Mark Boslet
Below is performance data for the vintage 2016 to 2018 venture capital funds in the Public Employees’ Retirement System of Nevada‘s portfolio. The figures from the Nevada LP are current as of September 2018. An expanded spreadsheet with additional data is attached. To download the full version of the spreadsheet below with additional data, click here: Fund Performance Nevada PERS 2016 to […]
Intel Capital said it invested $117 million into 14 companies from sectors including artificial intelligence, communications, health care and chip design.
The Tech Pioneers Fund has set out to raise a $50 million venture-capital fund, according to a filing with the SEC.
Underpinning Sovan Bin’s startup Odaseva are fundamental technologies at the core of many young companies today: Salesforce on the front end, Amazon Web Services underneath and Microsoft’s Azure. The reasoning goes like this: Why put energy into reinventing these formative layers of infrastructure when companies live and die on the innovation they bring further up […]
In these days of rapid-fire technological change, an artificial-intelligence startup can use software to automate a manual process in just three months. A young AI chip company can generate a prototype in as little as 18 months. The speed of innovation is faster than ever, it would seem. But is it? Or is the very […]
Teraki said it raised $2.3 million from Hong Kong-based Horizons Ventures and American Family Ventures, a $200 million fund backed by American Family Insurance.
Vlocity said it raised $60 million of Series C capital in a round led by Sutter Hill Ventures and Salesforce Ventures, and joined by new investor Bessemer Venture Partners and existing investors Accenture and New York Life. The new round puts the company's valuation above $1 billion.
Cisco Systems said it was launching an independent venture-capital firm called Decibel, headed by former New Enterprise Associates General Partner Jon Sakoda, who left NEA last year. The new firm will focus on early-stage enterprise investing and enable Cisco to engage with the entrepreneurial ecosystem earlier in company lifecycles. Cisco did not release financial data on […]
Innoviz Technologies said it raised $132 million of Series C capital in a round backed by new investors China Merchants Capital, Shenzhen Capital Group and New Alliance Capital. Also in the round were Harel Insurance Investments and Financial Services, and Phoenix Insurance Company.
Rewire said it raised $12 million of Series A capital in a round led by Viola Fintech and joined by BNP Paribas' investment arm Opera Tech Ventures, OurCrowd, Moneta, Yair Tauman, Yaron Lemelbaum, Leon Vaidman and Standard Bank of South Africa.