Private Equity
Happy Monday! If you want to catch up on news you may have missed last week, here are peHUB's top 10 posts, as judged by the pageviews of our regular readers. Hot topics included Q3 fundraising, performance data from Colorado PERA, UTIMCO and New York pension funds, and a growing number of restaurant bankruptcies. ONE: Slideshow: 15 Largest U.S.-based Venture Funds Raised in Q3 - by Lawrence Aragon TWO: CrunchFund Wasn’t the Only Newbie Fund Raised in Q3; Here Are 18 Others (slideshow) - by Lawrence Aragon THREE: Slideshow: Top-Performing PE/VC Funds Of 3 Big-Apple Pensions - by David Toll FOUR: Top Ten Performing Funds From The Colorado PERA Venture Portfolio (slideshow) - by Mark Boslet FIVE: Qwikster and 7 Other Terrible, Short-Lived Ideas (slideshow) - by Connie Loizos SIX: Slideshow: Riverside’s Lessons from the Loo - by Buyouts magazine SEVEN: Slideshow: Restaurant Bankruptcies Make PE Queasy - by Bernard Vaughan EIGHT: Slideshow: UTIMCO in 17 Active Funds with IRRs > 25% (subscribers only) - by Lawrence Aragon NINE: Gores Group Turns More Industry-Focused (subscribers only) - by Bernard Vaughan TEN: Welsh Carson To Buy Triple Point Tech from ABRY - by Luisa Beltran
1 min read · 17 October 2011
Time to catch up on your reading. Here are the 10 most popular posts among peHUB’s regular readers for Oct. 3 to Oct. 7. One: Slideshow: UTIMCO in 17 Active Funds with IRRs > 25% - by Lawrence Aragon Two: Union Square, Other Early Stage Tech VCs Kick Ass for UTIMCO (slideshow) - by Lawrence Aragon Three: Slideshow: European Fund-of-Funds Build Up U.S. Offices - by Angela Sormani Four: Slideshow: PE-Backed M&A Jumps in Q3 and Here’s the Top 5 Deals - by Luisa Beltran Five: Slideshow: More LBO Targets in the CRO Market - by Bernard Vaughan Six: Promising Portfolios: Asset Values Top Contributed Capital In Recent Cal Regents Venture Funds (Slideshow) - by Mark Boslet Seven: Infographic: PE vs. VC in Battle of Compensation - by David Toll Eight: How Will You Remember Steve Jobs? - by Lawrence Aragon Nine: Comvest Group Lands $580M Fund - by staff Ten: A Pension Fund Does Away with the Middleman: the VC - by Connie Loizos
1 min read · 07 October 2011
It's Friday! Time to catch up on your reading. Here are the 10 most popular posts among peHUB's regular readers for Sept. 26 to Sept. 30. ONE: Bottled Up Liquidity: Ten Cal Regents Funds with High Portfolio Values and Often Low Liquidity (slideshow) - by Mark Boslet TWO: Slideshow: Top-Performing PE/VC Funds For State of Florida (subscribers only) - by David Toll THREE: Analyst: Groupon Now Risks ‘Self-Reinforcing Path to Insolvency’ - by Connie Loizos FOUR: After F8, a Dot-Com Boom Scaled Party - by Alexei Oreskovic, Reuters FIVE: Harvard and Stanford Nearly Make Up Financial Crisis Losses - by Gregory Roth SIX: As Groupon’s Fortunes Shift, Chicago Sticks By It - by Connie Loizos SEVEN: Carlyle’s Sarkozy: The Financial Crisis of 2008 Never Ended - by Luisa Beltran EIGHT: Andreessen’s Jeff Jordan On Valuations, IPOs And Young Founders (subscribers only) - by Mark Boslet NINE: CapitalSource Revs Up Lending in Middle Market - by Steve Bills TEN: Reuters: Groupon Restates Revenue, Loses COO - by Alexei Oreskovic, Reuters
1 min read · 30 September 2011
