| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.02.2017 | Frontier Tech Ventures Adds Craig Hordlow to Lead Marketing and Communications | Frontier Tech Ventures, a San Francisco, CA-based venture capital firm, has added Craig Hordlow to lead its marketing and communications.
Hordlow is a marketing strategy veteran, having created and managed marketing and communications strat... |
| 08.02.2017 | Rothenberg Ventures is going back to the same old Rothenberg Ventures | Mike Rothenberg, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist who took a reputational nose dive last year after several allegations came out against the way he was running his firm, is feeling bolder lately. One big clue, among others: After renam... |
| 26.01.2017 | Why Silicon Valley is high-fiving over Trump’s SEC pick | Wall Street lawyer Walter “Jay” Clayton hasn’t been officially appointed to the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission yet. But given the finite amount of political capital that Democrats wield right now, it’s easy to imagine that h... |
| 04.09.2016 | A former Rothenberg employee is now suing over breach of contract and more than $100K in Amex charges | David Haase, a former employee of the beleaguered San Francisco-based firm Rothenberg Ventures Management Co. (RVM), is suing the firm and its founder, Mike Rothenberg, saying he was asked to run up more than $100,000 in business expenses o... |
| 19.08.2016 | Frivolous Spending Could Sink This Silicon Valley VC Firm | Having a loose wallet is part of being a venture capitalist. After all, you are in the investing business. But the key to being a skilled VC is knowing when to spend your money, and when to call it quits. As soon as you lose that skill, you... |
| 18.08.2016 | At Rothenberg Ventures, the rise and fall of a virtual Gatsby | Rothenberg Ventures, the four-year-old, San Francisco-based seed-stage venture firm, may be on the brink of implosion, say several sources close to the firm.
We reported yesterday that several high-level employees had parted ways with Rothe... |
| 17.08.2016 | Several key Rothenberg Ventures employees have left the firm | Several high-level employees at the early-stage venture firm Rothenberg Ventures have recently left, TechCrunch has learned. Among them is Tommy Leep, a partner and the head of Rothenberg’s San Francisco office, who left last month after sp... |
| 24.05.2016 | The reality of augmented and virtual reality venture capital | Tim Merel Contributor
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| 11.05.2016 | OBE Wants To Dress The Fashionable VR Gamer | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Well before the debut of a slew of virtual reality headsets for consumers this year, game makers and other tech companies were getting ready to feed the expected demand for VR... |
| 15.04.2016 | How Rothenberg Ventures got ahead of the VR investing craze | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
With virtual reality now seemingly everywhere, it’s easy to think that the technology came out of nowhere. Facebook’s $2 billion acquis... |
| 15.04.2016 | How Rothenberg Ventures got ahead of the VR investing craze | With virtual reality now seemingly everywhere, it’s easy to think that the technology came out of nowhere. Facebook’s $2 billion acquisition of Oculus Rift two years ago opened the floodgates. HTC and Samsung have headsets on the market, to... |
| 31.03.2016 | eRelevance Corporation Closes $4.5M Series A Funding | Capital will be used to drive top line growth. |
| 31.03.2016 | Daily funding roundup - March 31, 2016 | Garena bagged $170 Series D funding; Turner led $15M investment in Mashable; SkySquirrel raised $1M
SkySquirrel Technologies, a Halifax, Canada-based provider of drone-based technology for monitoring and improving crop health, closed a $1 m... |
| 10.03.2016 | Robert Scoble leaving Rackspace for UploadVR to explore augmented and virtual reality | Technology evangelist, author, and blogger Robert Scoble is leaving Rackspace to pursue an entrepreneur-in-residence role with UploadVR. He says that he’ll do the same kinds of videos and blogging he’s always done but now with a specific fo... |
| 10.03.2016 | Robert Scoble leaving Rackspace for UploadVR to explore augmented and virtual reality | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Technology evangelist, author, and blogger Robert Scoble is leaving Rackspace to pursue an entrepreneur-in-residence role with UploadVR... |
| 29.12.2015 | 6 ways virtual reality will shape up in 2016 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The VRX event last month in San Francisco brought together 500 of the top executives in the VR space across gaming, entertainment and b... |
| 29.12.2015 | 6 ways virtual reality will shape up in 2016 | The VRX event last month in San Francisco brought together 500 of the top executives in the VR space across gaming, entertainment and brand marketing to demonstrate the latest hardware, unreleased content and real-world uses of virtual real... |
| 03.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 3, 2015 | CureVac raised $110M; Turo landed $47M; Iboss secured $35M
Say goodbye to peer-to-peer car rental service RelayRides, and hello to Turo! The company announced on Tuesday that is has rebranded itself with the new name, and a new vision, one ... |
| 02.10.2015 | Daily funding roundup - October 2, 2015 | Renovate America collected $90M; Dome9 Security raised $8.3M; Zeemee landed $5.8M
Propeller Aerobotics, a start-up that uses drones to make 3D maps for mining and construction companies has raised $1 million from investors including fund Bl... |
| 18.09.2015 | User’s Guide To Disrupt SF 2015 | Hard to believe that Disrupt SF is just around the corner! TechCrunch has partnered with an amazing array of sponsors who promise to make your experience at the conference better and better.
