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Featured

Wellcome Trust's Love for venture

How Wellcome Trust's Geoffrey Love learned to thrive in an asset class that has left many LPs bruised and bloodied.

10 min read · 26 September 2019

People

Meet the Silicon Valley firm bringing impact to Indonesia

The UN Development Programme in Indonesia has selected 500 Startups to jointly launch an impact investing accelerator.

5 min read · 25 September 2019

Investors

Why Australia’s Hostplus is piling into venture capital

PEI caught up with Neil Stanford, head of PE at the A$45bn superannuation fund, to discuss its push into Aussie VC and its aversion to large domestic buyouts.

3 min read · 04 September 2019

Investors

Microsoft founder's family office to triple Asia PE exposure

Vulcan Capital, the multi-billion family office of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has around 5% of its portfolio invested in the region, CIO Chris Orndorff tells PEI.

2 min read · 20 August 2019

Managers

Legend-backed firm seeks $500m for Chinese semiconductor fund

South Korean tech giant SK has formed a $1bn investor club with China's Legend Holdings to back a semiconductor firm and Legend Capital's funds.

2 min read · 16 July 2019

Deals

China’s ‘herd mentality’ could threaten VC returns

Greater competition for a limited number of assets has diluted equity ownership, delegates told an industry conference on Tuesday.

2 min read · 09 July 2019

Investors

How NZ Super will make its venture capital debut

New Zealand's government has proposed a NZ$300m fund of funds to back offshore and domestic venture capital managers.

3 min read · 08 July 2019

Managers

PE will start adopting VC’s fund terms

More venture capital-like fund terms could be bad news for limited partners.

3 min read · 07 February 2019

Featured

Investors venture into Africa’s start-up scene

More capital than ever is flowing to the continent’s entrepreneurs. With venture capital deal sizes increasing and international VCs joining local counterparts, is African VC reaching critical mass? Vicky Meek reports

4 min read · 12 December 2018

News & Analysis

Atomico's Zennstrom: The unofficial ambassador for European tech

The Skype founder has seen European investors largely miss out on one wave of the technological revolution. He is determined that it won’t happen again.

6 min read · 14 November 2018

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