Private Equity
Union Square Ventures, which has invested in 17 climate-related companies in the past two years, has closed on $200m for its second climate fund to keep the dealmaking momentum going.
2 min read · 14 December 2022
Vika allegedly told investors it would invest their money into "highly sought-after pre-IPO companies," but the firm's CEO instead spent the investors' money on "private jets, expensive watches and lavish travel," the SEC claims.
2 min read · 08 December 2022
'There’s a tremendous amount of pressure to get money invested, which results in managers accepting investments without the standard governance practices you’d like to see,' says Alaska Permanent CIO Marcus Frampton.
3 min read · 08 December 2022
Boston-based Enthea, a provider of insurance plans for psychedelic-assisted healthcare, has secured $2 million in seed funding in a round led by Tabula Rasa Ventures.
1 min read · 07 December 2022
Super{set}, which is raising its second fund, has poached an executive away from Salesforce to bolster its start-up studio. Jon Suarez-Davis, formerly senior vice-president of marketing strategy and innovation at Salesforce, has joined the San Francisco firm as chief commercial officer.
3 min read · 07 December 2022
Sorenson Capital led the round.
2 min read · 06 December 2022
Top Hat's venture capital investors include Georgian, Emergence Capital, Inovia Capital, Leaders Fund and Union Square Ventures.
2 min read · 06 December 2022
The investors include Altman Capital, Torch Capital, Infinity Ventures, Dash Fund, South Park Commons, Soma, Night Capital and Lorimer Ventures.
1 min read · 05 December 2022
Institutional investors are pulling back from venture funds and spending more time managing their private equity portfolios through secondary sales, a new Probitas Partners survey says.
3 min read · 02 December 2022
The New York- and San Francisco-based firm raised $194.5m for its fourth flagship fund and another $153m for follow-on investments in its best-performing portfolio companies. 645 co-founders Aaron Holiday and Nnamdi Okike explain their strategy and share insights about the firm's value-added services.
4 min read · 01 December 2022
