Spark, TCV hold top spots in mid-life portfolio at LA pension
Funds from Spark Capital and Technology Crossover Ventures hold the top spots in a portfolio [...]
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The rise of tokens: critical considerations for VC firms
By Jennifer Kristen Lee, Louis Lehot and Mark Radcliffe, DLA Piper The year 2017 saw [...]
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Basis raises $133 mln from Bain, Lightspeed, GV and others for holy-grail ‘stablecoin’
Basis, an algorithmic central bank that is neither a bank nor centralized, announced this week [...]
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Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures reportedly proposed token-sale ‘safe harbor’ to SEC
VCJ has obtained two memos regarding the legal status of certain token sales, which were [...]
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Foreign LPs face scrutiny under bipartisan reforms sought by Cornyn, Pittenger
Private equity’s lobbying arm is directing its attention toward a new bill that could complicate PE [...]
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Alpha Bridge’s Project Atlas aims for healthy startups and founders
For venture capitalist Howie Diamond, investing in founders’ companies is only one step in ensuring [...]
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PeerStreet aims to open access to the U.S. real estate debt market
Los Angeles-based PeerStreet aims to give investors access to the U.S. real estate debt market [...]
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TCV gears up to raise Fund X
Technology Crossover Ventures, which has invested in major tech companies including Netflix and LinkedIn, is preparing to raise its next [...]
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Post Venture Capital Index falls for third consecutive month
The Thomson Reuters’ Post Venture Capital Index (PVCI) followed the broader Nasdaq and S&P 500 [...]
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New York commits more than $1 bln, eyes debt and credit funds
New York State Common Retirement Fund disclosed more than $1 billion of commitments to private [...]
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Kline Hill, specialist in small secondaries, closes Fund II on hard cap
Mike Bego, who founded Kline Hill Partners in 2015, said fundraising never really ends, especially for a [...]
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March Dashboard: IPOs pick up as M&A, fundraising drop
Led by the Dropbox debut, venture-backed IPOs surged in March as the number of deals [...]
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New Emory CIO takes charge of fast-growing $1 bln-plus private portfolio
Srinivas “Srini” Pulavarti on July 1 is slated to become CIO of the investment company that manages [...]
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March IPO Profiles: Unicorn Dropbox leads the pack with its debut
In March, five venture-backed companies went public on U.S. exchanges, compared with one in February. [...]
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Top 10: deal count rises for ecommerce, biotech, and transportation sectors in March
In most of the the biggest investment sectors during March 2018, equity and deal count [...]
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Pivotal IPO could bring about new open source offerings
By Rohit Kulkarni, SharesPost Pivotal, the cloud-software company spun out of Dell EMC and VMware, [...]
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Well-crafted term sheets keep investors and token issuers’ incentives aligned
Investors are discovering that as venture firms’ portfolio companies turn to token sales and initial coin [...]
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Ex-Goldman executive to head cryptocurrency at family office
Ex-Goldman Sachs executive Mike Novogratz has lured Richard Kim from Goldman to head the cryptocurrencies desk at his family office’s [...]
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