Managers

There was plenty of people news in 2021, from VCs retiring to an LP joining a venture firm. Here are the most read people items from the past year.

Ceros Financial Services CEO Mark Goldwasser is banking on new health behaviors to drive healthtech in 2022.

The firm, founded in 2016, is currently in market with at least three separate funds as it adds public market expertise to its roster.

My top five Friday Letters primarily dealt with regulations and fundraising, with the top letter focused on cybersecurity.

Multistage investor Norwest Venture Partners has raised $3bn for Fund XVI, its largest fund to date and its first to include a formal ESG policy.

As we close out the year, here are my predictions for what will remain hot-button issues in venture.

The SEC is working on 'consistent, comparable and decision-useful' ESG disclosures for public companies, SEC chair Gary Gensler says, and he's under pressure to expand any new ESG rules to private funds. As governments and industry work toward a universal system, savvy advisers should focus on what matters. An ESG metrics primer: Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria are a group of standards used by socially conscious investors to screen investments.

How VCs and CVCs approach their work is different, writes Nicolas Sauvage of TDK Ventures.

The former 500 Startups partner joins San Francisco-based Diaspora Ventures to help European start-ups expand in the US. The firm operates via a rolling fund that secures commitments from LPs quarterly.

Little is known about the new firm, but the former Wedding Spot CEO was named as one of VCJ's Rising Stars in January 2020.