Venture Capital News

Local news and blog site Outside.in has raised $3 million in a series A financing.

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Venture investment in India had a relatively quiet first quarter - VCs invested $99 million in 16 deals, according to a new report from Dow Jones VentureSource .

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Akimbo , the doomed-from-the-start online-to-TV video service, has finally shut down for good, and looking for a buyer for its assets.

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Walt Disney-owned VC firm, Steamboat Ventures, is aiming to raise USD200m in Series C funding from its parent company, reports PE Week.

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I spent most of the day digging up more information on Twitter and its new round of funding that I reported last night .

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TORONTO -- Shares in BCE Inc. were down 13 percent late in Thursday's trading session after a court ruled that the $35 billion sale of the telecom company also known as Bell Canada was unfair to bondholders.

The ruling may derail the planned purchase by the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan. The fund is leading a buyout group that also includes Chicago-based Madison Dearborn Partners, Providence Equity Partners, Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity and Toronto-Dominion Bank.

The Quebec Court of Appeal sided Wednesday evening with debt holders of BCE Inc., reversing a lower-court decision.

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Corporate Bureau Posted online: Friday , May 23, 2008 at 2328 hrs IST Mumbai, May 22 Private equity firm Providence Equity Partners is investing $640 million in Aditya Birla Telecom , a wholly-owned subsidiary ...

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Flock, a Firefox-based Web browser that plays up social networking online, has raised $15 million in a fourth round of funding led by Fidelity Ventures.

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Global investment firm Sycamore Ventures is launching a $1 billion Chinese "green investment" fund with a difference: the central government is coming on board as a partner.

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Seventy Indian companies set up in Britain last year, creating 5,000 more jobs, Britain's trade and investment minister has said.

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