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Pinterest Raises $100m at Mega-Valuation

Photo-sharing site Pinterest raises a mega-round--and, at a valuation that already puts it well past Instagram's deal value.

Facebook IPO Triggers Investor Craze

With the opening of the IPO window for Facebook, rational decision-making is being tossed out the adjacent window by some investors. And it could make for mega Day-1-pop.

Bridgelux Bets the Company on New Technology and a Big Deal with Toshiba

Bridgelux, hoping to leapfrog competitors in the LED lighting business, is pioneering a new technology for LED chip making and betting the company on its success. The company that has received $296 million in venture funding took another step toward that goal by announcing a key deal with its new technology partner Toshiba

Cloud Startup Box Eyes ’13 IPO

Already, the 2013 IPO pipeline is heating up, Reuters reports, with Box.net eyeing an IPO.

LPs Line Up for IVP’s 14th Fund, Now Expected to Exceed $1B

The VC with a string of smash-hit investments is about to close its biggest fund ever.

Life Sciences VCs Confront Difficult Reality in LP Appetites

If you don't eat your life sciences portfolio, you can't have any Sequoia for dessert! As LPs continue to digest medical technology VC investments, GPs are left hungry for more capital.

Go West, Young Life Sci Entrepreneur

VCs are having a tougher time getting capital to put to work for life sciences and medical technology entrepreneurs. Is the answer to just hope to lock in funding on campus?

European technology funding April

Funding Circle, a UK-based online marketplace where individuals lend directly to small businesses raised $16m of Series B financing from joint investors Index Ventures and US-based Union Square Ventures. This brings the total amount raised by the compa...

Silicon Valley Wrestles with Impact of “Scouts”: UPDATED

The recently surffaced "scouting" affair may remind some of the scene in Casablanca when Captain Renault, feigning horror before the Gestapo, says aloud to Rick: “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!”

Achieving the Exit with Michael Gilman & Stromedix

Life sciences & biotech investors will want to heed the advice guest poster SRS "Achieving the Exit" Q&A subject Michael Gilman offers.

VCs Are Going to Start Shelling Out More Moolah: Poll

Venture capitalists got off to a slow start, but they will be more active this year than they were last year, according to a poll of peHUB readers.

Will Crowdfunding Live Up to the Hype? Part 4 of a 4-Part Series on the Jobs Act

This is part four of attorney Chris Manderson's four-part series examining the potential impact of the JOBS Act on capital raising for small and middle-market companies.