Private Equity
Venture-backed companies in the genomic sequencing and analysis space have seen a few big financings and acquisitions in recent months. But for the most part, life science fundraising s as challenging as ever, says Roopom Banerjee, whose company, RainDance Technologies, just closed a $20 million late-stage round.
3 min read · 29 April 2013
After selling Miami-based data center Terremark to Verizon for $1.4 billion, Manny Medina is building up a venture fund. He’s finding not a lot of local competition – which is something he’d like to change.
2 min read · 25 April 2013
Kickstart Seed Fund has closed on a $26 million second fund focused on early stage technology investments in Utah. That is more than twice the amount that Managing Director Gavin Christensen raised for his first fund in 2008. He has added Clarke Miyasaki as a GP and Alex Soffe as CFO to help manage the fund.
2 min read · 23 April 2013
Early-stage halth care investor raises $516M for its third fund
3 min read · 22 April 2013
Pinterest, LivingSocial, New Relic and Nest Labs raised some of the largest venture rounds during the first three months of the year
1 min read · 14 April 2013
What happens when a late stage investor is willing to buy a chunk of your portfolio company at a higher valuation than a strategic acquirer?That’s the conundrum many VCs have faced in recent quarters.
2 min read · 09 April 2013
While emerging VCs often make concessions on fees and carried interest, established players can write their own rules. For New Enterprise Associates, that translates into fees below the standard 2% but a bigger share of carry, managing director Peter Barris told attendees at the PartnerConnect conference in Boston.
3 min read · 08 April 2013
The year got off to a very slow start for venture-backed exits, according to a new report from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association.
2 min read · 01 April 2013
New York-based BOLDstart Ventures, a seed and early stage investor focused on enterprise software and services, has raised $10.7 million toward a planned $15 million fund.
2 min read · 25 March 2013
Some fast-growing bets by the early-stage investor are paying off with huge dividends
3 min read · 23 March 2013
