tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.vccafe.com/2009/03/12/cotendo-secures-7-million-from-sequoia-and-benchmark/';tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; Two of the marquee names in the US venture capital industry decided that Israel’s Cotendo is investment worthy -   Sequoia Capital and  Benchmark Capital  j...

The service that makes you blog at less than 140 characters and has built an ecosystem around it has raised additional funding.  This round of funding is at over $50 million and is part of the third round. This round of funding was put together by Benchmark Capital and Institutional Venture Partner...

Shall we all pretend to be shocked by a new study that shows that the venture-capital industry is overwhelmingly — no, disgustingly white and male? A National Venture Capital Association survey found that 88 percent of general partners — the people who can actually greenlight an investme...

In a move BoomTown is still trying to noodle over, longtime Facebook exec Matt Cohler (pictured here) will be leaving the social networking site to become a general partner at Benchmark Capital. Cohler, who is currently Facebook’s VP of Product Management, was one of its earliest hires and, as...

Yesterday was one of those days when I was dragging my feet, mostly because I stayed up way past my bedtime for the launch of NewTeeVee Station and then woke up at my usual time — before sunrise. The foggy state of my brain reinforced how necessary sleep is for connecting the dots and being pr...

It's impressive that they have the cojones to admit the extremity of their oversight. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers would have had a much easier time of it to simply maintain their laser focus on green tech, pandemic and life sciences. They could have continued to ignore the sizable exits tha...

A year ago people used to say that “content is king” when it comes to making it big on the internet. But does the old paradigm hold today when every web 2.0 startup seeks user-generated content and 156,046 social networks were created on Ning? Meet the new king - “syndication”...