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Breaking news: Confidence in Silicon Valley's venture capital community is rapidly eroding. A study released Wednesday by the University of San Francisco finds that VC confidence in the third quarter

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What venture capital drought? Chipmaker Achronix Semiconductor Corp. has just raised $52 million in a Series B funding round, one of the largest chip sector fundraisings of the year.The funding was l

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No shock here, but an index that measures the confidence of venture capitalists (aptly named the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index) reached a new low in the third quarter. The index,

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Still independent three years after its chief rival Upcoming.org was acquired by Yahoo Inc., local event information distributor Eventful Inc. has taken in a new Series C round of funding that include

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The third-quarter data on venture fundraising is arguably old already, given all that's happened with the economy since the beginning of October, but for what it's worth, the latest data points to a

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Solar cell material developer Innovalight Inc. has added an extra $5 million to the $42 million it has already raised since the startup was founded in 2002.Innovalight is developing silicon ink-base

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As a venture firm founded during the last gasp of the dot-com boom in April 2000, San Francisco's Azure Capital Partners got a crash course early on about rough economic conditions. Today, founding ge

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With much of America in belt-tightening mode, the timing could not have been better for personal savings adviser BillShrink.com to announce an $8 million Series B funding round. The round was led by T

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Wix, a two-year-old company that makes tools to help individuals and small businesses build sophisticated Web sites cheaply and quickly, has raised $3.5 million in a Series B funding round led by led

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