Zynga Game Vets Raise $1.4 Million to Start Bee Cave Games
Bee Cave Games has raised $1.4 million in funding to build casino games. The Austin, Texas, company was founded by Erik Bethke, Nimai Malle and Jeremy Strauser, all of whom worked at Zynga on games,...
View ArticleNomi Raises $3 Million to Help Retailers Fight Amazon
Rather than compete with Amazon on price alone, Nomi wants to help retailers provide better service by tracking consumer behavior across in-store and online channels. It is announcing a $3 million...
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On Deck Raises $42 Million to Provide Online Loans to Local Businesses
On Deck has raised $42 million in a fourth round of capital to provide local merchants with loans over the Internet. Institutional Venture Partners led the round, with existing investors RRE Ventures,...
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Why We Must Think Bigger
One day, about six billion years from now, the sun will burn out. This cataclysmic inevitability was brought to my attention over the holidays by my 6-year-old son. Far off though it may be, he...
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To VC or Not to VC: Former Square COO Rabois Leaning Toward Khosla Ventures Job
Keith Rabois, the former Square COO who left the company in the midst of unproven allegations of personal misconduct, is weighing an offer to join Silicon Valley venture firm Khosla Ventures,...
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Jerry Yang Is Back (And Investing More Than Ever)
If truth be told, Jerry Yang never really disappeared from the Silicon Valley scene, even though he did leave Yahoo rather suddenly just over a year ago — resigning from the board and all other...
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Winter Is Coming, Today! "Game of Thrones" Meets AllThingsD.
Last week, at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, premium cable powerhouse HBO debuted the third season of its hit series “Game of Thrones” for a huge audience of Silicon Valley geeks, VCs,...
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Former Groupon President and COO Solomon Joins Accel Partners
Accel Partners has added longtime tech exec Rob Solomon — who was most recently president and CEO of Groupon — as a venture partner. The high-profile Silicon Valley venture firm said Solomon will...
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Accel's Breyer Leads Forbes Midas List of Top Tech Investors Again, While...
Forbes magazine put out its much-watched Midas List today, which is kind of the Oscars for venture capitalists in tech. (Caveat: Think more khakis and dudes than glitz and glamour.) On the Top 10 list...
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Another VC Is Born: Well-Known Internet Exec Ben Ling Joins Khosla Ventures
Ben Ling, a longtime Silicon Valley angel investor and Internet exec, has joined Khosla Ventures as a venture partner. Ling is the second hire of high-profile operating execs by Khosla. Former Square,...
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Bahat to Head $75 Million Bloomberg Beta Tech Fund
Bloomberg is launching Bloomberg Beta, a new $75 million venture capital tech fund that will be headed by former IGN head Roy Bahat. The newly minted VC is charged with investing in and also creating...
View ArticleBack to the Cryptocurrency Mine
I think you have to pay attention to the fact that a lot of the best entrepreneurs right now are thinking about bitcoin. Regardless of what we [as VCs] think, it’s where a lot of smart people are...
View ArticleKhosla's Keith Rabois Talks About Going From Internet Ops to VC-Land (Video)
I coasted down to Sand Hill Road yesterday to pay a quick visit to longtime Internet investor and operating executive Keith Rabois to talk about his new gig as a venture capitalist at Khosla Ventures....
View ArticleHTML5 App Platform Ludei Nabs $1.5 Million in VC, Angel Funding
HTML5 app platform Ludei has received $1.5 million in funding from a group of unnamed angel investors and two Spanish venture capital firms, Kibo Ventures and Vitamina K. The San Francisco-based...
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Greycroft Keeps Betting on Ad Tech, Adds New Partner John Elton
Lots of investors say they are done putting money into ad tech. But Alan Patricof’s Greycroft Partners thinks it can still find interesting opportunities in that sector. And that’s part of the thinking...
View ArticleBattery Ventures Hires a Top Comms Exec: Former WSJ Reporter Rebecca Buckman
Like many venture firms in Silicon Valley, Battery Ventures has hired a top communications and content exec — former Wall Street Journal reporter Rebecca Buckman. She will be a VP at Battery, in charge...
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Yahoo Q2 Earnings Call: The Marissa and Ken Show, Now in Living Color
Yahoo is just starting the analyst call of its Q2 earnings, which were pretty lackluster. But CEO Marissa Mayer, who is awfully good at this kind of thing, has ginned up the excitement nonetheless,...
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Digi-Capital: Mobile Games Still Growing, But Lots of Investors Ran Away...
Mobile is still blowing up, and games are still dominating mobile usage and revenue, according to gaming-focused investment bank Digi-Capital. But in a new report, the bank said investors burned by...
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ATD Week in Review: The Inside Story of Microkia, Apple in China and Yahoo's...
SARI GUSTAFSSON/AFP/Getty ImagesIn case you missed anything, here’s a quick roundup of some of the news that powered AllThingsD this week: Late on Monday, Microsoft announced that it would spend $7.17...
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Former Twitter Platform Chief Sarver Joins Redpoint as Partner
Ryan Sarver, Twitter’s former director of platform, who left the company in May, is joining Redpoint Ventures as a partner. Sarver joined Twitter in 2009, after working at Skyhook Wireless and,...
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Carrot Flop: Twitter CEO Costolo Finds Lack of Woman on Board Is No Joking...
Two weeks ago, I wrote a piece about the lack of women on the board of Twitter, just as the San Francisco microblogging company prepared to unveil its IPO documents. In the post, I noted that “the...
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Fortune's Most Powerful Women List Has Lots of Tech Stars, With...
Given all the focus on females in top leadership in tech recently — due to the worthy (and it is most certainly that, no matter how much some misguided people might say it is not) debate over the lack...
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Explaining What It's Going to Do With All That Dough, Pinterest Unveils Stats...
Pinterest confirmed an earlier report by AllThingsD that it had raised $225 million more from investors at a valuation of $3.8 billion. This Series E round will bring the total funding to $564 million...
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Twitter to Wait Until After IPO to Name Woman -- Likely With International...
According to sources close to the situation, Twitter is planning on waiting until after its IPO — which is set to take place next week — to name its first woman to its board. The move makes some level...
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What Does the VC Sing? Harlem-Shaking, Twerking First Round Capital's 2013...
Though I never knew it, Howard Morgan in a muscle costume stranded hanging on a wrecking ball is the Christmas present I have always wanted. Here’s the annual holiday video extravaganza from First...
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