Marina Temkin
Science Inc, a Santa Monica, California-based venture firm and incubator, is raising its third $100 million venture fund, according to a filing with the SEC.
Venture capital valuations for startups based in Silicon Valley were strong in the second quarter of the year, with the period seeing the highest percentage of up rounds compared with down rounds since 2004, when Fenwick & West began keeping track of startup valuations. The law firm’s quarterly survey found that 86 percent of Q2 […]
University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO), one of the largest university endowments in the country, has been going through many changes. Two years ago after hiring Britt Harris as its CIO and CEO from the $155 billion Texas Teachers’ Retirement System, the $46 billion university endowment set out to reorganize how its private equity […]
Sierra Ventures announced the closing of its $215 million 12th fund with $40 million more in capital than the firm was targeting. The larger fund was the result, in part, of a bevy of exits from its 10th fund. The San Mateo, California-based firm received commitments from five new institutional and three new corporate LPs, […]
Blue Delta Capital Partners, a McLean, Virginia-based venture firm focused on U.S. government technology market, is raising $125 million for its second fund, according to a filing with the SEC.
Vida Ventures, a Boston, Massachusetts-based life sciences-focused venture firm raised $537 million towards its second fund, according to a regulatory document.
Vice Ventures, a firm focused on investing in such categories as cannabis, alcohol, sextech, gambling, nicotine, psychedelics and addiction recovery, initially set out to raise a $25 million maiden fund. In June, six months after its founding, the New York City-based firm closed on its initial target, but is fundraising still toward a $50 million […]
Moxxie Ventures, a firm based in Mountain View, California, is seeking $25 million towards its first fund, according to a filing with the SEC. First sale was not reported.
The commercial space sector may still be nascent, but decreasing costs of satellite launches and NASA‘s push to put humans on the moon by 2024 are helping boost investor interest in funneling more capital into space startups. The recent announcement from Richard Branson‘s Virgin Galactic and its plans to go public via a reverse merger with Social Capital […]
U.S.-based venture investing slowed slightly for the second consecutive quarter, according to a new report by EY. Startups nationally raised $29.3 billion in Q2, a 2 percent decrease from the first quarter of the year, according to EY’s calculations. The small reduction in the most recent quarter is “healthy,” especially since capital deployment for the […]