Alastair Goldfisher

The Boston startup scene got a boost today as Boston Seed Capital added Pete Blacklow, president of WorldWinner, and Dave Balter, CEO of BzzAgent, to its partnership. Blacklow and Balter join Nicole Stata, who launched Boston Seed Capital as a private seed stage fund a year ago. Stata, who was formerly CEO of human resources […]

Woodside, Calif.-based Equidity Inc. launches today as it unveils a new platform to help institutional investors hook up with pre-IPO and newly public companies. The organization plans to hold its inaugural investor forum in November. Equidity was founded by CEO Mona DeFrawi, who previously was CEO of Menlo Park, Calif.-based InsideVenture, which she founded in […]

London-based StylistPick, which operates monthly membership program that provides shoppers with access to the hottest shoe picks and fashion experts, has raised an $8 million Series A round of funding from Index Ventures and Accel Partners. As part of the funding, joining the company’s board of directors are Robin Klein–who along with his son Saul […]

The seed stage environment has undergone changes in recent years as it seems more angels are actively pursuing startups and raising institutional-like funds. In part, the angels have no shortage of young companies to go after because many Internet companies and mobile app developers can launch with far less cash than in previous years. The […]

Chinese VC-backed companies dominated the landscape in 2010, rivaling the number of U.S. startups going public. Although 2011 has gotten off to a slow start, many investors say that when all is said and done, by the end of the year, China IPOs will again be one of the top stories. Perhaps on cue, on […]

I have seen tons of headlines since Sunday night, declaring, “AOL, You’ve Got Bloggers,” “AOL, You’ve Got Page Views” or “AOL, You’ve Got Huffington and Arrington.” The turns of phrases on the old AOL slogan seem as dated as the dial up modem sound that I used to hear in the mid-1990s when I logged […]

Tim Westergren, the founder of online radio network Pandora, wouldn’t discuss his company’s plans for a potential $100 million IPO, which Reuters reported last month is imminent, but he offered plenty of lessons for startups that are struggling to make a go of it. “Do what it takes, get people to work for free, and […]

In the parlance of the Silicon Valley tech community, Kabam performed a pivot more than a year ago when it changed its name and its business plan. The move seems to have paid off. The Redwood City, Calif.-based company, which had two dozen employees a year ago and now boasts about 250, announced it raised […]

What if a conference held a competition for startups, but got no entries? Fortunately, the chances of that happening for Innovation Sandbox—the half-day program that showcases startups and new security solutions at the RSA Conference—are slim, according to Paula Belikove, who founded the program. Although Belikove notes that the number of entries sent in so […]

Buying a new car without haggling with an annoying salesperson doesn’t sound realistic. But CarWoo!—which today comes out of stealth mode and is announcing its Series A round—is hoping to transform the way consumers buy new cars. “Buying a new car is extremely painful,” CarWoo! co-founder and CEO Tommy McClung told me last week as he […]