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  • A Humbled Kleiner Perkins Adjusts Its Strategy Wednesday, 8 May 2013 | 5:48 AM ET
    Fisker Karma, a plug-in hybrid luxury sports sedan produced by Fisker Automotive

    Kleiner, one of the top technology venture capital firms, has held a series of status-report meetings with its outside investors, acknowledging that recent fund performance 'wasn't great', the NYT reports.

  • April 30- An investor in Uber, the fast-growing alternative taxi service, has reached out to a venture capital firm about a potential new funding round that could value the company at $1 billion or more, a person familiar with the situation told Reuters.

  • April 30- An investor in Uber, the fast-growing alternative taxi service, has reached out to a venture capital firm about a potential new funding round that could value the company at $1 billion or more, a person familiar with the situation told Reuters.

  • Signs of Another Tech Bubble: VC Monday, 29 Apr 2013 | 5:28 PM ET

    One venture capitalist notes that today’s young tech entrepreneurs weren't working during the last crash—a blessing and a curse.

  • Insight Ventures raises $1.49 billion Monday, 29 Apr 2013 | 3:59 PM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO, April 29- Two years after closing on roughly $2 billion in new commitments, the venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners is raising more money.

  • Funding Startups in Silicon Valley  Monday, 29 Apr 2013 | 8:41 AM ET

    Joe Lonsdale, Formation 8 partner, discusses how new technology is transforming every major industry in the public and private sectors.

  • Food Becomes Venture Capital's Final Frontier Monday, 29 Apr 2013 | 8:10 AM ET
    Waitress Sheila Abramson at Langer's Delicatessen serves customers in Los Angeles, California.

    The idea of food being "the next big thing" is enticing a wide group of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley into making big bets on food, The New York Times Reports.

  • MUMBAI, April 29- India's capital markets regulator imposed rules on alternative investment funds in May 2012. The Securities Exchange Board of India organises alternative investment funds- such as venture capital, social venture funds, small and medium enterprise funds and hedge funds- under three categories.

  • TOKYO, April 26- As part of Japan's economic revival plan, the new government has added $3.2 billion to the spending power of state-linked funds investing in Japanese companies, effectively acting as venture capitalists much to the chagrin of private equity firms.

  • TOKYO, April 26- As part of Japan's economic revival plan, the new government has added $3.2 billion to the spending power of state-linked funds investing in Japanese companies, effectively acting as venture capitalists much to the chagrin of private equity firms.

  • April 22- GlaxoSmithKline said on Monday it will partner with venture capitalists Avalon Ventures in a deal worth up to $495 million to fund as many as 10 drug-discovery startup companies over the next three years.

  • Warby Parker: Cool Glasses in a New Retail Store Sunday, 14 Apr 2013 | 2:51 PM ET
    Customers try on Warby Parker eyewear at the flagship store's grand opening in SOHO, New York.

    Hip start-up Warby Parker debuted its flagship, eyeglass store in New York City's SoHo neighborhood. Do online retailers need brick-and-mortar stores?

  • Venture Capitalists Are Hoping Fortunes Turn Around Saturday, 13 Apr 2013 | 9:58 AM ET

    Risk was in vogue for the first quarter except for one notable place - the venture capitalists who help grease the wheels for startup companies looking to spread their wings.

  • Winklevoss Twins Amass a Huge Bitcoin Stash Thursday, 11 Apr 2013 | 4:38 PM ET
    Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss

    The Winklevoss twins, known as nemeses of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, may have one of the largest bitcoin portfolios.

  • SAN FRANCISCO, April 11- Ellen Pao, a former Kleiner Perkins Caufield& Byers junior partner who is suing the venture capital firm for gender discrimination, has landed a new job heading up strategic partnerships at social-news website Reddit.

  • Big Venture Firms Eye Opportunity in Google Glass Thursday, 11 Apr 2013 | 2:00 PM ET

    Venture firms Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers are teaming up to provide funding for startups working with Google Glass.

  • NewsCred: Monetizing News Content  Monday, 25 Mar 2013 | 11:53 AM ET

    Shafqat Islam, Co-Founder, CEO of NewsCred, explains how his startup business has been able to convince major brand companies they need to pay for the news.

  • SAN FRANCISCO, March 21- John Doerr, a venture capitalist known for early investments in companies such as Amazon and Google, has become the latest victim of the hacker known as Guccifer, according to the Smoking Gun website.

  • Josh Reich, Simple CEO and co-founder, explains how his company makes banking easier for customers.

  • Entrepreneurs Find Friends in the Corporate World Thursday, 14 Mar 2013 | 11:44 AM ET

    Young entrepreneurs have no shortage of resources at their disposal that give them a leg up on an older generation of competition.