http://www.inveslogic.com/latest Venture Capital Sector - Latest Blog Articles at http://www.inveslogic.com en http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/venture-capital-news/1386722?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Mark Evans Published on Wednesday, Mar. 17, 2010 8:50AM EDT Last updated on Wednesday, Mar.... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/venture-capital-news/1386722?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:54:04 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1386609?rsstype=latest&cid=38 TechCrunch50 startup CrowdFlower has been attracting a lot of attention, even raising $5 million in funding recently. CrowdFlower is a labor as a service startup that helps businesses outsource mundane or repetitive tasks to the cloud. Now the startu... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1386609?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:30:56 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1386610?rsstype=latest&cid=38 According to investir.fi and various other sources, the world's leading people search engine 123people, which strives from Austria, has been acquired by the leading french yellow pages company PagesJaunes. The company was incubated by i5invest and ... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1386610?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:17:58 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1386611?rsstype=latest&cid=38 GROU.PS, a do-it-yourself social network focused on moderated online collaboration has unveiled a synchronization tool that allows the group administrators on Yahoo Groups to sync with GROU.PS. So Yahoo Groups admins can incorporate functionality s... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1386611?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:01:15 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1386612?rsstype=latest&cid=38 We haven t heard all that much from Siri, the venture-backed startup that is working on virtual assistant applications for smartphones. Still well below most people s radar, the company raised $24 million in venture capital and recently released ... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1386612?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:27:51 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/software-stock-blog/1386604?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Ben Horowitz has a post called The Case For The Fat Startup on the All Things D blog. I don't agree with Ben's take on this issue but I have enormous respect for Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen. They have started and built multiple successfu... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/software-stock-blog/1386604?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:25:33 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1386618?rsstype=latest&cid=38 I m hopelessly addicted to Push Notifications on the iPhone. Unfortunately, the system is flawed, in that the more notifications you get, the worse the experience is because it can be hard to manage them all. And one reason I always have the iPhone... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1386618?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:09:07 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1386463?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Music is moving into the cloud, right? Access is replacing ownership of albums and song files, online streams are replacing desktop playback and mobile access is renewing interest in on-demand music subscriptions. Older services such as Rhapsody and ... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1386463?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:00:04 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1386465?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Formspring.me, the fascinatingly simple and popular personal Q&A site, has raised $2.5 million from a top-shelf list of angel investors: Baseline Ventures, Freestyle Capital, SV Angels, Maples Investments, Chris Sacca, Dave Morin and Kevin Rose. The ... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1386465?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:09:32 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1386625?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Blippy is always fun to write about because so many people are enraged by its very existence. But all that rage apparently hasn t stopped the company from getting lots of investor attention. In addition to landing a bevy of top tier angels and ven... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1386625?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:52:48 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/silicon-valley-watcher/1386600?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Reuters reports:President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday announced that Russia would build a high-tech hub near Moscow to spur modernization of the economy and reduce its dependence on oil and gas. The center, designed to develop five priority sectors -... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/silicon-valley-watcher/1386600?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:35:58 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1386627?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Miami, Florida-based Labotec has landed a round of funding from Kima Ventures, a European early-stage investment fund founded by entrepreneurs and angel investors Jeremie Berrebi (Zlio, Net2One) and Square backer Xavier Niel (Free, Iliad).The VC firm... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1386627?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:27:56 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/hedge-fund-richard-wilson/1386356?rsstype=latest&cid=38 UCITS III Funds AUMUCITS III-Compliant Funds Now Manage $52.3 Billion UCITS III-compliant funds have recently gained in popularity after the financial crisis and they now manage $52.3 billion. The funds, which are regulator-friendly, were virtually... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/hedge-fund-richard-wilson/1386356?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:19:01 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/hedge-fund-richard-wilson/1386357?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Germany Spies Hedge Funds Germany Deploy Its Spies to Investigate Hedge FundsGermany's finance minister made an odd announcement: his country may deploy its spies to gather intelligence on hedge funds. The use of intelligence agencies, he said, wou... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/hedge-fund-richard-wilson/1386357?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:02:40 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1386633?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Every year, we come across dozens of new applications looking to capitalize on March Madness, when millions of basketball fans across the country try to predict the outcome of the heated 65-team NCAA tournament. One new app that s launching today ... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1386633?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:46:11 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1386153?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Chris Hughes, who co-founded what became one of the world s largest social networks and then just a few years later orchestrated a social-media campaign that helped put Barack Obama to the White House, has launched a new, non-profit startup that he... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1386153?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:12:06 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1385943?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Mobile analytics startup Motally is bringing in a seasoned analytics executive, John Forese, as the startup s new CEO. Forese was previously Nielsen Mobile s Senior Vice President of Product Management. Additionally former Google Vice President o... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1385943?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:58:48 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1385945?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Stealth startup Trada launched to the public today as an online marketplace allowing small and medium businesses and agencies to essentially crowdsource search engine marketing services. The startup has raised $2.2 million from the Foundry Group and ... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1385945?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:55:28 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1385947?rsstype=latest&cid=38 70% of users on the web do not speak English. Considering how many web sites and services are done entirely in English, obviously, this is a problem. Smartling thinks it has the solution. And now they have $4 million in funding to prove it.The realti... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1385947?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:48:01 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1385948?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Silicon Valley has long been heralded as the Mecca for startups, but it isn t the only city in California to give rise to promising tech companies. Los Angeles has a growing startup community, and is home to startups like DocStoc and a few much lar... http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-crunch/1385948?rsstype=latest&cid=38 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:17:42 -0400