In what could turn out to be a nanotechnology-driven investment spree, RUSNANO this week led and closed a USD 79 mln round of investing in Quantenna Communications. The round was participated in by another new investor, Bright Capital. Other participants are all older investors: Sequoia Capital, DAG Ventures and Sigma Partners are among six other [...]

Troika Ventures, the venture capital arm of leading Russian investment bank Troika Dialog that is now part of Sberbank, has sold its stake in California based document software development Evernote. Troika had invested USD 4.5 million in a round A funding in 2009 and has sold its stake at over 10 times the original investment [...]

Something’s up at Badoo; something that has caused Sequoia Capital’s Michael Moritz to make a recent trip to London for a meeting with Andrey Andreev, Badoo’s founder. Speculation abounds that Badoo’s valuation is being discussed between them – perhaps in the neighborhood of USD 2 billion – as well as consideration of a possible IPO. [...]

Oracle Corporation revealed it had acquired the Israeli business intelligence company HyperRoll which owns and develops technology billed as financial reporting acceleration. Oracle already develops its own software for financial reporting and consolidating but believes the HyperRoll technology will benefit its own through added speed and compliance. Current HyperRoll investors consist of both American and [...]