Private Equity
Only a small handful of VCs have the courage to invest in music startups. Sure, plenty of exciting companies get funding: SoundCloud, Spotify, Moontoast, Rdio, Pandora Media, Shazam, BandPage. But where is the Google of the space? No one knows.
2 min read · 10 October 2012
Private company IPOs with multiple classes of stock are trendy and so far a mixed blessing for venture investors. About as many of the venture-backed companies that have gone public in the past 18 months with two classes of stock have done well as done poorly.
2 min read · 09 October 2012
A star pediatric surgeon and his UCSF colleagues are rethinking inefficient medical devices, and gaining momentum with their designs.
3 min read · 09 October 2012
peHUB gets a guest post from Steve Blank, who says VCs need to engage at all ends of the development scale--and with one another--to foster budding entrepreneurial communities.
6 min read · 08 October 2012
Menlo Ventures scores highest in the December 2011 report by MassPRIM, which invests in buyout and VC funds
2 min read · 08 October 2012
The firm invests $74M in 11 startups during the month; 500 Startups backs 10 companies, while NEA puts money into nine
1 min read · 08 October 2012
Mega funds accounted for 35% of all VC raised during 2011 and the first half of 2012, compared to 6% in 2007
2 min read · 08 October 2012
The founder, CEO and chief investment officer of Morgan Creek Capital Management explains what he calls the “new abnormal,” and “why private investments will be critical in the next few years.”
1 min read · 08 October 2012
Since the start of 2011, mega funds have raised $10.3 billion of the $29.7 billion in capital collected during the period, or 35% of the total
2 min read · 08 October 2012
Nick Hanauer, a Seattle-based venture capitalist who was among the first investors in Amazon.com, is among a number of critics of GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney--despite his benefiting from economic policies the Republican candidate would likely support were he elected next month.
4 min read · 03 October 2012
