The Archive
May 7, 2013
FundersClub, the first online venture capital firm recognized by the SEC, announced in an email today that it will now take the industry standard 20% carried interest on future funds formed to invest in startups on its p...
Read more →May 6, 2013
This morning Clustrix announced they have raised $16.5M in a Series C round from Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, ATA Ventures and Don Listwin. They are one of the earliest Y Combinator companies, founded in 2005...
Read more →May 6, 2013
These zombie stories just won’t die. Last week Kirchner Group and Crestline Partners announced a joint effort to give limited partners (LPs) liquidity: There is an estimated $100 billion in private equity assets managed...
Read more →May 5, 2013
How to Read the Startup Momentum Index Momentum measures a quantity of motion, measured as a product of its mass and velocity. In case we want to measure the momentum of a startup (the “bodyâ€) where mass is the compa...
Read more →May 4, 2013
This morning at brunch Kevin remarked to me that he’d been seeing a lot more Lyft cars (a donation-based private P2P taxi service) around lately – so I was surprised at the coincidence when just an hour later the driver...
Read more →May 3, 2013
Fliqq revealed in a regulatory filing that they have raised a seed round of equity funding. It looks like the company was in startup alley (basically the expo hall) at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC last week and, according to N...
Read more →May 2, 2013
The Creators of PerkyJerky – Beef Jerky with caffeine in it – Raise $2.3M Source: Regulatory Filing More: Company Website WestView Capital Partners has filed its intent to raise a $430M 3rd fund. Source: Regulatory Filin...
Read more →May 2, 2013
Much of the feel good media coverage of startups today is so superficial and manufactured it can hardly be called news. Investigative journalism covering tech startups is extremely rare, and when it does happen it’s writ...
Read more →May 2, 2013
Through the startups indexes I’ve been creating in the past month I’ve developed a database of over 1,000 companies with dozens of signals each. This list includes ALL the startups in my database, across all the portfoli...
Read more →May 1, 2013
According to a regularly filing NowThis Media has raised $4M in additional funding. The company previously raised $5M under the name DailyPlanet Nework in April 2012 and its founder Ken Lerer is famously the cofounder an...
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