Category: News

  • Leaderboard of US Micro VCs

    See below for a ranked leaderboard of US Micro VC’s. You can organize it by City, or just see the ranked list. I began working on this idea as far back as 2014. It is based on 10 years of funding data (probably incomplete) and only looks at funding into companies that reached a valuation…

  • Best of the Week in Venture Capital, Angel Investing and Startups

    Venture Trends Newsletter, Issue #13 I read daily and this newsletter gathers together this week’s most interesting content I saw related to the venture capital and startup ecosystem. I hope you find it useful as well as being a time saver. You can check out more about me at https://archimedes.studio In this week’s free issue there…

  • 34 Top Stories this week for Startups, Angel and Venture Investors

    Venture Trends Newsletter, Issue #9 In this week’s free issue there are some amazing things to highlight. Tomasz Tunguz on “The Next Few Months in Startupland” Why to begin a startup in a bad economy – by Paul Graham Every CEO is now a “wartime” leader What does a great remote team tech stack look…

  • 45 Top Stories this week for Startups, Venture and Angel Investors

    Venture Trends Newsletter, Issue #7 This newsletter gathers together this week’s most interesting content related to the Venture capital ecosystem. I read every day and this is curated from my weekly reading. I help startups tell their story at https://archimedes.studio I email the newsletter on Saturday, Pacific time, each week. There is little or no commentary…

  • 49 Top Stories this week for Startups, Venture and Angel Investors

    Venture Trends Newsletter, Issue #6 This newsletter gathers together this week’s most interesting content related to the Venture capital ecosystem. I curate this from my personal reading. I email it as a newsletter on Saturday, Pacific time, each week. There is little or no commentary included, it is the things I found compelling or interesting.…

  • 55 Top Stories this Week for Startups, Venture and Angel Investors

    Venture Trends Newsletter, Issue #5 This newsletter gathers together this week’s most interesting content related to the Venture capital ecosystem. I curate this from my personal reading. I email it as a newsletter on Saturday, Pacific time, each week. There is little or no commentary included, it is the things I found compelling or interesting.…

  • Chat Center rebrands and moves to SaaS

    Chat.Center Announcements Palo Alto, 13 April 2015 For Immediate release (Summary) –Chat.Center is now a full SaaS platform, developers and web site owners can integrate it into their apps and service. There are now 3 methods of integration – simple URL, “Click to Chat” Button and Widget. Live examples at http://archimedeslabs.com. –The Chat.Center web site…

  • Chat Center Upgrades to SAAS – Version 2 now in App store

    In an email to users the company said: Today we made  a major update of the app and all our other systems. Until you install the new version your app will not work. Please go to the app store on your IOS device and update the app. We now charge all new Chat Center users…

  • Weendy becomes Sunshine and raises $1.7m seed round

    Congratulations to portfolio company Weendy. Katerina Stroponiati and Yiannis Varelas’ startup now counts AOL, Great Oaks, Winklevoss Capital, BBG Ventures and Morado Venture Partners among its investor base. At the same time Weendy has re-branded to The Sunshine Company (or just plain Sunshine) and is working to launch a major new product.

  • GTar creators launch new product – Keys.

    Congratulations to Idan Beck and Incident Technologies – they now have a new product to join the Gtar. Keys is a modular wireless and midi Keyboard. It is ingenious in function and a thing of beauty. The product launched an indiegogo campaign and reached its target within a few hours.