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- Executive moves, week of June 8, 2009
New hires and other changes at CRV, Evercore, StoneCastle and other private equity and venture capital firms
Center of AttentionVCs have funded more than a dozen startups focused on data centers in the past six months, hoping for a repeat of the 1998 boom—without the bust the followed
- Exit watch, week of May 25, 2009
M&A news involving venture-backed companies
- Medialets calls on $4M in funding
Foundry Group and DFJ Gotham participate in the Series A round
- peHUB Wire: Thursday, May 14, 2009
Thursday Throwback
- peHUB Wire: Thursday, May 14, 2009
Thursday Throwback
- Exit watch, week of May 11, 2009
Summaries of M&A news involving venture-backed companies Hyperic, Convergence, NetXen, Asempra and others
- DFJ Is Latest Victim of Droopy Fund-Raising Environment
Everyone knows the fund-raising market has gotten more difficult, but a table I put together for a webinar I’m hosting tomorrow shows just how bad it is. Take a look below. Just skimming through a couple of months of coverage in Venture Capital Journal and PE Week, I was able to identify at least 16 firms that came up short of their goals. In one case, a firm abandoned fund-raising altogether and in another the firm postponed it till the market improves. I don’t think we’re going to see any improvement any time soon—for GPs, anyway. In fact, Private Equity Insider just reported today that Draper Fisher Jurvetson has cut the target of its 10th fund from $600 million to $400 million and it’s offering better terms for LPs, including carried interest that starts at 20% instead of 25% and is based on performance benchmarks.