Venture capital investments saw a serious uptick this quarter, with a 37 percent increase in funding over the previous quarter and a strong emphasis on mobile investments and seed funding, according to a report released by CB Insights. Read more »
VC power player Kleiner Perkins is reportedly considering a new fund that will be dedicated to cloud computing companies. Whether or not it follows through, KPCB has already backed big-time cloud plays including Zynga and brought a former Twitter exec in as senior partner. Read more »
Last year, venture capital investment in “true” cloud computing companies constituted more than a quarter of overall Internet deal volume and more than a third of Internet investment dollars, according to new research from CB Insights. Read more »
The FinTech Innovation Lab, an accelerator program for financial tech startups, graduated its first class on Friday. This first batch of companies is bringing some impressive ideas to bear on data, analytics and payments and showing there’s room for new approaches in the financial sector. Read more »
2010 ended with a bang for start-up funding with deals and dollars hitting an eight-quarter high in the fourth quarter of 2010. Buoyed by a raft of Internet deals, fourth quarter VC funding hit $6.5 billion spread out over 735 deals. Read more »
It’s easy to look around at the consumer Internet and see that things are hopping. The private investment research firm CB Insights today gave us a stat to work with: 26 percent of all early-stage deal flow in the first quarter was for seed investments. Read more »
