The company’s previous backers, including Cisco, Greylock Partners, Miven Venture Partners, and Pitango Venture Capital, also participated in the round [ Techcrunch ]. Additionally, Ronen Nir, partner at Carmel Ventures, joined RealMatch’s board of directors. T he VC funding news from Israel are piling up on my inbox. MORE >>

The most often requested additional topic that we don’t cover extensively in our book is the use convertible debt in early stage – especially seed stage – financings. For a primer, take a look at articles by Jason Mendelson , our partner Seth Levine , and our friends Mark Suster  and Fred Wilson. MORE >>

Looks like the technology scene in Europe is getting another backer as the prominent US VC, Greylock Partners announced a $160 Million technology fund. The three major being the Greylock Discovery that invests in seed stage companies, Greylock XIII for firms in early stage as well as late stage companies with its Greylock Growth Program. MORE >>

A new report shows that venture capitalists invested much more in 2011 than in 2010 -- but that the amount of money going into seed-stage deals plummeted. New data show that the long-predicted squeeze in very early stage investments may be upon us. This year, those deals got markedly bigger. VCs invested $28.4 What bubble? MORE >>

The first, which I have been advocating, is that there are not many fundable seed stage deals in Atlanta at the moment.  Here is a guy that dropped a $1 million over the course of two years on seed stage startups, many of them in a very public manner, and he is not seeing deal flow. Oh my! But the. And again. Just Do It." MORE >>