Brand new venture capital funds: Unshackled Ventures raised $20 million.
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Traditionally in venture capital, funds do not invest in direct competitors.
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This boils down to my hypothesis on Austin venture capital funds.
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Venture capital funds target 3X multiples and 30 percent (or better) returns.
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Money has poured into Chinese tech startups from both venture capital funds and tech firms like Tencent, with the number of venture capital funds increasing dramatically last year and total investments reaching record highs (though the boom has slowed).
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And the money behind venture capital funds is starting to take diversity seriously.
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The app has received around $70 million in venture capital funds to date.
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The start-up has not received any institutional investor or venture capital funds.
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The U.S. government is investing about $200 million in overseas venture capital funds.
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Oil companies are also using venture capital funds to invest in new energy technologies.
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It was once unusual for venture capital funds to cross the billion-dollar threshold.
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You try to think about ... because there aren't a lot of venture capital funds.
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Domestic venture capital funds have been seeking parity in tax structure with stock investments.
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He also represents venture capital funds and angel investors investing in early-stage companies.
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Jeffrey Epstein was a tech investor and a limited partner in venture-capital funds.
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In most cases, corporate venture capital funds (CVCs) are named after their corporate parents.
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Firms then give their money to venture-capital funds, run internally or by third parties.
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But perhaps the relatively smaller size of Sand Hill's venture capital funds is a blessing.
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The company previously raised $21.1 million from private investors, including Page, and venture capital funds.
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Most venture capital funds that have 27 exits under their belt are not in stealth.
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Venture capital funds, which often focus on investments that eliminate jobs, would face different incentives.
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Venture capital funds are also seeking a clearer way to cash in their investments. Tech.
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Venture capital funds had about $240 billion of uninvested capital in 2018, according to Preqin.
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He was supposedly a limited partner in venture-capital funds and an investor in startups.
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Gary Schall is partner at WilmerHale and represents entrepreneurs, emerging companies and venture capital funds.
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Under the current regulatory framework, managers of venture capital funds are treated like other fund managers.
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Plenty of money from private equity and venture capital funds has flowed to food, she noted.
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Last, 25 percent of the fund will be used to invest in other venture capital funds.
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But venture-capital funds and the supply of risk capital are now expanding fast in Spain.
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It also has millions of dollars to invest in U.S.-based venture capital funds, it says.
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Over the past year, we've written a lot about the rise of supergiant venture capital funds.
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In fact, the venture capital funds connected with these groups are already playing in the sector.
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One of Israel's largest venture capital funds is a new later-stage vehicle focused on healthcare.
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Venture capital funds are mainly judged based on the big bets they get right, Gordon said.
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The C$400 million was used to establish two new, private-sector-led national "funds of funds" to invest in other venture-capital funds, to recapitalize existing large private sector-led funds of funds and to invest in four existing, high-performing venture-capital funds in Canada.
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Tarnowski was formerly an investment manager at Northzone Ventures, one of Europe's leading global venture capital funds.
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Traditional venture capital funds invite founders to pitch their business idea to a line-up of partners.
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More venture-capital funds are setting up, as well as additional accelerators and "business clubs" for startups.
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She has raised $25.5M in venture capital from top venture capital funds Benchmark and Charles River Ventures.
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But Patrick's campaign wouldn't say how much Patrick invested in the fund or other Bain Capital funds.
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"Additional funding and policies will be necessary," the letter adds, especially for agencies not receiving capital funds.
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New funding rounds with venture capital funds are also very unlikely in the coming months, he said.
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LPs are the investors, venture capital funds own investors who have endowments, hospitals, stuff like that. Right.
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The stark contrast in funding for female versus male entrepreneurs or white women versus black women founders is in part a result of a lack of diversity amongst general partners at venture capital funds and amongst the limited partners that choose which venture capital funds to provide capital.
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These apps have attracted millions of dollars in investment from venture capital funds who see their international potential.
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It has no exposure to so-called alternative investments — expensive hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds.
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BNM reiterated on Wednesday that domestic banks should maintain 2 billion ringgit ($462.64 million) as minimum capital funds.
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Despite the weakest tech IPO market since the financial crisis, institutions are pouring money into venture capital funds.
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Follow the money: Michael Kim is the founder of Cendana Capital, which invests in other venture capital funds.
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Greenlight Capital funds returned 5.6% in Q3 and are up 24% year to date, according to the letter.
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The government supports universities and labs; it has also invested in venture-capital funds and directly in startups.
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Bernard Moon is co-founder and partner at SparkLabs Group, a network of accelerators and venture capital funds.
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And the funding gap keeps widening: Last year, women received 2.5% of venture capital funds, according to PitchBook.
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Baidu alone raised $3.2 billion in venture capital funds with one A-round fund and one late-stage fund.
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Regulations also prohibit venture capital funds from investing in financial, real estate, accommodation and restaurant sectors in South Korea.
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It attracted investment from healthcare industry officials and venture capital funds, raising $21.2 million, according to database ICO Drops.
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He will need more money — he's currently declining outside investment but may take venture capital funds in the future.
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Many family offices with ties to unsavory industries and corruption permeate the LP lists at prominent venture capital funds.
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The returns it will generate in the next several months will refresh the coffers of many venture capital funds.
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At least three venture capital funds are dedicated largely to security – Trident Cyber Security, Allegis Capital and TenEleven Ventures.
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Atomico has closed its fourth fund with $765 million, making it one of Europe's single largest venture capital funds.
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"I've taken 14 companies public on Nasdaq," said Margalit, who started one of Israel's most successful venture capital funds.
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But Zhu Fuming, chairman of Shanghai-based Vstar Capital, cautioned that most venture capital funds may continue to struggle.
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On a gross domestic product adjusted basis, U.S. venture capital funds raised 5.3 times more than their European peers.
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But she also attracted venture capital funds whose investors included pension funds and endowments, affecting thousands of ordinary Americans.
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Since the venture capital funds are privately held, they are under little obligation to disclose information about their activities.
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Turo and Maven, for example, have both emerged to facilitate car rental with backing from top venture capital funds.
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But even aside from SoftBank, last year contained several important milestones and developments for venture capital funds and startups.
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These may range from venture-capital funds and start-up financing to tax incentives and even research conducted by academics.
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Station F also announced that top venture capital funds Daphni, Ventech and Kima Ventures will have their offices on-site.
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Earlier this week, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) introduced proposals to simplify the authorization process for venture capital funds.
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KPMG's Chia said it's more likely that venture capital funds will set up in Singapore as part of a network.
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Yale's endowment CIO David Swensen has invested in at least two venture capital funds that deal in blockchain and cryptocurrency.
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At $500 million, Fund VI will be one of the largest venture capital funds to be raised in Southeast Asia.
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But our critics fail to appreciate that it is normal practice in venture capital funds not to disclose limited partners.
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Like in the past couple of Bain Capital funds, limited partners will have several choices in terms of fee structures.
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Financial support from established venture capital funds and through more recently formed investing groups for women founders has substantially increased.
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World Bank investments in funds in the Middle East and North Africa has helped launch several venture capital funds there.
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The company undoubtedly had hefty disclosures about the risks and potentials of its technology when it sought venture capital funds.
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He'll teach a course next spring at Stanford's business school and may advise some private-equity and venture-capital funds.
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Wisayah in recent months has been approaching many venture capital funds in Silicon Valley about possible investments, another person said.
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While foreign dollars have long backed venture capital funds, overseas investors are gingerly poking at directly investing in startups, too.
