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Meet a millennial family physician who is also a one-woman antidote to private equity and the forces that have destroyed compassionate treatment for patients. I wanted to be an anthropologist. [...]

OVERVIEW: Corporate venture capital (CVC) units help their ventures flourish by offering value-adding services. Effective CVC initiatives offer services that help ventures design, implement, and manage activities to create and capture value. Our qualitative multiple case study across 26 CVC units reveals a comprehensive set of value creation and value capture services that these units offer, configured in any of four different ways to provide tailor-made support for specific venture needs and sponsor strategic goals. KEYWORDS: Corporate venture capital, Value capture, Value creation, Along with financial support, many corporate venture capital (CVC) units offer the ventures they sponsor an array of services designed to help them flourish (Battistini, Hacklin, and Baschera 2013; Gompers [...]

OVER THE past two decades fewer firms in America have listed on the stockmarket, opting instead to stay in the shadows for longer. Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists (VCs) make two [...]

Nomad Health reported it has raised $34 million in new equity and debt financing. According to a media release, Icon Ventures, a Palo Alto-based venture capital firm, led the financing. [...]

Northleaf Capital Partners reported that Northleaf Venture Catalyst FundII (NVCFII) recently held its final closing at its hard cap of $300 million. According to a media release, NVCFII is Northleaf's [...]

Pitstop reported $1.5 million in seed financingas well as a pilot test program with automotive supplier and intelligent transportation technology company, Continental. According to a media release, the funding round [...]

Byline: Staff WritersPalo Alto CA (SPX) Jan 25, 2019, 2019 Swarm Technologies, developer of the world's lowest-cost global communications network, reports it has closed its Series A financing round of [...]

Byline: Staff WritersLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 18, 2019, 2019 Isotropic Systems Ltd., the next-generation integrated satellite terminal solution provider, has announced a $14 million Series A round of funding led [...]

WireWheel reported the closing of a $10 million Series A round. New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and PSP Growth (PSP) led the investment round, with participation from existing and new investors [...]

Secure Code Warrior reported that it has gained US$3.5 million in funding from two strategic venture capital firms. According to a media release, the financing was led by Washington DC-based [...]

Secure Code Warrior has gained US$3.5 million in funding from two strategic venture capital firms. According to a media release, the financing was led by Washington DC-based Paladin Capital Group, [...]

Nebula Genomics reported that it has raised $4.3M million in seed financing with participation from 10 leading venture capital firms. The company said the funds will support its mission to [...]

Byline: Angela Doland Since two American expats in China founded creative video agency Relay in 2016, they've made videos of Chinese smart cars, smart watches, a smart bike and a [...]

Yogi Berra famously observed, while managing the New York Mets, that 'it ain't over till it's over.' Now I know what he meant. If you followed the saga of the [...]

HIPPEAS reported a $10 million investment from CAVU Venture Partners. CAVU's co-founder and managing partner, Brett Thomas, will join the company's board of directors. 'HIPPEAS is redefining plant-based snacking with [...]

Catch up on the top industries and stocks that were impacted, or were predicted to be impacted, by the comments, actions and policies of President Trump and his administration with [...]

7shifts reported that it has secured US$3.5 million in funding from Tandem Capital and existing investor Relay Ventures. 04003009 According to a release, the investment, which brings the total funding [...]

Greycroft Venture Partner Jon Goldman reported the close of $15.6 million in commitments for investments in VR, AR, video games and e-sports. GC VR Gaming Tracker Fund (Tracker) has already [...]

White Fox Ventures reported that Alternative Wallstreet Academy (AWA), a paid academy managed by its subsidiary White Fox Japan (WFJ), has started to implement membership fee payment via BTC, ETH, [...]

eDevice has been named the winner of the Digital Health Award, as part of Tech Tour's Healthtech Awards 2017, which recognizes the most innovative healthtech companies in Europe. According to [...]

GeoQuant reported the close of a seed round of $4M. According to a media release, the money was raised from Aleph, an early stage venture capital fund based in Tel [...]

AppOnboard has raised $4M from Troy Capital Partners, London Venture Partners (LVP) and a syndicate of VCs and CxO luminaries of the mobile app ecosystem including the original creator of [...]

Owl Labs has exited stealth and reported a $6M Series A financing led by Matrix Partners. Founded by CEO Max Makeev and CTO Mark Schnittman, both formerly of iRobot, the [...]

UK-based UNILEVER VENTURES invested in meal-kit startup SUN BASKET, San Francisco, CA, as part of a $9.2 million funding round. The investment from Unilever will help accelerate the company's marketing [...]

DeepMap reported its $25 million Series A round led by Accel, with participation from seed-stage investors Andreessen Horowitz and GSR Ventures. According to a media release, the round of funding [...]

MapD Technologies has closed a $25 million Series B funding round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from existing investors Nvidia, Vanedge Capital and Verizon Ventures. According to [...]

Firms providing capital and services are showcased on the following pages. They are listed in alphabetical order. A profile appears for each firm. The profile offers insight into each firm's [...]

The St. Louis venture capitalists feel that the venture capital community may be on the brink of a biotech breakthrough, but it still faces many challenges before it reaches the prominence of larger venture markets. Biotechnology and medical devices captured $958 million in venture investments in the second quarter of 2002 in the United States.

eSUB Construction Software (eSUB) reported a $5 million Series A investment from Revolution Ventures. According to a media release, the construction tech startup previously received investment from The Investor Group, [...]

Oath Craft Pizza recently closed a $4.5 million Series A investment led by Breakaway, a Boston-based branding and venture capital firm. With this funding, Oath said that it has raised [...]

Virtru reported that it has secured $29 million in Series A financing led by Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) with New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Soros Fund Management, Haystack Partners, Quadrant Capital [...]

CellSavers reported it has raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Carmel Ventures, with participation of seed investor Sequoia Capital. According to a media release, the Series A [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2016 M2 COMMUNICATIONS BetterView has closed on a USD1.55 million fundraising round, led by Arena Ventures, Metamorphic Ventures, and other angel investors, the company said. Additional investors include [...]

The early 2000s witnessed an initial period of venture capital investments into legal service enterprises. Some of the early ventures included USLAW Network, Americounsel, MyLawyer.com and TheLaw.com. However, most of [...]

There is growing interest in the potential of Southampton, England, as a regional centre for the provision of corporate finance advice. However, there have been few completed deals throughout most of 1997, mainly because of the high prices that are currently being commanded by businesses. Purchasers are reluctant to go ahead with deals unless they feel that the high price will be justified by synergistic benefits. Venture capitalists are generally finding it rather difficult to identify co-investors.

The sorry state of government finances may be the best thing that's happened to East Coast businesses. With subsidies drying up, venture capitalists are riding in to pick up the [...]