Kaitlyn Landgraf Bartley
Kelly Perdew’s multiple chapters already include U.S. Army officer, entrepreneur, winner of Season 2 of “The Apprentice” and angel investor. Now, as managing general partner of Moonshots Capital, he’s helping guide the Austin firm through the transition from angel investment to making seed-stage venture deals. Perdew, 51, launched the firm in 2014 along with General Partner Craig […]
Music producer and rapper Jay-Z has partnered with Larry Marcus, managing director of Walden Venture Capital, on a new venture fund called Marcy Venture Partners, according to California business filings. In addition to Marcus and Jay-Z, whose legal name Shawn Carter is listed, the filing includes Laurence “Jay” Brown Jr., who serves as CEO of […]
Cota Capital has led a $29 million B-1 funding round in Bossa Nova, which provides product data for the global retail industry, the company announced today. New investors include China Walden Ventures and LG Electronics. The company’s total funding is now $70 million.
Long Hill Capital is raising a second venture fund targeted at $200 million, according to a regulatory filing.
NXTP Labs is raising a venture fund targeted at $120 million. The firm makes investments at the Seed, Series A or B stage in technology companies located in Latin America, according to its website.
A decade ago, real estate tech was virtually unheard of, with few startups looking to apply technology to the real estate and building industries, and few legacy companies in the sector looking to disrupt their own industry. Casey Berman, then president of operations at real estate and investment holding company Berman Enterprises, saw an opportunity […]
Venture investors poured less money into fewer deals with U.S.-based companies in May 2018 compared with the same month a year before, according to VCJ’s analysis of preliminary data from Thomson Reuters. In May 2018, $6.48 billion was invested into 321 venture deals with U.S. based companies, down from $6.57 billion into 441 deals in […]
Collab+Currency is raising a venture fund targeted at $100 million, according to a regulatory filing. The New York-based firm is led by Craig Shapiro, founder and managing partner of Collaborative Fund.
A team of former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partners have closed a $350 million venture fund to focus on digitizing such industries as transportation, energy, manufacturing and logistics. G2VP has raised $350 million from investors, including Kleiner Perkins Chairman John Doerr, family offices, institutions, and corporations in the industries the firm aims to digitize, […]
Cloud Apps Capital Partners has closed its second fund at $87 million, the firm announced today. The San Francisco firm makes Series A investments in cloud business applications. Portfolio companies include social media management dashboard HootSuite, endpoint protection platform CrowdStrike, and product lifecycle management platform Propel. With its second fund, the firm plans to continue its strategy of […]