 2009]
Twitter secures "significant round" of funding
News Rowe Price, and existing investors, Institutional Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Benchmark Capital. CEO Evan Williams confirmed on the company blog on Friday that Twitter has... [28 Sep 2009]
HP welcomes Marc Andreessen to board
News Since then, Andreessen, best known as the co-founder of Netscape, has helmed social network creation service Ning, and a new venture capital firm Andreessen-Horowitz. Two years after selling his software... [18 Sep 2009]
eBay sells most of Skype in $2bn deal
News The Andreessen Horowitz venture capital group was launched in July by Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape and co-founder of Opsware, and Ben Horowitz, also co-founder of Opsware. Ecommerce giant... [01 Sep 2009]
eBay set to hang up on Skype?
News The investment group will reportedly include Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital group launched in July by Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape and co-founder of Opsware, and Ben Horowitz, also... [01 Sep 2009]
Singularity University: Where today's tech titans teach the next generation
News This group project, which aims to flip the car sharing movement on its head and bring affordable transportation to the masses, started less than two weeks ago but has already won a prize and attracted venture... [21 Aug 2009]
Twitter blackout confirmed as denial-of-service attack
News Now, a few million dollars of venture capital later, the service is far more stable. Twitter was inaccessible for several hours on Thursday, followed by a period of slowness and sporadic timeouts, and... [06 Aug 2009]
British Gas customers can turn up the heat using their mobile
News AlertMe, which raised £8m in venture capital earlier this year, is developing a system for controlling home electricity use and home security systems as well. UK start-up AlertMe.com on Monday announced... [21 Jul 2009]
Microsoft CRM boards the Twitter train
News CoTweet on Friday announced it had secured $1.1m in venture funding from firms including Baseline Ventures, Founders Fund, First Round Capital, SV Angel, Maples Investments and Freestyle... [10 Jul 2009]
£1bn cash for UK's tech start-ups
News The government has announced a venture capital fund for tech start-ups that it hopes one day will top £1bn. The UK Innovation Investment Fund will gain funding from the Department of Energy and Climate... [30 Jun 2009]
Intel spends $43m on WiMax push
News Chipmaker Intel's venture capital arm has announced an investment in Japanese WiMax company UQ Communications, which intends to provide coverage to most of Japan by 2012. Intel Capital... [08 Jun 2009]
Nigel Beighton
CIO Profile Next up in his varied career was a stint running his own venture capital consultancy during the dot-com bubble before heading to lastminute.com as CTO. Nigel Beighton has been CTO of Teletext for the... [03 Jun 2009]
IT Sustainability Insights and Imperatives
White Paper Investors are putting their money where their mouth is, ponying up more than $6 billion in the U.S.in clean-tech venture capital. Going green is golden. From emerging government mandates and regulation... [17 May 2009]