For most people, buying or selling a home is the biggest, most gut-wrenching transaction of their lives. That’s why a new set of venture-backed startups are hoping to take the stress out of residential real estate by transforming the way houses are bought and sold. Take Knock, which recently raised $32 million led by RRE Ventures. Unlike […]
The number of venture deals going to robotics companies held steady in the third quarter of 2017, but the amount of equity invested dropped by more than half, according to VCJ’s analysis of preliminary Thomson Reuters data. Seven robotics companies raised $40.84 million in the third quarter, compared to the $82.55 million raised by the […]
OpenView Partners, the Boston-based expansion-stage investor, is partnering with Athena Alliance, a Half Moon Bay, California-based nonprofit that promotes women on company boards, to expand the alliance’s reach and to bring greater gender diversity to the venture firm’s own portfolio companies. OpenView has committed to raising more than $500,000 for Athena Alliance’s operations and has opened […]
The Republican tax plan offers several benefits to venture investors and entrepreneurs, one of the biggest being the preservation of the existing tax treatment for carried interest. The bill unveiled by House Republicans on Thursday offered no change in the present rules for carried interest, allowing hedge fund, venture capital and private equity managers to […]
Wherever you look in Canada’s technology sectors, from the pre-revenue startup to the Bay Street boardroom, you find too few women in leadership roles. That’s the main message of a new report on the state of gender disparity in innovation. Where’s the Dial Now?, co-authored by MoveTheDial, PwC Canada and MaRS Discovery District, draws on numerous sources, including data for some 933 tech businesses, to produce a comprehensive study of female representation in the ranks of tech executives, founders and boards.
Funds from Bain Capital Ventures and DFJ top a portfolio of emerging venture funds at the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System. The portfolio is made up of 2014 vintages with a focus on mid-tier funds, and later-stage and multi-stage investing. Half of the funds are between $200 million and $750 million in size, and only […]
What do the companies Outcome Health, Clover Health and Ottobock Healthcare have in common? The answer is they are all newly minted healthcare unicorns, part of a growing herd of well-funded life-sciences investments changing the landscape of venture investing. This year, investing and fundraising in the sector are setting records, and investors seem eager to […]
When Yumin Choi joined Bain Capital Ventures this year as a managing director, his arrival signaled a new direction for the firm. Bain, which had focused previously on growth-stage healthcare deals, now would branch into early stage. It saw innovation and wanted to be involved. At Menlo Ventures, a similar dynamic is at play. The […]
Initial coin offerings have caught the venture industry off guard, with more than 200 blockchain startup companies raising nearly $2.6 billion through the offerings, or ICOs, since 2014. Now some venture firms are beginning to explore how to leverage the unorthodox fundraising strategy for their own investment funds. Santa Monica, California-based incubator and venture firm Science Inc is […]
Jesse Draper is a fourth-generation investor with a big goal: to back women entrepreneurs. Her new fund, launched last year, already boasts 18 investments on the way to 30. Draper, the sole GP of her firm Halogen Ventures and the daughter of Silicon Valley VC Tim Draper, declined to release the size of the fund. […]