SVB’s Bob Blee: ideal IPO environment, more mid-market M&A
It is no secret the IPO market for venture-backed companies has been galloping along this [...]
Continue
Featured Content
Monthly recap of fund briefs through Aug. 16
U.S.-Focused Funds Bessemer Venture Partners has set out to raise a 10th fund. A regulatory filing [...]
Continue
VCs on the Move, monthly recap as of Aug. 16
IVP promoted Alex Lim to vice president. Lim, who joined the late-stage firm in 2015, focuses on consumer [...]
Continue
PA PSERS to double PE co-investments, hire staff to cut fees
Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System, at its Aug. 10 meeting, moved forward with a [...]
Continue
July Dashboard: Fundraising keeps climbing as exits and deals slow somewhat
July was another good month for U.S. fundraising, as commitments continued to soar. Through the [...]
Continue
Post Venture Capital Index loses ground in July, led by Facebook decline in value
The Thomson Reuters’ Post Venture Capital Index (PVCI) declined over the previous month, following three [...]
Continue
Paris’s ISAI: Funders who’ve been founders (and succeeded well at that)
By Alex Derber, VCJ Correspondent When successful founders branch into investing, they often persuade other [...]
Continue
Pittsburgh’s startups excited about driverless tech and AI, see momentum ahead
Most founders of Pittsburgh-area startups expect their businesses to grow in the next two years, [...]
Continue
22x Fund offers investors refunds months after launching venture-competitor token sale
A batch of startups that joined to launch a venture-fund portfolio on the blockchain is [...]
Continue
Fund Performance: LA Fire and Police pension report, vintages 2016 and 2017
Below is the latest fund performance report for the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension [...]
Continue
Europe venture capital headed toward record year
European venture capital was slow to recover from the euro-zone financial crisis in the early [...]
Continue
SHS Fund V giving digital health a financial shot in the arm
By Alex Derber, VCJ Correspondent Many industries awakened late to digitization, but healthcare is particularly [...]
Continue
July’s Top 10: Capital continues to concentrate into mega venture deals
July saw venture investors pour more cash into deals with U.S.-based companies than they did [...]
Continue
DuPont Capital loses senior members of private markets team
Two members of the private-markets team at DuPont Capital Management, Kevin Campbell and Eric Wilcomes, [...]
Continue
AI funding sets record in Q2 with $2.3 bln targeting U.S. companies
Venture funding for artificial-intelligence companies hit another record in the second quarter, with $2.3 billion [...]
Continue
Benhamou Global Ventures raises $40 mln for first opportunity fund
Benhamou Global Ventures, the internationally focused early-stage fund founded by the onetime chairman and chief executive [...]
Continue
Colorado, North Carolina, Maryland see strong emerging market funding
Venture capital continued to expand in second-tier markets in the United States during the first [...]
Continue
VC performance improves in the first quarter
Venture performance ticked up in the first quarter of the year with returns for the [...]
Continue