AI

There is a growing gulf between the amount of capital VCs are trying to raise and how much investors are actually committing.

Speculation about mega-sized AI IPOs has growing numbers of VC-backed companies also queueing up to go public, while increasing demand for scale and strategic growth is expected to be a key factor in M&A activity.

'What is happening in the public markets lets us know the competitive landscape in the private market,' says Umesh Padval, who leads Seligman's new venture business.

Encouraged by Google’s launch of a new agentic commerce protocol, some VCs are on the lookout for start-ups developing technology that would streamline consumer shopping with minimal human intervention.

Known LPs in the firm's previous funds include Princeton University's endowment and South Korean investment company SK Networks.

The firm’s limited partners come from a network almost 1,000 industrial owner-operators in the Midwest, including construction company Shiel Sexton.

AI is driving a fundamental shift in how software companies build applications that deliver measurable productivity gains, a new report says.

With varied experience as leaders of health systems, investing in, scaling and buying and selling companies, the firm’s partners understand how to make an impact on healthcare and build economic models and go-to-market approaches that will work.

The first GP to join the San Francisco-based VC firm since its founding, Rosenthal’s hire attests to AI being seen as a true platform embarking on a second wave of commercial impact.

Investment from new wealth management clients at parent company Northern Trust has enabled the private equity group to continue to raise new funds of funds amid liquidity challenges.