Lawrence Aragon
Would-be entrepreneurs coming out of prestigious universities in the Northeast have a new booster with deep pockets: Safar Partners. The Boston firm’s founders are Arunas A. Chesonis, CEO of Sweetwater Energy and founding partner of family office Cranberry Capital, and Nader Motamedy, former CEO of fund-of-funds Caspian Private Equity. Their debut fund has a target […]
Wellcome Trust outperforms many of other venture LPs. Head of Venture Capital Geoffrey Loves explains how.
An entertainment industry executive and a veteran Silicon Valley VC have teamed up to launch a venture firm focused exclusively on gaming: Griffin Gaming Partners. Griffin’s managing directors are Peter Levin, formerly president of Interactive Ventures and Games at Lionsgate, and Phil Sanderson, previously a managing director at Ridge Ventures. The Griffin team also includes […]
Ankona Capital Partners, which launched two years ago, is officially raising its first venture fund. The Newport Beach, California-based firm filed a Form D for Ankona Capital Partners GP I LLC on Aug. 12. The filing does not include a target amount and shows no capital raised to date. Brokerage firm Synergy Capital I LLC […]
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As 2018 draws to a close, we thought it would be fun to look back at the biggest stories of the year. Specifically, we wanted to know if readers found any particular topics more compelling than others. When we dove into the analytics for Buyouts, our affiliate publication, we found that scoops about deals accounted […]
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Will Barack Obama become a venture capitalist when he leaves office? Speculation is running high after a recent interview Obama did with Bloomberg. When asked what industries he might go into, the President replied: “Well, you know, it’s hard to say. But what I will say is that — just to bring things full circle about innovation — […]
The venture capital industry lost one of its fathers. Tom Perkins, who co-founded Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1972, died Tuesday, June 9, according to published reports. He was 84.