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  Angels are spreading their wings — and their dollars. So says new research from the Angel Resource Institute that shows the median size of angel-group rounds invested in startups rose 40 percent last year to $700,000. A key takeaway...

(This post was updated to show Jumio’s valuation based on the funding.) Andreessen Horowitz is betting $25.5 million that consumers will get behind yet another way to make payments online. The venture capital firm co-founded by Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen...

Roku’s sales tripled to $100 million last year — in part because it bought radio and billboard advertising for the first time. To garner more brand recognition for its hockey puck-sized TV-set top box, the company intends to seek as...

Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman has made a name for himself by snubbing companies whose billions in cash dwarfed what was available to Yelp, as he sought to maintain control over the company’s mission and approach to content and users. It...

Square, beware. Ingenico SA, a maker of in-store payment terminals, just took a controlling stake in ROAM Data, a rival provider of portable payment systems used by small merchants. Just like Square, ROAM’s technology lets smartphones and tablets based on...

It’s not often that Silicon Valley’s two most legendary venture capital firms join together. When they do, they typically make a lot of money. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital are at it again, this time providing funding...

By 2009, David Koretz had founded five technology companies from the time he was 14. Security snags he encountered at the fifth — an e-mail hosting company called BlueTie Inc. — prompted him to start No. 6, Mykonos Software Inc....

Social Web giants Facebook, Zynga, Groupon and LinkedIn have handsomely rewarded founders and early investors, but they’ve also raised a big question: Where are all the small initial public offerings? Conventional wisdom in recent years has been that if you...

When security technology fails, you don’t want to be the guy walking in the door selling more of it. George Kurtz, former chief technology officer of McAfee, was often in that position as he logged hundreds of thousands of miles...

And then there was one. Last week, Oracle announced a $1.9 billion deal to buy Taleo, which offers software-as-a-service to companies that no longer want to run all of their own programs for managing the workforce. That follows SAP’s $3.4...