venture capital

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is considering a $100 million fund specializing in cloud services start-ups.

Cloudera, the vendor of Hadoop-based software for managing Big Data, scores $40 million in venture funding.

Cloud-based PHP "Platform as a Service" (PaaS) vendor AppFog on Thursday announced an $8 million round of venture funding.

Okta, a startup specializing in on-demand identity and access management service for enterprises using cloud computing, has closed a $16.5 million round of venture financing.

To many in the business community they are "vulture capitalists," not venture capitalists. VCs -- their critics contend -- seize opportunities improperly, and exploit the weaknesses they detect in people they are dealing with. But a recent study at Northwestern University Kellogg School shows some in a more favorable light, suggesting that "high-quality VCs" can substantially improve financial reporting in the critical period surrounding an IPO, for example.

When you write a blog about the tech business world, you occasionally run into slow weeks such as this one, when there's really no significant news coming out of companies such as Google and Apple.

Two major Silicon Valley venture capital firms -- Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) -- have invested $135 million in data management product vendor OSIsoft LLC.

Twitter announced Wednesday that it has closed a $200 million round of venture funding that puts a value on the microblogging service of $3.7 billion, up from $1 billion in September 2009.

A venture capitalist warns in this short video of the common problems associated with startups founded by equal partners.

Cloud-based enterprise performance management startup Proferi gets $6.3 million in venture capital.

Cloud computing management vendor RightScale has snagged $25 million in third-round financing.