Private Equity
2 min read · 04 October 2016
Union Square Ventures on Tuesday endorsed a presidential candidate for the first time and the firm's choice in November is Hillary Clinton, according to a blog post.
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Better Ventures has raised over $18 million for its second venture fund, according to an SEC filing. The target is $30 million.
1 min read · 04 October 2016
Salesforce has agreed to acquire San Francisco-based marketing company Krux, according to a blog post on the latter's site. No financial terms were disclosed. Krux's backers included Accel Partners and IDG Ventures.
1 min read · 04 October 2016
GreenSoil Building Innovation Fund (GBIF), launched last year by GreenSoil Investments, has raised a US$20 million lead commitment from Grosvenor Group, a U.K.-based private property group. The investment is intended to leverage strategic opportunities with GBIF, a Toronto-based growth equity fund that invests in products, services and technologies which make real estate and infrastructure more productive, efficient and sustainable. The fund, which has so far raised US$55 million of a US$100 million target, said it has made its first two portfolio investments. GBIF is chaired by Alan Greenberg, a Greensoil co-founder.
4 min read · 03 October 2016
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St. Louis-based Cultivation Capital held a $20.5 million close on a $100 million targeted fund, according to a regulatory filing. The Cultivation Capital Fintech Fund raised the initial close from 30 investors, the filing reports. The firm was co-founded by General Partner Jim McKelvey, who's co-founder of Square and remains on the board of the mobile payments company.
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