Private Equity
The Founders Fund partner focuses his time on improving his health and reducing his emails while also looking for new health care innovations
6 min read · 07 January 2013
Blame it on an innovation stall, or investor boredom, or firms less willing to pay through the nose to access the companies that they view as most promising. Either way, a fall-off in the amount of money being plugged into companies is real, according to Preqin, the private equity data provider.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
News website BuzzFeed, one of the more interesting news business models to emerge in recent years, has raised $19.3 million in new capital, the company said on Thursday. The round was led by venture capital firm NEA along with previous investors RRE, Hearst, SoftBank and Lerer Ventures.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Some Silicon Valley attorneys leave their practice to pursue venture-like returns. Former Cooley attorney Kirk Dizon, who last year cofounded the fund of funds Institutional Global Investors, is but one example. But the attorneys who stick around at Cooley also manage to place bets on some of the many interesting startups to which they have access.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Though motion sensing technology is often touted as the most promising underdeveloped frontier in human-computer interaction, just a handful of companies in the space have raised significant venture funding. Leap Motion, with a fresh $30 million in the bank, is the latest.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The IPO market? Yawn. (Thanks, Facebook.) Cleantech? Yikes! 2012 didn’t exactly play out like the pundits predicted, but there are a few sectors that VCs craved, just like always...
2 min read · 03 January 2013
With Avis’ planned $500 million acquisition of Zipcar, venture investors should get back more than they put into the car-sharing company. But it won’t be a particularly high-multiple exit by venture standards.
1 min read · 02 January 2013
5 min read · 01 January 2013
The VC deal market was slow in 2012, but it shined with a few bright spots
4 min read · 01 January 2013
A rather quiet year for VC was marked by a disappointing Facebook IPO, the scaling back of one notable investor and a discriminationlawsuit
8 min read · 01 January 2013
