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CalPERS Probes Placement Fees

Pension fund is looking into over $50M in payments by Apollo and others a former board member’s placement agent firm

Moritz Revisits the Little Kingdom

PEOPLE PAGE: Sequoia’s Mike Moritz hits bookstores this month with a tome about Apple, Shriram is top VC on Forbes 400, Trailblazer Capital embraces Legos, Perkins takes to the sky

Sequoia Considers Consolidating Funds

Source says firms plans to seek LP approval to lump all its funds into a single fund

Losses Pile Up for University Endowments

Endowment problems are expected to make VC fund-raising more difficult

Village Suspends Effort for Third Fund

Massachusetts firm instead has raised $27M for an annex fund to support its vintage 2006 second fund

CMEA Nixes $500M Green Growth Fund

San Francisco firm steps up its early stage activity

Can Wave Catch $75M?

Boston-based firm is raising a first fund that will target startups focused on water and energy efficiency

IPO Profile: A123 Systems Inc.

Shares of battery maker soar 50% on first day, close even higher at month’s end

Seven Straight Wins

The Post-Venture Capital Index surged nearly 10% to 618.39 in September, posting its seventh consecutive monthly gain

In Memoriam: Craig Johnson

Craig Winfield Johnson died at the age of 62 after founding two law firms, one of which represented Yahoo, Hotmail, WebTV and other notable tech startups.