NextView Ventures' Rob Go explains why Sequoia Capital's investment in WhatsApp is even more amazing than it appears at first glance.
We are giving away five free tickets to fintech entrepreneurs for our fintech-themed Venture Alpha East conference in New York on March 26-27. Here's how to win.
In a peHUB Canada exclusive, Tom Rand, managing partner of the privately-backed MaRS Cleantech Fund, writes about what's at stake in the current global debate over climate change and the potential impact of clean technologies. For Rand, the issue comes down to a contest between the Cleantech Bulls and the Climate Bear. In this contest, a number of Canadian venture-backed startups like Hydrostor, Woodland Biofuels, Sparq Systems and Polar Sapphire are demonstrating why the Cleantech Bulls are showing increasing muscle.
The number of technology companies aged five years or younger has fallen to below 80,000, down from a high of 113,000 in 2001, according to a new report from the Kauffman Foundation, says Reuters.
Draper Fisher Jurvetson has closed its early-stage focused Fund XI on $325 million after roughly two months in the market, the firm said on Tuesday. Fund XI is the smallest the firm has raised for some time, which reflects the firm's slimmed-down strategy.
In light of the letter than Tom Perkins recently wrote to the Wall Street Journal, and its aftermath, we're re-publishing a profile of him that originally appeared as the cover story in the December 2007 issue of affiliate publication Venture Capital Journal.
In high school, the stereotype goes, jocks and computer geeks sit at separate lunch tables and socialize as little as possible.
Real Ventures recently signaled a new direction for the six year-old venture capital firm – a direction that will soon be made manifest by the first close of its third, $100 million partnership, Real Ventures III, peHUB Canada has exclusively learned.The fund’s launch will cap what has been an exceptionally active period for the Montréal-based Real Ventures, one of Canada’s foremost early-stage IT and Internet-focused investment specialists, and the most active private investors in domestic seed-stage and startup financings in 2013, according to Thomson Reuters.
The most recent Forbes' 30 Under 30 list points to the youthful energy that is currently powering many venture-backed technology startups. Among those recognized are several notable Canadian company founders, entrepreneurs and investors. Examples include Vancouver's Brian Wong, the founder and CEO of San Francisco-based mobile rewards network Kiip, Eric Migicovsky, the University of Waterloo engineering graduate who launched smart-watch maker Pebble Technology , and Ted Livingston, who helped found Waterloo, Ont.-based KiK Interactive, a developer of mobile messaging applications for smartphones.
Canadian venture capital firm Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital intends to raise a fourth clean-tech fund, eyeing a fund size of US$150 million to US$250 million, reports peHUB Canada affiliate publication VCJ. According to the firm’s co-founder and CEO, Wal van Lierop, the timing is right because investors are coming back to the clean-tech sector.