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peHUB Wire: Friday, May 28, 2010Random Ramblings
- peHUB WIre: Tuesday, May 25, 2010
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- peHUB WIre: Tuesday, May 25, 2010
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- Tony Blair Joins Khosla Ventures
Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, has joined Khosla Ventures as a senior advisor. The announcement was made today during Khosla's annual limited partner meeting. Blair will focus on Khosla's cleantech portfolio. In a formal statement, he said: "I am increasingly and crucially aware of the fact that the answer to these twin challenges -- climate change and energy security -- lies in developing the technological solutions of the future."
- peHUB Second Opinion 5.24.10
Fidelity National: So it's a leveraged recap instead of The Big One. Good riddance http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/24/news/companies/private_equity_return.fortune/index.htm?section=magazines_fortune&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmagazines_fortune+%28Fortune+Magazine%29&utm_content=Twitter says Fortune. Carried interest: Congress's tax folly http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704852004575258401601217646.html Spanish private equity: It's got it rough http://www.ft.com/cms/s/8c98036c-668d-11df-aeb1-00144feab49a,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F8c98036c-668d-11df-aeb1-00144feab49a.html%3Fdbk&dbk=&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fdealbook.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2010%2F05%2F24%2Frocky-times-for-spanish-private-equity-deals%2F%3Fsrc%3Dtwt%26twt%3Dnytimesdealbook Barclays: Its PE division may spin out in a management buyout http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE64K0UE20100524?dbk
- Week in deals, May 24, 2010
Summary of tech companies and other startups in North America that raised venture financing in the past week
- The Hotlist raises $800K in angel funding
Social networking aggregator startup operates in competitive space
- VCs see Android gaining ground
Openness of Google's OS helps to make it more popular with app developers
- VCs on Why Not To Invest in Venture
Ask a VC about the quality of their own firm’s portfolio, and the reply always contains a glowing review about the world domination potential of every investment. Ask about the venture asset class in general, however, and speakers on the VC Panel at this week’s Reuters Technology Summit got a lot more critical. It’s a pretty universal view that there’s too much capital available. And overall performance, well, it speaks for itself. “Venture returns have been poor for a decade, and I think risk-adjusted they will be poor for a long time,” says Khosla Ventures partner David Weiden. Going forward, he predicts, the very best firms will continue to perform very well, and the rest won’t.
- Lookout Raises $11 Million
Lookout, a San Francisco-based provider of smartphone security solutions, has raised $11 million in Series B funding. Accel Partners led the round, and was joined by Khosla Ventures and Trilogy Partnership.