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Other investors include RedBird Capital, funds managed by Blackstone's Tactical Opportunities business, and Mubadala Capital, according to a press release.
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We wanted to know why it was of modest size, especially in an era of ever-larger venture capital funds.
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Recently, a 12-year-old inventor named Shubham Banerjee received venture-capital funds from Intel to start his own company.
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The firm is making the technology available to clients on the clearing side of its business, including venture capital funds.
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And capital funds to repair the remaining public housing stock have been cut in half over the last 15 years.
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Ultimately, that might play well for Spearhead, since one of the challenges of traditional venture capital funds is their increasing scale.
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Greenlight Capital funds returned 5.8% in the second quarter, bringing the year-to-date gain to 17.4%, according to the letter.
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Canadian venture-capital funds also lack the expertise of their American counterparts, and so are less able to help companies grow.
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Over the past 10 calendar years, Space Angels estimates that venture capital funds have invested nearly $4.2 billion into space companies.
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Venture capital funds including Sequoia and Tiger Global have raised multi-billion dollar funds for their Indian investments in recent years.
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Chinese venture capital funds may also invest up to $30 million in seven to eight Indian start-ups, the statement said.
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"It's a large amount compared to what I have and a small amount compared to most venture capital funds," he explains.
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Almost all this capital comes from institutional LPs and they include some of the best investors in venture capital funds globally.
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But ESMA's proposed powers to adjust capital requirements at European venture capital funds "ought to be further circumscribed", the document said.
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Graduates of BGV's accelerator program have raised £20053 million ($52.6 million) from impact investors, mainstream venture capital funds and private foundations.
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He and his co-founders relied on money from family and friends for six years before venture capital funds stepped in.
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But he added that many of these groups didn't become formal venture-capital funds because of the high costs and regulatory requirements.
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Financial data company Preqin said that those China-based venture capital funds have outperformed their U.S. peers in the last several years.
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From angel investing to co-founding two venture capital funds, Kutcher has built quite the lucrative investing career over the past decade.
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Startups such as Uber and Airbnb have avoided floating their shares and instead raised money through private markets and venture-capital funds.
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Through state-backed venture-capital funds, the government is pouring money into industries that were once the preserve of the private sector.
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Bialick said that venture capital funds, concerned about the rise of the plethora of challenger banks, have paid attention to Curve's activities.
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Cash flow: SoftBank is providing an enormous amount of interim liquidity to venture capital funds, often stapling secondaries to its primary transactions.
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The association also said it would invest part of its $10 million investments budget into two venture capital funds dedicated to diversity.
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Additionally, 2,700 venture capital funds regularly submit updates and a machine learning framework crawls through the entire dataset to identify inaccurate posts.
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London and the nearby city of Cambridge are home to dozens of technology companies as well as tech-focused venture capital funds.
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His organization, which is based in Washington, does everything from starting venture capital funds to making matches between investors and start-ups.
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One area where he wants to add funding: $98 million in capital funds to improve street safety on Fourth Avenue in Brooklyn.
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The fintech startup has confirmed that it raised $0.53 million from some of the most prominent venture capital funds in Silicon Valley.
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As investors around the world sought yield, some of those dollars made its way to venture capital funds, including Softbank's Vision Fund.
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SoftBank is reshaping the startup financing landscape, investing massive sums of money that often exceed the size of entire venture capital funds.
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Gokada is funded by U.S. and Gulf investment and venture capital funds while SafeBoda counts Go-Jek and Allianz among its backers.
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To date, there are still very few fully private venture capital funds in Latin America, including NXTP Labs, Magma Partners and Kaszek Ventures.
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The company has raised $75 million in venture capital funds since 2015 and is now selling its own branded line of dietary supplements.
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The accomplishment highlighted is the allocation of $103 million in capital funds for the development of only 209 units of affordable artist workspace.
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The city benefits from a wealth of capital resources for small businesses including accelerators, angel investors, corporate venture capital funds, and hedge funds.
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If you're an average American, your pension fund is likely backing these venture capital funds — and subsidizing our massages, dinners and Uber rides.
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In 1993, the Israeli government created Yozma, a $100 million fund of funds, that spawned 10 venture capital funds in just three years.
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TC: I'm guessing you're aware of Spearhead, a new effort by AngelList that gives scouts capital to start their own venture capital funds.
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A lot of venture-capital funds were started around 2010, and they mostly have a ten-year term; investors want to cash out.
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Large real-money accounts were joined in the order book by specialist bank capital funds, high-yield investors and private banks, he said.
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New venture capital funds were created lately in France, such as Korelya Capital, founded by former digital economy minister Fleur Pellerin, and Daphni.
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The past few years have seen record amounts of funding raised by venture-capital funds, with capital easier to come by for startups.
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Lockheed and Boeing both invest in startups through venture capital funds, and they have stakes in companies like Rocket Lab and Virgin Galactic.
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In addition, Breyer Capital is a major limited partner in IDG Capital Funds and Jim currently holds its leading outside strategic advisory role.
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More recently, a technology company, Numerai, which has an artificial intelligence tournament to predict the stock market, raised $1.5 million in venture capital funds.
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The CTA previously announced that it would spend $10 million on venture capital funds focused on supporting businesses from women and people of color.
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Investors are fleeing from Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital funds, withdrawing $600 million during the first six months of the year according to Fortune.
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The Transportation Department is due more than $26 million in capital funds for maintenance, bridge replacements, seismic retrofits, and bike and pedestrian path improvements.
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Disclosure: Mark Yusko does not personally own Diamondback Energy, Pioneer Energy, Parsley Energy and RSP Permian, but owns them in Morgan Creek Capital funds.
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He expects his fund's investors to be a mix of high net worth individuals, family offices, a few institutions, and potentially venture capital funds.
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Intrepid Capital Funds President and Portfolio Manager Mark Travis tells CNBC's "Power Lunch" on Tuesday he is beginning to see value in smaller names.
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Meanwhile, venture capital funds are being forced to use every financial tool imaginable to stay involved in the growing pool of late-stage startups.
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The total number of high profile investors and venture capital funds continues to increase in 2018 – a trend Space Angels traces back to 2009.
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Some kinds of investments, such as limited partnerships in private-equity or venture-capital funds, require capital to be locked up for several years.
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The concern is that venture capital funds will struggle to cash out at those prices, making the WeWork debacle a harbinger of wider pain.
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In 2007, an affiliate of the private equity firm Sun Capital Partners bought Scott Brass, splitting the ownership between two separate Sun Capital funds.
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A study from Stanford University that was released on Monday found evidence of racial bias against venture-capital funds led by people of color.
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For the foundations, endowments and pension funds that have poured billions into venture capital funds, finding the right early-stage investor remains a challenge.
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Increasingly, these big players are setting up venture capital funds and investing in start-ups and licensing technology to fuel their own drug pipelines.
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That's why the sector typically attracts venture capital funds and other "smart money" investors who are willing to take on more risk than most.
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Google and other technology companies are looking to invest in the areas SoftBank is focusing on, as are private equity and venture capital funds.
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By the way, you could not have invested $50 into Uber ten years ago because the company was raising money from venture capital funds.
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"Both in terms of operating and capital funds, the federal government for the last couple of decades has ignored the actual needs," Bloom said.
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Investors in venture capital funds would have been as well off simply investing in the stock market over the past five to 15 years.
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Its Ola Electric Mobility unit in March raised 4 billion rupees ($58 million) from investors including venture capital funds Tiger Global and Matrix Partners.
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So far, $703 million of the money has been committed to 21 new and emerging venture capital funds, and 186 Canadian firms have received funding.
