Marina Temkin
Mark Yusko, the well-known investor who runs Morgan Creek Capital Management, believes that early-stage venture capital is an evergreen asset class. “There will always be innovative technologies with value potential,” he told Venture Capital Journal. Morgan Creek, which manages $1.6 billion as an outsourced CIO and a fund-of-funds, is currently overweight early-stage venture, but takes […]
Through the end of Q3, venture firms have completed 614 M&A deals, according to PitchBook’s latest North American M&A report. While through the end of Q3, deal flow count is pacing slightly below last year’s total of 958 deals, the VC-backed portion of the entire M&A market has been increasing steadily since 2015, the report […]
Franklin Templeton, a global money manager with $692 billion in AUMs, and EvoNexus, a large Southern California tech startup incubator, have launched a new fintech incubator. The new incubator is financed entirely by Franklin Templeton and is located in a modern, purpose-built 13,000 square-foot facility on the asset manager’s San Mateo, California-based campus. Participants in […]
With three-quarters of the year completed, 2019 is shaping up to be the second-highest year ever for venture capital investing. Although this year’s startup financing activity trails the record level of 2018, VCs have invested nearly $97 billion through the third quarter, which already tops the $85 billion invested during 2017, according to the latest […]
Vanessa Larco, a partner with New Enterprise Associates, did not intend to become a venture capitalist. Larco started her career as a product manager at Microsoft. Later she co-founded Funloop, a gaming startup, and more recently was a director of product management at Box, where she led a large team on redesign and relaunch of […]
Is investing in earlier venture rounds more likely to produce higher returns than betting on later stages of financing? The latest study from PitchBook aim to answer this question by examining risk-adjusted returns from VC-backed companies that have reached an exit. Unsurprisingly, the analysis found that before adjusting for risk, returns from earlier stages of […]
Spark, Union Square and Flagship lead the way for returns.
Hamilton Lane’s venture investment criteria is purposely broad to meet the demands and investment strategies of various clients.
South Florida has an active first half, with VC activity already surpassing all of last year for the Miami metro area.
AV8 Ventures, an Allianz-backed early-stage firm that launched 18 months ago, recently brought on former Google Cloud executive Baris Aksoy as a general partner. Aksoy told Venture Capital Journal that he was attracted to AV8’s “founder-first mentality.” He also said he liked that the Palo Alto, California-based firm is new and he can help shape […]