Private Equity
The day of the self-driving car is coming, writes guest columnist Mark Lydon, managing director for Intel Capital’s $100 million Connected Car Fund.
3 min read · 21 October 2014
Intel Capital said it has put $28 million to work in five Chinese companies making new-generation hardware and related technologies, including wearables and Internet of things devices and components.
2 min read · 21 October 2014
The former San Francisco 49ers has raised $46.3 million for his second co-investment fund, beating his target.
2 min read · 17 October 2014
More VCs hoping to make the grade, as investment activity in edtech picks up.
3 min read · 17 October 2014
For the first three quarters of this year more than $33 billion has been put to work in U.S.-based companies. That is $3 billion more than the amount invested in all of 2013, according to the MoneyTree Report from the NVCA and PricewaterhouseCoopers, based on data from Thomson Reuters.
2 min read · 17 October 2014
SAP Ventures renamed itself Sapphire Ventures on Thursday to emphasize its independence from its sole limited partner, SAP.
2 min read · 16 October 2014
Canadian venture capital firm iNovia Capital has opened an office in the Kitchener-Waterloo region. A blog post by firm partner Karamdeep Nijjar said the decision was made because of the high quality of technology product teams being produced by the University of Waterloo, the large number of successful local company founders, and sophisticated local organizations that help build innovative companies, such as Communitech. Based in Montréal and with managed capital totaling $275 million, iNovia is focused on making early-stage investments in digital media, SaaS, e-commerce and connected devices sectors.
4 min read · 16 October 2014
Canaan Partners has raised $675 million for its tenth fund, beating its $600 million target.
1 min read · 16 October 2014
Less than a year after Thomson Reuters outsourced its benchmarking to Cambridge Associates, Bison has introduced a series of free benchmarks to help institutional investors determine how the performance of a single fund measures up against a population of peers.
1 min read · 16 October 2014
Public pension funds in the United States invest on average 9.4 percent of their portfolios in private equity, and the pension with the best 10-year returns this year is the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
1 min read · 15 October 2014
