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- Flight to Quality in VC Land
When Q1 deal data are finalized later this month, they are sure to show a significant slowdown. But that doesn’t tell the whole story. I met this morning with VC Richard Yen, who told me that his firm, Saban Capital Group, has offered three term sheets so far this year only to be outbid on all three of them. “There’s been a flight to quality,” says Yen, a director in the digital media group of Saban, a Los Angeles-based firm backed by billionaire media mogul Haim Saban. “There are only a few things we’ve gotten excited about, but when we have there have been a lot of people sniffing around,” Yen says. Saban offered term sheets for a Series A round for a mobile company run by a successful repeat entrepreneur who was seeded by a Sand Hill Road firm; a Series A round for a direct response marketing company (a la Cash4Gold) run by an entrepreneur with 20 years in the direct response business; and a seed round for an entertainment website run by a “high-profile personality.”
- peHUB Second Opinion 3.13
PIK Off: Univision, backed by Saban Capital Group, Providence Equity Partners, TPG, THL Partners and Madison Dearborn, has joined the handfuls of other PE-backed companies that have flipped their PIK toggles. (Dealbook http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/in-flipping-the-pik-switch-univision-joins-a-crowd/ ) Abnormal Returns http://abnormalreturns.com/2009/03/13/friday-links-a-grand-bargain/ : Excellently rounds up some of the blog coverage of the Brawl Street /34163/jon-stewart-brutalizes-jim-cramer/ episode. Asks: "Will Cramer-Stewart change the way CNBC does business? (Big Picture http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/03/anti-climax-cramer-vs-stewart/ FT Alphaville http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/03/13/53571/cramer-capitulates/ StreetInsider.com http://www.streetinsider.com/Insiders+Blog/Stewart+Breaks+Cramers+Booyah/4483553.html Market Movers http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/market-movers/2009/03/13/dont-watch-cnbc Mixed Media http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/mixed-media/2009/03/13/schooled-stewart-lectures-chastened-cramer Marketwatch.com http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid=%7B6218C68D%2DA3CC%2D4F06%2DA85D%2DE656BD6AE709%7D BusinessWeek.com http://www.businessweek.com/investing/insights/blog/archives/2009/03/brawl_street_jo.html HuffingtonPost.com http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-rosenbaum/cramer---no-longer-god_b_174548.html Capital Commerce http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2009/3/13/jon-stewart-vs-jim-cramer.html Tuned In http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2009/03/13/stewartcramer-whos-this-song-about/ )" Venture PIPES: Not news to you, but it is to the Journal. (WSJ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123690321832713807.html ) There Are Women in Private Equity? Deal Journal hits up the "Women in Private Equity" conference. Coverage includes: ‘I Love Downturns http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2009/03/13/the-womens-private-equity-summit-i-love-downturns/" and "The New Order Now Begins http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2009/03/13/private-equity-the-new-order-now-begins/"
- 5 questions with Craig Cooper
Q&A with Craig Cooper, who heads a new venture practice at Saban Capital Group
Media mania starts to mellowDigital media investors are finallly slowing their pace after five consecutive years of growth, with some complaining about a glut of me-too companies
- Executive moves, week of June 16, 2008
Hires and promotions at Kleiner Perkins, LACERS, Quaker BioVentures
- PE Week Wire: Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Random Ramblings
- PE Week Wire: Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Random Ramblings