Venture Capital

Emerging Techonology Conferences

CES/Las Vegas
Macworld/SF
SDForum/SJ
Usercentric ID/
Boston
OSBC/SF
MashupCamp/
Mtn. View
eTech/SD
SXSW/Austin
BarCamp/
Austin
F2C/DC
LinuxWorld/
Boston
Digtal Transitions/
Santa Barbara
DsktpSummit/
San Diego
IIW/Mtn.View
Syndicate/NY
samtalerne/
Copenhagen
Reboot
Copenhagen
Identity Mash-up/
Harvard Law
BloggerconIV
OSCON/
Portland
Wikimania/
Boston
LinuxWorld/SF
DIDW/SF
IIW2006b/Mtn. View


Clean Tech

Venture capital investment in clean technology investment hit its highest point in 2006, as investors poured $2.9 billion into start-ups, according to data from the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based industry tracker, the Cleantech Venture Network. The 2006 total is a 78% increase over the 2005 investments totaling $1.6 billion and a 140% increase over 2004 investments [...]


Boston VCs

North Bridge Venture Partners, one of the few big Boston-area venture firms to operate out of a single office, has opened a branch on the West Coast.
The Waltham, Mass., firm now lists a second location on its Web site, in San Mateo, Calif., south of San Francisco. Whether this signals a shift in strategy for [...]


IPOs 2006

The venture-backed initial public offering market saw solid gains in 2006, as the value of such offerings neared $4 billion. And despite a slowdown in the number of VC-backed M&A deals, their total value remained on par with last year, thanks in large part to Google Inc.’s acquisition of YouTube Inc.
There were 56 completed IPOs [...]