Up to 15 companies will be selected to make presentations to venture capitalists at the fifth annual Intermountain Venture Forum- Boise, slated Oct. 1-2 at Boise Centre on the Grove. Entrepreneurs seeking financing have until Aug. 8 to submit applications. […]

A biotech executive with a rare gene for profitability wants to discipline an often rowdy industry JAMES MULLEN AND THE BIOTECHnology industry arrived on the scene together by chance in 1980. That year he landed his first job out of […]

WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 7, 2003–GoldK(R) announced today that Lazard Technology Partners and TH Lee Putnam Ventures have reaffirmed their financial commitment to GoldK by backing a $7million Series C Round, the terms of which are being finalized by the parties. […]

Although venture capitalists are a lot more conservative on where to place their fund in the aftermath of the easy funding and exuberant burn rates era of the 1990s, there are substantial amounts ofventure capital funding still available for businesses […]

A Purchase developer of human resources software will double its work force over the next 18 months and step up marketing for its flagship product using the $2.75 million in venture capital financingit won earlier this month. HR Technologies will […]

ESTIMATES PUT the size of the global hedge fund industry at around $US500 billion – pretty big for an industry most New Zealanders have little contact with. High net worth individuals – those with private accounts at the world’s most […]

Jul. 6–Rick Brimacomb and his wife used to think nothing of going out for a big night on the town, but then there were just the two of them. Today, there are four more Brimacombs, children ages 2, 4, 6 […]

VENTURE capitalist Lynne Cadenhead and former AorTech director Francis Madden are looking to raise up to GBP 25m for Scotland’s first investment fund aimed at young biomedical companies. The Caledonia Life Sciences fund last week received backing from Scottish Enterprise’s […]

CORDIANT, THE advertising group has sold the Financial Dynamics public relations firm to the venture capital group Advent for pounds 26m. Financial Dynamics recorded profits of pounds 3.7m in theyear to December 2002 on a turnover of pounds 34m. The […]

Venture capital forum to open in early August in E. China BEIJING, July 5 (Xinhua) — The midterm China Venture Capital Forum will be held on August 8 in Jinan, capital of east China’s Shandong Province, according to the organizer. […]

Jul. 5–SAN FRANCISCO–Promising young biotechnology companies backed by venture capital have found themselves shut out of a prestigious grant program because the National Institutes of Health areenforcing a decades-old regulation more strictly. Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs say the new interpretation […]

Jul. 4–International financier Peter Brooke, known for his eye for opportunity, is turning his gaze — and that of other investors — on St. Louis’ life-science industry. He is endorsing local efforts to create a $100 million “fund of funds” […]