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Sequoia and Brookfield prep for VC secondaries boom

'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

End of an era as Moritz steps away from Sequoia

"Sequoia Capital wouldn't be what it is today without Michael," Roelof Botha, who leads Sequoia, wrote to limited partners in a letter viewed by Venture Capital Journal.

4 min read · 20 July 2023

How a UK venture firm is using AI to make better investments

Richard Blakesley is using AI to vet investments for the Boost Fund, noting that 'the early-stage fundraising process is plagued by bias of all sorts: expert bias, pattern-recognition bias, network bias and so forth.'

7 min read · 11 July 2023

Meet venture capital’s 2023 Women of Influence

Our third annual list of women who are climbing high in the venture capital industry was chosen from a group of 110 nominees.

10 min read · 03 July 2023

A Texas accelerator teaches nerd-led start-ups how to scale and sell

A former US diplomat and a Ukrainian PhD are an unlikely pairing, but their shared obsession with finding great founders has helped them generate a 70 percent IRR for their debut fund.

6 min read · 28 June 2023

CalPERS is supersizing its VC position

The nation's largest pension fund wants to grow VC from about 1.4 percent to 10 percent of its private equity portfolio.

3 min read · 26 June 2023

Why Alumni Ventures went all in on AI

Mike Collins, founder and CEO of Alumni Ventures, shares his vision for AV to ‘become the most AI-powered VC in the industry’ and the progress the firm has made so far.

8 min read · 21 June 2023

Former SoftBank exec sees big opportunity in LatAm as others pull back

Bicycle Capital has raised $440mn for its debut fund, anchored by Mubadala Investment Company and Claure Group – the family office of Bicycle's founder, Marcelo Claure, former COO of Softbank Group.

3 min read · 15 June 2023

LP Peakview reaches new heights with largest fund yet

'We brought in a lot of strategic people high up in their industries, and there’s actually quite a few VCs invested in our fund as well,' Peakview founder Erik Lasilla tells Venture Capital Journal.

5 min read · 14 June 2023

DoorDash-backer Pear VC closes largest fund to date

Investors in previous Pear funds include the Inasmuch Foundation, Los Angeles Fire & Police Pension System, the Richard King Mellon Foundation and the Passport Foundation, according to Venture Capital Journal research.

2 min read · 31 May 2023

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