Monthly Archives: June 2003

DivXNetworks Named to AlwaysOn(TM) List of Top 100 Private Companies

DivXNetworks Inc. (www.divxnetworks.com), the company that created the revolutionary, patent-pending DivX(R) video compression technology, today announced its inclusion on the first-annual AlwaysOn (AO) Top 100 Private Companies list. AlwaysOn, the media company that covers innovation in technology and business, compiled […]

Former webMethods CTO and EAI Pioneer Jim Green Joins Launch of Composite Software

SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 23, 2003– Startup to Simplify the Delivery of Information Applications; Announces $5.2 Million in Funding Composite Software, a next stage Enterprise Information Integration (EII) solution provider, today launched the company and announced the appointment of former […]

Metreo Recognized in Top 100 Private Companies List; Pricing Optimization Gaining Market Traction

PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 23, 2003–Metreo Inc., (www.metreo.com), a leader in price optimization software, today announced its inclusion on the first-annual AlwaysOn Top 100 PrivateCompanies list. AlwaysOn, the media company that covers innovation in technology and business, compiled the list […]

Vivato Raises $44.5 Million in Series C Funding Round

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 23, 2003–Vivato, a Wi-Fi infrastructure company, today announced it raised $44.5 million in its Series C funding round, bringing the total investment in thecompany to $67 million. Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV), a leading bi-coastal venture capital firm, […]

Mr. Nanotech

Steve Jurvetson is campaigning hard to become the biggest financier in the kingdom of the extremely small. When the internet boom began in 1995 Steve T. Jurvetson was a rookie venture capitalist fresh out of Stanford Business School. He saw […]

Take My Venture Fund—Please!

Private equity investors are dumping billions of dollars of mistakes into the secondary market. Some scavengers will get rich. A hundred and forty dealmakers from a dozen cities around the world gathered over dinner at the W Union Squarehotel in […]

How a VCT or an EIS can shrink your Revenue bill

VENTURE Capital Trusts and Enterprise Investment Schemes are often talked of in the same breath because both offer generous tax incentives to encourage sophisticated private investors to invest inhigher-risk small trading companies. Both offer 20 per cent income tax relief, […]

National University of Singapore Launches Enterprise Center in Silicon Valley

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 30 (AScribe Newswire) — The National University of Singampore Enterprise Center in Silicon Valley (NECSV), a university-level business incubation center situated in SantaClara, Calif., was officially launched on Friday, May 30, by Mr. Raymond Lim, Minister […]

Network365 completes E10m funding

Network365, the Irish mobile payment technology provider, has completed a E10 million round of private equity funding, led by London-based Advent Venture Partners. Other investors are Amadeus Capital Partners, Trinity Venture Capital, JAFCO and Enterprise Ireland. Last week the Wicklow-based […]

TEDCO’s President

Phillip Singerman is president and executive director of Maryland Technology Development Corp. (TEDCO), a quasi-public organization that promotes promotes economic development in the state through the commercialization, development and deployment of technology. Singerman is a former head of the Economic […]

US Venture Capital Firm Launches Australian Biotech Fund on Eve of BIO 2003

WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 20, 2003–Dramatic changes to Australian venture capital tax and fund-raising laws have already paid off with the announcement today that a leading US VC firm islaunching a USD$200 million biotech fund to take advantage of the fast growing […]

TEDCO’s President

Phillip Singerman is president and executive director of Maryland Technology Development Corp. (TEDCO), a quasi-public organization that promotes promotes economic development in the state through the commercialization, development and deployment of technology. Singerman is a former head of the Economic […]