Private Equity
Product-naming expert David Placek says the monikers chosen for some new venture funds leave a lot to be desired. Find out who missed the mark.
3 min read · 11 July 2013
Volition Capital, a Boston-based growth equity firm, has raised $80 million toward its second fund, according to an SEC filing.
2 min read · 10 July 2013
Investors are no longer head over heels for China as just 26.9% of those surveyed recently characterize the evolution of private equity and venture capital in the country as "very good" or “fairly good."
2 min read · 10 July 2013
Venture insiders say rule change should help small funds, provide additional startup capital, and make it much less stressful to talk about fundraising
5 min read · 10 July 2013
It’s cause for celebration, if only a little. According to the newest data out of Cambridge Associates, U.S. private equity and venture capital funds bested public equities in the fourth quarter of last year, returning 3.5 percent and 1.2 percent, respectively. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Nasdaq, the Russell 2000, and the S&P 500 all showed negative returns in comparison.
1 min read · 09 July 2013
Venture capitalists distributed $8.1 billion to startups in the second quarter, an increase over the previous three quarters, but down from a year ago, according to PitchBook. The deal count also declined from the second quarter of last year.
1 min read · 09 July 2013
U.S. venture capital firms raised just under $3 billion in the second quarter, with more than half of the money going to five established VCs, according to a report from the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters.
2 min read · 09 July 2013
Charles River Ventures and other backers scored a positive return with Aveksa, an identity management software provider acquired by EMC today in a deal reportedly valued at north of $200 million.
2 min read · 08 July 2013
Cleantech venture investing rebounded in the second quarter with $1.76 billion of capital deployed across the globe, according to the Cleantech Group. That’s up 56% from the depressed levels of the first quarter and up 9% from the second quarter of 2012.
1 min read · 05 July 2013
Investment is ramping up in software-defined network companies. In the past three years alone, three SDN companies have raised more than $117 million from the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Now the question is whether customers will buy SDN solutions.
4 min read · 02 July 2013
