Emerging Managers

Vision Fund charts new path for SoftBank

Ross Fubini and others launch seed fund Village with Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg as LPs

State Auto in Ohio creates $25 mln corporate fund to invest in fintech, insurtech

State Auto Labs Corp, an arm of the State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company in Ohio, has launched a $25 million corporate venture fund to invest in fintech and insurtech companies.

Austin Ventures veterans start growth firm Elsewhere Partners

A pair of Austin Ventures veterans announced they have started Elsewhere Partners, a Texas-based growth-stage firm targeting business software companies outside the country's traditional venture-capital hubs.

Israel's Vintage Investment Partners discusses its approach for secondaries

Shasta develops camera-focused fund as computer-vision sector heats up

Pre-seed fund with a different approach: early university startups

Samsung unveils $300 mln fund to focus on automotive tech

Samsung announced it has formed a $300 million Samsung Automotive Innovation Fund to focus on the automotive sector. The fund launch follows its $8 billion acquisition of audio and auto parts supplier Harman earlier this year. The Samsung fund will invest in such connected car segments as sensors, machine vision, artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, cloud services, mobile connectivity, automotive-grade safety and security. The first investment is TTTech, a Vienna, Austrian-based provider of networked safety controls for the automotive industry.

Ex-Sequoia investor Yinglan Tan raises $25 mln for Insignia

Insignia Ventures Partners has raised $25 million toward a maiden venture fund, according to a filing with the SEC.

SE Fund to raise $75 mln venture fund

SE Fund has set out to raise a $75 million venture capital fund, according to a filing with the SEC.