Venture investing keeps strong pace in Q1 thanks to SoftBank
Venture capitalists kept a quick pace to their activity in the first quarter, with U.S. [...]
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February IPO profiles: Drugmaker Gossamer Bio leads the way
IPO activity has so far been slow in 2019 as the VC and tech communities [...]
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February Dashboard: Fundraising was robust, but falls short of January’s high watermark
A number of venture firms secured fund commitments in February, but the month’s totals dropped [...]
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Post Venture Capital Index gains ground in February
The Thomson Reuters’ Post Venture Capital Index (PVCI) advanced in February, reversing the drop it [...]
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Battery’s Scott Tobin on immigrant entrepreneurs, VC in Israel
Alex Furman was 11 when he and his family escaped the crumbling Soviet Union in [...]
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CrowdSmart offers data-driven approach for angels, small funds
With data analysis becoming more prevalent at venture firms, microfund managers, accelerators and individual investors [...]
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TCV commits $50 mln in Series C to edtech platform Newsela
Technology Crossover Ventures endorsed tech-powered educational platform Newsela with $50 million in Series C funding, [...]
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International startups can speed the growth of entrepreneurial ecosystems
By Matthew McCooe, Connecticut Innovations Hypergrowth startups are essential for a community’s transformation to an [...]
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A list of SoftBank Vision Fund investments
Since it was formed in 2017, SoftBank Vision Fund has seen its portfolio not just [...]
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Startups help students and parents get schooled in college admissions
The hardest thing about college isn’t getting in. It’s choosing the right one. Most high [...]
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United Kingdom holds edge as AI startups increase in Europe
Artificial intelligence is playing a heightened role at European startups, with 8 percent of newly [...]
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Altos Ventures works on secondary deal for 2008 fund
Altos Ventures is working on a process to pay back limited partners in one of [...]
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P&G’s femtech deal: Donations to women and Fusion Fund’s exit
In early February, Procter & Gamble spun the VC world around when it paid a [...]
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Investors see healthy seed market
Investing dynamics appear to remain strong in seed and especially at the upper end of [...]
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Maveron leads Two Chairs Series A to fuel in-person mental-health support
By Sarah Buhr Davis, VCJ Correspondent Two Chairs, promising to bring a new mental-health-care model [...]
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Strattam closes Fund II on $230 mln with a quarter deployed
Strattam Capital deployed about a quarter of its second fund into three platform deals as it [...]
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Seed rounds disrupt Series A
In the beginning, venture capital created the Series A. Now, young companies raise an expanding [...]
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Five Questions with Oak HC/FT’s Andrew Adams
Andrew Adams, co-founder and general partner of Oak HC/FT, leads the Greenwich, Connecticut, firm’s healthcare [...]
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