News Archive
26 June 2008
MandAdeals.co.uk
By Paul Driscoll
Online restaurant booking service Livebookings networks has received a £6.5 million investment from private equity firm Balderton Capital. Financial advice during the transaction was led by partner Kristoffer Källeskog from technology, media and telecommunications corporate finance boutique EOC Partners in London. The team prepared and ..
21 June 2008
The Daily Telegraph
By Juliette Garside
ALTAVISTA, Magellan, Infoseek... the web is littered with the corpses of search engines that were crushed during Google's rise to the top. Some, like AltaVista, which now belongs to Yahoo!, have been taken over by larger entities. Many were simply closed down. The internet's best brains are still trying to come up with alternatives. Wikipedia li..
20 June 2008
New York Business Wire
By New York Business Wire
Orchestria has been named winner of two Tomorrow's Technology Today Awards for its Data Loss Prevention solution. Silicon Valley-based Info Security Products Guide named Orchestria winner in two award categories, Content Security Solution and Intellectual Property Protection. 'Companies that have been honored with the prestigious 2008 Tomorrow's T..
18 June 2008
Les Echos
By Les Echos
Bernard Liautaud rejoint la société de capital-risque Balderton Capital en tant que general partner. Il prendra ses fonctions, à Londres, le 1er juillet. Bernard Liautaud, quarante-six ans, ancien élève de l'Ecole centrale Paris, entame son parcours chez Oracle France en tant que responsable marketing avant de co..
17 June 2008
Digital Spy
By David Gibbon
David and Richard Darling have been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, both receiving a CBE for services to the UK games industry. The duo started up games firm Codemasters in 1986 on a shoestring after receiving help from their dad Jim. They began by publishing £1.99 'classics' such as Ghosthunter and the famous Dizzy series o..
16 June 2008
Balderton Press Releaase
By Balderton Capital
London, June 16, 2008 – The Partners of Balderton Capital, the leading venture capital firm, are pleased to announce that Bernard Liautaud, the founder of Business Objects, will join the firm as a General Partner on July 1. Bernard Liautaud said: “I am excited to join Europe’s premier venture capital firm. I strongly believe that ..
16 June 2008
Balderton Press Release
By Balderton Capital
Les associés de Balderton Capital, société de capital-risque de premier plan, sont heureux d'annoncer que Bernard Liautaud, le fondateur de Business Objects, rejoindra leur société en tant que General Partner le 1er juillet. Bernard Liautaud a déclaré: << Je suis très heureux de rejoindr..
16 June 2008
Press Release
International growth bolstered by multi-million dollar investment from Balderton Capital.
Leading Data Centre Management Company, GDCM, has secured a multi-million dollar investment from Balderton Capital, the leading international venture capital firm. The investment will be used to accelerate the company’s international growth. Bernard Liau..
15 June 2008
Financial Times, Digital Media Correspondent
By Tim Bradshaw
Bernard Liautaud, the French founder of Business Objects, a software company that sold for £3.3bn ($6.4bn) this year, has joined Balderton Capital, the London-based venture capital investor. Mr Liautaud sold Business Objects to SAP, the world’s third-largest business software group, in January. His remi t as general partner will involve..
11 June 2008
Media Week
By John Reynolds
LONDON - Trinity Mirror regional sales company Amra is joining ad marketplace AdJug, adding the 274 newspapers it represents to AdJug's existing network of 1,200 publisher sites. Amra will join firms such as business publishers TouchLocal and Vivastreet in using the AdJug service, which allows companies to buy and sell ads directly, eliminating the..
04 June 2008
Financial Times
By Adrian Michaels in Milan
The world of high fashion presents a public face of catwalks and cocktail parties on hotel terraces. Yet much of the real work is as likely to take place in grey warehouses in drab logistics and distribution parks. At one such site on the outskirts of Bologna recently, the uniform industrial lines on display were set off by fringed black clouds and..
27 May 2008
Guardian.co.uk
By Mark Sweney
Balderton Capital, the venture capital firm that has invested in companies including Bebo, Betfair and Setanta, has hired Emap's former head of digital operations, Dharmash Mistry. Mistry, who left Bauer earlier this year in the wake of the £1.1bn acquisition of Emap's consumer magazine and radio businesses, had run the latter's digital opera..
19 May 2008
BizJournal
By BizJournal
Eric Mosley has discovered that it takes a lot of effort, not to mention a well-planned strategy, for a small business to become a global force. Mosley says his nine-year-old company, Globoforce Inc., which is co-headquartered in Southborough and Dublin, Ireland, is addressing a key market need: the development of a Web-based platform that enables..
11 May 2008
The Mail on Sunday
By Jon Rees
TOP Up TV, the pay-television broadcaster available on Freeview, is launching in France and is in talks to unveil its service in another dozen overseas markets. Chairman and cofounder David Chance says interest from abroad has been considerable. 'We are finding lots of international markets in the process of switching off the analogue television s..
01 May 2008
Electronics Weekly
By Electronics Weekly
Icera Semiconductor, the Bristol wireless chip start-up, has achieved its first design win for a baseband in a wireless handset and is looking to raise another $60m in capital funding this year. “We have got a design win for a phone’s baseband”, Nigel Toon, vice president of marketing at Icera, told EW. He would not say from whic..
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