Social gaming startup Playdom raised another $33 million from Walt Disney, Steamboat Ventures, New World Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners. This infusion of cash is on the heels of $43 million dollars from nine months ago. So far sources indicate the cash has been used for acquisitions of social gaming startups. The original [...]

Ycombinator continues to be a boon for startups and seed capital in general according to a recent blog post indicating that Y combinator landed another $8.25 million dollars to assist startups. The usual suspects were in this round as well with Sequoia Capital leading the charge and a few prominent angels from past ventures including [...]

According to the 2009 Global Venture Capital Survey released in June Clean Tech and Medical device & equipment will be the fastest growing sectors worldwide over the next three years. Both sectors are not much of a surprise based on the aging population and global warming coupled with the energy scare a few years [...]

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Internet Entrepreneur legend Marc Andressen and business associate Ben Horowitz have created a $300 million venture capital fund called Andreessen Horowitz. Investments in startups will range from as small as $50,000 to $50 million dollars. The strategy is too get as many game changing companies with seed money as possible probably [...]