Alastair Goldfisher

Sony Innovation Fund, the venture arm of Sony Corp, and Daiwa Capital have partnered to launch a $185 million investment vehicle that is open to outside LPs. However, LPs for the recently launched effort, called the Innovation Growth Fund, will not be based in the United States. At least not yet, according to Gen Tsuchikawa, […]

I'm skeptical the good times will continue to roll, but it's hard to argue that against the enormous stores of capital that seem to be available. Plenty of funds are raising commitments from various LPs.

For more than a year, Kari Sulenes has led Atlas, which provides a leadership platform dedicated to holistic founder support and is affiliated with the firm

Paul Willard, a partner at Storm Ventures, has left the firm he joined in January 2018. The Menlo Park, California-based firm is currently in fundraising mode, aiming to raise a sixth fund for an undisclosed amount, according to a regulatory filing from late last year. Storm raised $180 million for its fifth fund in 2015. […]

Six of the nine most highly valued VC-backed startups at IPO raised less than $100 million in funding but have tripled their valuations since going public.

Andreessen Horowitz announced that it’s expanding its fintech team with the addition of Anish Acharya as the firm’s newest general partner. Acharya was formerly with Credit Karma, where he most recently was vice president of product. Acharya will focus on fintech, working alongside fellow a16z General Partners Angela Strange and Alastair "Alex" Rampell.

Vertex Ventures US, a Palo Alto, California-based firm that recently raised a $150 million second venture fund, has hired Chase Roberts as a principal. Previously, he was senior manager of strategic partnerships at Segment and before that was senior manager of partner strategy and Alliances at Box.