Mark Boslet
Helion Venture Partners isn’t a household name in venture circles. But the firm has two funds under its belt and is now raising $255.3 million for a third, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Seven of the LP’s latest 10 venture funds saw portfolio values increase from March to June 2011. Two experienced declines and one held steady, according to a peHUB analysis of recent portfolio reports.
Versant Ventures named Dr. Guido Magni as a venture partner in a move to strengthen the firm’s investment team and biotechnology footprint in Europe and worldwide. Magni will manage the firm’s new office in Basel, Switzerland, and was previously a managing director of Versant’s biotechnology incubator, EuroVentures Inc. PRESS RELEASE VERSANT VENTURES — LEADING SEED/EARLY […]
The bill has President Obama’s support and is likely to pass the Senate. But a The New York Times editorial took aim at it, a critical statement from Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro argues it will chip away at objective investment analysis and former SEC chair Arthur Levitt described it as “investor unfriendly.”
The innovation now taking place in big data is the result of simpler and more efficient ways to use and manipulate large volumes of information. It may soon stem from “actionability.”
The venture firm DFJ Esprit and secondaries firm Tempo Capital said they agreed to merge their respective venture secondaries businesses to form DFJ Esprit Secondaries. PRESS RELEASE DFJ Esprit and Tempo Capital merge venture secondary businesses to create the largest venture secondaries company in Europe DFJ Esprit merges with venture secondaries firm, Tempo Capital, to […]
After several slow years, the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System ratcheted up its venture investing in 2007 to good effect. The pension system bought into 24 funds in the past five years, according to a peHUB analysis of its most recent public portfolio report. Thirteen of the funds have investment multiples above 1, suggesting they […]
Xpert Financial Inc. offered an update on its secondary trading platform with the news that institutional interest in its platform has grown and that five companies were listed as of the end of 2011 with potential transactions of $2 million to $20 million. PRESS RELEASE Xpert Sees Significant Investor Registrations and Strong Customer Growth SAN […]
The venture capital industry has no shortage of startup incubators and accelerators. Here is one focused strictly on media...or rather new media.
SAP Ventures is not your typical corporate venture investor. It views its parent company, SAP AG, as an LP rather than a corporate benefactor and raises funds instead of submitting budgets. Six investing directors get carried interest, as they would if they were partners on Sand Hill Road.