"After years of working on television food shows, I'm excited to open this new venture which is a combination of who I am, where I'm from and where I've been," said Joey Fatone, Founder of Fat One's, in a statement.
This year, American Express opened a venture capital office in Facebook's old headquarters in downtown Palo Alto.
The Atlantic Media Company, which publishes the National Journal and The Atlantic, plans to hire 30 new journalists for a new venture set to open this fall that will publish breaking news and analysis online.
Though the firm has had venture investments since its start, it opened a dedicated venture capital fund only last year; it now has about $1 billion in assets.
In Israel, government security workers have long found a career path in moving to start-ups, said Peter Wagner, a partner at a recently opened venture firm, Wing Venture Partners, in Menlo Park.
Rosenwald, once director of corporate finance at Blair, opened his own venture capital shop in the early 1990s.
Leading PV charge regulator company, Steca GmbH, located in Memmingen, Germany, has opened a joint venture company in South Africa to target South Africa's rural electrification PV program and extend their PV activities on the world market.
Restaurant visionary Sir Terence Conran has just opened his latest venture, the Boundary, in London.
The company recently opened a $3.5 million venture capital fund specifically to invest in young tech outfits that demonstrate potential for partnerships, according to the Financial Times.
Eminem has opened other ventures, including his own record label Shady Records with his manager Paul Rosenberg.
