Private Equity
As a partner at one of Silicon Valley’s largest late-stage venture firms, Sandy Miller is in a unique position to look under the hood at the financials of fast-growing technology companies. And lately, he likes what he sees.
3 min read · 21 March 2013
Amy Andersen doesn’t have a degree in psychology, but she has interviewed 4,500 people since founding her Menlo Park, Calif.-based matchmaking service Linx Dating ten years ago. And that collective experience has given her the kind of pattern recognition that comes in handy when trying to divine who her well-heeled clients – some of them venture capitalists – want to date or, in some cases, marry.
4 min read · 20 March 2013
Venture investors seem to have come to terms with the notion that a 1,000 or so seed companies may find their road comes to an end from the so-called Series A crunch. The next question is exactly which companies are most likely to run out of gas?
2 min read · 19 March 2013
Thanks in part to the Facebook IPO, venture investors in 2012 saw their best return on invested capital in a decade. A steady rise in the ratio of portfolio company exit size to capital raised continued through the year.
1 min read · 19 March 2013
Despite a dour economy, Spain boasts a few notable startups and a growing venture community
6 min read · 18 March 2013
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has stepped into the middle of a long-standing controversy over a California tradition: open access to the state's famed beaches.
4 min read · 15 March 2013
From 2004 through 2012, 11 of its 18 venture funds have IRRs in the negative
2 min read · 15 March 2013
Storied firm acknowledges weak results
1 min read · 13 March 2013
Cancer therapy investor Arcus Ventures has raised $36 million toward a planned third fund, according to a securities filing.
2 min read · 12 March 2013
Alvaro Fernandez of the research group SharpBrains says that if and when Lumos Labs and NeuroSky go public, they could transform the brain health industry
5 min read · 12 March 2013
