Private Equity
2 min read · 09 September 2019
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
2 min read · 06 September 2019
Ridge Ventures, which last year raised $150 million for its fourth early-stage fund, has tapped Brendan Baker to join the team as partner. Baker was previously with Wing and Hone Capital, as well as such companies and accelerators as Passport, Shift, Batch, AngelPad and Techstars. On the investment team, he joins Alexander Rosen, Ben Metcalfe, Gil Penchina and Pat Kenealy.
1 min read · 05 September 2019
2 min read · 04 September 2019
Late-stage investor IVP announced it has added three people to its investment team: James Black, who was previously with Qatalyst Partners and Canva; Becca Faust, who joins from Goldman Sachs; and Karthik Ramakrishnan, who was also at Qatalyst Partners and was with Choosy.
1 min read · 04 September 2019
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
3 min read · 30 August 2019
2 min read · 29 August 2019
3 min read · 28 August 2019
NEA 17 has now raised capital from at least nine public pensions, including Nebraska, Sacramento and LA pension funds.
2 min read · 27 August 2019
Patty Abramson, a venture capitalist who co-founded the W0men's Growth Capital Fund in 1997 to invest in businesses owned by women, died Aug. 24 in Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. She was 74. Jenny Abramson, her daughter and a managing partner at the venture firm Rethink Impact, told The Washington Post her mother died from cancer-related complications.
1 min read · 27 August 2019