Time to catch up on the stories your colleagues found most compelling on peHUB this week. Here are the top 10 posts that garnered the most pageviews from regular readers from Sept. 19 to Sept. 23. One: Trouble Making Ends Meet: Top 10 Cash Returning Funds In Cal Regents’ Venture Portfolio (Slideshow) -- by Mark Boslet Two: Slideshow: Face Scrubbers, Balloon Trips: 16 at CalPERS Face Fines for Alleged Gift Violations (subscribers only) -- by Gregory Roth Three: Slideshow: Q3’s Most Active Buyers -- by Bernard Vaughan Four: Slideshow: Top-Performing PE/VC Funds for State of Florida -- by David Toll Five: Wringing Money from a Flagging Venture Fund — for a Price -- by Connie Loizos Six: Blackstone Looks to Advise Startups -- by Luisa Beltran Seven: Pressure on Solyndra Backers Intensifies -- by Roberta Rampton, Reuters Eight: Soros, Schwarzman Move Up On Forbes 400 Richest List -- by Luisa Beltran Nine: Obama Pitches Changes to Carried Interest; PEGCC Rebuts “Buffett Rule” -- by Luisa Beltran Ten: MassPRIM Loses Second PE Manager -- by Gregory Roth
1 min read · 23 September 2011
Since you're not working (hopefully) this Labor Day, why not catch up on the stories and slideshows your colleagues found most compelling on peHUB last week? Here are the top 10 posts that garnered the most pageviews from regular readers from Aug. 29 to Sept. 2. 1. Slideshow: Top And Bottom-Performing Funds Of Louisiana Teachers’ (subscribers only), by David Toll 2. Slideshow: University Of California’s Recent Venture Investments Include The Expected And Unexpected, by Mark Boslet 3. Slideshow: PE Firms Chowing Down on Restaurants, by Jonathan Marino 4. Groupon PR to peHUB: Call Us Before You Write Another ‘Nastigram’, by Connie Loizos 5. Slideshow: Top 10 VC Funds for What’s Shaping Up as a Weak Q3, by Lawrence Aragon 6. Slideshow: Pre-IPO Preview Of Carlyle Group Returns, by David Toll 7. Groupon’s August Gets Worse, as Analysts Call Valuation “Colossally Absurd”, by Connie Loizos 8. The No. 1 Predictor of Startup Failure: Premature Scaling, by Joanna Glasner 9. Cash Machine Slideshow: CalPERS’ Top 10 VC Funds Based on Return of Cold, Hard Cash (subscribers only) by Mark Boslet 10. SEC Alleges Former VC Matt Crisp of Adams Street Partners Responsible for Conflicts of Interest and “Willful Violations”, by Jonathan Marino
1 min read · 05 September 2011
It’s time to catch up on the stories and slideshows your colleagues found most compelling on peHUB this week. Here are the top 10 posts that garnered the most pageviews from regular readers from Aug. 22 to Aug. 26. Hot topics included fund returns at CalPERS and Louisiana Teachers', VC- and PE-backed IPOs and M&A, and Apple. 1. Cash Machine Slideshow: CalPERS’ Top 10 VC Funds Based on Return of Cold, Hard Cash -- by Mark Boslet 2. Slideshow: Top 10 U.S. Tech/Telecom Advisors, Qatalyst Jumps To 10th -- by Luisa Beltran 3. Looking Back at Our Favorite Apple Knockoffs -- by Connie Loizos 4. Slideshow: Top And Bottom-Performing Funds Of Louisiana Teachers’ -- by David Toll 5. Black Gives Himself 60th Birthday Party of Bad Taste -- by Luisa Beltran 6. Slideshow: Top 10 PE-Backed Companies Waiting To Go Public (subscription required) -- by Luisa Beltran 7. Stock Market Turmoil Not Expected to Hurt Tech M&A -- by Lawrence Aragon 8. Sequoia Capital and Technology Crossover Ventures Stand to Gain from Redemption Rights for eHarmony -- by Alistair Barr, Reuters 9. Cornell to Stanford: Stay Out of New York -- by Connie Loizos 10. What Today’s 4 IPO Filings Tell Us About the Market for New Offerings -- by Joanna Glasner
1 min read · 26 August 2011
5 min read · 23 August 2011
