If you're with an Asian tech startup desperate for venture capital but keep running into slammed doors, it may not be your financing strategy that's wrong. It might be your technology.
Technology venture capital firm Technology Venture Partners (TVP) has launched an electronic community of interest for its investees.
Salesforce.com's US$25 million venture capital fund is great for developers, say analysts -- as long as providing support costs to a global market doesn't kill the start-ups.
John Doerr, the venture capitalist known for his investment in Google, is now showing his love for Apple with a $100 million fund for iPhone application developers.
Although sites like Facebook and YouTube have been a raging success, many bomb. This means that venture capital (VC) firms will not back a new Internet idea until it has proven its potential -- often with the funding of "angel" investors.
The funding picture for Australian tech start-ups remains as bleak as ever.
Eighteen months after the Federal Government severed an important lifeline for innovative Australian start-ups, a new $196 million program has been announced to help fill the Australian funding void. But will it really help?
Two entrepreneurs flying the flag for Australia at the prestigious DemoFall 09 showcase in Silicon Valley last week made their presence known in the best possible way: by beating 70 other attendees to be named the best enterprise product.
Silicon Valley-based wireless technology start-up Quantenna Communications is planning to open a 30 to 50-person research facility in Australia following an injection of venture capital by the Australian-US fund Southern Cross Venture Partners.
Assets of the Australian MPEG-21 video compression technology company Enikos are up for sale, with investors unwilling to fund its further development.
Ten years ago they were the young turks of Australia's business community; radical free-thinkers on the path to fame and riches. Shortly after, all those dreams came crashing down. But where are Australia's first dotcom moguls today, and what are they up to?
Reality has been cruel to virtual worlds, with most failing to live up to expectations, especially in business environments. Did analysts get that right or are they also guilty of second-degree Second Life hyping?
Eric Benhamou, former chief executive of both 3Com and Palm, has just joined the board of Finjan and taken a minority stake in the web security company through his venture capital fund, Benhamou Global Ventures.
Will the Australian government make the same mistakes with biotechnology that it has with information technology? All too likely, says a leading industry commentator.
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