The YDI Umbrella of Companies

Yellow Dart Industries (YDI) is a Warroad, MN based tech incubator and venture capital firm currently focused on innovative online commerce. This blog post is a list of all the different websites controlled, and a progress report on the current projects.

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Reuters: The Top 20 Most Promising Startups

Ever wonder why a certain venture capital firm funded that particular startup? Feel you could do better if you had your own fund?...So did the editors of Thomson Reuters’ Venture Capital Journal, who just released their inaugural edition of the “VCJ 20,” a list of the 20 most-promising startups funded by U.S.-based investors in 2009.

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Five Most Active Venture Capital Firms In 2009 | Neytri.com

Here is a listing of top five VC firms in India according to number of deals and capital committed.

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VantagePoint Venture Partners Launches Career Site

VantagePoint Venture Partners has just launched a career page for their portfolio company jobs.  VantagePoint has some impressive companies in IT, Healthcare and Cleantech and lists almost 200 jobs on their website.  While not a household name, VantagePoint is a large and active venture firm that has over $4.5 billion in committed capital

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Venture Capital Firms in Brazil, 2009

This is a special blog post dedicated to Brazil's venture capital firms. Before getting into the list, I want to make it clear that private equity investments are much stronger than venture capital investments. There may be four reasons for a smal

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Canada's Venture Capital Firms - December 2009

Updated list of most Canadian Venture Capital Firms in December 2009.

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List of private equity firms - Wikipedia, the free encyclope

A private equity firm is an investment manager that makes investments in the private equity of operating companies through a variety of investment strategies, including leveraged buyout, venture capital, and growth capital. Common investment include leveraged buyouts, venture capital, growth capital and mezzanine capital.

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Venture Capital in Games

A list of the top 112 game development firms, funded by venture capital.

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Venture Capital Firms in Canada

A complete list of all the venture capital and private equity firms in Canada!

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Future of Economy and Survivability

Sequoia Capital is a venture capitalist firm that has financed some of the notable high tech companies such as Yahoo. The list of compaines financed and supported by them can be found at this web address. Here is an interesting presentation by them on the economic downturn and advice to startup technology companies on how to survive it.

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