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| Venture capital investor hopes for funding injection SmartCompany.com.au A venture capital investor hopes new funding will flow through to the sector later this year on the back of federal government support, as a new report finds venture capital is "pivotal" for innovation in Australia. Brandon Capital director Stephen ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| NVCA: Venture Capital Finally Returned More Than it Took in 2012 Xconomy In a new report wrapping up the 2012 performance for VCs, the National Venture Capital Association says the broad industry finally returned to the black last year—"the first post-bubble year in which venture funds collectively distributed more cash to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mr. Clean Tech Won't Back Down Wall Street Journal KiOR turned instead to its earliest investor: billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. Out of his own pocket, Mr. Khosla lent KiOR $50 million so the Pasadena, Texas, company could build a facility to turn wood and other nonfood sources of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Venture capital deals Fortune (blog) based provider of fraud prevention solutions, has raised $11 million in Series B funding from Medina Capital. www.easysol.net. Ticketea, a Spain-based do-it-yourself ticketing platform for Spanish-speaking countries, has raised $4 million in Series B ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Daily Startup: Colombia Cybersecurity Startup to Go Global Wall Street Journal (blog) China Renaissance Capital Investment is raising a $100 million venture capital fund in what will be the firm's first standalone investment vehicle. Known as Huaxing Capital Partners LP, the venture fund will be invested in technology, media and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| MGT Capital Investments: A One Trick Pony No More Forbes In January of this year, FanDuel received a vote of confidence in the form of an $11 million investment led by Comcast Ventures, the venture capital arm of Comcast Corporation (CMCSA). FanDuel.com is, at 4 years old, considered an old timer in this ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Part III: The Future of Venture Capital: A New Path to Growth AllAboutAlpha.com (blog) In Part II: Structured Seed Capital, we have seen how a Structured Seed Capital framework can capture clusters of best-in-class technology start-ups and return 33% p.a. at a zero risk of loss. For many VCs, this number looks much more like a threat ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| BizOpinion: For proof of how venture capital funds can work, gaze across Lake ... Wisbusiness.com BizOpinion: For proof of how venture capital funds can work, gaze across Lake Michigan 5/28/2013. This is an excerpt from a column posted at BizOpinion. In many ways, Michigan looks a lot like Wisconsin. It shares hundreds of miles of the same Great ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Africa's most promising entrepreneurs get special fundraising opportunity Ventureburn Venture Capital for Africa (VC4Africa), the large African entrepreneur and investor community, launched an opportunity for promising African entrepreneurs to raise capital. Entrepreneurs selected to be a part of VC4Africa's June 2013 Cohort will ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Funding no problem for innovative startups: Commercialisation Australia Australian Techworld A dearth of venture capital in Australia should not hold back startups, according to Commercialisation Australia CEO Doron Ben-Meir. "It's not about needing venture capital so we can get innovation," the government official told the CeBIT Startup ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Founder of Bonobos Has Some Advice on the Company Your Company ... Esquire (blog) After announcing that Bonobos raised $30 million in capital in March, Dunn just wrote a column, entitled "Dear Dumb VC" (which stands for venture capitalist). In it, he downright rips into investors. Here are some choice excerpts. First, on refusing ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Research and Markets: Israel High-Tech, Venture Capital and Private Equity ... Wall Street Journal (press release) The Yearbook also covers changing trends and investor activity over the past year, with detailed profiles of more than 50 active venture capital funds and 20 active private equity funds operating in Israel. Noteworthy is the growing foreign investor ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Canadian startups turn to foreign sources where local funding fails: study Financial Post "Having a brand name U.S. VC [venture capitalist] has allowed us to attract top-tier foreign talent, which would have been hard to do otherwise." His company received $8-million in Series A financing from California-based Emergence Capital Partners and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Special Limited Partnerships (SLPS) Introduced In Luxembourg Mondaq News Alerts (registration) The Luxembourg limited partnership regime is being modernised to become more attractive for private equity, venture capital and real estate transactions. The bill of law which implements Directive 2011/61/ EU on Alternative Investment Fund (AIF ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| What Top VCs and Top Traders Have in Common Business Insider "I recently spoke to a founder of one of the [Venture Capital] firms that is in the top 2%. I asked him how much much he talked to his entrepreneurs. What this VC told me I'll never forget: It was one of the most humbling things in my career: the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| AlephCloud Latest Cloud Startup to Raise Financing for Expansion Talkin' Cloud Venture capitalists have certainly taken an interest in the growing number of cloud computing startup companies emerging and carving their own niches in the ever-expanding market. The latest startup to receive a hefty dose of funding is AlephCloud, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Ray Lane Resigns From Fisker's Board INAUTONEWS His venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers also confirmed the resignation. Lane's decision came as Fisker has already two offers from investors who want to resurrect the cash-strapped company, which hired bankruptcy advisers earlier this ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Private Equity Activity in Latin America is Back on the Rise, According to New ... The Herald | HeraldOnline.com NEW YORK, May 28, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ -- Private equity and venture capital investment in Latin America soared to $11.6 billion in 2012, the second highest level in the past decade and more than double the performance in 2011, according to Venture ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Discovery Capital Ups Equity Stake in Vigil Health Solutions Thomson Reuters' peHUB (press release) British Columbia Discovery Fund, managed by Canadian venture capital firm Discovery Capital Management Corp. (DCMC), has exercised warrants to buy common shares in its portfolio company Vigil Health Solutions Inc. Following this transaction, DCMC ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Four Lessons From Start-up Nation's Two $868 Million Flops Forbes Better Place — which opted to liquidate itself on May 26 after burning through $836 million in venture capital from General Electric, Morgan Stanley, HSBC and Israel Corp – planned to offer switchable batteries at stations in Australia, California ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| MTL on path to becoming Quebec's first search fund company National Post The entity, formed earlier this year by Jonathan Ferrari and Neil Cuggy, both of whom worked in the investment banking group at RBC Capital Markets and who presented their story at Quebec's annual venture capital conference over the winter, has closed ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Former AT&T strategist launches search fund for mobile health rollup mobihealthnews Prior to Rozenfeld's two years at AT&T, he worked at venture capital firm SFW Capital Partners as an associate, and now that he's made his departure from AT&T he's returning to venture capital. As a new VP at The Channel Group he is launching a search ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Tech Minstrels Seek a High Note Wall Street Journal On a recent evening, New York City's self-proclaimed all-tech a cappella group silenced a crowd filled with venture-capital investors—a rare feat under any circumstances—at the annual DFJ Gotham Ventures dinner at the Standard Hotel just by singing ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| EnerTech Capital gets $20 million from BDC Canadian Green Tech (blog) (subscription) Early stage smart grid and energy storage companies may soon have another pool of venture capital from which to seek investments. This week BDC Venture Capital agreed to commit US$20 million to EnerTech Capital Partners IV (Canada) LP, a VC firm ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| VC Returns Underwhelm, Though 10-Year Numbers Keep Improving Thomson Reuters' peHUB (press release) As of December, 10-year venture returns averaged 6.9 percent compared to an 8.5 percent return for the Nasdaq during the same period, according to Cambridge Associates and the National Venture Capital Association. Still, the numbers are vastly better ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Transatlantic VC fund opens in Cambridge Business Weekly Andrey Kessel, formerly with Hermann Hauser's Amadeus Capital Partners business, has co-founded a number of exciting startup ventures across the globe in the last couple of years and has just unveiled the first investment for the new Formula VC venture... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Matrix and GrowthWorks to Address Regulatory Concerns Thomson Reuters' peHUB (press release) Vancouver-based asset and wealth management company Matrix Asset Management Inc. and its subsidiaries, which include venture capital firm GrowthWorks, announced that they are pursuing measures for "re-establishing compliance with regulatory ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| SPACs listing seen as assisting to kickstart large-scale mining projects in M'sia The Star Online ... Chamber of Mines (MCOM) president Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Ajib Anuar. He pointed out that raising venture capital for exploration and mining had always been the biggest hurdle in the development of the mineral resources and mining sector in the country. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Energy investor says Australia needs green tech support from government StartupSmart "Australia lacks scale, expertise and capital for clean energy venture capital," says Paul Fox, a clean energy entrepreneur working as a clean energy venture capital investor in the United States. "This is where government-backed organisations like the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Waze maps might be bought by Google Newsday The Palo Alto, California-based startup might also remain independent, instead seeking to raise a round of venture capital financing, the people said. As consumers gravitate toward mobile devices away from laptops and desktops, Facebook, Google and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Exclamation Returns to Profitability in Q1 2013 Stockhouse ... is established, and are positioned to 'exit' and realize gains when value is maximized offering potential returns significantly higher than traditional venture capital and private equity. For more information about exclamation, visit http://www ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Vigour raises €500k funding for multi-screen video technology The Guardian (blog) The company has raised €500k of seed funding (around £428k) from Deutsche Telekom's hub:raum incubator and venture capital firm Linden Mobile Ventures, while publishing a video showing off its technology. It certainly has the right buzzwords to perk up ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Venture Capital Performance Held Steady In 2012, With Continued ... Venture Capital Performance Held Steady In 2012, With Continued 10-Year Improvement. www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10770077.htm | ||
| Clark column: Time to get serious about venture capital - Wisconsin ... The venture capital legislation (AB-181) I introduced along with Rep. Mike Kuglitsch, R-New Berlin, and Sens. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, and Tim Cullen , ... wisconsinvests.com/.../clark-column-time-to-get-serious-about... | ||
| VCs and LPs Weigh In On Venture Capital And Its Prospects for ... The venture capital market has thrown fund managers and limited partners a number of curve balls in recent years, compelling some players to rethink their ... zelllurie.wordpress.com/.../vcs-and-lps-weigh-in-on-venture-c... |
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