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Already, Ohio has something of a technology hub forming in Columbus, home to one of the largest venture capital funds in the Midwest, Drive Capital .
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Uber, for example, took money from one of Alphabet's venture-capital funds, but soon found itself competing against the giant's self-driving car unit, Waymo.
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What does it take to raise a Series A: Venture capital funds have boomed this decade, but raising money is still hard for young companies.
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The company, based in San Francisco, has raised $3.5 million from venture capital funds including Phoenix-based Social Leverage and Bullpen Capital of San Francisco.
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In the last year, 66 percent of financial services providers have used capital funds to invest in information security; just 45 percent of retailers have.
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Harlem Capital managing partner Jarrid Tingle With its first fund close, Harlem Capital becomes one of the largest venture capital funds with a diversity mandate.
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For the sake of some kind of progress, let's assume that Congress unwisely cuts public housing operating and capital funds as the Trump administration proposes.
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The investment comes as large financial institutions seek closer ties with young financial technology companies, by partnering or backing them through dedicated venture capital funds.
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The round was led by Greenspring Associates, a firm that both invests in venture capital funds as well as directly in later-stage private companies.
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Start-ups are staying private longer than ever before, enabling institutional investors like venture-capital funds and hedge funds to benefit from the biggest growth spurts.
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An important barrier is a restriction imposed by the insurance commissioner on the amount pension funds may pay to external managers such as venture capital funds.
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Pension funds, in particular, dwarf venture-capital funds but have historically invested very little of their money in risky companies, preferring bonds and blue-chip firms.
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The last roll call vote on Thursday was for the Supporting America's Innovators Act, which alters Securities and Exchange Commission registration requirements for venture capital funds.
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Venture capital funds have poured close to $2 billion into cannabis startups this year, and mainstream funds are slowly getting more comfortable with cannabis tech companies.
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Institutional venture capital funds have yet to look at Miami with better eyes — but honestly, who would have expected for them to arrive before the opportunities?
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The lawmakers also asked whether Cfius should look into Chinese angel and venture capital funds established in the United States and Chinese investment in tech accelerators.
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Alfi spent two decades investing in technology and media, and he returned to Cairo to start one of the earliest Egyptian venture capital funds, Sawari Ventures.
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A little-known group backed by the European Union, called the European Investment Fund, has for years bankrolled some of the region's top venture capital funds.
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Third Way proposes borrowing an idea from Silicon Valley and creating venture capital funds, seeded by the federal government, for states to invest in local entrepreneurs.
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In the ensuing 15 years, about two-thirds of initial public stock offerings backed by venture capital funds have involved similar super-shares, according to Dealogic.
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Most traditional Silicon Valley venture capital funds have little if no diverse representation within both their firms and their portfolio company CEOs, and this needs to change.
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Yale endowment's widely followed chief investment officer David Swensen has invested in at least two venture capital funds that deal in cryptocurrency and its underlying technology blockchain.
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This could also mean that companies turn to a growing pool of private equity and venture capital funds as an alternative to listing on a stock exchange.
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As Case pointed out in a recent conversation with TechCrunch, nearly 80 percent of venture capital funds get pumped into three states: California, New York and Massachusetts.
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All of these celebrities go out and raise venture capital funds… these celebrities don't provide any value beyond their check [but] we can help with social strategy.
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This includes raising the limit on a finance company's aggregate uncollateralised business loans to up to 25 percent of its capital funds, from the current 10 percent.
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As a result, the country's tech firms are not creating training schemes, points out Yigal Erlich of Yozma, the outfit that seeded many Israeli venture-capital funds.
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In Canada, fintech is revitalizing the startup scene and has attracted a new crop of Canadian venture capital funds looking to invest specifically in young fintech companies.
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WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - U.S. banks would be able to take large ownership stakes in venture capital funds under proposed rules unveiled Thursday by the Federal Reserve.
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Venture capital funds are dabbling in the space as are billionaires like Jeff Bezos and biohackers, who experiment with drugs and supplements for health and longevity purposes.
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"It's going to trigger a massive explosion in entrepreneurship," said Howard Lindzon, an entrepreneur in Phoenix who invests in five to 203 venture capital funds a year.
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Or, they could get the chance to invest in commercial real estate, energy projects like oil exploration, or venture capital funds that invest in things like tech startups.
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With this growth, the challenge of finding capital has eased, say experts, with venture capital funds, angel investors, individuals and corporates all looking to invest in the sector.
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Portag3 is among several new venture capital funds launched in Canada focused specifically on technology-driven startups that aim to disrupt or bring innovation to the financial industry.
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People (and professional investors at mutual funds, hedge funds, venture capital funds, retirement funds, pension funds, life insurance companies) go looking for higher returns by taking on risk.
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First off, in Silicon Valley, a special breed of investor known as 'super angels' are raising their own venture-capital funds as solo general partners, Melia Russell reports.
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GV would not share the total amount it has invested in each year since it was founded, and like most venture capital funds, it doesn't disclose its returns.
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So Temasek, which itself is a late-stage investor, seeded four venture capital funds in the region, that raised several hundred million dollars to invest in start-ups.
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His venture capital funds together have raised over $800M andwere early investors in many leading digital media companies including TheHuffington Post, Buzzfeed, xAD, Associated Content, and Buddy Media.
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He also said recent deregulation will prompt insurers, banks and state-owned enterprises to increasingly put money into venture capital funds with a focus on longer-term returns.
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WeWork's failed IPO isn't going to change the way venture capital funds behave, according to Erik Gordon, a professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.
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The order, part of a General Services Administration area-wide public utility contract, will be primarily funded by Navy working capital funds, the Pentagon said in a statement.
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Consumers are often the beneficiaries: If you have enjoyed Uber's discounted fares, you can thank the venture capital funds who have been willing to bankroll Uber's fare subsidies.
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As a result of his discoveries, Mr. Gutelius said, he ended fund-raising conversations with three groups, including venture capital funds, and plans to cut off two more.
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Hurd, however, is less concerned about the funding for the centralized modernization fund, calling the working capital funds the "real prize" of the legislation in a recent interview.
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After that, the resolution says, the agency would invite the public to join in the debate over how it should spend more than $28 billion in capital funds.
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Moreover some 20 new venture capital funds that aim to invest in African tech startups were launched this year, with total capital into hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Rx3, which invests alongside consumer private equity and growth capital funds, has also backed Hims, CorePower Yoga, glasses retailer Privé Revaux and Hydrow, a maker of indoor rowing machines.
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The price cut underscores the recent mismatch between the valuations start-ups are able to achieve in private fundraising rounds from venture capital funds and from public market investors.
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Venture capital funds raised $13B in the first three months of 2016, the largest quarter in fifteen years and a full 59% higher than the same period last year.
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We ended with Kate doing a rapid-fire review of all the venture capital funds that announced closes this week, because there were a lot, including Slow Ventures, Defy.
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Venture-capital funds have been flowing into the industry, prompting record levels of private biotech financings, according to a new analysis from Jefferies analyst Michael Yee and his team.
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As shown in the chart below, venture capital funds alone raised over $22000 billion in 2500, far above the levels gathered in the last peak, prior to the recession.
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Canadian venture capital funds poured about $210 billion into 0003 financings in the first half of 2000, according to the Canadian Venture Capital Report, published by CPE Media Analytics.
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Another question that comes up is the role of venture capital funds who purchase tokens—a much more liquid position than the startup equity they usually hold for years.
