Tag Archives : Mike Maples

Some VCs are getting an early Valentine’s Day gift fromTheFunded, the site where CEOs rate venture capitalists and their firms. Below you will find the top-ranked individual VCs, as determined by their ratings in 2009. What makes this ranking particularly useful to entrepreneurs is that it is ratings by other CEOs, often CEOs who have had direct dealings with the VCs they are rating. While this is still a popularity contest of sorts (for instance, the rankings are not based on individual investment returns), presumably CEOs are smart enough to take investment performance into account. [...]

Kakai, an incredibly secretive Santa Clara, Calif., company (even though it has more than 40 employees already), has raised $50,000 of a targeted $100,000 round of options, warrants and securities, according to a filing with the SEC. A past TechCrunch story on the company suggests that it is building a fancy new electronic reader, and an old job listing mentioned something about a Linux-based consumer electronics product. But even more clues can be stripped from its recent (Jan. 11) call for a senior visual designer: Kakai is in search of a talented senior visual designer to join the user experience [...]