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Jeff Clavier sees rise in $10M to $50M exits

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, March 5, 2010 | Comments

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Top Silicon Valley angel investor Clavier says M&A is clearly in the air

When Google snapped up Aardvark for $50 million at the start of the year, it was just another sign that the big "supertankers" of the Internet were continuing to be acquisitive. This acquisition follows attempts by Google to buy Yelp, and its purchase of Admob for $750 million -- all within the last few months. This is good news for ...

What the Apple-Google War means for startups

by Matt Bowman, February 17, 2010 | Comments

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Tim Chang, Norwest Venture Partner’s mobile guru, says the giants are hungry for cloud technology.

If you’re a mobile entrepreneur and haven’t yet met Tim Chang, you’re not going to enough conferences. Ever since his firm, Norwest Venture Partners, raised a whopping $1.2 billion fund last year, Chang has been active on the speaking circuit (he even sported a bass guitar on the bandstand at Vator Splash this month). Chang focuses on mobile, gaming, and ...

Deal flow in clean tech is accelerating

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 10, 2010 | Comments

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Claremont Creek Ventures 'LifeCycle' venturing model attracts a solid flow of energy deals

Claremont Creek Ventures is located in Oakland, Calif. It's not exactly an area one would call a high-tech haven. But being one of the only VC outfits in that part of the Bay Area is a good thing for Nat Goldhaber, one of the managing partners at the Oakland-based firm. "We're looking to turbocharge the uncommon investment," said Nat, in ...

OpenView embracing social media companies

by Reena A Jadhav, February 9, 2010 | Comments

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Social analytics, social monitoring, social gaming should continue to attract capital

At Vator.tv's first-ever Vator Splash event on Thursday, February 4 at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco, Reena Jadhav, founder and CEO of NuAlerts caught up with Kobie Fuller, a venture capitalist at OpenView Venture Partners, an expansion-stage venture firm based in Boston. OpenView invests between $5 million to $50 million in companies that typically have recurring revenue and are ...

Looking forward to the days of 5x returns

by Kanya Goldman, February 4, 2010 | Comments

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Scale Venture Partners Sharon Wienbar on the changing VC industry

Is the venture industry finally rightsizing itself so at least the top quartile venture firms can get decent returns? Sharon Wienbar, venture capitalist at Scale Venture Partners, believes so. In this third segment in a series of interviews with Bambi Francisco, Sharon talks about the challenges venture capital firms face. These are widely noted across the blogosphere, of course. As ...

What Venrock wants to fund

by Matt Bowman, January 21, 2010 | Comments

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Rising investor Brian Ascher is gunning for startups in social search and data analysis.

Entrepreneurs in the social and real-time data sectors would do well to study up on Venrock’s Brian Ascher. At the spritely age of 43 with several big tech exits under his belt (Adify, DatAllegro, Unicru), the investor is bound to be a force in the global Silicon Valley for a while to come. He’s interested in startups that follow what ...

Public markets are craving Internet IPOs

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, January 21, 2010 | Comments (1)

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Top-rated Internet analyst Mark Mahaney says there's demand for Zynga, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter

When the ducks are quacking. Feed them. It seems 2010 may be shaping up to be the start of an Internet IPO craze, as public-market investors begin to make noise about their interest in newly-minted shares. After a gloomy start to last year turned around and ended on an upbeat note – Google shares soared 102%, Amazon rose 162%, Expedia ...

How to get super angel Jeff Clavier to invest

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, January 13, 2010 | Comments (3)

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Top Silicon Valley investor in Mint, Ustream seeks to place 20 investments in 2010

Despite the recession in 2009, Jeff Clavier, who was nominated a top angel investor at the Crunchies, invested in 21 companies. Suffice it to say, it was an active year, despite concerns it would be a nuclear winter. "Entrepreneurship didn't stop, there were a lot of interesting opportunities popping up," Jeff said, in a recent interview about what types of ...

Investing in 2010: think lean and longterm

by Matt Bowman, January 13, 2010 | Comments

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Venrock's Ascher says startups should keep a slow burn rate and find deep-pocketed syndicates.

With at least three mega exits in the last four years, Brian Ascher is a rising star at Venrock. He led the firm’s investments in Adify, bought by Cox last year for $300 million; DatAllegro, which Microsoft grabbed last year for an undisclosed but undoubtedly large sum; and Unicru, picked up for $150 million by Kronos in ’06. I spoke ...

100 tech IPOs in 2010?

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, January 6, 2010 | Comments

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Scale Venture Partners Sharon Wienbar gives a bullish outlook on the exit market this year

After a brutal 2009, this year looks to be more promising for venture capitalists. About $12.2 billion was invested in startups during the first three months of the year, down from $22 billion from the same period a year ago, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association. But by the latter part of the year, a lot more deals were done. ...

Hot opportunity: Startups focused on local

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 30, 2009 | Comments (1)

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Scale Venture Partners Sharon Wienbar on why local businesses are worth investing in

Whether Google buys Yelp for more than half a billion is still an uncertainty. But one thing is for certain, Yelp, the local business review site that launched in 2004, is in the spotlight, begging the question: What's so hot about local now? Over the years I've covered the Internet, businesses focusing on local seem to go in and out ...

A Facebook IPO can jumpstart the VC industry

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 29, 2009 | Comments

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August Capital's Howard Hartenbaum on why the venture industry is in the doldrums

It was a tough year for the 2009 venture capital industry. VCs had just invested $14.6 billion into startups for the first three quarters of the year, down from more than $25 billion in the same period a year ago, and well off the run-rate of the $31 billion invested in 2008, according to VentureSource. Importantly, investors in venture ...

2009 investor interview highlights

by Matt Bowman, December 24, 2009 | Comments

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Draper, Khosla, Chang and more on what it takes to succeed (and win their investment dollars).

Bambi posted highlights from the CEO interviews Vator conducted this year. The financial plague that was 2009 makes those standout entrepreneurs look a few feet taller. Investors, though somewhat less deserving of sympathy, also had to overcome a dismal year. Looking past the LP funding nosedive, the thinning out of their own industry, possible pay cuts and job loss, these ...

How to value your early-stage startup

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 16, 2009 | Comments (1)

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Mayfield Fund partner Raj Kapoor says between $1 mln and $5 mln is typical

"Venture capitalists are asking that question too," said Raj Kapoor, managing partner at Mayfield Fund, which raised a nearly $400 million fund in September 2008. Raj was responding to a question I asked about how an early-stage startup should value itself. I asked this question because of one of our Vator members, Jeremy Campbell commented on an interview I had ...

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