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WASHINGTON — Banks could invest heavily in or even sponsor venture capital funds under a proposed change to a post-crisis rule that was intended to limit their risk-taking.
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Tech companies began to trickle in, buttressed by the Fortune 500 old guard, and they in turn gave birth to startup accelerators, seed-investment firms, and venture capital funds.
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The venture capital unit is also working with international venture capital funds to invest in Abu Dhabi, Ibrahim Ajami, head of Mubadala Ventures, told a conference in Abu Dhabi.
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The provision would set up a $500 million modernization fund for agencies to draw from as well as working capital funds they can use to transition to new technology.
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It's also why venture capital funds have gotten larger, private equity deals more expensive and SoftBank may raise a second Vision Fund despite a host of high-profile wobbles.
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Beyond its grey, hulking ministries and Communist Party offices, it has become an innovation hub, with an unrivalled range of universities, venture-capital funds, technology firms and cultural enterprises.
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It's why the city has agreed to provide $2.5 billion in capital funds across five years, in addition to hundreds of millions a year to meet immediate operating needs.
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According to a mid-year report by Fenwick & West, 2017 is on pace to see the highest number of first-time venture capital funds formed in more than a decade.
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These venture capital funds mainly invest in products and services that cater to the elites — the app-based economy that does nothing to serve the basic needs of most Americans.
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In New York City, the money for Lower Manhattan would supplement $100 million in capital funds that Mayor Bill de Blasio and city officials committed to the project in August.
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Dozens of companies, including electronics maker Omron Corp and real estate developer Mitsui Fudosan Co, have set up venture capital funds to seek returns or team up with smaller companies.
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The amount of global crowdfunding investment is expected to reach $34 billion in 2015, and in 2016 will surpass the annual money committed by investors to venture-capital funds globally.
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Investment comes from venture capital funds in the Palestinian West Bank as well as other parts of the Middle East and also from Europe and the United Kingdom, Sturgill said.
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Ironically, some of that money is allocated to private equity and venture capital funds that then invest in Israeli high tech, said Koby Simana, CEO of the IVC Research Center.
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Per a Medium post from Palihapitiya: That core means Social Capital's three existing venture capital funds, with plans to raise a fourth either later this year or in early 2019.
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Ito wrote in his apology that he permitted Epstein's donations, and that he also allowed Epstein to Invest in Ito's venture capital funds that invest in start-up tech companies.
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Wall Street, venture capital funds and private equity firms will now have the opportunity to enter a fast-growing industry and provide the funds to scale at a new level.
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Michelle Penczak is the founder and CEO of Squared Away, which matches skilled virtual assistants with consultants, entrepreneurs, and executives at high-profile startups, entertainment studios, and venture capital funds.
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JOHANNESBURG, July 17 (Reuters) - South Africa's Anglo American Platinum has invested $100 million in two venture capital funds focused on increasing demand for platinum group metals, it said on Tuesday.
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The lack of equity in VC is in part caused by the lack of women on the other side of the table; venture capital funds still employ very few women.
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Under their twin proposals, agencies could draw from a $500 million general modernization fund or from individual working capital funds replenished by money they save from transitioning to new technology.
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In the first two rounds of the ESVF funds, the funding from the NRF mostly went to venture capital funds, while in this round, the investors are all large, local enterprises.
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Launching today with pre-seed backing from venture capital funds Combine, Haystack and Partners Resolute, customers can begin ordering Haus' citrus & flower-flavored debut apéritif (15% ABV), priced at $70 apiece.
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Over the next year, the fund will contribute up to 40 percent (of the total capital committed) to three venture capital funds, so long as the institutions also provide a counterpart.
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Brynne founded Topia after being an extensive road warrior herself as an investment banker, and has raised more than $90 million dollars from top venture capital funds NEA and Notion Capital.
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However, this has changed since the introduction of the Circular 331 initiative, which has made available $400 million for investment in the knowledge economy directly by banks or venture capital funds.
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U.S. venture capital funds are also raising more money from Chinese family offices and investment firms, but legislation introduced last year in Congress that aims to strengthen CFIUS could change that.
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It will shelter early stage companies, venture capital funds, a post office, a round-the-clock restaurant, a tax centre and will offer 26 programmes to help out entrepreneurs, Niel said.
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Worldwide, 2058 private capital funds ended their fundraising process in the quarter, hauling in $289 billion, the data showed, which was the best first quarter since right before the financial crisis.
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It has already raised nearly $212,220 from rich individuals and traditional venture capital funds, but the founders like the idea of building a larger circle of investors who act as advocates.
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And investors are shoveling money into venture capital funds, which raised so much cash in the first half of this year that it rivaled the amount raised in all of 2015.
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Isondo was looking at venture capital funds and other investors to help to raise around 120 million rand ($9 million) needed over the next two years to expand its production line.
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Business Insider tapped 11 experts — including investors, founders of venture capital funds, managing partners, CEOs, company founders, and MBA professors — for their recommendations of the best VC podcasts to listen to.
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It was enough to grab the attention of one of Silicon Valley's biggest venture-capital funds, Sequoia Capital, which led the round for the UK tech startup Tessian earlier this year.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's digital used car portal Volanty has received an infusion of 2.53 million reais ($17.6 million) from venture capital funds led by Japan's SoftBank and Kaszek of Argentina.
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Slack, in partnership with a number of venture capital funds, including Accel, Kleiner Perkins and Index, has also deployed capital to a number of other startups, like Lattice, Drafted and Loom.
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Sovereign wealth funds from the Middle East and Asia have in recent years become far more active in investing directly in start-ups, rather than simply investing in venture capital funds.
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Proposed changes would allow banks to invest in some credit funds and sponsor or take ownership stakes in venture capital funds, which pool ultrarich investors' money to bet on start-ups.
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AP1 has total assets under management of 365.8 billion Swedish crowns ($37.4 billion) between equities, interest-bearing securities, real estate, infrastructure, venture capital funds and hedge funds, the fund's website says.
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Founded in 2013, Argus has raised $30 million to date, including $26 million two years ago from Magna International , Allianz, the SBI Group and Israeli venture capital funds Magma and Vertex.
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At the same time, Joshua Kushner has had to deal with queries from investors in his venture capital funds who have asked him how Mr. Trump's ascension would affect his work.
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The provision would create a $500 million modernization fund for agencies to use to modernize their IT systems, in addition to working capital funds to help agencies transition to newer technology.
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The company will have 500 million dirhams ($136.15 million) in capital funds divided into 500 million shares, as well as 100 million dirhams in export capital divided into 100 million shares.
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Advantage: Circumvents today's big holdup for venture capital funds — that they're legally limited to hold no more than 20 percent of their money in assets that are liquid securities, such as cryptocurrencies.
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Increasingly, the largest venture capital funds are leading seed deals in fledgling upstarts, offering larger checks, limited dilution and the opportunity to stamp a legacy brand name on a months-old project.
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The RBI said banks can provide a credit enhancement of up to 20 percent of the bonds to be issued and limited such enhancements to one percent of a bank's capital funds.
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The two IPOs, set to create a whole bunch of millionaires and return a number of venture capital funds, will provide Silicon Valley a lesson in Wall Street's tolerance for outsized exits.
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While big banks remain reluctant to become too closely involved in the plumbing behind the global crypto market, large companies and venture capital funds are pouring money in, Reuters reported in April.
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Venture capital funds Starwood and Blackstone are considering buying a 29.5 percent stake in NH Hotel Group held by China's HNA, said newspaper El Confidencial, citing unnamed sources close to the negotiations.
