http://www.inveslogic.com/tags/vc Blog Articles Tagged with 'vc' at http://www.inveslogic.com en http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/china-venture-news/1116086?rsstype=tag&tag=vc PE Hub is reporting that Shanghai-based Profex Inc. has gotten hold of $15.5 million in first round venture capital funding.Profex is a dermatology startup in China. The funding round was co-led by Trident Capital and its Chinese affiliate Mustang Ve... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:16:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/china-venture-news/1116086?rsstype=tag&tag=vc http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/china-venture-news/1115794?rsstype=tag&tag=vc PE Hub is reporting that Venture Capital research group Zero2IPO has raised $60 million for a second China-focused investment fund.Zero2IPO is based in Beijing and tracks the China venture capital market. The new fund has 46 investors and the $60 mil... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:46:33 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/china-venture-news/1115794?rsstype=tag&tag=vc http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115035?rsstype=tag&tag=vc Want to get a good idea of where the gaming business is headed? Follow the money or better yet, follow the trends the folks with money are looking at. With that in mind, I recently contacted three top venture capitalists in the gaming space to ... Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:39:55 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1115035?rsstype=tag&tag=vc http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/china-venture-news/1114789?rsstype=tag&tag=vc China's economy may (or may not) be slowing down, but the decision makers behind venture capital investment in the Middle Kingdom couldn't care less.The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that the amount of venture capital fueling compan... Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:55:26 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/china-venture-news/1114789?rsstype=tag&tag=vc http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/1114082?rsstype=tag&tag=vc Q1 Capital Partners publishes an online newsletter / blog titled Q-News. Comparing the state of Canada s venture sector to our disappointing Olympic medal count, Managing Director Mike Middleton writes:Rather than blather on about the dire state ... Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:49:40 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/1114082?rsstype=tag&tag=vc http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/china-venture-news/1113583?rsstype=tag&tag=vc PE HUB is reporting that Shanghai has decided to let foreign investors register legally as local equities investment firms. That includes private equity and venture capital funds. The move is designed to entice overseas investment into China's financ... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:11:11 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/china-venture-news/1113583?rsstype=tag&tag=vc http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/infectious-greed/1113933?rsstype=tag&tag=vc I was scanning the new Fenwick & West Q1 release on Bay Area venture capital activity, and it's hard not to come to this conclusion: Venture capital rules, baby! In these troubled economic times what other asset class has seen persistent price incr... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:07:30 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/infectious-greed/1113933?rsstype=tag&tag=vc http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/infectious-greed/1113935?rsstype=tag&tag=vc There is an interesting new NBER paper on the nondiversifiable costs of entrepreneurship. In other words, what costs, incurred by entrepreneurs in being entrepreneurial, should they consider in deciding whether to quit their day job? Over the p... Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:18:22 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/infectious-greed/1113935?rsstype=tag&tag=vc http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/1113365?rsstype=tag&tag=vc Today s guest was Mobivox CEO Peter Diedrich. Peter was part of the VC funding group that funded Mobivox two and a half years ago, spent 18 months as the CEO of TBayTel in Canada, and then took on the CEO role at Mobivox in June of this year.We d... Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:01:03 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/1113365?rsstype=tag&tag=vc http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/china-venture-news/1113586?rsstype=tag&tag=vc China is now making automobiles in the U.S. - in Oklahoma, to be precise. An article in the Huffington Post earlier this month pointed out that Chongqing ChangAn Automobile Co., Ltd. has begun production of The Tiger Champ at an assembly line in Okla... Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:50:57 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/china-venture-news/1113586?rsstype=tag&tag=vc http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1112596?rsstype=tag&tag=vc Finding good employees is challenging for companies of any size, but for cash-strapped startups in the midst of a talent war, it s particularly difficult. AdventNet, Zoho s parent company, is no longer small (now more than 700 employees), but ou... Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:56:16 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1112596?rsstype=tag&tag=vc http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/infectious-greed/1112702?rsstype=tag&tag=vc Rachel Lapp: You know carpentry. Can you do anything else? John Book: Whacking. I'm hell at whacking. -- Witness (1985) To turn the data around for a second in the prior post -- the one about the seeming anomaly in Go... Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:57:02 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/infectious-greed/1112702?rsstype=tag&tag=vc http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/china-venture-news/1112353?rsstype=tag&tag=vc PE HUB reported today that Chinese Internet and new media investment firm Koolanoo Group has raised $25 million as part of a new, third round of venture capital funding. According to a press release, the funding round was led by a new, undisclosed in... Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:05:30 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/china-venture-news/1112353?rsstype=tag&tag=vc http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1111275?rsstype=tag&tag=vc Keith Benjamin, a veteran Internet analyst and more recently a general partner at Levensohn Venture Partners, a San Francisco-based venture fund, passed away earlier this week of a subdural hematoma. He was hurt during his boxing training, when a bl... Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:13:58 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1111275?rsstype=tag&tag=vc http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/infectious-greed/1111383?rsstype=tag&tag=vc Meant to weigh in on this sooner, but Google is going to launch a corporate VC fund. I've registered various times my general skittishness about such things, so I won't belabor that here, other than to say I can't imagine the world needs another Vall... Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:49:13 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/infectious-greed/1111383?rsstype=tag&tag=vc http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/1110777?rsstype=tag&tag=vc Image via WikipediaSummer is in full swing. News is in short supply, and people are on holiday! Still, with the assistance of James Body, Jeb Brilliant, and Ian Hood, we had a good discussion around a few short stories.Nokia has announced that th... Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:28:38 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/alec-saunders-log/1110777?rsstype=tag&tag=vc http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/china-venture-news/1109727?rsstype=tag&tag=vc A recent rumor reported by Pacific Epoch has cause two different blogs to look at peer-to-peer file sharing in China.NewTeeVee is one of the sites that covered the rumor. Pacific Epoch is reporting that P2P outfit Xunlei is looking for $100 million a... Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:26:27 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/china-venture-news/1109727?rsstype=tag&tag=vc http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/china-venture-news/1109728?rsstype=tag&tag=vc Seeking Alpha had a good piece Sunday on the poor performance of China's biomedical industry when it comes to venture capital funding.The comparison is simple enough. In the U.S., biomedical projects rake in 31% of all venture capital funding. In Chi... Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:13:27 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/china-venture-news/1109728?rsstype=tag&tag=vc http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1109243?rsstype=tag&tag=vc Selects 44 Exceptional Startup Businesses in Six Categories to Advance to the Next Stage of the ContestThe Clean Tech Open (CTO) tonight announced that its judges have selected 44 finalists in the 2008 California competition, from among more than 100... Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:02:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1109243?rsstype=tag&tag=vc http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1109027?rsstype=tag&tag=vc One of the reasons my posting has been sporadic is because, I am currently attending Fortune s Briantech Conference being held at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay. David Kirkpatrick, a veteran technology journalist and author of upcoming, The Face... Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:00:12 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/gigaom/1109027?rsstype=tag&tag=vc