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Future Win: Three VCs On Top Trends In Gaming
[8.24.08] Jeremy Liew on the rise of free-to-play gaming models. [More >>]
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Developers Compete at Facebook Conference
[7.23.08] Newcoming Facebook developers face higher hurdles for success. [More >>]
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Building Successful Startups in Israel (video)
[7.16.08] Yoni Cheifetz discusses Lightspeed's Israel investments and success factors for local startups. [More >>]
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Skyfire Secures $13M in Series B
[5.28.08] Skyfire produces a mobile browser that allows users to have a rich-media web experience on their handsets. [More >>]
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Lightspeed Wraps $800M Fund
[5.12.08] Blowing past its target of $675M, Lightspeed has closed its 8th fund at its hard cap with $800M in commitments. [More >>]
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Lightspeed Closes $800M Fund VIII
[5.12.08] Lightspeed VIII to emphasize early-stage U.S. investments with substantial international allocation for early through growth-stage companies in China, India and Israel. [More >>]
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Building Trust, Chinese Style
[4.25.08] Ron Cao and Eric O'Brien comment on how American VC's have learned to assess Chinese companies. [More >>]
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ScaleMP Raises $8M
[4.1.08] Existing investors Lightspeed, Sequoia, TL, and ABS participate in the round, bringing the total raised to $26M. [More >>]
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Social gaming picks up momentum
[3.31.08] The combination of social networking and games, known as social gaming, is becoming increasingly popular. [More >>]
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India Investments More Than Double in 2007
[2.21.08] Jake Seid discusses the growth prospects for India and Lightspeed's investment thesis for the rapidly expanding market. [More >>]
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Pliant Receives $8M in Series A
[2.19.08] Pliant will use funding to develop a new class of solid-state storage devices for enterprise computing markets. [More >>]
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Aquantia Closes $26M Series B
[2.15.08] Pinnacle Ventures leads the round for Aquantia, the leading innovator of 10-Gigabit Ethernet solutions. [More >>]
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Pivot3 raises $24M in oversubscribed Series C funding
[1.28.08] Mesirow Financial Capital Partners leads the expansion round for the video storage virtualization company. [More >>]
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Microsoft Acquires Calista
[1.21.08] Microsoft announces acquisition of Calista Technologies, expanded alliance with Citrix and virtualization initiatives. [More >>]
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Solar Dominates the Clean Tech Sector
[1.4.08] Andrew Chung discusses trends in solar in this year-end cleantech review. [More >>]
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Venture Capital's Clean Dreams for China
[11.2.07] Andrew Chung discusses challenges and opportunities for cleantech investments in China. [More >>]
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Lightspeed Makes Moves in India
[10.1.07] Lightspeed Ventures is moving to capitalize on the exploding growth in the Indian consumer market. [More >>]
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Why Lightspeed Took the Plunge (into Cleantech)
[9.1.07] Andrew Chung discusses Lightspeed's interest and involvement in cleantech investing. [More >>]
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