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More venture capital funds are also hitting their fundraising target: 88 percent of venture funds achieved their target in 2016, compared to 80 percent the year prior, according to the PitchBook report.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's corporate startup scene is gaining traction against the backdrop of booming investments by venture capital funds and high expectations for a business-friendly government under new President Emmanuel Macron.
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The gap between the two countries highlights the relatively smaller size of investment tickets in France, underscoring the need for larger venture capital funds to help promising startups going international, Dufourcq said.
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President Trump said during the campaign that he wants to raise taxes on investment profits earned by managers of hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds and similar sorts of partnerships.
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Andrew Cuomo has pledged an extra $1 billion in capital funds next year, on top of his previous pledge of $8.3 billion, but where that new billion will come from is unclear.
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SAO PAULO, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Japan's SoftBank Group Corp is planning to invest $500 million in venture capital funds in Latin America, its managing partner in Brazil, Andre Maciel, said on Friday.
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Fahs spent her early career in technology as a software engineer at Uber Eats and the project MovingForward, which works with venture capital funds to help them create policies that address harassment.
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David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital funds were down 4 percent during the second quarter, a period that the firm refers to as a "head scratcher" in a new investor letter obtained by CNBC.
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The joint Transportation for America and Union of Concerned Scientists letter asked Congress to temporarily blur the line between operating and capital funds so agencies can redirect money where it's needed most.
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The cycle hurts two groups in particular, Palihapitiya wrote -- the so-called "limited partners" who invest money in venture capital funds, and the employees of the tech start-ups supported by those funds.
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But the central bank noted that in part due to long lock-up periods, it likely wasn't necessary for venture capital funds to meet the same higher capital requirements as other fund managers.
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"This has shored up their capital funds and also increased their loan loss provision to ensure that the PCA parameters were complied with," the RBI said referring to the government's latest capital injection.
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Sipahimalani said Temasek identified two to three years ago that there was insufficient funding for companies in their early stages of growth, due to the lack of venture capital funds in the region.
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The number of private capital funds raising money from investors is on the rise, and the amount they are seeking to raise is a record $946 billion at the beginning of the year.
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Shenzhen's ecosystem pulls in more hardware-makers the bigger it gets—just as Silicon Valley's dense network of venture-capital funds, law firms and other service providers has attracted more and more startups.
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The NRF invests on a 1-to-1 match basis, of up to S$10 million per fund, to venture capital funds that invest only in early-stage local high-tech start-ups.
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After the rules are formally adopted, European venture capital funds - which support higher risk start-ups - will find it easier to invest in a wider range of companies, including small and medium enterprises.
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In the meantime, Third Way wants Democrats to get behind universal private pensions and "venture capital funds, seeded by the federal government, for states to invest in local entrepreneurs," according to the Times.
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Because in addition to the Saudis giving billions of dollars directly to startups, they are also investors, or limited partners, in a number of elite venture capital funds that do their own deals.
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Activision-Blizzard's ambitions were an order of magnitude larger and aimed at groups willing to invest at a scale beyond what most (though certainly not all) venture capital funds would be comfortable with.
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That mandatory yield adds even more pressure for the fund to deliver on its investments to satisfy limited partners who are used to venture capital funds delivering annual 2300% returns -- at a minimum.
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This is attributable, in part, to billions of dollars flowing into new venture capital funds — the largest of which are raised by the oldest, most entrenched firms — and competition from relative newcomers, like SoftBank.
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In his Autumn Statement on November 23rd the chancellor of the exchequer, Philip Hammond, announced that he would give £400m to venture capital funds specifically to invest in startups that want to scale up.
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TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) have begun talks on setting up a secondary stock exchange for high-tech companies in Israel that would compete with venture capital funds.
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Smaller venture-capital funds allow for investors to achieve returns, even if the rate of failure within a portfolio is high, because fund size allows for smaller exits to produce great overall fund results.
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Below, you'll see the data for each of the six years we analyzed and averaged out: Although startups can successfully raise money throughout the year, the same can't be said for venture capital funds.
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The co-founder of AOL has joined forces with J.D. Vance, the author of "Hillbilly Elegy," to promote entrepreneurship across the United States and seed investments in cities often overlooked by venture capital funds.
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There are 831 financial technology startups headquartered in or operating in Canada, according to data collected by Fintech Growth Syndicate, yet only a handful of venture capital funds specializing in the region and sector.
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Early-stage investors have begun funneling larger sums of capital to standout teams at the seed, while billion-dollar venture capital funds set aside capital for serial entrepreneurs working on their next big idea.
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In a statement, loss-making Symphony said it has raised more than $460 million in capital so far from financial services firms, global venture capital funds, and technology companies, including Google parent Alphabet Inc.
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Last year, European early-stage tech companies raised $13.4 billion in funding, a record high, according to the data provider CB Insights, partly fueled by new venture capital funds popping up in London and Berlin.
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Risk capital funds, including Brookfield and KKR, are considering an up-to-one-billion-euro offer for a 49% stake in ACS's new renewables subsidiary, unnamed sources close to the Spanish builder told El Confidencial.
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Venture capital funds are currently limited when it comes to making what the SEC views as "non-qualifying" investments, or deals that are outside the normal course of VC business, in order to protect investors.
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Chris Douvos, managing director and general partner at Venture Investment Associates, graphically described the lack of IPO activity as an "exit sphincter" leaving LPs, investors that fund venture capital funds, out of money to reinvest.
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Last year was the fifth-consecutive year of growth in total investments raised for private capital funds, which include private equity, debt, real estate, infrastructure and natural resources funds, the data and research firm said.
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The purchase of San Francisco-based Cruise Automation, which has to this point been running on $20 million of venture capital funds, shows that the big automakers are serious about the future of driverless cars.
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The tax plan released Thursday by House Republicans would maintain the "carried interest" loophole, which benefits managers of hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds and other types of investment partnerships.
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The $570 million figure included only $150 million of new state funding, said Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi, the chairman of the Assembly's Social Services Committee, with the rest coming from existing capital funds and tax credits.
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Why it matters: Technology investors have become increasingly interested in the area, with a growing number of venture capital funds making both equity investments in startups as well as purchasing digital tokens from nascent projects.
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But publicly, Saudi Arabia is a rising power-player in Silicon Valley, pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into startups and venture capital funds like Softbank's Vision Fund, which funded WeWork, Slack, Wag, and Doordash.
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He does not believe any of it came from Saudi Arabia, he said, but he added that he could not be sure, given the complex, opaque network of investment vehicles that back venture capital funds.
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The bottom line: Vision Fund is larger than all Silicon Valley venture capital funds put together, so the existence/disappearance of Vision Fund 2 will have an earthquake-like impact on the future funding environment.
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The EU's drive for a capital markets union (CMU) got another boost on Tuesday evening when a proposal to make it easier for venture capital funds to invest in EU start-ups was also agreed.
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There are venture capital funds like New Crop Capital and Stray Dog Capital and Clear Current Capital, and some others that are specifically interested in investment opportunities that will remove animals from industrial animal agriculture.
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More money was raised for venture-capital funds in China in the first half of 22018 than in America, the first time that had ever happened: $22019bn compared with $22017bn, according to Preqin, a data provider.
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As for CaaS Technologies specifically, an attempt to monetize the features that made Social Capital one of the top venture capital funds, albeit for a short time period, is a logical path forward for the team.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil cosmetics company Natura intends to invest up to $5 million in new brands in beauty and wellness segments in Europe and the United States through venture capital funds, executives said on Friday.
