Private Equity
Did you go to Shindig last night? This year's peHUB West Coast Shindig raised $2000 for the San Francisco Food Bank. Our Shindig was held on the eve of the 2nd annual VCJ Venture Alpha conference, which is being held today at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins.
1 min read · 18 October 2012
Jumptap, a seven-year old mobile advertising startup, said it is considering either listing its shares or selling itself, writes Reuters. Jumptap, which has raised $121.5 million through seven rounds of funding, counts Summerhill Venture Partners, WPP Plc and AllianceBernstein among its investors.
3 min read · 18 October 2012
Academics at Harvard and Insead, the premier business school in France, have just produced new research suggesting that institutional investors who've been increasingly making direct investments are smart to do so.
3 min read · 17 October 2012
In May, Adam Marchick left Bain Capital to start his own Palo Alto-based startup, Kahuna, which has already raised “several million” dollars and attracted as cofounder the founding CTO of SugarCRM, Jacob Taylor. Its tagline: “Harnessing the power of big data insights to deliver business value to mobile application developers.”
4 min read · 15 October 2012
The secretive world of single-family offices has become a more meaningful source of capital for private equity as traditional LPs get cold feet. Apparently these wealthy family money managers are eager to get more involved with the asset class.
2 min read · 15 October 2012
VCs warm to idea of startup activity south of the U.S. border as startup and accelerator activity surge in Mexico
7 min read · 15 October 2012
The vintage not only has the greatest percentage of funds with negative IRRs, but also the largest number with substantial double-digit negative returns
2 min read · 15 October 2012
The Renaissance Venture Capital Fund is aiming to close a second fund of up to $75 million, peHUB has learned, as the VC fund-of-funds plans to deploy more capital for—of all things—life sciences VCs.
2 min read · 15 October 2012
A total of 15 U.S. firms raised $70M or more during the quarter
1 min read · 15 October 2012
Angel activity rose modestly in the first half of the year with per-deal funding levels largely unchanged and investors shifting their focus toward expansion stage deal making.
1 min read · 11 October 2012
