SilkRoad, a Chicago-based company focused on online human resources and “social talent management,” has raised a $35 million Series C financing round. Investors in the round include new investors Keating Capital and NTT Finance. Existing investors including Intel Capital, Crosslink Capital, Foundation Capital, Azure Capital and Tenaya Capital also joined in the round. Since 2003, [...]

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Foundation Capital has set out to raise $400 million for its seventh fund, considerably less than the $750 million it raised in 2008 for its sixth fund. The new fund also won’t include two GPs from fund VI: Rich Redelfs and Mike Schuh.

Depending on when private equity and venture capital firms made investments in the college textbook publishing space, they’re either hitting the books, or getting hit by them.

Accel Partners is sticking to what it describes as a targeted approach to cleantech investing. The firm is set to unveil on Tuesday its lead role in a $6.7 million round for Vigilent along with a vow to continue deal making.

Anamitra Banerji, the former Twitter product manager, has joined Foundation Capital as an entrepreneur-in-residence, the firm announce Monday. Banerji joined Twitter in March 2009, where he helped start the company’s advertising platform and core revenue engine, Foundation said in a press release. In his new role, he will help identify promising investments, as well as [...]

Six-year-old CalStar Products, a Caledonia, Wis., company that makes low-energy, low-CO2 masonry products, has brought aboard Joel Rood as its CEO. Prior to joining CalStar, Rood was GM for CertainTeed Canada. CalStar is funded by the venture firms Nth Power, Westly Group, Foundation Capital, and EnerTech Capital. PRESS RELEASE: Joel Rood, a 15-year veteran of the building [...]

Lightspeed Venture Partners will seek $675 million for its ninth fund, the VC firm stated in an SEC filing Thursday morning. The figure is about 15 percent shy of what its most recent fund, a 2008 $800 million vehicle, amassed. Along with the ongoing fundraise comes a handful of personnel moves for the firm. In [...]

CiiNOW, a Mountain View, Calif.-based cloud compute platform developer, has closed on $13 million in Series A financing from Foundation Capital, Alcatel-Lucent and an unnamed strategic investor. The company is using the money to expand its hiring and partnership development teams, among other efforts.

Siemens Industry, Inc. said it agreed to acquire all of the stock of eMeter Corporation. The deal for the San Mateo, Calif., company is expect to close in December 2011. EMeter is backed by Sequoia Capital, Northgate Capital and Foundation Capital. No terms were disclosed. PRESS RELEASE Siemens to Acquire eMeter to Enhance Smart Grid [...]