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The group's answer came in the form of a new program for rural communities that establishes venture capital funds to encourage rural entrepreneurs, co-working spaces in low-income rural areas and digital skills training centers.
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A digital bank that raised $110 million from venture capital funds and celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio is scrambling to find funding, a potential sign that investors are cooling on risky start-ups after the WeWork debacle.
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Angel Investors include 42angels, a platform, which gathers experienced Czech and Slovak entrepreneurs; Neulogy Ventures, the first Slovakia-based management company to run fully regulated seed and venture capital funds; Speed Invest; and Credo Ventures among others.
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Capitalworks' private equity and venture capital funds currently focus on South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, its website says, and is among the leaders in South Africa's $4.6 billion private equity industry, according to research firm Preqin.
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With a goal to help connect the "little man" with new companies providing easy solutions to everyday problems, Kutcher began as an angel investor before co-founding two venture capital funds: A-Grade Investments and Sound Ventures.
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According to a 2014 study authored by Catherine Tucker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), patent trolls have cost U.S. startup entrepreneurs about $21.7 billion in venture capital funds in the five years preceding the report.
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While this "older generation" of venture capital funds is now very well-capitalized, there have been some 50 or so "micro VCs" set up in the past decade which specialize in different parts of the tech world.
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As the company has expanded into everything from venture capital funds to cloud computing, the company now courts startups in many ways, from marketing cloud services to them, to a slate of other accelerator and mentoring programs.
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He has been criticized in the press for investing in overseas venture capital funds that do not abide by rules as strict as those followed by the sovereign wealth fund, which is commonly called the Oil Fund.
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It establishes a $500 million general technology modernization fund that agencies can borrow from in order to transition to new technology, in addition to allowing agencies to set up their own working capital funds for IT projects.
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It establishes a $2900 million general technology modernization fund that agencies can borrow from in order to transition to new technology, in addition to allowing agencies to set up their own working capital funds for IT projects.
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In fact, Dealroom calculates that 20% of new venture capital funds raised in Europe came from private limited partners and that 18% of the $28 billion investment in European startups in 2018 came directly from private wealth.
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"I think we should, as investors, take seriously our role in driving some of these destabilizing forces in society," said Rukaiyah Adams, chief investment officer at Meyer Memorial Trust, an investor in venture capital funds and nonprofits.
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The report also found a big increase in the number of corporate venture capital funds — mainly off-shoots of banks — getting involved in funding, while the number of VCs putting money on the table is in decline.
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Moreover, even when venture-capital funds do stump up big chunks of money, they usually plan to stay invested for just a decade or so, the last years of which are taken up with designing an exit strategy.
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So far in 2112, there have been at least 1122 investments by venture capital funds in cannabis companies, compared with just 10 deals in 2016 and 9 deals in 2015, according to venture capital data provider CB Insights.
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The job: As one of 19 members of the board, Kunst plans to introduce the Michigan State University Foundation to venture capital funds in Silicon Valley, New York City, and Los Angeles — areas where she has deep networks.
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"I've said this four or five times: It's private equity," said Wayne Moore, trustee for the Los Angeles County Employee Retirement Association, adding that their pension yielded a 13.1 percent return through investments in private capital funds. Rep.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. banks would be able to take large stakes in venture capital funds under a proposal to ease strict bank trading and investment rules introduced following the 2007-2009 global financial crisis, regulators said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. banks would be able to take large stakes in venture capital funds under a proposal to ease strict bank trading and investment rules introduced following the 2007-2009 global financial crisis, regulators said on Thursday.
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Effectively, in this context, the UK's 'sovereign fund' – the British Business Bank – will cornerstone the fund through its Enterprise Capital Funds (ECF) program, which supports new and emerging VC fund managers who target the early stage equity gap.
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Much of the progress so far on CMU—such as liberalising rules for venture-capital funds and making it easier for small firms to list on stock exchanges—counts for less without new pools of capital to tap into.
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Its $140m or so in equity capital comes from several investors, including Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Pierre Omidyar, who founded eBay, an online-auction giant, as well as from venture-capital funds such as Learn Capital and Novastar.
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"There are many capital funds and banks which are very interested in engaging with us in this investment opportunity," ChemChina Chairman Ren Jianxin told a press conference in Basel, Switzerland on Wednesday, in remarks translated from Chinese into English.
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General Mills, based in Minneapolis, is part of an increasing number of old-economy companies, including the convenience chain 7-Eleven and the Campbell Soup Company, that have joined a crowd of technology companies to create venture capital funds.
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DUBAI, April 24 (Reuters) - Agreements have been signed to set up venture capital funds in Saudi Arabia worth 1.5 billion riyals ($400 million), the governor of the Small and Medium Enterprises General Authority told Al Arabiya TV on Wednesday.
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SAO PAULO, Nov 14 (Reuters) - SoftBank, whose $473 billion Latin America fund has showered regional startups with cash, is also courting local venture capital funds, an unusual move for the Japanese investor that has jolted the region's tech scene.
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"There are many capital funds and banks which are very interested in engaging with us in this investment opportunity," ChemChina Chairman Ren Jianxin told a press conference in Basel, Switzerland on Wednesday, in remarks translated from Chinese into English.
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The plan is to invest in both startups and emerging VC funds, with 60% to 65% of the capital going toward venture capital funds as a limited partner, and 35% to 40% going directly to startups, Toney told TechCrunch.
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As part of the consent decree, the authority is awaiting a court-appointed monitor who will ensure the agency's compliance with regulations and oversee an infusion of at least $2 billion in operational and capital funds from the city.
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France's startup scene has been gaining traction, with investment by venture capital funds booming and expectations high for a business-friendly government under Macron, whose "Republic on the Move" (LREM) party looks set for a landslide victory in Sunday's parliamentary elections.
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The shift is in its infancy but contrasts sharply with the banking markets of Europe and North America, where change is slower and such startups tend to be backed by venture capital funds and financial sector incumbents, not tech firms.
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Limited partners in venture capital funds are having conversations about how to prevent themselves from investing in the next Binary Capital, the Silicon Valley firm that has collapsed over allegations that one of its co-founders sexually harassed female entrepreneurs.
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Private equity investor HarbourVest Partners said its C$375 million ($285 million) fund, mostly dedicated to investing in venture capital funds that back Canadian companies, had been oversubscribed by the limited partners that account for two-thirds of the fund.
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Family investment offices — private wealth management firms that typically invest on behalf of a single (ultra-)high-net-worth family — and, more notably, corporate venture capital funds seem to be the most location-agnostic of the investor types we've surveyed here.
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Gurevich has also been both a founder and VC. Before joining Javelin, he was a principal with DFJ Aurora, where he helped establish one of the first venture capital funds focused on high-tech investments in Russia and Eastern Europe.
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Most local units are thinly capitalised so to keep the capital cost to the group to a minimum: under the 1980 UAE banking law, foreign banks must allocate capital funds to the local unit worth 40 million dirhams ($10.9 million).
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There was a businessman who had raised venture-capital funds to start a candy operation, and a married couple from Ohio who had saved their money and moved to Oregon to start a strain-specific cookie company called Titan's Kind.
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Richardson testified that as Retrophin was growing, he sought information from Shkreli to clarify how many shares Richardson had in the company as a result of the transfer of his MSMB Capital funds and from subsequent direct investments in Retrophin.
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The fund is part of a larger movement to reimagine company towns, and a challenge for venture capital funds to look beyond California, New York and Massachusetts — the three states that receive 75 percent of venture capital in the United States.
