Flourish capital is a new "Scalable" fund $ 40 million

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Flourish capital first venture fund was just 10 million dollars, but the Fund has made 27 investment and more than a couple seem like home runs. This Fund is closed in 2009, holds shares in GroupeMe (acquired by Skype), Greplin, Art. sy, Warby Parker, Zaarly, FAB, the Bank is simple, HotPotato (acquired by Facebook), KickStarter and OnSwipe, among others. Not bad for a sole partner, 26-year-old Joshua Kushner, who is also the co-founder of the war, but extremely successful Vostu.

Now Kushner raised per second, $ 40 million venture fund. But unlike most other funds prosper and the structure of the joint investment with some of their limited partners, which enables the Fund to write many more checks. The effective size of the Fund is much higher, possibly up to $ 100 million.

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Intel Capital launches $ 300 M Fund to invest in technology Ultrabook Tablet

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Intel Capital, the investment arm of chip giant Intel Corporation, announced the Fund Ultrabook 300 million to fund technologies that provide new and improved user interfaces, longer battery life and slim feature and platform technology in personal computers.

Earlier this year, Intel pitched a new category of laptops, Ultrabooks, that must have three distinct elements: they are thin (less than 20 mm/0.8 inches), lighter than most existing notebooks and at prices below $ 1000 to become mainstream. Intel said that most of these devices marry performance and capabilities of modern tablet notebooks with similar functions.

To help realize that vision, Intel Capital Ultrabook Fund will invest in companies building software and hardware technologies focused on enhancing how people interact with this new form of device, Ultrabooks, e.g. through sensors and touch, achieving a day via a longer battery life, innovative projects of physical and improve capacity.

The overall objective of the Fund, which will be invested over the next 3-4 years, you must create a series of innovative capacity and the system for this new and growing category of mobile devices.

This seems to be part of an overall strategy Intel to help make Ultrabooks into reality. Latest 2nd generation Intel ® CoreTM processor will soon be released, which the company promises to include thin, lightdesigns, which are less than 21 mm (0.8 inches) and at basic prices. Systems based on those chips will be available for the 2011 Winter holiday shopping season, says Intel.

Another processor, dubbed "Ivy bridge", which is scheduled for availability in the first half of 2012, a promise to improve energy efficiency, smart Visual performance, efficiency and security. And HASWELL Islands "is expected to reduce energy consumption up to poloviny"rascetnoj tocki"dlâ of modern microprocessors.

This is not the first Intel Capital Special Fund. Investment company also has a country such as the Foundation technology of India, China Technology Fund II Fund technology of Brazil and the Middle East and Turkey, as well as past special funds technology such as digital home Fund Intel and the Intel Communications Fund. Intel said that its portfolio of investments Intel Capital is currently approximately $ 2.179 billion.

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