The Series A crunch boils down to this: Too many seed fundings, too few follow-on A financings. In other words, excessive supply and limited demand. So if you want to get your arms around the expected funding shortfall, do the math. That’s what CB Insights did in a recent study.
3 min read · 21 December 2012
IFTTT said it raised a $7 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz and joined by New Enterprise Associates and Lerer Ventures. Andreessen's John O’Farrell joins the board.
3 min read · 20 December 2012
Intel Capital said Thursday that it has invested more than $300 million so far in 2012 in more than 50 new company investments and more than 70 follow-on financings. The organization said in a news bulletin than 59% of its investments were outside North America as it entered Spain and Ghana for the first time. Thirty portfolio companies exited during the year so far through IPOs and acquisitions.
2 min read · 20 December 2012
Pluribus Networks said it raised a $23 million Series C round funding led by Menlo Ventures and joined by existing investors New Enterprise Associates, Mohr Davidow Ventures and others. Pluribus Networks previously closed a $17.5 million Series B round in April of 2011.
3 min read · 20 December 2012
FundersClub said it completed investments in Coinbase, Sponsorfied and Tracks.by. The investments, along with those in Virool and FundersClub itself, are the first made by the online marketplace that lets accredited investors become equity holders in managed venture capital funds . The companies are among the Y Combinator summer 2012 batch. Investments by the 5-month-old investment platform now total $1.3 million.
5 min read · 20 December 2012
The year started off strong for the IPO market, but ended slow. Facebook, the largest ever venture-backed IPO, turned out among the most disappointing. In summary, 2012 was a period of ups and downs for the U.S. IPOs, according to a study from Renaissance Capital.
2 min read · 20 December 2012
Venture capitalists foresee back-to-basics investing in 2013 with money flowing to information technology startups in the enterprise and healthcare markets and away from cleantech and traditional medical science. These same investors are relatively sanguine about their fortunes, with half anticipating an improvement in venture returns
2 min read · 19 December 2012
Ready for a quick year-end update on Google Ventures? As you know, Google last month increased the annual cash it hands to its venture arm to $300 million from $200 million. Here is a breakdown of its investments by sector.
1 min read · 18 December 2012
Glencoe Capital’s Michigan Opportunities Fund said it completed an investment in Encore Rehabilitation Services, LLC. No terms were disclosed. The Encore investment is the seventh by the Michigan Opportunities Fund.
2 min read · 18 December 2012
Institutional Venture Partners said it made 13 new investments in 2012 and had four IPOs, including KAYAK and CafePress. The firm also had two M&A exits, including Buddy Media. IVP announced the annual tally in a press release.
4 min read · 18 December 2012
