Kaitlyn Landgraf Bartley
Silicon Valley venture investors’ confidence of the entrepreneurial environment grew in the first quarter of 2018 compared with the quarter before, and rose above its 14-year average. That’s according to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index, which increased to 3.76 in the first quarter, up from 3.66 the previous quarter. The index is run […]
Bain Capital Ventures is investing in companies aiming to build an infrastructure for crypto assets similar to the framework for existing financial systems. In April, the firm invested in Basis, a blockchain-based algorithmic “central bank” that keeps the purchasing power of its cryptocurrency stable by adjusting its supply. The company raised $133 million in a […]
Digital tokens are often touted to venture investors as a track to liquidity that’s much faster than the years a portfolio-company exit can take via acquisition or public offering. But the reality is more complicated, according to attorneys, accountants and venture investors. The lack of U.S. accounting standards designed for the new asset class of tokens […]
Biomatics Capital is raising a second venture fund targeting $300 million, according to a regulatory filing. The Seattle-based firm is led by Julie Sunderland, who previously served as the director of program related investments for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Boris Nikolic, previously the chief advisor for science and technology to Bill Gates, according to the firm’s website.
April saw an overall decrease in deal count and increase in equity invested compared to the same month in 2018, but the data was mixed for the month’s five biggest investment sectors. Across all sectors, there were 324 venture deals with U.S.-based companies in April 2018, compared with 341 the same month a year before, […]
Lerer Hippeau has raised a $60.6 million second “select fund” for follow-on investments in addition to its recent $122 million sixth fund, according to regulatory filings.
Venture Investors is raising a sixth healthcare venture fund targeted at $100 million, according to a regulatory filing. The firm is led by James Adox, David Arnstein, Scott Button, John Neis, and Paul Weiss, with offices in Madison, Wisconsin, and Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Next to IRRs, salary and carry distributions are perhaps the most important numbers at a venture firm and among the most closely-guarded. The results of a new survey from entrepreneur and former L Capital Partners Associate John Gannon, who runs a venture capital job listing site, dispel some of the opacity surrounding compensation in the VC community, […]
Tusk Ventures’ November closing of its $36 million venture debut finished a fundraising that Managing Partner Jordan Nof said felt like “clawing, scratching and screaming” to earn LPs’ commitments. The story of the firm’s second fund couldn’t be more different. Commitments from current investors already exceed the size of its first fund, and the firm is talking with […]
Charge Ventures is raising a second venture fund targeted at $10 million, according to a regulatory filing. The New York-based firm is led by Christos Habachy and Brett Martin and makes seed and early-stage investments. The filing lists no investors.