The Indiana Public Retirement System has seen a nice upswing in cash distributions from venture funds minted during the early years of the past decade.But many funds from these difficult years of venture’s recovery still struggle to return invested capital.
2 min read · 09 October 2013
Venture fundraising remained anemic in the third quarter with 56 funds raising $4.1 billion, according to a study released Monday. The dollar total was down 21% from the third quarter of last year and dollars committed during the first three quarters of the year are down 29%.
1 min read · 07 October 2013
Indiana money manager sees significant boost in distributions from early decade funds
2 min read · 06 October 2013
Cloud companies are seeing average revenue multiples of 8.4x this year’s sales.
2 min read · 03 October 2013
Cloud companies are seeing average revenue multiples of 8.4x this year’s sales
2 min read · 03 October 2013
Fund is a 50% boost from firm’s first fund, but it came in under its target
1 min read · 02 October 2013
500 Startups said it closed a $44.1 million second fund that will focus on backing seed and accelerator companies. The new fund is a 50% boost from the firm’s $29.4 million first fund, but came in short of its initial $50 million target. Founding Partner Dave McClure said he always considered the target aggressive and stressed the increase from his first fund. The firm will invest about 75% of its money domestically and 25% abroad.
1 min read · 02 October 2013
If you like a company when it is private, why not continue to like it when it is public?
3 min read · 02 October 2013
Second fund nearly twice as large as first; firm to build out internal business development team to assist portfolio companies
2 min read · 02 October 2013
The corporate venture arm SAP Ventures plans to build out internal business development team to assist portfolio companies.
2 min read · 02 October 2013
