Posts Tagged ‘venture firms

Today at OSCon former NASA CTO Chris Kemp announced his new company Nebula, which will sell an OpenStack based appliance for cloud computing. The appliances are based on the OpenCompute standards. The idea is to make it possible for an organization to be able to purchase a bunch of these appliances and be up and [...]

Today at OSCon former NASA CTO Chris Kemp announced his new company Nebula, which will sell an OpenStack based appliance for cloud computing. The appliances are based on the OpenCompute standards. The idea is to make it possible for an organization to be able to purchase a bunch of these appliances and be up and [...]

Last week we broke the news of the impressive-but-not-jawdropping $200 million acquisition of Cloud.com by Citrix and the stellar year of returns that Redpoint Ventures is having. What makes Redpoint’s record so unique is that the firm is having a good year despite the fact that they’re not in one of the big five: Zynga, [...]

Rovio, the creator of the hit mobile game Angry Birds, announced it had raised $42 million in venture-capital financing Thursday. But the venture capitalists behind the round said getting the Finnish company to take the money was no easy task. The $42 million funding included three venture-capital firms: Atomico Ventures, Accel Partners and Felicis Ventures. [...]

From Venture Capital Dispatch: In the shadow of Foursquare, which is fast becoming a start-up darling, the marketing chief of a competing location-based service wondered how hype could help propel his company. Screen shots from the Where iPhone app Dan Gilmartin, vice president of marketing for Where, was watching the frenzy building around Foursquare Chief [...]


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