Private Equity
2 min read · 05 July 2010
We’ve written a fair amount about how stingy VCs have gotten over the past couple of years, but one area that they continue to invest into is the cloud. If you want the inside scoop on what VCs are looking for in cloud deals today, check out the video I've posted after the jump of a panel I moderated this week for GigaOm’s Structure event. Panelists were Satish Dharmaraj of Redpoint Ventures, Promod Haque of Norwest Venture Partners, Ping Li of Accel Partners; Michael Skok of North Bridge Venture Partners and Glenn Solomon of GGV Capital.
1 min read · 25 June 2010
6 min read · 21 June 2010
Coller Capital survey and news briefs about LPs in Illinois, Tennessee and Montana
5 min read · 21 June 2010
2 min read · 07 June 2010
If you had to guess, what percentage of the investing partners at the 50 most active U.S. venture firms are female? 10%, 15%, 25%? It’s just 5%, according to research by Cynthia Padnos at Illuminate Ventures, one of the five female VCs Tom Stein writes about in this month’s cover story for Venture Capital Journal. (Subscribers can read the story here). Despite that shocking statistic, none of the women Stein spoke with complained about sexism. In fact, Theresia Gouw Ranzetta of Accel Partners says the venture business is actually a breath of fresh air compared to her first job as a design engineer at a large carmaker. She was just one of a handful of women in a building with about 1,000 engineers, and business lunches typically took place at a local strip club. “Nothing fazes me after that,” Ranzetta said.
2 min read · 02 June 2010
LP-related news briefs about Permira, TRS Texas and New Jersey
4 min read · 17 May 2010
Question for VCs: Have you noticed your limited partners demanding a lot more information about your portfolio—all the way down to how you arrived at the valuations for each company you’ve invested in? I was talking to a veteran VC recently who said he is dealing with way more LP questions than he used to, enough that he sees it eating into time that would be better spent scouting new deals or working with portfolio companies. He has sat down with LPs and gone over every company in the particular fund (or funds) that the LPs have invested in. And he’s been surprised by very specific questions about operational details of the companies in the fund(s).
2 min read · 12 May 2010
3 min read · 10 May 2010
1 min read · 08 April 2010
