Private Equity

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Venture-backed Paper buys reading skills platform Readlee

Based in Montreal, Paper is an educational support system.

1 min read · 21 March 2023

Focus on women’s health helps Amboy Street overcome fundraising hurdle

The Los Angeles-based firm sees opportunity where institutional capital is 'scared' to go.

3 min read · 20 March 2023

Jump Capital acted swiftly to ensure its portfolio companies could make payroll

Immediately after the FDIC’s takeover of Silicon Valley Bank, the Chicago-based VC firm created a vehicle to help fund payroll and dug into start-ups’ arrangements with payroll providers.

5 min read · 17 March 2023

Vendasta buys VC-backed customer engagement platform Broadly

Based in Saskatoon, Vendasta provides technology to almost six million small and medium-sized businesses through its relationships with channel partners.

1 min read · 17 March 2023

Friday Letter: SVB collapse leaves big hole in venture debt

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank presents an enormous opportunity for venture debt providers.

5 min read · 17 March 2023

Synctera nabs $15m to help companies build fintech apps in Canada

NAventures, the corporate venture arm of National Bank of Canada, led the round.

2 min read · 16 March 2023

FTC’s proposed non-competes ban raises doubts for start-ups’ dealmaking 

Non-solicitation and return-of-property provisions are likely to shift from individual employment contracts to M&A agreements if the ban is passed.

7 min read · 15 March 2023

Here are the winners in CalPERS' $1.1bn VC bonanza

Making up for several years of underinvestment in venture capital, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System committed more than $1.1bn to 15 venture vehicles last year.

3 min read · 15 March 2023

SVB Financial mulls sale of FoF with stakes in Accel, Index, Sequoia

SVB Financial Group, the holding company of Silicon Valley Bank, is exploring strategic options for its various business lines, including a sale of its $9.5 billion funds-of-funds business that includes limited partner positions in funds.

2 min read · 14 March 2023

SVB failure has VCs wrestling with what's next

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank, a longtime favorite of the tech industry, has venture capitalists scrambling to help portfolio companies that are depositors with the bank and make sure their own firms’ deposits are safe. One VC described the bank’s collapse as an “extinction level event” for technology start-ups.

9 min read · 11 March 2023

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