Party with TechCrunch and Cheetah Mobile: Join us... |
| 29.07.2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 29, 2015 | Twilio closed $130M; Mereo BioPharma secured $119; AltspaceVR raised $10.3M
AltspaceVR, a software company that uses virtual reality to provide a new communication platform, raised a $10.3 million round of funding. Investors in the round in... |
| 24.07.2015 | There’s A Glass Ceiling for European Virtual Reality Startups | Let’s face it: Europe’s reputation has never been that of a vibrant tech startup continent. Many factors can be named as the underlying reasons for this: brain drain, scalability problems across countries, a general tendency of people to fo... |
| 15.07.2015 | YC-Backed Jopwell Is Building The Apparently Missing “Pipeline” Of Diverse Candidates For Tech Jobs | Behind the repetitive and apologetic acknowledgment that there is a lot more “work to do” on diversity at companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter is the idea that there isn’t a sufficiently large enough “pipeline” of minority candidates... |
| 06.07.2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 6, 2015 | Hotel Urbano landed $60M; Bizzy scored $2.5M; AffinityLive raised $2M
Hotel Urbano, an online platform that allows travelers to find and reserve accommodation and activities, and one of the fastest growing travel sites in Brazil, is about t... |
| 28.05.2015 | Psious cierra su 1ª ronda de $1,05M liderada por Rothenberg Ventures | 28/05/2015
PSIOUS CIERRA SU PRIMERA RONDA DE $1,05 MILLONES LIDERADA POR ROTHENBERG VENTURES.
La startup catalana pionera en tratamientos psicológicos basados en Realidad Virtual Psious, ha cerrado una ronda de capital semilla de $1,05 mi... |
| 30.01.2015 | With virtual reality blowing up, first VR accelerator unveils initial 13 startups | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It seems everyone’s got an accelerator these days. You’ve got the blue-chip models, like Y Combinator, and the big-money backed efforts... |
| 30.01.2015 | Rothenberg Ventures’ First Virtual Reality Accelerator Emphasizes Health And Education | VR could enlighten and heal, not just entertain. Its immersiveness could distract us from pain, help us face our phobias, or give us first-hand training. “We have a belief that VR will disrupt every industry. And it’s global. So we made eff... |
| 30.01.2015 | With virtual reality blowing up, first VR accelerator unveils initial 13 startups | It seems everyone’s got an accelerator these days. You’ve got the blue-chip models, like Y Combinator, and the big-money backed efforts, like Disney’s. Now, the initial batch of companies in what could be the first virtual reality accelerat... |
| 26.12.2014 | Rothenberg Ventures Launches River Accelerator Focused on VR | Venture capital firm Rothenberg Ventures has launched an accelerator exclusively focused on virtual reality.
River, which runs February through April 2015, is focused on infrastructure, platforms, applications, and content, and teams that a... |
| 19.12.2014 | Rothenberg Ventures Opens Virtual Reality Accelerator Offering 10 Startups $100K And A Clubhouse | “2015 will be the year of virtual reality” says investor Mike Rothenberg. But fragmentation in the nascent industry means VR hardware, software, and content startups need to team up for demos. So Rothenberg Ventures today launched a VR acce... |
| 18.09.2014 | Augmate lands $2.8M Seed for smart wearables | Tim Draper, UPS Strategic Fund, Siemens Venture Capital, Simon Venture Group & more invest
What seemed like science fiction in the movie Terminator is starting to look quaint. Being able to scan a situation and extract information throu... |
| 14.04.2014 | Chubbies Raises $4 Million Giving Bros A Weekend Uniform | Slangy marketing and a singular vision of weekend wear has netted Chubbies, a manufacturer and online retailer of men’s shorts, a $4 million round of funding from some of the biggest names in fashion and retail investing.
Chris Burch, the c... |
| 28.03.2014 | Y Combinator may be removing VCs from its list of backers | Major changes may be already underway at Y Combinator, the startup incubator that counts Airbnb, Stripe, and Dropbox among its alumni.
According to a report in Fortune, startups enrolled in the program may soon receive funding from an entir... |
| 28.03.2014 | Y Combinator may be removing VCs from its list of backers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Major changes may be already underway at Y Combin... |
| 04.11.2013 | Rothenberg Ventures launches $50m second fund | Private equity firm Rothenberg Ventures, which is run by entrepreneur Michael Rothenberg, is seeking $50m for its second |
| 25.01.2013 | Bloodhound Raises $3M in Series A Funding | According to reports, Bloodhound, a San francisco, CA-based provider of a conference app, raised approximately $3m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Peter Thiel’s FF Angel, with participation from Subtraction Capital, Rothenberg Ven... |
| 09.01.2013 | How Mike Rothenberg Went From Sleeping On Couches To Running A $5 Million VC Fund | Mike Rothenberg has always been interested in entrepreneurship. Now, the 28-year-old is running a one-man venture capital shop, Rothenberg Ventures, with $5 million to invest in startups.
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| 09.01.2013 | How Mike Rothenberg Went From Sleeping On Couches To Running A $5 Million VC Fund | Mike Rothenberg has always been interested in entrepreneurship. Now, the 28-year-old is running a one-man venture capital shop, Rothenberg Ventures, with $5 million to invest in startups.
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| 06.01.2013 | Meet Mike Rothenberg, The 28-Year-Old Whose Seed Fund Could Be The Best Bang For Your Cap Table Buck | When you’re a rookie, you’ve got to hustle, and Mike Rothenberg is ready to bring some sweat to venture. Today he unveils his seed fund Rothenberg Ventures. With up to $5 million to invest, it’s already backed eight startups just led Chat S... |
