AN extraordinary last-minute alteration to Gordon Brown’s April Budget is under way to spare some of the country’s richest financiers from having to pay millions of pounds in income tax. The Chancellor accidentally caught bosses of venture capital companies as […]

You can learn how to connect the idea-bone to the finance-bone, and the finance-bone to the profit-bone, in Memphis at the Musculoskeletal New Ventures Conference this fall. The conference, scheduled for Oct. 8-9 at the FedEx Technology Institute, will bring […]

Jul. 12–St. Paul Venture Capital expects its investments to rise 63 percent to $165 million this year, in a trend that’s running counter to the picture nationwide. The investments include two that closed this week in a pair of Plymouth […]

Jul. 11–People can be entrepreneurs with little or no capital at all, says Gary G. Schoeniger, author of the audio book “Starting From Scratch: How To Start A Business When You Don’t Have Money.” More than the start-up money, determination […]

This bull market began in March and has performed in gorgeous fashion. Don’t believe me. Let the numbers do the talking. NASDAQ was trading around 1250 on March 12th. It never really came close totesting the lows made last October. […]

Jul. 11–Vnet Capital, a venture capital firm run by information technology veteran Narong Intanate, has diversified into the automotive sector with a venture capital fund for small businesses in theauto industry. The fund is offered through the newly established Thai […]

Jul. 11–The government is preparing to establish a new venture capital fund to invest in high-potential small- and medium-sized enterprises in an effort to improve their competitiveness. The fund is expected to invest between one billion and two billion baht […]

Prior to 2002, venture capital firms were pretty much nil in Colorado Springs. Investment giants migrated to areas like Silicon Valley, Calif., a hub for high-tech companies. Despite the high-tech fallout of the late nineties, venture capital companies continue to […]

RICHARDSON, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 11, 2003– Existing Investors, lead by Austin Ventures, Validate VocalData’s Product Excellence and Customer Successes in Rapidly Growing Hosted IP Telephony Market VocalData Inc., an application developer of hosted IP telephony services, today announced that it has […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. & WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 11, 2003–Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV), a leading bi-coastal venture capital firm, today announced with great sorrow, the death ofcolleague and friend, General Partner Jos Henkens. Henkens had been a key member of the […]

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 11, 2003–Shorenstein Company, one of the leading private owner/operators of major office buildings throughout the United States, has purchased a $20 million juniormezzanine loan from CDC Mortgage Capital Inc., a New York-based lender. The junior mezzanine loan […]

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 11, 2003–Austin Ventures LP and Staktek Corporation today announced a definitive agreement in which Austin Ventures will acquire Staktek Corporation in atransaction that is expected to close by the end of August 2003. Financial terms were undisclosed. […]