Author Archives: the HedgeCo News Team
TiE-Rockies Champions Regional Entrepreneurship with `Next Great Idea’ Competition
DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 25, 2003– Denver-Based Organization Teams with Local and National Venture Capital Firms and the Colorado Office of Innovation and Technology to Support Next Generation of Rocky Mountain Technology Companies In an effort to foster entrepreneurship in the Rocky […]
Canadian Scholarship Offered to Promote Alternative Investment Knowledge
TORONTO (HedgeWorld.com) – Norshield Financial Group is offering finance students at University of Toronto and University of Western Ontario scholarships as a way to contribute to the development ofthe alternative investment field in Canada. The hedge fund of funds firm […]
Evening Standard, London, Anthony Hilton Column
Jun. 25–A VITAL ROLE FOR VENTURE CAPITAL: The decision expected to be confirmed tomorrow to close the Brussels-based Nasdaq Europe stock market will surprise only those who thought it was so lowprofile it must have closed already. Neither it, nor […]
AT THE ASSEMBLY – Tax-break plan for insurers back before the legislature
The Certified Capital Companies bill would offer the tax breaks to insurance companies that invest in a fund used to help Rhode Island companies grow. * * * PROVIDENCE – A plan to give insurance companies $50 million in tax […]
Investment Forum seeking entrepreneurs
The Southwest Capital Conference is set for Sept. 17-18. The Oklahoma Investment Forum is accepting applications from entrepreneurs who would like to make presentations at the 14th Annual Southwest Capital Conference to be held Sept. 17-18 in Tulsa. OIF is […]
Street Talk with Tom Hayden
At last the stars are lined up for a sell off. For the last month the market has felt overvalued, over hyped, and the press has pronounced the Bear dead so many times I thought it might be 1999 allover. […]
Bain Capital Ventures Appoints Jim Maikranz as Special Advisor; IT Industry Veteran Brings 35 Years of Experience to Role
BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 24, 2003–Bain Capital Ventures, the venture capital fund of Bain Capital, today announced the addition of Jim Maikranz as special advisor. Jim, formerly the senior vicepresident of sales for both SAP and J.D. Edwards, brings with him experience […]
Appilog, Inc. Closes $6.5 Million Financing Round, Led by Cedar Fund; Business Service Management Company Addresses CIO-Level Concerns
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 24, 2003–Appilog, Inc. announced today that it has closed a $6.5 Million investment in a financing round led by Cedar Fund (www.cedarfund.com) with participation byAppilog’s existing investors, Poalim Ventures and Delta Ventures. Appilog is a software technology […]
Shinsei Fund Closes Third Tranche of Funding
LONDON (HedgeWorld.com) – The Shinsei Protected Japan Trust has raised US$70 million since its February launch and announced the closing of its third tranche of funding this month. The fund is the first hedge fund of funds offering for Shinsei […]
Take My Venture Fund—Please!
Private equity investors are dumping billions of dollars of mistakes into the secondary market. Some scavengers will get rich. A hundred and forty dealmakers from a dozen cities around the world gathered over dinner at the W Union Squarehotel in […]
Mr. Nanotech
Steve Jurvetson is campaigning hard to become the biggest financier in the kingdom of the extremely small. When the internet boom began in 1995 Steve T. Jurvetson was a rookie venture capitalist fresh out of Stanford Business School. He saw […]
Venture funding pulled back again in ’02 / The list: Venture capital firms
Local venture capitalists saw their investments in Orange County startups drop 14% to $91 million in 2002 from a year earlier, according to this week’s Business Journal list. Six of the 22 venture capital firms on the list, including two […]