Canaan Partners News
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Indian parents’ anxiety to find their children suitable spouses is a constant in a country that spends $37 billion annually on weddings.
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The online art database Artsy said it has raised $5.6 million in new investment and has added Internet entrepreneur Sky Dayton to its board of directors.
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Tiger Global and Accel Partners, the funds that made millions off early investments in Facebook Inc., are betting on a surge in online shopping in India.
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Lightspeed Venture Partners, an investor in LivingSocial.com, has almost completed raising two funds, one in the U.S. and one in China, totaling about $875 million, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
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Zillow Inc.’s initial public offering, slated to price today, will do more than raise money for the real estate website. It will signal whether other small dot-com companies can join the IPO frenzy.
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Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering will give Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg access to more than $15 billion that may step up the pace and size of acquisitions after a $1 billion deal for Instagram.
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Billionaires need love, too.
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Canaan Partners, a global venture fund with $3.5 billion under management, has raised $600 million to invest in technology and health-care companies.
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Madrona Venture Group, an early backer of Amazon.com Inc., raised a $300 million fund for investments in technology startups, said two people familiar with the matter.
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A few months after struggling to raise a new fund in 2005, Accel Partners bet $12.2 million on a website run by a college dropout. Seven years later, that wager is poised to be the most profitable ever for a venture firm.
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