Mark Boslet
The European debt crisis and a rising U.S. dollar tamped down returns on alternative investments outside the United States during the third quarter of 2011. Private equity and venture capital funds investing in developed and emerging markets outside the U.S. posted a loss for the period, Cambridge Associates said in a press release. The release […]
Jalak Jobanputra, formerly of Omidyar Network and Intel Capital, has joined the newly formed Russian-supported RTP Ventures as managing director and founding partner. RTP Ventures has $120 million in available capital and is associated with ru-Net, a Moscow-based $700M international investor. PRESS RELEASE Jalak Jobanputra Named Managing Director at RTP Ventures in New York City Jobanputra to […]
If there was an umbrella message he offered it was this: never lose sight of company objectives. Any new product or feature has “got to show tangible wins very quickly,” he said.
The San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System, like many LPs, loaded up on venture capital funds during 2000 and 2001 when the hope of big Web 1.0 wins peaked and then faded.
Deals with pre-money valuations of more than $100 million increased substantially, to 17% of transactions, a level not seen since 2005.
The most active VCs in the space include New Enterprise Associates, Scale Venture Partners, Trinity Venture Partners, Benchmark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Google Ventures, says a new report.
Deal making surged to a record last year. Expect another rise in 2012 as investors search for the next Facebook.
The Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System’s interest in venture has spiked over the past 10 years. But it’s been a cautious investor through the turbulent decade. Its bets on venture capital more than doubled in the first decade of the new millennium, compared to the 1990s, even though it hasn’t purchased a share in […]
Robert Durden of Morgan Creek Capital Management chats with VCJ about the LP’s investment focus and its plans for China Venture was a growing piece of Morgan Creek Capital Management’s private assets commitments last year. Allocations are likely to be up again this year. That’s because the asset class appears more attractive now that capital […]
Jeff Clavier has closed a $55 million third fund that will enable his seed stage firm, SoftTech VC, to make bigger bets on portfolio companies. Clavier, the firm’s founder and managing partner, says the fund was oversubscribed and has invested in 23 companies so far with money from its first and second closings. The fund […]