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June 9th, 2008, (NEW YORK, NY) – DFJ Gotham Ventures, an early-stage technology venture capital firm based in New York, today announced the promotion of Thatcher Bell to Principal and the addition of new Associate Mark Davis. “DFJ Gotham continues to grow in every...

Cornell’s Widetronix Beats 8 Other Teams with New, Longer-lasting Pacemaker Power Supply May 15, 2008 | New York, NY Leading early-stage venture firms DFJ Gotham Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson announced today that Widetronix from Cornell secured first place at the...

NEW YORK (February 20, 2008) ContextWeb, Inc., a leading contextual advertising company and operator of the ADSDAQ ad exchange, announced today that Wenda Harris Millard, President, Media, of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) has joined its board of directors. A seasoned...

BART TRIAL FIRST TO USE MOBILE PHONES TO PAY FOR FARES & FOOD LIMITED TRIAL WITH FIRST DATA AND JACK IN THE BOX USES NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY January 29, 2008 – OAKLAND, CA – Today a select group of BART riders is helping to launch a first-in-the-nation...

Veteran Financial Technology Executive from NYFIX, Warburg Pincus, Radianz, Reuters and Instinet, to Lead Financial Intelligence and Internet-Monitoring Firm New York, NY (January 15, 2008) – Monitor110, Inc., a financial intelligence and real-time Internet monitoring firm,...

Senior Executive Brings Years of Proven Management Expertise and Online Retail and Customer Conversion Experience to Guidester New York – January 14, 2008 – Guidester, Inc., the first paid search e-commerce network for manufacturers, today announced the appointment of...

SCHAUMBURG, IL and SANTA CLARA, CA – November 12, 2007 – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) through its Motorola Ventures strategic venture capital arm, today announced that it has made an equity investment in ViVOtech Inc., an acknowledged leader in contactless and mobile...

Worktopia (www.worktopia.com), the first direct online booking engine for meeting space in hotels, airport lounges and other venues, today announced that it has completed a $5 million financing from a syndicate led by New York-based DFJ Gotham Ventures and including Milestone...

Dow Jones VENTURE WIRE Sept. 19, 2007 By Ty McMahan 9/19/2007 Mimeo Inc. says the number of documents it prints each week could be stacked twice as high as the Empire State Building, an appropriate comparison for a company that has just secured $25 million in venture capital and...