Monthly Archives: June 2003

Jun. 17–Boulder money manager Matthew Rich has launched a new mutual fund designed to bring an increasingly popular hedging strategy to average investors. The Technical Chart Fund will offer what Rich describes as a market-neutral approach that seeks to capture […]

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Jun. 17–Spatial Wireless Inc. of Richardson will announce Tuesday that it has raised $27 million in venture capital, one of the largest investments in a Dallas-area technology start-up this year. The investment, which would have been considered modest only a […]

DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 17, 2003–Koch Ventures, LLC, an early stage venture capital firm, has co-led an investment round of $6.5M in Austin, Texas-based SoloMio Corporation (www.solomio.com),a provider of voice services for mobile telecommunications operators. Koch Ventures contributed $2.5 million to the […]

DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 17, 2003–Koch Ventures, LLC, an early stage venture capital firm, has co-led an investment round of $6.5M in Austin, Texas-based SoloMio Corporation (www.solomio.com),a provider of voice services for mobile telecommunications operators. Koch Ventures contributed $2.5 million to the […]

RICHARDSON, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 17, 2003–Reaffirming the company’s leading position as a supplier of next-generation wireless networking systems for today’s mobile networks, SpatialWireless announced the closing of $27 million in additional equity financing. VantagePoint Venture Partners led the company’s fourth round […]

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 17, 2003– Investment from Partech International and Koch Ventures to Drive Adoption of Company’s Voice Services Among Mobile Operators Worldwide SoloMio Corp. (www.solomio.com), a leading provider of value-added voice services for mobile phone operators, has secured an […]

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 17, 2003– Investment from Partech International and Koch Ventures to Drive Adoption of Company’s Voice Services Among Mobile Operators Worldwide SoloMio Corp. (www.solomio.com), a leading provider of value-added voice services for mobile phone operators, has secured an […]

Vincent Chan, a Hong Kong-based venture capitalist specializing in mainland companies, has no qualms in describing his business as “opportunistic” or worse. “Our job is like that of a loan shark,” hesays. Self deprecation aside, venture capital, as a form […]

Jun. 17–‘Recession-proof’ biotech firms are solid venture-capital candidates, an industry expert says. William Paiva gets frustrated almost daily when he reads newspaper accounts about how the economy is in trouble. He notes that there are some shining stars worth focusing […]

Communications Startups Attract Venture Funding Despite Telecom Slowdown Telecom may be out, but communications startups are in. That’s according to venture capitalists, which have dumped some $60 million in the past year into Orange County startups that make communications technology. […]

2003 first quarter data on venture funding suggests that investors were hibernating for the winter-or at least their money was. A slow economy, world events, and the Iraqi conflict contributed to arough quarter for emerging growth companies seeking funds. But […]