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Dell Technologies Goes Public About $100M Venture Capital Arm

Xconomy

Austin —Dell Technologies is publicly unveiling a venture capital investment arm that has been quietly investing in startups since the operation was run by EMC, the data storage giant that Dell agreed to acquire for $67 billion in 2015. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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ELC Technologies Acquired By Pourzanjani, Rahmat

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ELC is known for its cloud computing applications development, and Ruby On Rails development. As part of the acquisition, ELC founder Siegel joins venture capital firm Accel Partners in London, as a venture partner. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%.

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AI Chip Startup Mythic Reaps $40M from SoftBank, Lockheed Venture Arms

Xconomy

Mythic , which last year unveiled its novel computer chip designed for artificial intelligence, announced today that it has raised $40 million in a Series B fundraising round led by the venture capital arm of Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

Or would you like me to sell you a story on how cloud computing is green because these large datacenters are more energy efficient than the same number of computers run in ad-hoc ways? Let me answer ‘why computing needs RightScale.’ Computing is going the way of the electric grid. It’s contagious!”. 5) It is 2015.

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Microsoft Venture Fund Aims to Harness Early Stage Innovation

Xconomy

Microsoft plans to invest more in early stage startup companies through a new corporate venture fund, headed by former Qualcomm executives. And at the other end is where you’ll typically see our larger investments and acquisitions,” Kashyap writes. Microsoft Ventures now fills a gap we’ve had somewhere in the middle of that range.”.

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UnVenture Capitalists: Seek Investors Aligned With Your Interests, Not Their Egos

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Entrepreneurs in search of startup capital are well served to seek an UnVentureCapitalist (UnVC), an investor who understands and appreciates the unique benefits of capital efficiency. The disappearance of these legacy costs has spawned a legion of Capital Efficient Startups (CESs), described more fully in Pour And Stir.