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Most venture capital funds do not have human resources departments, and even if they have an internal policy that defines and punishes harassment, it generally has only applied internally to their firm — not to the entrepreneurs that they interview and fund.
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WASHINGTON — In a move aimed at loosening some of the reins put on Wall Street after the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve on Thursday eliminated a restriction on bank ownership of venture capital funds, as well as two other changes.
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Tiger first backed Flipkart in 2009 with $9 million but repeatedly doubled down on the Indian company as it matured — Tiger, which has $11 billion in assets its venture capital funds, would go on to lead several later Flipkart financing deals.
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"The rise in angel investing — and investments by board members in venture-capital-funds — over the past 22006 years has significantly increased the frequency of this type of potential conflict," said David Lipkin, a lawyer at McDermott Will & Emery's Silicon Valley office.
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Gilbert said while Aberdeen was going through a difficult time it was not as bad as 2002 when its shares lost 97 percent after an investigation into the sale to retail investors of higher-risk split capital funds, which eventually turned sour.
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The large number of new venture capital funds may hint at broader structural changes in the startup ecosystem, but for the young and eager partners at the helm of many of these funds, all the rush of money means is more competition.
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The S&P 500 is up more than 13 percent since the lows of February 11 and at these levels, Mark Travis, president and portfolio manager at Intrepid Capital Funds, tells CNBC's "Power Lunch" it is hard to argue the market is cheap.
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In a list of nine questions at the end of the letter, the signers also asked whether the committee sufficiently reviews Chinese angel or venture capital funds being established in the United States, as well as Chinese investment in technology accelerators and regulators.
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To help you get smarter about all things VC, Business Insider tapped 11 experts — including investors, founders of venture capital funds, managing partners, CEOs, company founders, and MBA professors — for their recommendations on the best venture capital podcasts to start listening to today.
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One of the things some might ignore about all the money currently going into venture capital funds (and, by proxy, into privately held tech startups) is that it is going to have to come back to limited partners with a hefty return.
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An expansion of the reviews could affect attempts by Chinese and other foreign companies to make a wide range of purchases and investments in the United States, including Hollywood studios and film production companies, venture capital funds and makers of renewable energy equipment.
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A new partnership among two prominent Israeli venture capital funds, a handful of major private-sector companies and the city's economic growth development enterprise is hoping to turn New York City into the nation's leading center for yet one more major industry: cybersecurity.
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In response to this criticism, the mayor, earlier this year, committed an additional $1.9 billion in capital funds to ensure that a quarter of the housing stock under the plan would go to New Yorkers with "extremely low" and "very low" incomes.
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Skyfi raised $3 million in a round led by Jerusalem Venture Partners, one of the country's most successful venture capital funds, and says it has signed letters of intent to sell its antennas to global players such as Lockheed Martin and Spacecom.
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This week I want to talk about Europe — and not just because I'm in Europe prepping for TechCrunch's annual conference, TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin — because of a new trend we're seeing in which U.S. venture capital funds strike deals overseas more than ever.
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While the CIC has long been a limited partner in some of Silicon Valley's top growth and private equity funds, the CIC's budget means it does not have time for smaller placements of capital into smaller investment pools, like standard venture capital funds.
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The reluctance of investors to back women entrepreneurs is evident from the fact that out of the $9 billion invested by individual investors and venture capital funds in start-ups in 2015, only 5-6 percent went to women-led companies, says Saha Fund's Vashistha.
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Unlike a hedge fund that values its investments based on their value in the public market, different venture capital funds use their own unique methods to account for a company's value, according to Kupor, who used team communication start-up Slack as an example.
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The exuberance seen in equity markets was reflected in a survey carried out by alternative assets data provider Preqin following the election, in which 53 percent of managers said they believed the new administration would be positive for hedge funds and private capital funds.
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Accredited investors can tap this market by investing in two Wunder Capital funds: an income fund and a bridge fund, where participating accredited investors can put up money for stakes in solar projects at annualized returns of somewhere between 6 percent and 11 percent.
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Unlike the catastrophic Nasdaq crash of 230, this latest bubble will spare the retail investor, instead hitting venture-capital funds and their investors — family offices, mutual funds and pension funds that have wandered into choppier waters than they had imagined when they placed their bets.
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Chinese venture capital funds have so far performed better than their global peers, delivering a multiple of money - the total return on investment - of 1.72 times, compared to their U.S. peers' 1.59 times, according to May data from eFront, which analyses around 4,000 funds.
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The idea is to create as many alternatives to meat as is possible, and Mr. Friedrich is using every tool at his disposal, from incubating new companies to starting venture capital funds, two of which have been spun out of the Good Food Institute.
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I think those days are starting to wind down, we certainly have plenty of locally based venture capital, private equity, growth capital funds, that have raised multiple billion-dollar funds, even some as high as $10 to $12 billion dollars, and local entrepreneurs need local support.
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Every other week I get at least one request for investment from newly established lending platforms either in Europe or the U.S. The emerging online lending platforms are so numerous that they have to make cold calls to venture capital funds trying to get some funding.
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As a result, they've had to rely on a very few angel investors, VC funds and, of course, more traditional FFF sources of capital (friends, family and fools.) With the new Entrepreneurs' Law, investors now have more incentive to invest in qualified startups or venture capital funds.
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Valuations of European $1 billion-plus tech groups are rising faster than U.S. and Asian peers, on GP Bullhound data, while Europe-focused venture capital funds raised $11 billion in the first seven months of 2018 – more than in any full year between 2008 and 2015.
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One area of clear overlap is with respect to an ongoing debate at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about the threshold wealth and income requirements that allow investors to participate in more lightly regulated investment opportunities like hedge funds, private equity funds and venture capital funds.
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In the meantime, though, it was mostly esports teams that began to attract investment from venture capital funds and retired sports stars like Rick Fox and Shaquile O'Neal (as anyone in esports will be eager to tell you), who helped finance Echo Fox and NRG Esports, respectively.
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Yet, the president's FY22019 budget proposal slashes funding for HUD by more than 16 percent, including a $4.6 billion cut to the public housing operating and capital funds, making it harder for PHAs to address the housing needs of low-income people and those vulnerable to homelessness.
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Then, on the extreme other end of it, I actually just was named ... We just announced I was named to Michigan State University, where I went to college, to their foundation board, which sits alongside their endowment board, so we make limited partner, LP, investments into venture capital funds.
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Last year, for example, Morocco received some $50m from the World Bank to create two new venture-capital funds, part of a plan to cultivate its growing startup scene, while international investors poured $275m into Souq and $350m into Careem, a ride-hailing app based in the UAE.
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The government can help not only by offering tax incentives to encourage pension fund investment but also by easing the restrictions imposed by the insurance commissioner on the amount pension funds may pay to external managers, such as venture capital funds, venture capitalists and pension fund managers say.
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Read more: The founder of a billion-dollar startup says you need to nail 'message-market fit' if you want to raise millions from investorsIn the book, Kupor mentions smaller venture capital funds and debt financing from banks as two paths to raising capital without traditional venture-capital money.
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The second part of the agreement, dedicated to technology and innovation in France, will involve Bpifrance, co-owned by Caisse des Dépôts and the French government, and Mubadala investing up to 500 million euros in startups and more mature technology companies through both direct investments and venture capital funds.
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Similar to last year, when a budget deal included the hiring of 13,300 police officers, the biggest surprise came via the Police Department: The mayor announced that a fully staffed police precinct would be created in southeastern Queens, the 116th Precinct, paid for with $70 million in capital funds.
