Venture dollars have shifted to early from late stage investing over the past several years. It is a shift that proved fastest in quick changing industry segments, such as the consumer Internet, and slowest in segments like semiconductor that are less dynamic.

Publicly traded Zipcar Inc. is leading a $13.7 million Series A round for peer-to-peer car sharing company Wheelz Inc. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Wheelz targets college campus communities. Other investors in the round include Detroit-based Fontinalis Partners. As a result, Zipcar Chief Executive Scott Griffith and Fontinalis’ Mark Schulz join the Wheelz board. Also joining the [...]

Recently, Washington Post columnist Steve Pearlstein wrote a wake-up call to the nation’s capital. In it, he argued that while “local economic boosters love to remind anyone who will listen that the Washington region boasts the greatest concentration of technical or knowledge workers in the country,” the claim is “misleading.” The reality, wrote Pearlstein, is that [...]

Time to catch up on the peHUB stories your colleagues found most compelling this week. Here are the top 10 posts that garnered the most pageviews from regular readers from Aug. 8 to Aug. 12. It isn’t terribly surprising that most of the posts were related in some way to the turmoil in the public markets this week.

1. Early Stage Funds Dominate CalPERS’ Top 10 Venture Funds, by Mark Boslet
2. Silicon Valley’s Undertaker: ‘We’re Anticipating a Major Fallout’, by Connie Loizos
3. Groupon, Zynga and 9 Other VC-Backed IPOs Threatened by Market Turmoil, by Joanna Glasner
4. LinkedIn, Solazyme, Zipcar, 33 Other VC-Backed IPOs Bloodied in Market Beatdown, by Lawrence Aragon
5. Idaho Public Employee Retirement Top-Performing Funds (subscribers only), by David Toll
6. Menlo Ventures Is Biggest Winner in Carbonite IPO, by Lawrence Aragon
7. Venture & PE Picks for a Double Dip, by Joanna Glasner
8. Colorado PERA Top-10 Performing Funds Since 1982, by David Toll
9. How This Year’s 10 Biggest VC-Backed IPOs Fared in the Market Plunge, by Lawrence Aragon
10. Reuters Exclusive: Khosla Loses 2 Partners; Alex Kinnier to Do Startup, Jim Kim’s Plans Unknown, by Sarah McBride and Peter Lauria, Reuters

Traders showed no love for VC-backed IPOs in today’s bloodbath on Wall Street. Of the 38 venture-backed companies that have gone public this year, 36 saw their share prices drop today and two were flat, according to data from Thomson Reuters (publisher of peHUB). All market indices were hammered, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average [...]

As you are well aware by now, the stock market plunged today on fears that the U.S. economy is slipping back into a recession and concerns about a debt crisis in Europe.

It was the biggest selloff in two years, with the Dow and the S&P 500 both declining by more than 4% and the Nasdaq falling by 5 percent.

I was curious how this year’s crop of VC-backed companies fared in the correction, so I took a look at the performance of 2011′s 10 largest IPOs of U.S.-based VC-backed companies. Given that I was expecting to find a bloodbath, I

America Online co-founder Steve Case has held a first close on $250 million on a growth fund with a target of $400 million, according to a source familiar with the effort. A regulatory document about the new fund, called Revolution Growth II LP, was filed with the SEC on July 22. (The document lists the [...]

Globespan Capital Partners CFO Mary Bevelock Pendergast has left the venture capital firm to take the same role at Fidelity Biosciences, peHUB has learned.

Fidelity Biosciences’s site states she has worked there as CFO since April 2011, yet, as of this afternoon, her bio page at Globespan remained operational.

ED NOTE: Nope, now it’s down.

Judging by Globespan’s description of her, Pendergast will leave a void behind in her wake. She managed all finance and administrative functions of the firm…

Ready to Roll: Osama was packing cash and emergency telephone numbers when he got bagged

No More Highlights: Lowlights for Evelyn Davis’ newsletter after Goldman dumps its subscription

Zipping Out: Zipcar co-founder Robin Chase leaves her latest startup to launch car sharing startup in Paris.

IPO-My! RPX Corp debuts in its IPO, trades up

Want to catch up on what your colleagues found most interesting on peHUB this week? Here are the blog posts written by our staff this week that garnered the most pageviews from our regular readers from April 11 to April 15.

No. 1: Slideshow: Top 10 Buyout/Mezzanine Funds Raised in Q1
No. 2: Slideshow: Ten Largest Buyout Deals Of Q1
No. 3: Slideshow: Ten Largest U.S. VC Deals for Q1
No. 4: Which University Is No. 1 for Midas List Members?
No. 5: Eight Up And Coming VCs Worth Knowing
No. 6: Preqin Estimates 183 PE Shops Going Out of Business
No. 7: If Mark Zuckerberg Duped Investors, Are They On the Hook (and Other Answers to Your Questions)
No. 8: Q&A Houlihan’s Adelson: PE Firms are the New Conglomerates
No. 9: Did Zipcar’s Underwriters Just Give It the Shaft? Yes, and No; Here’s Why
No. 10: Angel Investing In 2010 Shows Signs Of An Inflating Bubble