Monthly recap of VC fundraising activity through Sept. 14
U.S.-Focused Funds Andreessen Horowitz unveiled a Cultural Leadership Fund with the dual aim of encouraging more [...]
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August Dashboard: M&A soars as fundraising, IPOs take a step back
August was a great month for M&A, thanks to the close of a few large [...]
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On the Bleeding Edge: 9.17.18
The venture community was abuzz at the end of last week, when reports said Mary Meeker, [...]
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VCs on the Move, monthly recap as of Sept. 17
A compilation of personnel moves at various venture firms in the past month, including Andreessen [...]
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Base10 raises $137 mln for AI applications in automation, sans robots
Base10, the San Francisco early-stage venture firm founded by a pair of entrepreneurs and investors, today [...]
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Alexandria Venture Investments leads venture investors in medical, health and life science sectors
New York-based Alexandria Venture Investments is the most active venture investor in the medical, health [...]
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Fintech investors look globally for deals
Fintech deal making has been heavily concentrated in places such as California and New York, [...]
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Goldman Sachs emerges as lead buyer on innovative NEA secondary deal
Goldman Sachs has emerged as the lead buyer in an innovative secondary deal, being run [...]
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SF pension adds $126 mln to PE; private-markets exec leaves
San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System in August and September made $126 million in private equity [...]
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New NEA Partner Jonathan Golden draws lessons from early investing, Airbnb
From a young age, Jonathan Golden learned hard lessons about investing. In 1999, dot-com retailer [...]
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Venture fundraising headed toward 18-year record
Venture fundraising is headed toward another strong quarter, with $11.4 billion raised through mid-September, according [...]
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CIBC’s tech-lending arm ramps up cross-border strategy with new hires, deals
CIBC Innovation Banking, the tech-lending arm of CIBC, is pursuing a bold North American scaling [...]
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San Jose pension, aiming to leverage access, plans early-stage venture investments
The $3.7 billion San Jose Police and Fire Pension Plan, hoping to leverage its access [...]
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SEC takes first action against cryptocurrency-sector firms for failure to register
The SEC levied its first charges and penalties against cryptocurrency firms for failure to register with [...]
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Can popular Silicon Valley brand SurveyMonkey avoid a down-round IPO?
By Rohit Kulkarni, SharesPost SurveyMonkey is finally pulling the trigger. The nearly 20-year-old unicorn, which [...]
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Fund Performance: UTIMCO venture portfolio, vintages 2012 to 2014
Available below is performance data for vintage 2012 to 2014 venture funds in the University of Texas Investment [...]
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August Top 10s: Venture continues consolidation into fewer, larger deals
Deal count dropped and equity from venture investors into U.S.-based startups rose in August 2018 [...]
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Rise of the rest is ‘greatest arbitrage’ of a lifetime, says Steve Case
With entrepreneurship spreading from its traditional centers in Silicon Valley, Massachusetts and New York, investing [...]
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