The growth of Tinder and other online social and dating apps is drawing plenty of interest from VCs, who are hot and bothered over the online dating sector.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co is mulling the launch of a growth equity fund after three recent minority investments that marked a departure from its focus on traditional buyouts.
Canadian early-stage venture capital firm Version One Ventures has closed its second fund with $35 million in commitments, exceeding the $30 million target, said Boris Wertz, founding partner. Northleaf Venture Catalyst Fund and BDC Capital are anchoring the new fund and were joined by existing investors from Fund I.
Google has led a $542 million round for Magic Leap, a Florida-based cinematic reality startup.
The day of the self-driving car is coming, writes guest columnist Mark Lydon, managing director for Intel Capital’s $100 million Connected Car Fund.
More VCs hoping to make the grade, as investment activity in edtech picks up.
For the first three quarters of this year more than $33 billion has been put to work in U.S.-based companies. That is $3 billion more than the amount invested in all of 2013, according to the MoneyTree Report from the NVCA and PricewaterhouseCoopers, based on data from Thomson Reuters.
Public pension funds in the United States invest on average 9.4 percent of their portfolios in private equity, and the pension with the best 10-year returns this year is the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
The uncertain regulatory environment surrounding the operation of unmanned aerial vehicles isn’t hampering the application and innovation of drones.
Peter Thiel, the first outside investor in Facebook and co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, continued his campaign against what he sees as a lack of innovation in the technology business at the PartnerConnect conference Tuesday.