From the VCJ archives: With Zola announcing this week it has raised $10 million in Series B funding, we're re-posting a sector analysis story on wedding related startups that originally published in the August 2014 issue of VCJ.
David Eichler, managing partner at Psilos, talks about opportunistic investing in a changing medical equipment market
Maven Ventures, a seed investor in consumer Internet and mobile startups, has filed to raise $20 million for its second fund, according to a regulatory filing. Fund II is a step-up from the Palo Alto, California-based firm’s $7.5 million first fund, raised in 2013. Founder and Managing Partner Jim Scheinman said although the inaugural fund is only two years old, it already […]
Pond Venture Partners notches big gain in the mid-decade portfolio of the state pension fund
On-demand valet and parking related apps are clicking with investors, who see plenty of opportunity in the burgeoning sector.
Norwest GP Niren Shah says e-commerce and more mobile adoption are driving a rising number of investments in India.
Coveo, a Québec City-based provider of intelligent search apps, has raised $35 million in a Series D financing. The round was led by IQ Venture Capital and was joined by the company's existing investors Tandem Expansion Fund, BDC Capital, Propulsion Ventures and Fonds de solidarité FTQ. Coveo’s chief executive Louis Têtu also invested.
Women still make up a tiny minority of GPs, but the ground is shifting in the gender diversity debate
Few dispute venture capital is an industry with an embarrassing gender imbalance. One problem is many GPs don’t know what steps to take to change it. An obvious start is to begin actively recruiting, at least for associate-level and entry-level positions, something a number of firms have begun to do. This requires expanding networks of […]
The number of women entrepreneurs has grown considerably in the past four years. By 2013, 18 percent of venture-funded companies in the United States had a woman on the executive team, according to a Diana Report study. That is double the 9 percent of 2011. Many factors explain the rise. For one, the frothy investment […]