It's time to catch up on the stories and slideshows your colleagues found most compelling on peHUB this week. Here are the top 10 posts that garnered the most pageviews from regular readers from Aug. 15 to Aug. 19. Market turmoil was top of mind for our readers, with a top 10 list of PE-backed companies stuck in the IPO pipeline scoring the most pageviews. Other hot topics included a slowdown in fundraising for funds-of-funds, "Googorola" and performance data. 1. Top 10 PE-Backed Companies Waiting To Go Public - by Luisa Beltran 2. Fundraising Gets Even Slower for Funds-of-Funds - by Lawrence Aragon 3. Colorado PERA Top-10 Performing Funds Since 1982 (subscribers only) - by David Toll 4. Six Buzzworthy Emerging Managers - by Bernard Vaughan 5. A Slowdown for Most Active VC Firms in July (subscribers only) - by Alastair Goldfisher 6. Welcome to the Family, Motorola! - by Jonathan Marino 7. Gap Between Top And Bottom Performing Private Equity Funds Widens; Comparison By Vintage Year - by Mark Boslet 8. With Motorola Mobile’s Sale, Quattrone’s Qatalyst Scores Largest Deal Ever - by Luisa Beltran 9. And the Winner of the Google/Motorola Naming Contest Is … - by Lawrence Aragon 10. Neuberger’s Dyal Fund Blurs Line Between PE and Hedge Funds - by Gregory Roth
1 min read · 20 August 2011
* Poll: Most Believe Market Turmoil Is Only ‘Temporary Setback’ For IPO Candidates, by Lawrence Aragon * peHUB Second Opinion 08.12, by Luisa Beltran * This Week’s Top 10 HUB Posts Focus on Market Turmoil, Fund Performance and Silicon Valley’s ‘Undertaker’, by Lawrence Aragon * Slideshow: A Slowdown for Most Active VC Firms in July, by Alastair Goldfisher * Value of PE-Backed Tech M&A Jumped 60% in Q2, by Luisa Beltran * Jay Jordan: Re-Install Glass-Steagall, China’s Dangerous Shadow Banking System, S&P’s Credibility and Other Ruminations , by Bernard Vaughan * VCJ Report: Photo Shopping, by Alastair Goldfisher * NY Life Capital Raising $1B Fund For Mezz, by Steve Bills * Life Sciences Venture Investing Represents 7th Best Quarter On Record, But All Is Not Blue Skies, by Mark Boslet * Market Downturn Is Good if It Makes VCs More Selective About Companies They Take Public, by Lawrence Aragon * Dealtalk: Crisis May Scuttle $2B+ in Euro M&A Fees, by Victoria Howley and Simon Meads, Reuters * Schmidt’s Tomorrow Ventures Joins Others in BrightTag Funding , by Jonathan Marino * Poll Results: John Doerr Is Ready for Reality TV, by Luisa Beltran * Google, Facebook in Social Gaming Throwdown, by Alexei Oreskovic, Reuters * Slideshow: Colorado PERA Top-10 Performing Funds Since 1982, by David Toll * peHUB First Read, by Jonathan Marino
1 min read · 15 August 2011
Time to catch up on the peHUB stories your colleagues found most compelling this week. Here are the top 10 posts that garnered the most pageviews from regular readers from Aug. 8 to Aug. 12. It isn't terribly surprising that most of the posts were related in some way to the turmoil in the public markets this week. 1. Early Stage Funds Dominate CalPERS’ Top 10 Venture Funds, by Mark Boslet 2. Silicon Valley’s Undertaker: ‘We’re Anticipating a Major Fallout’, by Connie Loizos 3. Groupon, Zynga and 9 Other VC-Backed IPOs Threatened by Market Turmoil, by Joanna Glasner 4. LinkedIn, Solazyme, Zipcar, 33 Other VC-Backed IPOs Bloodied in Market Beatdown, by Lawrence Aragon 5. Idaho Public Employee Retirement Top-Performing Funds (subscribers only), by David Toll 6. Menlo Ventures Is Biggest Winner in Carbonite IPO, by Lawrence Aragon 7. Venture & PE Picks for a Double Dip, by Joanna Glasner 8. Colorado PERA Top-10 Performing Funds Since 1982, by David Toll 9. How This Year’s 10 Biggest VC-Backed IPOs Fared in the Market Plunge, by Lawrence Aragon 10. Reuters Exclusive: Khosla Loses 2 Partners; Alex Kinnier to Do Startup, Jim Kim’s Plans Unknown, by Sarah McBride and Peter Lauria, Reuters
1 min read · 12 August 2011
