Private Equity
AppDirect, a San Francisco-based B2B subscription commerce platform company, was originally founded in Montreal.
1 min read · 09 August 2023
Yet another venture secondaries fund has come to market as investors are betting that the owners of once highly valued start-ups will sell shares at a discount because they are desperate for liquidity.
3 min read · 09 August 2023
PHX Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on B2B software companies in Arizona, has raised $25.4 million for its second fund.
2 min read · 09 August 2023
Valor Capital Group has named Paulo Passoni, formerly a managing investment partner of the SoftBank Latin America Fund, as a managing partner.
2 min read · 09 August 2023
'There is more than $130bn of supply, and supply keeps building, but the bid prices are averaging 40% to 65% off NAV, and this is holding back any sellers in the market from transacting,' says Industry Ventures founder and CEO Hans Swildens.
3 min read · 03 August 2023
The Gates Foundation’s climate venture fund raised $1.25bn for its second vintage in 2021 and $1bn for its first vintage in 2019 from billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, Richard Branson and George Soros.
2 min read · 03 August 2023
The New York firm's debut fund had backing from Bain Capital Ventures, Tiger Global and VCs such as Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures and Hunter Walk and Satya Patel of Homebrew.
2 min read · 02 August 2023
Investors in the first close for Yosemite's debut fund include Emerson Collective, The Rockefeller University, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and venture capitalist John Doerr.
2 min read · 02 August 2023
Prime Movers Lab, a Wyoming-based venture capital firm focused on scientific start-ups, has raised $245 million for its third early-stage fund.
2 min read · 31 July 2023
Energize Capital, a climate software venture firm, has raised $300m for its second growth fund, bringing its total assets under management to $1.2bn.
1 min read · 31 July 2023