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Garage Technology Ventures is a seed and early-stage venture capital fund. We’re looking for extraordinary entrepreneurs with unique technologies that can become great companies.

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We Start Up Start-Ups. Early Stage Venture Capital.


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Archive: Articles about Garage and its portfolio companies.

2011

Reichert Says Pandora on ‘Fabulous’ Trend of Growth: Video
Bloomberg (6/15/11)

2010

D.light Design - Solar lanterns lighting up the world
The Ashden Awards 2010

How entrepreneurs came up with Jungle Cents
San Francisco Chronicle (12/5/10)

NREL Confirms MiaSolé Achievement of 15.7% Efficiency
ENF (6/10/10)

MiaSolé breaks away from the solar pack with high-efficiency thin-film
GreenBeat (6/10/10)

Garage Technology Ventures Ranked among Top Five Venture Capital Firms
Volition Capital (2/2/10)

2009

ClearFuels Technology wins $23M DOE grant to produce clean renewable diesel
Dow Jones Newswires (12/4/09)

D.light Design named “Responsibility Pioneer”
Time Magazine (12/4/09)

How to survive ‘the new future’
The New Zealand Herald (9/5/09)

D.light Design ‘Social Entrepreneur’ Has Venture Backing to Light Up the World
Global Atlanta (8/20/09)

Business Academy: Lessons From The U.S. Navy
Forbes.com (8/8/09)

VC firm helps startups “change the world”
Examiner.com (8/4/09)

Silicon Valley Pitchfest Attracts Entrepreneurs
The California Report, KQED, NPR (6/10/09)

Ultimate Technology Pitching Process
FOX Business (6/10/09)

Launch: Silicon Valley is a beauty contest for startups
Mercury News (6/9/09)

2008

D.light Design: Lighting Up Rural India
Forbes.com (6/16/08)

cFares: Best Travel Sites
Kiplinger.com (3/31/08)

D.light Design: Cheap lights and hot heat — two more cleantech innovators
VentureBeat (3/4/08)

2007

Garage Canada leads funding of Group IV Semiconductor, solid state lighting company
EE Times (8/1/07)

2006

Alternative energy lighting it up, Big venture capitalists pony up in sizzling market that may get boost from Prop. 87
San Francisco Chronicle (11/4/06)

2005

Then and now: Kawasaki on the new economy
Guy Kawasaki, The San Francisco Examiner (12/5/05)

Tech guru sees rebound in start-ups
Guy Kawasaki, The Mercury News (12/4/05)

State of the Union on Venture Capital
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Bill Reichert, Venture Capital InfoTalk (6/4/05)

The New Entrepreneur
Bill Reichert, Larta (2/7/05)

Make a List, Check it Twice
Guy Kawasaki, Entrepreneur.com (2/05)

2002

Guy Kawasaki says we will look back on 2002 as a fine time for technology
The Morning Call (5/18/02)

Guy Kawasaki interviewed in Singapore
Computer Times (5/1/02)

Bill Reichert Interview - Nanoscale technologies
Nanotechnology Now, 4/20/02

Venturing into security
CNET, news.com (4/9/02)

Internet dealmaking springs ahead
The Deal (4/9/02)

Waiting for the Ice to Break
The Deal (4/9/02)

Catching the eye of venture capitalists
Rocky Mountain News (4/3/02)

One-on-one with Guy Kawasaki, CEO, Garage Technology Ventures
San Francisco Business Times (4/2/02)

It’s Not Just About Technology
CNET, news.com (2/26/02)

2001

CalPERS Spreads Wealth Around
CNET.com (5/14/01)

2000

Lies to Make a VC Groan
Business Week Online (12/29/00)

Many are Called…
Fast Company (11/29/00)

Perfecting Your Pitch, Part One: Assume Short Buildings
Fast Company (11/29/00)

Perfecting Your Pitch, Part Two: The Horse Race
Fast Company (11/29/00)

Perfecting Your Pitch, Part Three: The Overview Overview
Fast Company (11/29/00)

Garage.com Thinks There’s Gold in Simple Plans
The Dallas Morning News (11/22/00)

Practicing the Perfect Pitch
The Washington Post Online (11/16/00)

Guy Kawasaki and ithe Mother of All Keynotesi
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (11/13/00)

Class Acts
Business 2.0 (11/06/00)

Tironut for Entrepreneurs
The Jerusalem Post (11/06/00)

10 Steps to Verbal Virtuosity
Fast Company (10/24/00)

Perfecting Your Pitch, Part One: Assume Short Buildings
Fast Company (10/24/00)

Oops, I Failed Again
internet.com (10/17/00)

The War for Talent
The Jerusalem Post (9/17/00)

Tornado-TV Interviews Guy Kawasaki
Tornado-Insider (9/11/00)

Best of the Web: Venture Investing
Forbes (8/28/00)

Gold and Garage.com
FT.com (6/26/00)

VC P.S.: Top ten VC myths, part 2
Red Herring (6/21/00)

VC P.S.: Ten myths and realities of VC
Red Herring (6/16/00)

On Your Own - Still Startin’ Up
USA Today (6/13/00)

The New Economy Learns the Old Rules
Wall Street Journal (6/12/00) (subscription required)

Lessons from the Valley: US Money, European Entrepreneurs
Tornado-insider.com (6/00)

ClubFixit: Diary of a startup
CNNfn (6/1/00)

You’re Never Too Young For Ideas
San Francisco Chronicle (5/31/00)

Guy Kawasaki’s Next Generation
Fortune Small Business (5/31/00)

Bay Area Schools Snare Top Prizes at Biz Plan Competition
internet.com (5/24/00)

Web Pilgrims Go To Bootcamp in Search of Dotcom Fortune
internet.com (5/17/00)

Featured Site
Pro2Net (5/17/00)

Dot-coms: a leap into the unknown
The Times (4/25/00)

Of Grassroots and Revolutions - Kawasaki and Omidyar Advise Startups
Tornado-Insider.com (4/25/00)

BootCamp for Startups
ABC news (4/25/00)

Networking with the true believers at the recent eBoot Camp for Start-Ups’ seminar
New York Times (4/23/00)

Startup Spotlight: Alum reflects on starting tech companies with a psych degree
Stanford Daily (4/19/00)

The ewar’ for talent
CNNfn (4/19/00)

Digital pioneers vs. the stock market
USA Today (4/18/00)

The Panic Over Hiring
Business Week Online (4/3/00)

1998

Web site hopes to introduce entrepreneurs to angels in return for a piece of their deal (see bottom half of article).
Wall Street Journal (8/25/98)

Garage.com marries money, ideas
ZDnet (8/6/98)

Not Just One Of The Guys
San Jose Mercury News (6/14/98)

Apple Veteran Tries to Match Entrepreneurs With Investors
Wall Street Journal (5/14/98)

Anatomy of a VLG Start-up
Inc. Magazine (5/98)

1997

The Thoughtful Evangelist: Guy Kawasaki reflects on his Apple days, and heads for the Garage
San Francisco Examiner (12/28/97)

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