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Friends For Sale raises $4M
[4.25.08] Lightspeed invests in popular social gaming application development company. [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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