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Fund Performance: Cash Generation Remains a Challenge for SERS

Recent venture investments are still too early to generate cash returns, although funds by Morgenthaler and Guggenheim have already returned some capital

2 min read · 14 January 2013

Angels Invest Aggressively in 3Q with a Growing Interest in Mobile

Angels continued to aggressively put money to work in the third quarter of last year, with medianl round size jumping to a 15-month high and dollars going to mobile startups rising to 16.5% of total investments.

2 min read · 11 January 2013

Mirantis Raises $10M From Intel, Dell, WestSummit

Mirantis said it raised $10 million of growth capital from Dell Ventures, Intel Capital and WestSummit Capital. WestSummit Capital is a China-based growth stage investor.

4 min read · 10 January 2013

VidSys Gets $3M Venture Loan From Horizon

Horizon Technology Finance Corp. said it provided a $3 million venture loan to VidSys Inc. on Nov. 15. VidSys develops information security software.

3 min read · 10 January 2013

Cleantech Falls Hard in '12; Kleiner Is Year's Most Active Investor

Venture investors put $6.46 billion to work during the year, down from $9.61 billion in 2011, the Cleantech Group reports. The number of deals came in at 704, which was down 15% from a year earlier...

1 min read · 07 January 2013

Attivio Raises $8M From GE Pension Trust

Attivio said it raised $8 million in funding from General Electric Pension Trust. The money comes on top of the $34 million it raised in October from Oak Investment Partners.

3 min read · 07 January 2013

Venture Backed M&A Weakens In 2012

Acquisitions of venture-backed companies fell for the second year in a row in 2012, with a weak fourth quarter contributing to the retreat, according to a study.

1 min read · 03 January 2013

Venture Backed IPO Activity Ends 2012 With a Whimper

Venture-backed IPOs ended 2012 on a slow note with eight deals completed during the fourth quarter in the United States, leading the full-year to look quite similar to 2011.

1 min read · 02 January 2013

Venture’s Fundraising Difficulties Could Continue in 2013

In 2012, the 10 largest funds raised nearly $10 billion, as mid-sized funds went into retreat

5 min read · 01 January 2013

The Americans are Coming!

Simon Cook of DFJ Esprit talks about the venture industry in Europe and how U.S. LPs are investing as much in Europe as European LPs

4 min read · 31 December 2012

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