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• DFJ, Draper Triangle and DFJ Gotham Ventures Host First Annual East Coast Venture Challenge

  - 2007-05-03

  University Entrepreneurs to Compete for $250,000 in Seed Venture Funding NEW YORK -- Leading early-stage venture firms DFJ and its affiliates Draper Triangle and DFJ Gotham today announced the first ever DFJ East Coast Venture Challenge. Entrepreneurs from all eight Ivy League schools, New York University, and Carnegie Mellon...

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• Ember Closes Series B Round With $20 Million in Financing; Funding Round Strengthens Ember's New Product Development and Global Expansion Efforts

  - 2002-10-17

  Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BOSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 17, 2002 EmberTM Corporation (www.ember.com), provider of embedded wireless networking solutions, today announced the closing of its oversubscribed Series B financing round with total commitments of $20 million, bringing Ember's total raised capital to $28 million. New investor RRE Ventures led the round,...

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• The Sacramento Bee, Calif., Bob Shallit Column.

  - 2002-06-08

  By Bob Shallit, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 8--Here's the latest installment in that long-running soap opera, "Can Draper Get Its Money from CalPERS?" For those who missed the earlier episodes, pension fund CalPERS said last...

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• Fallen Idols - Industry Trend or Event

  - 2001-05-21

  High-profile and respected VCs weren't able to resist the Internet bubble. Now many are paying the price with trouble funds. They talk about it at their children's school plays. They ask the question at Palo Alto power lunches: Who among them, the Silicon Valley venture capitalists wonder, will be...

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• CalPERS Invests $20 Million With Draper Fisher Jurvetson for California's Central Valley

  - 2001-05-14

  Business Editors REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 14, 2001 The California Public Employees' Retirement System CalPERS has established a $20 million early-stage venture fund with Draper Fisher Jurvetson, to invest in information technology companies located in California's Central Valley. "We are very honored to be chosen by CalPERS...

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• meVC Draper Fisher Jurvetson Fund I Leads $15 Million Third Round of Funding for Pagoo

  - 2000-07-17

  Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--July 17, 2000 Investments by meVC DFJ Fund I, Hummer Winblad and Selby Ventures Will Help Internet Telephony Leader Expand Worldwide. Draper Advisers Principal, Nino Marakovic, Takes Board Seat. Pagoo, the world's first full-service Internet phone company, today announced $15...

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• meVC Draper Fisher Jurvetson Fund I Receives Exemptive Relief from SEC; Approved to Co-Invest with Draper Fisher Jurvetson

  - 2000-07-13

  Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--July 13, 2000 meVC Draper Fisher Jurvetson Fund I, an information technology venture capital fund providing individual investors access to private equity investments (NYSE:MVC), today announced it has received exemptive relief from the SEC allowing the Fund to make co-investments with certain affiliates of...

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• InfoRocket.com Closes $25 Million Second Round of Funding

  - 2000-05-08

  Business & Multimedia Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--May 8, 2000 Investment Shows Continued Growth and Demand for the Online "Information Marketplace" Category InfoRocket.com, the world's first question-and-answer marketplace, today announces the close of a $25 million second round of funding led by Carlyle Venture Partners. The...

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• meVC Draper Fisher Jurvetson Fund I, Inc. Commences Initial Public Offering

  - 2000-03-29

  Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--March 29, 2000 meVC Draper Fisher Jurvetson Fund I, Inc., a closed-end investment company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, announced today the initial public offering of 16,500,000 million shares of common...

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• meVC Draper Fisher Jurvetson Fund I, Inc. Amends Registration Statement

  - 2000-03-06

  Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--March 6, 2000 Prudential Volpe Technology Group, a Unit of Prudential Securities, Raymond James & Associates, Inc., Gruntal & Co., DLJdirect, Inc. and Fidelity Capital Markets, a Division of National Financial Services Corporation Named as Underwriters for the Fund meVC...

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