Index Ventures has raised a new €350 million venture fund targeting early-stage european companies. With the new fund, Index will make around 30 investments anywhere from a few hundred thousand, to up to 15 million in companies in the seed and series A and B stages. MORE >>

At today’s roundtable, I started with a presentation on Blue Sky opportunities in Cloud Computing based on our Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing (TLCC) research. took the audience through five cloud-based business ideas, and discussed why they are relevant, and pointed them to the sources I derived those ideas from.  . MORE >>

But it is almost never the right way for early-stage startups to communicate what their product does. When you’re trying to build trust in a new service, looking big can be a big help — especially in sectors like finance or cloud storage. Do you have examples of great videos created by early-stage startups? MORE >>

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. Nothing is going to stop cloud. So the shift towards cloud services. tomnora. ALEXIA TSOTSIS. MORE >>

Israeli startup Blaze Meter , a load testing in the cloud compatible with open source Apache Jmeter, has recently raised an undisclosed round from Yoav Leitersdorf’s YL Ventures. Alon: BlazeMeter is the first testing cloud with a sole focus on load testing, designed to simplify performance and load testing for developers and QA testers. MORE >>