Worldwide, the video game industry is projected to bring in more than $152 billion in revenue this year and investors have taken notice
The numbers for the strategy aren’t favorable, but lenders remain positive
Last December, August Capital decided to stop fundraising for its eighth fund and informed limited partners it was was returning Fund VIII commitments. General Partner David Hornik told Venture Capital Journal the firm is focusing on producing more exits and plans to raise a new fund next year. “This is a year of liquidity,” he […]
Many venture debt lenders choose to structure themselves as a business development company because the model fits the strategy like a glove. BDCs are required to invest 70 percent of their portfolio into U.S.-based companies that have a market value of less than $250 million, which makes them ideal lenders to early-stage startups. Regulations also […]
Venture debt is nothing new, but it’s become a big fish in the VC pond
A weekly letter from the VCJ editor about an assortment of what's happening in VC, along with who we're meeting and what we're hearing
Vianney de Leudeville of British Business Investments discusses why the development bank subsidiary is seeding fund of funds like Top Tier
More than half of small and mid-market businesses couldn’t remain profitable one month after a cyberattack. No, we’re not talking about mom-and-pop shops or family-owned restaurants, but middle-market companies, which make up 97 percent of U.S. businesses, according to a report by the Better Business Bureau. The cybersecurity business is $200 billion in size, but […]
Another robust year of fundraising by the U.S.-based venture community has led firms to raise more than $37 billion year-to-date through mid-September, according to a Venture Capital Journal analysis of preliminary data from Thomson Reuters. Q3 is not yet wrapped up, but so far the fundraising total is at about $10 billion for the three-month […]
A weekly letter from the VCJ editor about an assortment of what's happening in VC, along with who we're meeting and what we're hearing