AI, robots, secondaries, climate, women-led funds and data centers were the topics of most interest to Venture Capital Journal readers in 2024.
The UK-based firm emphasizes the timing of its primary and secondary investments in companies to produce impressive performance metrics.
Notable companies that have filed to go public or have hired bankers include Airtable, Chime Financial, Hinge Health, MNTN and Turo.
XGEN Venture, a life sciences-focused venture capital firm based in Milan, Italy, has closed its inaugural fund at about €180mn.
The CEO of secondary trading platform Nasdaq Private Market says he is already seeing the ‘liquidity logjam starting to break.’
Citing poor performance, most LPs surveyed by Coller expect to decline to reinvest with some existing GP relationships.
Close to €500m was invested in Belgian tech start-ups in the first half of this year, according to a new report.
Convinced that great founders can come from anywhere, AXA Venture Partners prefers funds that focus on regions with a high density of talented entrepreneurs.
As the threat of rising interest rates has largely dissipated, investor concern has turned to geopolitical uncertainty.
More than 60% of investors polled in our annual survey cited “geopolitical uncertainty” as the factor that would have the greatest impact on the performance of their private markets portfolio in 2025.