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Minvest Partners taps overlooked advanced exploration niche market

Toronto-based merchant bank Minerx Group was out to prove that there is a plethora of opportunities in the the advanced exploration market with its new private equity arm called Minvest Partners, according to a Mining Markets article.


Indian Angel Network eyes investment opportunities in UK, Singapore

The Indian Angel Network, the country's oldest and largest angel investor network, is hunting for investment opportunities in the UK and Singapore. IAN expects to announce its first UK deal during the first half of 2014, while it will begin its Singapore operations in the latter half of next year.

Prompt.ly gets USD 1.5 million seed funding from investors

Prompt.ly, a startup that provides a mobile-based SaaS platform for "The Invisible Economy" of service providers has received USD 1.5 million in seed funds from Facebook's Ethan Beard, Subtraction Capital and other investors.

Kingsoft Office secures USD 50 million from Morningside, GGV and Shunwei China Internet Fund

Kingsoft Office Software, a China-based software company, which was recently incorporated in the U.S, has secured USD 50 million in new funding from Morningside Group, GGV Capital, and Shunwei China Internet Fund.


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Hunter Walk and Satya Patel's creation of venture capital firm Homebrew was spawned out of the need to provide private equity investors accountability in their investments.
A shift in demand from big firms like KKR, Blackstone and Bain Capital to midsize firms like HIG Capital, Sentinel Capital and KPS Capital in investors was seen in a recent survey conducted by Preqin.
Veenome Inc, an Arlington, VA-based platform that translates video into data, has announced that it had secured USD 1 million in funding. The funding will be used to expand their team, which has been lean so far and at the same time, will be used to expand its business.
With almost 150 plot bookings from MSME companies, Gujarat's plastic park at Dahej and Sanand are expected to attract around INR5000 crore worth of investment in India.
The fund formerly known as Genesis Angels supported startups like Sirim, StoreDot Ltd and other chosen, early-stage startups in Israel via a combined investment of USD34.5 million.
As far as investors go, there are two sides to the Bitcoin - to bet or not to bet in the digital currency. Joe Light, in his Wall Street Journal report, provided these two sides.
Cousera raised an additional USD 20 million in funding, bringing to a total tally of USD 63 million raised just from its Series B funding round. Backers behind this round were three of the universities that offered courses on Coursera and existing investors such as GSV Capital and Learn Capital.
G20 Ventures sought to raise USD75 million for its first venture capital fund. A November 20 filing confirmed reports that Advance Technology Ventures's Bob Hower and Bill Wiberg will spin out a new venture fund under the name G20 Ventures.
A report published on Reuters said investors continue to pour in lots of money in hedge funds as they view the investment as a necessary yet expensive part in their portfolios.
Eagle Genomics, a Cambridge, UK-based provider of bioinformatics software and services covering life science and other sectors, has successfully raised an additional USD 1.6 million in funding.
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