IT SEEMED like such an excellent idea. Launched by Unilever four years ago, My Home aimed to promote the consumer giant’s Persil and Cif cleaning brands while introducing a bit of professionalisminto the domestic cleaning and laundry market. ‘It started […]

A GROUP of senior insurance industry executives and venture capital firms are drawing up radical plans to bail out dozens of Britain’s beleaguered life insurers. The consortium is understood to be planning to create a vehicle backed by more than […]

Cordiant, the troubled advertising group, is ready to announce two vital disposals, the pounds 25m sale of its financial PR business Financial Dynamics and a A$63m (pounds 25.4m) deal for itsAustralian business, George Patterson Bates. The two sales are crucial […]

VENTURE capital is a term used to describe money invested on risk basis. According to Frank Holmes of Cardiff-based Gambit Corporate Finance there are few true venture capitalists in the UK. The word venturer, he believes, has disappeared from the […]

Seattle’s biotechnology industry yesterday received another booster shot. Three of the country’s top-tier venture capital firms joined with Alexandria Real Estate Equities and Leroy Hood’s Institute for Systems Biology to create Accelerator Corp., a Seattle firm that will incubate new […]

May 23–A venture capitalist, an entrepreneur and a seasoned investment manager have partnered to launch a $125 million investment fund in Austin. Blue Sage Capital is the first fund created in Austin in at least two years, said Kirk Walden, […]

May 23–Former acting governor Jane Swift, entering the venture capital world that Mitt Romney left to run for her office, has taken a job at Arcadia Partners, a Boston-based firm that invests infor-profit training and education companies. Swift, 38, began […]

STATE COLLEGE, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 23, 2003–HyperNex, Inc. today announced the completion of a $2.5 million venture capital funding round, led by Draper Triangle Ventures with new investmentsfrom CID Equity Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Existing investors, Staley Capital Partners and […]

WAKEFIELD,Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 23, 2003–Dave Furneaux, Managing General Partner at Kodiak Venture Partners, will participate in a panel of industry veterans, representing viewpoints from theenterprise, service provider, venture capital, and global research communities, who will share their perspectives on areas of […]

THE QUESTION wrapped up in the enigma of Man Group’s share price is whether the explosion of investment in hedge funds is a bear market fad or something sustainable in the long term. Man is the UK’s biggest hedge fund […]

May 23–KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The brutal bear market seems to have erased the classic entrepreneurial dream of quick stock-market riches. At least, that’s the conclusion you could draw after hearing 20 startup companies appeal for money Thursday at the […]

EDINBURGH is to host one of the world’s biggest life science investment conferences a year from now, it has been announced. More than 600 top venture capitalists are expected to converge on the city next May when BioEquity Europe comes […]