Private Equity
The City by the Bay has become a hotbed of venture activity, with more than 420 San Francisco-based startups pulling in nearly $9 billion in funding as of mid-October.
3 min read · 23 October 2014
Emerald Technology Ventures, which has offices in Toronto and Zurich, Switzerland, has jointly with South Pole Carbon won a mandate to manage the Swiss Technology Fund. The fund was formed by the Swiss government to extend loan guarantees to Swiss small businesses that are developing innovative technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, support the use of renewable energy or conserve natural resources. Founded in 2000, Emerald is focused on investing in the areas of energy, water, advanced materials and industrial information technology.
4 min read · 22 October 2014
Israeli venture firm Carmel Ventures has raised $194 million for its fourth fund. Among the pool's LPs are Baidu, Ping-An and Qihoo360. The fund's focus is on early-stage tech companies in sectors such as enterprise software, digital media, big data and cyber security.
3 min read · 22 October 2014
Money manager sees strong gains with IVP, Aisling, JP Morgan funds
2 min read · 21 October 2014
SAP Ventures renamed itself Sapphire Ventures on Thursday to emphasize its independence from its sole limited partner, SAP.
2 min read · 16 October 2014
Canadian venture capital firm iNovia Capital has opened an office in the Kitchener-Waterloo region. A blog post by firm partner Karamdeep Nijjar said the decision was made because of the high quality of technology product teams being produced by the University of Waterloo, the large number of successful local company founders, and sophisticated local organizations that help build innovative companies, such as Communitech. Based in Montréal and with managed capital totaling $275 million, iNovia is focused on making early-stage investments in digital media, SaaS, e-commerce and connected devices sectors.
4 min read · 16 October 2014
Canaan Partners has raised $675 million for its tenth fund, beating its $600 million target.
1 min read · 16 October 2014
Less than a year after Thomson Reuters outsourced its benchmarking to Cambridge Associates, Bison has introduced a series of free benchmarks to help institutional investors determine how the performance of a single fund measures up against a population of peers.
1 min read · 16 October 2014
SFERS sees broad gains in recent vintage funds; adds Battery, OrbiMed
1 min read · 13 October 2014
Investors continued to pour money into venture in the third quarter, with LPs committing $6.1 billion to new funds and pushing U.S. fundraising this year to a six-year record.
2 min read · 09 October 2014
