Private Equity
With venture lending capacity down by as much as two-thirds since the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, revenue scale and company quality will be top of mind for both venture debt and equity capital providers.
8 min read · 18 April 2023
Immediately after the FDIC’s takeover of Silicon Valley Bank, the Chicago-based VC firm created a vehicle to help fund payroll and dug into start-ups’ arrangements with payroll providers.
5 min read · 17 March 2023
Non-solicitation and return-of-property provisions are likely to shift from individual employment contracts to M&A agreements if the ban is passed.
7 min read · 15 March 2023
The failure of Silicon Valley Bank, a longtime favorite of the tech industry, has venture capitalists scrambling to help portfolio companies that are depositors with the bank and make sure their own firms’ deposits are safe. One VC described the bank’s collapse as an “extinction level event” for technology start-ups.
9 min read · 11 March 2023
A roundtable discussion with Patricia Muoio, partner at SineWave Ventures, Vesna Prchkovska, co-founder and CEO of QMENTA and Dipanwita Das, co-founder and CEO of Sorcero.
10 min read · 08 March 2023
Early commercial prospects help some deep tech start-ups skirt fundraising woes.
10 min read · 06 March 2023
While many investors gave into FOMO and took shortcuts in their due diligence, Thomvest leaned into a more careful approach.
6 min read · 01 March 2023
IP attorneys are spending lots of time making sure VC-backed start-ups have the freedom to operate and get products to market.
6 min read · 01 March 2023
Cautionary tales of governance failures and heightened litigation risk have some VCs rethinking their due diligence processes.
7 min read · 01 March 2023
At 29, Dan Chaplin has been promoted three times in five years and now co-leads the London VC firm’s fintech and digital assets segment.
3 min read · 23 February 2023