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The proposed changes would loosen some of those restrictions, allowing banks to invest in some credit funds and either sponsor or take ownership stakes in venture capital funds, which pool ultrarich investors' money and make high-risk investments in start-ups that can yield enormous returns or huge losses.
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Christian fellowship programs and start-up accelerators seek to create a new generation of religious entrepreneurs — often with the help of Christian venture capital funds like Sovereign's Capital and Eventide, which invest only in businesses whose ends and means are consistent with Christian values (however the funds define them).
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In a bid to strengthen the so-called Capital Market Union, a flagship project to make the EU financial sector more integrated, the Commission proposed to give direct supervision to EU regulators on critical financial benchmarks, such as Euribor, and on funds with EU labels, such as European venture capital funds.
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Nevertheless, page 813, Section 126, makes reference to a feature that's now become a permanent part of the tax code — and it's great news for entrepreneurs and other individuals financing startups and companies in the earliest stages of growth, as well as general partners and individual investors in venture capital funds.
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While other Chinese EV start-ups including LeSee, NextEV, Future Mobility and Qiantu Motor are mostly backed by big internet groups such as Alibaba and Tencent, Shanghai-based WM Motor's funding, in the "billions of yuan", is from Chinese investors, but not technology tycoons or venture capital funds, says Shen.
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Venture capital funds don&apost tend to give open information about their returns and performance but Blossom proclaims that it&aposs in the top 5% of funds in the US and EU. That&aposs according to private investment benchmark data from Cambridge Associates and Preqin, cited in Blossom Capital&aposs release.
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The Ministry of Production launched a public contest last year to fund the operation of potential VC funds, and up to $2.25 million USD will be delivered to investment fund entities that come up with high-impact proposals for funding in order to encourage the creation of venture capital funds in the country.
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Venture capital funds Indonesia-focused Intudo Ventures raised a new $50 million fund this week to invest in the world's fourth most populated country; InReach Ventures, the "AI-powered" European VC, closed a new €53 million early-stage vehicle; and btov Partners closed an €80 million fund aimed at industrial tech startups.
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Uber's investors come in all stripes: state-owned banks and corporations from China and Russia; sovereign wealth funds from Qatar, Singapore and Saudi Arabia; a Russian businessman arrested last year on embezzlement charges; venture capital funds from across Europe and the United Arab Emirates; and Indian conglomerates and a Malaysian public pension fund.
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Read more: The US has a major truck driver shortage — but the co-founder of a trucking startup that's attracted $80 million in funding says there are 3 other problems that are making the shortage seem worse than it is That's heightened the competition for more venture-capital funds, customers, and employees.
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But as you say, if you think about the $4 trillion that they are managing, it could probably be put to good use deploying capital into venture capital funds that are looking to change the world in a positive way, because that is what impacts the pensioners who are behind that capital.
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Spire announced Wednesday it raised $40 million in a new round of funding from a host of investors: Japanese conglomerates Itochu and Mitsui, the Scottish Investment Bank, the New York-based Global Public Offering (GPO) fund, as well as venture capital funds Bessemer Ventures, RRE Capital, Expon Capital, Seraphim Capital and Qualcomm Ventures.
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As the world of investing in cryptocurrencies grows more interwoven and sophisticated, expect to see more stories like this: Ripple, the company associated with the digital currency XRP, said Wednesday that it would invest $25 million in one of the leading venture capital funds that specializes in blockchain-related deals, Blockchain Capital.
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Lux Capital just closed on a whopping $1 billion in capital, doubling the amount of money it manages He sees a few factors encouraging limited partners (the investors who provide financing for venture capital funds) to invest in the firms that are financing companies developing technologies that were once considered outside of the mainstream.
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Hurd's Modernizing Government Technology Act, part of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act recently signed into law, was the vehicle that advanced the modernization objective, establishing a $500 million central modernization fund that agencies can borrow against to update legacy systems, as well as working capital funds they can use for future modernization projects.
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"Everything we do ties back to that theme," Pat Grady, a partner at Sequoia, said on the podcast "The Twenty Minute VC.""Those founders are no longer just on Sand Hill Road," Grady said, speaking of a street in Silicon Valley made up of mostly venture-capital funds focused on the high-tech industry.
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There have also been murmurs from Governor Andrew Cuomo's office, which set aside $700 million in capital funds for this purpose last year, to build a brand new plant to replace Brookdale and two other failing facilities in eastern and central Brooklyn—a proposal that SEIU, according to its policy and legislative director, Helen Schaub, is working toward.
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The new Entrepreneurs' Law in Argentina consists of a number of measures aimed at increasing entrepreneurial and investment activity in the country by improving the ease of doing business, providing new channels of financing and, perhaps most importantly, providing attractive new tax breaks and incentives for those interested in investing in Argentine startups and venture capital funds.
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Rivals like Dan Loeb, who first opened a venture fund in 2000 and has invested in companies like the Chinese ride-sharing service Didi and the big-data company Palantir, and Chase Coleman, who has raised 10 venture capital funds since 2003 and helped fund the likes of Facebook and LinkedIn, have been doing so for longer.
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In a staff memo, regulators explained that "during congressional consideration of the Volcker Rule, several members of Congress expressed support for excluding venture capital funds" from the restrictions, specifically referencing comments by Representative Anna Eshoo, a California Democrat, and three retired senators, including Chris Dodd, a Democrat and one of the lawmakers for whom Dodd-Frank is named.
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And I do want to add there's this six-month lock-up period for the venture capital funds that own Lyft and as well as their employees, so I think we're not sure what's going to happen when that lock-up period ends and those holders can just sell their stock right then or how that will impact the stock price, as well.
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They would also boost the number of people that can invest in venture capital funds without triggering certain federal rules, subject mutual funds in Puerto Rico to the same rules that funds already face on the U.S. mainland and credit stock exchanges back money for any fees and assessments they may have overpaid to the SEC in the last decade.
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" STEPS TO STOP UK TECH START-UPS BEING BOUGHT UP "I am taking a first step to tackle the longstanding problem of our fastest growing technology firms being snapped up by bigger companies, rather than growing to scale by injecting an additional 2500 million pounds into venture capital funds through the British Business Bank, unlocking 250 billion pounds of new finance for growing firms.
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Other changes in the bills would raise the number of people who can invest in venture capital funds without triggering a requirement to register with the SEC; subject mutual funds in Puerto Rico to the same rules funds already face on the U.S. mainland, and credit stock exchanges for any fees and assessments they may have overpaid to the SEC in the last decade.
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Billionaires, chief executive officers, and leaders from the technology, media, and finance industries gather this week at the Idaho mountain resort conference hosted by investment banking firm Allen & Co. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Private services and national intelligence In the United States there is dynamic cooperation between these bodies and the security community, including venture capital funds jointly owned by the government and private companies.
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The regulator's push for alternatives to opioids has helped drive interest from venture capital funds and institutional investors this year in firms promising to develop alternatives, according to interviews with device companies, financial services firms and brokerage Cowen & Co. For example, privately-held Virpax Pharmaceuticals, which makes an aerosol spray that delivers a non-opioid pain drug, said it had four or five banks interested in running its Series A investment round this summer versus just one in the past.
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Other recent tech highlights:Stanford researchers found evidence that racial bias against venture-capital funds led by people of color increases the better the funds performGoogle employees are being encouraged by colleagues to keep silent on Trump's provocative tweets because they think any comments would be 'spun' by the far-right pressHere are 12 of the most important executives leading Oracle's big push to take on Amazon, Microsoft, and Google in the cloudThere's a boom in VC funding for fertility startups.
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