Venture Capital News

Osprey Pharmaceuticals USA, a San Francisco-based developer of protein therapeutics for treating inflammatory diseases, has raised $11 million in first-round funding.

Hyderabad, Sep 4: Pressmart India Ltd, a leading print-to-digital delivery services major, Thursday announced that it has secured USD 6 million funding from two US-based venture capital firms for the next phase ...

Private equity firm Blackstone has joined a consortium bidding for Informa, but an industry source said the group was no longer prepared to pay its original price for the British publishing firm.

New Delhi News.Net Thursday 4th September, 2008 Massachusetts/ New Delhi, Delhi, Sept 4, : Vanu, Inc., a leading provider of software radio infrastructure solutions for cellular operators, today announced a 32 ...

Fonality , a provider of IP-PBX systems based on Asterisk, has just secured a $12 million financing round led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth Fund with participation from existing investor Intel Capital.

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Providence Equity Partners Inc. and The Carlyle Group have been joined by rival Blackstone Group LP in their bid to buy U.K.-based business information group Informa Plc, according to The Financial Times of ...

GROUPS led by Bain Capital LLC and Silver Lake Partners are the leading bidders for a stake in the handset unit of China's Huawei Technologies Co after General Atlantic LLC pulled out, people familiar with the ...

Boston Agency taking 10 budding companies on entrepreneur boot camp to to meet with U.S venture capitalists, financiers B1 DAVID SHIPLEY Telegraph-Journal A New Brunswick economic development agency is building ...

RISHON LEZION, Israel, September 1 RunCom-Investment RISHON LEZION, Israel , /PRNewswire/ -- Runcom Technologies Ltd., a leading technology company pioneering OFDMA based silicon solutions for user terminals ...

Venture capitalists raising new funds dedicated to the Indian market are not finding the going tough despite a global slowdown impacting availability of capital.

Historic electric car brand Detroit Electric last June reached an understanding to move forward in the development of a line of full-performance pure electric passenger vehicles.

Replay Solutions, Inc., a provider of innovative solutions for maximizing software quality, today announced the company has secured $11 million in Series B financing from three prestigious venture capital firms ...

Clayton Associates' additional capital infusion in StudioNow brings the total Series A investment in the company to $4.1 million.

Amazon.com is buying Shelfari, the Seattle social networking startup for book lovers, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.

Advantage Capital Partners is providing $3 million in financing to one of St. Louis' charter schools, Lift for Life Academy.

RadioFrame Networks has pulled in $28 million in equity and debt financing, bringing total funding in the Redmond maker of telecommunications networking equipment to more than $100 million.

RadioFrame Networks , a leading provider of femtocell and picocell radio access solutions today announced the closing of a combined $28 million round of Series F equity and debt financing.

Aug 28 -- SpeedDate.com , the online speed dating service, has secured $6m in Series B funding from Menlo Ventures.

ESPN is the lead investors in an $80 million, sixth round of venture capital funding Thursday for The Active Network, which is a collection of sports/recreation businesses that says it generated $102 million in ...