Funds from New Enterprise Associates, Insight Venture Partners and Oak Investment Partners hold the top spots in a portfolio of newly minted venture funds at the Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System. The portfolio, with vintages of 2014 to 2017, favors mid-sized funds, and a multi-stage to later-stage approach to investing. About two-thirds of the […]
Venture is diving ever deeper into artificial intelligence, finding fresh problem-solving opportunities in potentially lucrative fields like payment processing and fraud prevention, self-driving vehicles, machine learning and more, industry players and the latest data say. Q1 venture investments in AI jumped 72 percent to $1.9 billion from a year earlier, according to the MoneyTree Report […]
Funding for digital health companies continued to march along at a fast pace in the first quarter with what appears to be a new quarterly record in the United States. The first three months of the year show that investor appetite for these emerging companies hasn’t let up with as many as 400 investors, including […]
Domo, the Utah enterprise-software company, is rumored to be preparing for a public offering. And it will not be the last VC-backed tech company from the Beehive State to go IPO. Domo, valued at $2.3 billion, is a bellwether for the venture industry near Salt Lake City, where businesses founded in the Silicon Slopes have drawn […]
By Joshua Mitnick For Ohad Zuckerman, founder and co-managing partner of Israel’s Copia Agro & Food venture fund, agriculture runs in the family. His great-grandfather planted the orchards of Gadera, one of Israel’s original farming communities. His father founded Zeraim Gadera, which produces high-quality pepper and tomato seeds for export. Zuckerman himself rose from being […]
First, it was the on-demand car services that launched big and were reined in by the regulators. Now, it’s the electric-scooter providers. And like Uber and Lyft, a trio of VC-backed companies that provide dockless short-term rental scooters in mostly urban centers are confident they can smooth out the bumps in the road. In recent months, […]
Funds from Spark Capital and Technology Crossover Ventures hold the top spots in a portfolio of mid-life venture funds at the Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System. The portfolio, with vintages of 2007 to 2013, favors mid-sized funds and a varied approach to investing. More than half of the funds are between $200 million and […]
VCJ has obtained two memos regarding the legal status of certain token sales, which were reportedly sent to the SEC by a group of venture firms and law firms at the end of March, including Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, Perkins Coie and Cooley, according to a source familiar with the matter. Both memos are […]
For venture capitalist Howie Diamond, investing in founders’ companies is only one step in ensuring their success. He and his partners at Alpha Bridge Ventures in San Francisco want to support their personal well-being. That’s why the firm, which is currently raising its debut fund, is launching a beta program called Project Atlas to help founders stay […]
Led by the Dropbox debut, venture-backed IPOs surged in March as the number of deals and the amount of proceeds soared from February. However, with only one billion-dollar fund closing in March, fundraising fell back to Earth. The following stats are based on preliminary data from Thomson Reuters. Fundraising (value down 34%) In March, 28 […]