Kaitlyn Landgraf Bartley
InFocus Capital Partners has raised $1.1 million toward a targeted $50 million venture fund, according to a regulatory filing. The firm is based in Jericho, New York, and serves as a finance strategy advisor, according to its website. It is led by Robert Rothman, Ronald Weiss, and George Marinopoulos, according to the filing. The fund, InFocus Fund I, has 17 investors.
Gone are the days when venture-fund managers had only cash or stock as the basis of distributions to LPs. As investors turn to blockchain technology and more companies hold initial coin offerings, fund managers are beginning to request cryptocurrency baskets to hold digital assets like coins and tokens. The new asset class brings with it […]
Golden Venture Partners is raising a third fund with an indefinite target amount, according to a regulatory filing. The firm is based in Toronto, Canada, and makes seed-stage investments in companies working in the mobile sector, according to its website. It is led by Matthew Golden.
Philadelphia-based 1315 Capital has raised $300 million for its fund, 1315 Capital II, according to a regulatory filing. The firm invests in pharmaceutical, medical technology, and healthcare service companies, according to its website. It is led by Adele Oliva, Michael Koby, and Brian Schwenk. The fund closed at its hard cap of $300 million, exceeding its $250 million target, according to a press release. The filing lists 57 investors.
Growth-stage venture firm Activant Capital has closed its sophomore fund, Activant Ventures II, at $129 million. Founded in 2013 by Steve Sarracino, the Greenwich, Connecticut-based firm invests in commerce infrastructure and the internet of things. The fund has made five investments and deployed nearly $50 million already, leading investments in sustainable agriculture company Indigo and […]
Elsewhere Partners is raising a venture fund targeted at $100 million, according to a regulatory filing. The Austin, Texas, based firm launched in September 2017 and is led by Chris Pacitti and John Thornton, both veterans of Austin Ventures.
The number of venture investments into U.S.-based companies dropped in January 2018 compared with the same month a year before, while the overall equity invested more than doubled, according to VCJ’s analysis of preliminary data from Thomson Reuters. In January 2018, there were 312 venture capital deals with U.S.-based companies, with $8.2 billion invested, compared […]
New York-based venture fund Notation Capital announced on Feb. 7 it has closed its second fund, a $27 million vehicle to focus on “first-check” investing. The firm is departing from its previous strategy of “pre-seed” investing, for a few reasons, including that it “struggled to define what the heck “pre-seed” actually means, particularly as the […]
An alumni group from the 500 Startups accelerator program is hoping to be for early-stage venture fundraising what Blue Apron is for home cooks. Instead of investors selecting individual portfolio companies, 22X Fund comes pre-assembled, like a recipe-meal kit. The fund is a portfolio of 30 of the 36 companies from 500 Startups’ 22nd batch […]
Hinge Capital is raising a fund targeted at $80 million, according to a regulatory filing. The firm, based in Encinitas, California, is led by Ryan Swagar and Brandon Zeuner, who are both managing partners at Venture51, an early-stage venture firm based in San Diego. The filing is an amended version of a previous filing that listed the fund's targeted amount at $200 million. Hinge Capital does not appear to have a website. The filing lists no investors.