Private Equity
New venture fund plans to raise $50 million to invest in ”post-seed” Internet companies stuck between the gap between seed and Series A rounds.
2 min read · 21 February 2014
Partner Jim Goetz is now firmly established as a leading rainmaker in Silicon Valley
5 min read · 21 February 2014
WhatsApp is just one more success story for Sequoia Capital, which continues to win big while many other venture firms struggle to remain relevant.
5 min read · 21 February 2014
New venture fund plans to raise $50 million to invest in ”post-seed” Internet companies stuck between the gap between seed and Series A rounds.
2 min read · 21 February 2014
NewSchools has closed $12 million for its seed fund. The fund will invest in edtech ventures. Headquartered in Oakland, Calif. and with offices in Boston and Washington, D.C., NewSchools is a nonprofit venture philanthropy firm focused on public education for underserved students.
4 min read · 20 February 2014
Private equity and venture capital investing in Latin America climbed for a third straight year as fund managers put $8.9 billion to work in 234 deals last year, according to the Latin American Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.
1 min read · 20 February 2014
Facebook will pay $19 billion in cash and stock for mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp, producing a huge return for Sequoia Capital. WhatsApp raised just a single round of venture capital totaling $8 million from Sequoia and an unidentified investor in April 2011 at a valuation of $78.36 million, according to Thomson Reuters.
3 min read · 20 February 2014
Canada's Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA) and the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) have jointly launched the BDC Innovation Award. The new award will recognize an early-stage Canadian company that has demonstrated the ability to bring innovation to market, re-shaping a sector or industry in a new or unexpected way. Nominations for the award are open until April 4, 2014, and the winning startup will be honoured at the 2014 CVCA Annual Conference in Ottawa from May 20-22, 2014.
3 min read · 19 February 2014
Private company valuations continue to run strong in Silicon Valley, a survey of fourth quarter financings found. The survey from Fenwick & West found that 71% of the law firm’s deals in the quarter were up rounds and 16% were down rounds.
1 min read · 19 February 2014
Seed investor circles are proving to be a new kind of clique, with angels and VCs investing in groups and people they know best
3 min read · 19 February 2014
