Came across this during the week while trawling up and down Sand Hill Road. I wonder how different this will look in another 2 week’s time, when 2008 comes to an end. The summation of all funded deals are definitely headed south - which of these VCs will rise through the ranks or fall down the...

It’s really hard to catch a falling knife without getting caught. I’m sure the recent whip-saw movements in Wall Street (and the resulting effects in global equity markets) have left many of you breathless, and hopefully none less worse the wear. Unfortunately, our friends over in the Valley...

If you haven’t been following the latest developments in Venture Capital land, this deck of slides by Sequoia Capital to its portfolio investees should quickly bring you up to speed. Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn  View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags:...

Industry veteran CHUA Kee Lock has officially (but silently) been appointed as Vertex Venture Holdings‘ (VVH) Group President and CEO today. He replaces Mrs GOH Mui Hong, who was concurrently President and CEO of ST Asset Management Ltd (STAM). Prior to joining VVH, Kee Lock was President and Executive...

VentureBeat reports that BuzzCity, a Singapore-based mobile advertising company has secured $10 million in financing from Naspers, a South-African media company, to grow myGamma.com into a credible mobile ad network to compete with AdMob. If you’d like to gain more insight, check out their corporate...

So you thought you might try your hand at angel investing now that you’ve made your millions, as part of ‘Alternative Investments’ in your quest for portfolio diversification? Now that you’ve formed your own ‘Band of Angels’, wouldn’t it be nice to know how...

Just caught this over at tomorrow.sg - Creative Commons is officially launched in Singapore! Normally, I wouldn’t have gotten excited over this piece of news - while it is quite rare to find a not-for-profit charitable organization in the technology space, Creative Commons could not be uttered...

I am fast becoming allergic to middlemen who are hired to fund-raise on behalf of startups. No offense to freelancing consultants - I’m sure you guys do good work and earn a decent living. It just doesn’t help that one of your kind is putting my team mate through a ton of grief in his recent...

Every week, I hear some entrepreneur whine about the early-stage capital crunch faced by startups in Singapore. It’s really gotten to the stage where I could add that line to my CV as an activity that I engage in weekly. Depending on whether you prefer the Chicken, or the Egg, the above is either...

Earlier this year, on 28 March 2008, the Prime Minister of Singapore announced a S$350 million program to support a slew of initiatives and schemes under the National Framework for Innovation and Enterprise (NFIE), driven by the National Research Foundation (NRF). Out of that bunch of ideas, one of them...

Bangalore-based early-stage investment firm Erasmic Venture Fund has merged with Silicon Valley based Accel Partners, whose portfolio includes companies like Brightcove, Facebook and WalMart.com. The merged entity represents Accel’s strategy for India, and will be raising a new US$60m fund later...