Jul. 16–WASHINGTON–Venture capital investments in minority businesses have a solid return, a foundation advancing entrepreneurship announced Wednesday. In a study conducted by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, combined investments exceeded a 20 percent rate of return, compared with 17 percent […]

Jul. 16–Clarence Wooten needed $3 million to finance his new company that produced prefabricated Web sites for small businesses on tight budgets — and he wanted to do it debt-free. He spent an exhaustive six months in 1999 making cold […]

Jul. 16–More than a dozen years ago, California’s mammoth teachers’ retirement system invested a modest $7 million in Syncom Inc., a small Maryland venture capital fund specializing inminority-owned start-ups. By the end of 2002, that investment generated a handsome $6.2 […]

Venture capitalists will boost their investment in Irish companies this year as the number of high potential start-ups continues to grow, Enterprise Ireland has predicted. Executive director Mr Pat Maher said “the strong flow of quality projects” will woo investors. […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 16, 2003– Kauffman Foundation Report Reveals That Minority-Oriented VCs Favor Broadcast over Broadband Public Pensions Rise as a Source of Capital for Minority VC Funds The Kauffman Foundation today released a pioneering report, MINORITIES AND VENTURE […]

Jul. 16–WASHINGTON–Venture capital investments in minority businesses have a solid return, a foundation advancing entrepreneurship announced today. In a study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, combined investments exceeded a 20 percent rate of return, compared with 17 percent for […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. confirmed that regulators have requested information and documents on the Wall Street firm’s sale of initial public offering shares as part of an ongoinginvestigation. The New York Stock Exchange, acting in coordination […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 16, 2003– Kauffman Foundation Report Reveals That Minority-Oriented VCs Favor Broadcast over Broadband Public Pensions Rise as a Source of Capital for Minority VC Funds The Kauffman Foundation today released a pioneering report, MINORITIES AND VENTURE […]

ACQUISITIONS Kemira Chimica, the Italian arm of Kemira Kemwater, says it has signed an agreement to acquire Ageco’s (Lucca, Italy) water treatment business. The deal includes an agreement under which Kemira Chimica is allowed to produce ferric chloride at Ageco’s […]

ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 15, 2003–KnowledgeStorm, the Internet’s most highly trafficked business technology directory, today announced the company has closed $2.4 million in new venturefunding. Participation included all previous KnowledgeStorm institutional investors: Apex Venture Partners, Imlay Investments, Live Oak Equity Partners, Sterling […]

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 15, 2003–Venture capital investment in Europe and North America has risen in the last four consecutive quarters, from EUR 29 billion in the third quarter of 2002 toEUR 45 billion in the second quarter of 2003, according […]

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 15, 2003–Venture capital investment in Europe and North America has risen in the last four consecutive quarters, from EUR 29 billion in the third quarter of 2002 toEUR 45 billion in the second quarter of 2003, according […]