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CalPERS, the nation's largest pension fund, announced today that it will report the amount of carried interest it has paid to general partners for fiscal 2015 in the fall.
Xignite CEO Stephane Dubois compares and contrasts the fintech communties from the coasts
The decision to welcome outside LPs stems from the firm’s view that venture opportunities in Canada has never been better
The San Francisco-based company, backed by OrbiMed, Wellington and others, raised a $1.1 million IPO
Vancouver-based firm targeting its fourth fund between $150 million and $200 million
Buyouts Insider, publisher of PE HUB, Buyouts and VCJ, is looking for a seasoned business journalist to fill the role of Managing Editor. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about storytelling in both new and old media.
In a keynote at our recent PartnerConnect conference, Peter Thiel shared his (strong) opinions about Apple, Google, Uber, tech founders, competition, phony technology companies and lots more.
A little more than 200 of you took our latest poll, which asked: “Is the pace of VC investing (on track for $40B this year) proof of another bubble?” Early on, most folks said no. But the final results show most people think we are in another bubble.
Venture capitalist Jim Breyer, best known for leading Accel Partners's early investment in Facebook, said it has become much more difficult to recruit talent in Silicon Valley because of competition from large Chinese Internet companies.
For the first three quarters of this year more than $33 billion has been put to work in U.S.-based companies. That is $3 billion more than the amount invested in all of 2013, according to the MoneyTree Report from the NVCA and PricewaterhouseCoopers, based on data from Thomson Reuters.
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