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Fwix Announces Real-Time News Wire API, Series A Funding
Written by Jolie O'Dell / September 18, 2009 11:00 AM / 1 Comments

Real-time local newswire service Fwix has announced that they are opening their API to all interested developers. Although the startup, which launched just over a year ago, has worked on

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VC Series A Web Tech Deals in August
Written by Bernard Lunn / September 15, 2009 8:00 AM / 2 Comments

Today is the anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse, which triggered the financial meltdown. That was when ReadWriteWeb started tracking Series A deals in Web technology. Thanks to our partner

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VC Series A Web Tech Deals in July
Written by Bernard Lunn / August 10, 2009 12:00 PM / 0 Comments

We have been tracking Series A deals in Web technology since the market mayhem in October 2008, and since May we have been working with ChubbyBrain, which tracks this kind

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XG Ventures: Leave Google and Start a VC Fund
Written by Bernard Lunn / June 22, 2009 12:28 PM / 5 Comments

In our latest VC interview, we spoke with three of the four partners of XG Ventures: David Lee, Greg Lee, and Andrea Zurek (the other partner, Pietro Dova, could not

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VC Series A Investments in Web Tech Grew Strongly In May
Written by Bernard Lunn / June 12, 2009 7:00 AM / 0 Comments

We have been tracking Series A deals in Web technology since the market mayhem in October 2008. Last month, we started researching this with our new partner, ChubbyBrain, which tracks

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Naval Ravikant: Venture Hacker (RWS Interview)
Written by Bernard Lunn / May 15, 2009 8:50 AM / 2 Comments

With this interview, we are again branching out. Naval Ravikant is not a traditional VC. He is an angel investor, a serial entrepreneur, and he writes the very entertaining and

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VC Cash Is April Showers on Web Startup Flowers
Written by Bernard Lunn / May 12, 2009 9:29 AM / 12 Comments

Do you remember the headlines about VC investment "falling off cliff" after some data was reported by NVCA in early April? We took a contrarian view, saying the trend was

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What Do VCs Say and Do in Early-Stage Today?
Written by Bernard Lunn / April 30, 2009 5:00 AM / 30 Comments

In the last two months, we have interviewed six VCs. In each case, we asked the same question: "How is early-stage financing doing during this downturn compared to the last

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Loopfuse Gets Series A Funding from True Ventures
Written by Bernard Lunn / February 15, 2009 11:50 AM / 2 Comments

True Ventures got our attention by closing a Series A deal in the dark days just after the financial meltdown, funding Syncplicity. It has just announced that it is funding

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A-Team Update: Series A Funding Growth Is Strong
Written by Bernard Lunn / February 12, 2009 5:00 AM / 0 Comments

We first reported on VC Series A deals in the web-tech sector in October 2008, following the financial meltdown, and we updated our coverage in November, reporting some improvement. Now

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Emergence Capital: A VC Riding the SaaS Wave
Written by Bernard Lunn / February 6, 2009 4:00 AM / 1 Comments

Emergence Capital is a VC firm that got our attention when it closed two Series A deals in November (with Maxplore and Zuberance). That is pretty cool at a time

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Good News: A-Team Score for November Better than October
Written by Bernard Lunn / December 9, 2008 5:00 AM / 0 Comments

We published the first A-Team post in October, when only three web tech ventures got through our qualifying criteria: a minimum of $1 million in Series A funding from an

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The A-Team
Written by Bernard Lunn / November 19, 2008 10:15 AM / 0 Comments

We like to report good news, not just because it makes us all feel good, but because when a company is doing something positive during a downturn, it indicates something

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