| Date | Title | Description |
| 13.11.2014 | TechStars is Constantly Working to be the Best Accelerator | Since starting in Boulder, Colorado in 2007 the TechStars accelerator has grown into a giant entity that serves entrepreneurs and tech ecosystems across the US. David Cohen, the founder of TechStars, joined us at this year’s Tech Cocktail C... |
| 06.10.2014 | David Cohen Explains How Techstars Is Staying Competitive | Before we wrapped up the day 1 sessions at Tech Cocktail's Celebrate Conference and headed over to Place on 7th for the National Startup Showcase & Mixer, Frank Gruber sat down with David Cohen for a fireside chat. And who better to tal... |
| 26.07.2013 | Rally Investors, Executives Cash In With $114M Follow-On Offering | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Three Boulder-based venture capital firms are about to be rewarded for their stakes in Rally Software, as they will soon sell shares in company’s follow-on public offering.
Ra... |
| 23.07.2009 | Visage Mobile returns from the dead to focus on corporate phone management | Visage Mobile, former maker of software for mobile virtual network operators, unraveled a while ago, selling off most of its assets despite raising upwards of $90 million in venture capital. But now it’s reemerged with a new $2 million and ... |
| 21.01.2009 | Return Path seals $6M for email management | Return Path, a company that manages marketing emails, announced that it brought in $6 million in a fifth round of financing, reports peHUB. Its investors include Union Square Ventures, Mobius Venture Capital, Sutter Hill Ventures and Wester... |
| 08.01.2009 | Dogster still has its bite despite the downturn | Dogster, the social network for dogs and their owners, just converted $425,000 in bridge funds into additional first-round financing, reports VentureWire. After a profitable 2008, raising a second round isn’t as pressing, the company says —... |
| 11.12.2008 | Reactrix shutters — but interactive ads are still coming to a floor near you | Reactrix Systems, a company specializing in interactive projected advertisements in malls and movie theaters, has folded despite $75 million in venture backing. Last month, the Redwood City, Calif. company spent what remained of a $45 milli... |
| 10.11.2008 | Quova lets websites know where you are | Geolocation software developer Quova launched its new On-Demand service today, providing websites with the ability to pinpoint their users’ locations, and use this data to customize their content and applications.
The Mountain View, Calif. ... |
| 09.05.2008 | Location-based software provider deCarta raises $10.5M | Mapping platform maker deCarta has raised $10.5 million of a planned $21 million in a new third round of funding, according to Private Equity HUB. Backers include Norwest Venture Partners, Mobius Venture Capital and Cardinal Venture Capital... |
| 30.04.2008 | SkyPilot Networks gets $3.4M for municipal WiFi | Municipal WiFi just won’t die. The scheme has failed in city after city, even stumbling in tech-heavy Silicon Valley, yet companies have continued, on and off, to get funding. The latest is SkyPilot Networks, with a comparatively small $3.4... |
| 11.02.2008 | Microsoft gobbles up Danger, maker of the Sidekick mobile software | Microsoft Corp has agreed to acquire Danger, a Silicon Valley company that makes the software for the Sidekick and other mobile devices, for an undisclosed amount.
Danger has worked away for ten years on its device software, and recently fi... |
| 26.11.2007 | Pay By Touch gets $9M emergency infusion, trial set for next month | Pay By Touch, the troubled company which raised more than $300 million from hedge funds and other investors, has gotten a $9 million emergency loan to avoid closure.
Pay By Touch began a few years ago to push technology that let people use ... |
| 14.11.2007 | Pay By Touch to go under outside control until legal issues resolved | Pay By Touch, the venture and hedge fund-backed company that offers a way to let people pay at stores through fingerprint identification, has been facing a slew of problems. Now, it is being put under court-appointed, outside control, Ventu... |
| 12.11.2007 | Pay By Touch in trouble, founder filing for bankruptcy | (This story has been updated with company response, and a copy of a leaked memo from an investor alarmed about mismanagement at the company)
Pay By Touch‘s founder John Rogers had big dreams of changing the way people paid for things.
He ra... |
| 01.11.2007 | PurpleYogi, the 1999 personalization company, finally hits pay dirt | PurpleYogi, one of the earliest Silicon Valley companies to focus on “extreme personalization of the Internet,” has finally been sold for $158 million after a dramatic series of twists in business strategy.
The Mountain View, Calif., compan... |
| 09.07.2007 | What Google Should Do With Postini | I’ve spent a fair amount of time thinking about and investing spam prevention. I was an early investor in Bright Mail, the first anti-spam company, which was bought by Symantec a number of years ago. I am also an investor in Return Path, wh... |
| 04.10.2006 | Mobius faction aims to raise $175 million to $200 million fund | We’ve mentioned the decision by Silicon Valley firm Mobius Venture Capital to throw in the towel, and to not raise another fund, due to poor performance.
Now Brad Feld, one of its partners, is joining up with four other Mobius professionals... |
| 07.09.2006 | VC Mobius doled out capital “as if there was no tomorrow.” | We’ve mentioned the demise of the well-known Silicon Valley venture firm Mobius Venture Capital before.
The WSJ’s Rebecca Buckman follows up on the story (sub req), and explains how things turned sour after the Internet bubble burst, and ho... |
| 19.06.2006 | Sequoia invests $1.5 in slideshow start-up RockYou.. & other valley news | Updated twice
Silicon Valley venture firm Sequoia Capital has led a $1.5 million investment in NetPickle, which operates a photo site called RockYou.com. The site enables you to create photo slideshows and upload them to other Web sites. It... |
| 19.10.2005 | Top Five Web 2.0 Venture Capitalists | Most venture capitalists don’t understand tagging, blogs, rss, ajax, or the two way web. They scoff at social bookmarking sites and think podcasting is a fad (maybe it is). They desparately “want in” to this renaissance of the web, but can’... |
| 14.12.2004 | Where’s venture capital headed in 2005? Spam, for starters. | Here’s a noteworthy summary of where venture capitalists predict their money will be going in the coming year, published today by the National Venture Capital Association. There are many VC views represented, but we’ll just pick on one: the... |
