Mark Boslet

Agilyx Corp. said Thursday it raised a $22 million Series B round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and joined by new strategic investors Waste Management, Inc. and Total Energy Ventures International, an affiliate of oil and gas company, Total S.A. Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital also participated.  Agilyx converts waste plastic into synthetic crude oil. […]

Cisco Systems said Tuesday it will acquire privately-held newScale Inc., developer of a service catalog and portal for IT organizations to select cloud services. No financial terms were disclosed. NewScale, based in San Mateo, Calif., lets customers provision their own systems and infrastructure on an as-needed basis. The acquisition is to close in the second […]

Any list of the 100 most influential venture capitalists and angels should include the likes of John Doerr, Ron Conway and Michael Moritz, right? Not necessarily. And not if the list you’re referring to is the “100 Most Influential VCs, Angels and Investors” compiled by Lucy Marcus, the Huffington Post columnist and the non-executive board […]

The City of Yonkers opened an incubator for emerging businesses that it dubbed its Y-Enterprise Business Center as part of a broader program to attract high-growth businesses to Yonkers. The program hopes to accommodate entrepreneurs in the start-up phase who have only one to two employees and entrepreneurs seeking to expand their customer bases who […]

HealthTap said Wednesday that it has raised $2.35 million in a convertible note seed financing led by Mohr Davidow Ventures. Also investing were Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure; Mark Leslie, former chief executive of Veritas Software and founder Leslie Ventures; Aaron Patzer, founder of Mint.com; and others. HealthTap of Palo Alto works with medical information. […]

You might hear many VCs say that investing in social games has hit its peak and the time is right to look elsewhere for ways to make money. That’s not to say there won’t be more deals of games makers, particularly later-stage companies. The evidence is Kabam’s Series C round of financing in January, which […]

Conference Hound said Thursday it raised a seed round of funding from various angels and other investors. The San Francisco company provides a platform featuring conventions, trade shows and conferences. No financial details were released. PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Conference Hound Fetches Seed Round Funding Online Resource Helps Attendees, Speakers Find and Connect With […]

3TS Capital Partners said Wednesday that its Technology in Central and Eastern Europe Fund, informally known as 3TS Cisco Growth Fund, invested in Avangate, provider of electronic software distribution. The fund acquired a minority stake in the firm and through the transaction Avangate will receive $5.6 million in equity over the next 6 months. PRESS […]

Millennium Technology Value Partners is to announce Wednesday that Alex Ferrara is to join the firm as a partner. Ferrara, formerly a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, will have an initial focus on investments in Internet companies and businesses combining financial services and digital technology. PRESS RELEASE Alex Ferrara Joins Millennium Technology Value Partners as […]

SoloPower was awarded $197 million in Department of Energy loan guarantees on Thursday. The funds will go to develop a 400 MW facility for manufacturing thin film solar cells. San Jose-based SoloPower’s backers include Hudson Clean Energy Partners, Crosslink Capital, Convexa, and Firsthand. PRESS RELEASE p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 19.0px Arial} […]