Last week at the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference, cleantech venture capitalist Vinod Khosla answered critics of cleantech investing by proclaiming that Khosla Ventures had netted a billion dollars in liquid profits from… Read more »
Let’s face it: Cleantech investing doesn’t seem to be working for a whole lot of people. Yes, we’re still knee deep in these companies trying to scale, but web investors are… Read more »
Despite a lot of talk about a Facebook initial public offering, early investor and director Peter Thiel says don’t count on it until 2012. Thiel, who was extremely critical of the… Read more »
PayPal co-founder (and early Facebook investor) Peter Thiel is backing a new social network, which restricts membership to students with ver… Read more »
Did PayPal discover some sort of magic recipe that allowed so many of its former executives and other staff to create startups like YouTube, Slide, Yelp and the newly public Tesla… Read more »
Vator.TV, the video site for startups to pitch themselves, has raised a second round of angel funding led by Venture Farm LLC. Also particip… Read more »
Big Think, a site billing itself as a “YouTube for ideas” has raised unspecified funding from a group of individual backers led by VC David… Read more »
Israeli search startup Hooja has received $1.5 million in its first round of funding, reports Globes. The still-stealth site was funded by i… Read more »
The Founders Fund has a raised a new $220 million fund, their second. They will invest in 15-to-20 early stage start-ups, they announced today. The four managing partners of FF include Peter… Read more »