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Due diligence: IP demands particular attention

IP attorneys are spending lots of time making sure VC-backed start-ups have the freedom to operate and get products to market.

6 min read · 01 March 2023

VCs renew their focus on due diligence

Cautionary tales of governance failures and heightened litigation risk have some VCs rethinking their due diligence processes.

7 min read · 01 March 2023

The rising star of platform services

Providing value-add services to founders has become a key differentiator in an increasingly crowded venture market.

9 min read · 03 January 2023

Tracing the VCJ 50

Like the creature in the 1958 science fiction movie The Blob, the VCJ 50 just keeps expanding, consuming ever larger quantities of institutional capital.

3 min read · 01 November 2022

VCJ 50: Can anything stop the fundraising beast?

Bigger funds with stellar track records have continued to raise capital at impressive rates, but will fundraising get harder as some LPs confront the denominator effect?

10 min read · 01 November 2022

Port in a storm: VCs are finding safe haven in Europe's flourishing market

As economic troubles continue to roil the world’s biggest economies, VCs are thriving in a European market where $1bn-plus unicorns are making quite a splash.

10 min read · 01 September 2022

Meet venture capital’s 2022 Women of Influence

Our second annual list of women who are rising high in the venture capital industry was chosen from a group of 70 nominations.

10 min read · 01 July 2022

Six bright ideas to boost diversity in VC

There is no easy fix for the industry’s lack of diversity. Here are six things GPs and LPs are doing to open their doors wider to under-represented groups.

10 min read · 02 May 2022

VCs stake their claims as the NFT gold rush heats up

VCs poured more than $4.6bn into NFT companies last year, but will they end up rich or stuck with crypto fool’s gold?

10 min read · 01 March 2022

40 Rising Stars to tap into in 2022

For the third year in a row, we reached out to readers and others to find out who are the rising stars of venture capital. It was no small task, but here is a list of 40 professionals under 40 who are destined to shape VC.

10 min read · 03 January 2022

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