Alexander Haislip

Sequoia Capital obtained a restraining order against Anand Lyer Vaidyanathan, an Iowa man who repeatedly tried to gain access to investor Michael Moritz at the firm’s Sand Hill Road Offices and later claimed he worked there. Vaidyanathan went to Sequoia’s offices five times during the last week in October and the first week of November […]

Here are pictures of members of the Plaxo team caught having fun with Gorilla Bags, an industrial sized bean bag chair. Each one retails at $300. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company has raised $24.3 million since its 2001 inception from such investors as Sequoia Capital, Cisco Systems, Globespan Capital Partners, JAFCO and DAG Ventures. Plaxo […]

When Index Ventures, a Geneva, Switzerland-based VC firm, added a dozen limited partners and closed its fourth fund at $456 million last week General Partner David Rimer said it had been done in a “record time for a Euro VC fund.” It’s easy to understand why. The firm’s second fund, which raised $303 million in […]

Investors may shy when it comes to backing sex-related companies, but there’s no question sex sells. The total U.S. market for condoms was $398.3 million in 2005, up 2.8% from 2004 according to market research group Packaged Facts. Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (NYSE: CHD), makers of Trojan brand condoms, estimate they have as much […]

The Princeton Alumni Weekly profiled Elena Kagan, who online betting sites give 3 to 1 odds will become the next president of Harvard University. The profile, by Kathryn Beaumont, talks about Kagan’s career as dean of Harvard Law School. The piece is soft focus, as Kagan is a Princeton graduate, with less than a full […]

People often invite me to events I’ve either never heard of or want to learn more about before attending. Christian Perry, producer of the SF Beta tech get-togethers, dropped me an email today about his group’s Thursday event. I’ve met Christian before but decided to check out his website. There he offers a compilation of […]

When TechCrunch put FilmLoop in its “DeadPool,” citing layoffs and poor user adoption, I uninstalled the service from my laptop. I liked the product well enough and had even used it on PEHub, but I’m obsessive about computer clutter, so when TechCrunch pronounced it dead, I deep-sixed the software. Now more details emerge. TechCrunch writes […]

Venture capital investment in companies headquartered in China reached the highest point in three years with 214 deals and $1.89 billion invested in 2006, according to Dow Jones VentureOne and Ernst & Young. Here is the data: the Numbers This represents a 37% increase in deal flow and a 55% increase in capital from 2005. […]

Roderick Thomson, a co-founder of DFJ ePlanet Ventures, is being sued Finova Capital for $2.4 million associated with the lease of a Boeing 727 during 2000, Red Herring reports. The jet was used for a time, racking up nearly half a million dollars in unpaid rent, and an undetermined amount in maintenance costs. The court […]

Sequoia Capital Partner Roelof Botha pulled his public videos from YouTube, the video sharing site he invested in, days after gossip weblog Valleywag pointed to his video stream. Botha had uploaded videos of his baby daughter, an a cappella duo singing ballads about YouTube at Sequoia Partner Pierre Lamond’s house, and one of himself in […]