Private Equity
'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
"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
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
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 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
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
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
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
'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
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