Sentences with phrase «for venture firms»

For one thing, the size of rounds has soared in recent years, making it easy for venture firms to convince themselves that to «stay in the game,» they need to have more cash at their disposal.

So what happens if funding dries up for venture firms?

«Just like Salesforce Ventures, Microsoft Ventures has become a highly valued partner for venture firms, especially in application and infrastructure software investments,» Doug Pepper, a managing director at Shasta Ventures, said in an email to VentureBeat.

Fairchild Semiconductor became the progenitor of a flood of Silicon Valley chip companies and at the same time the adoption of the limited partnership as the model for Venture Firms gave VC's their own profitable business model.

A subscription to Option Impact provides all needed components of a great compensation benchmarking data service for a venture firm through two vehicles: The Option Impact online system and, if electing to participate, the portable, Excel - based VC Executive Compensation Survey (VCECS).

Not exact matches

In August, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and a handful of venture capital firms led a $ 17 million Series A round of fundraising for Memphis Meat.

Eric Hippeau, a managing partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures, is well - known in the venture community for his firm's blockbuster investments including Birchbox, BuzzFeed, Casper, and Warby Parker.

For the past five years, venture capital firms have pumped 25 percent to 100 percent more than they've raised into a diverse array of investments, including clean energy technology, health care, and pharmaceuticals.

• Ventech Capital, a France - based venture capital firm, raised 140 million euros ($ 174 million) for its fifth fund, Ventech Capital V.

For example, on Wednesday, Joe Schoendorf, partner at venture capital firm Accel Partners, and Mike Stankey, vice chairman of cloud - based human resources company Workday, will discuss what the plethora of private companies valued at $ 1 billion or more, known as unicorns, are doing to markets and marketplaces.

In the first quarter of 2013, for example, U.S. venture capital firms raised $ 2.9 billion from 44 funds — a decrease of 33 percent compared to the same quarter last year, according to the NVCA and Thomson Reuters.

Tehrani's approach led the Vancouver - based firm to secure US$ 61.5 million in venture capital financing in January, one of the largest ever for a Canadian biotech company.

«For entrepreneurs, if they can pull it off and raise money without giving out equity, it's very attractive,» says Oivind Lorentzen, an analyst who follows bitcoin and fintech for venture capital firm Oak HC / For entrepreneurs, if they can pull it off and raise money without giving out equity, it's very attractive,» says Oivind Lorentzen, an analyst who follows bitcoin and fintech for venture capital firm Oak HC / for venture capital firm Oak HC / FT.

• Activant Capital, a Greenwich, Conn. - based private equity firm, raised $ 129 million for its late - stage venture fund.

• Olympus Partners, a Stamford, Conn. - based private equity and venture capital firm, raised $ 3.04 billion for its seventh fund, Olympus Growth Fund VII.

«Probably for the foreseeable future, bitcoin is just a pure digital gold,» said the CEO, who is also a board partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a private venture capital firm.

Details about its follow - up are tightly under wraps, but the firm's potential was enough for Silicon Valley veterans to lead what was then the second - largest venture capital round in Canadian tech history.

• Altitude Life Science Ventures, a Seattle - based venture capital firm, is seeking to raise $ 125 million for its third fund, according to an SEC filing.

• Energy Innovation Capital, a Kirkland, Ill. - based venture capital firm, raised more than $ 130 million for its debut fund, according to an SEC filing.

The firm will back companies developing technologies for industrial use, rather than the consumer and business software pursued by most venture capitalists.

By late last year, people — investors, angels, venture capital firms — were all overpaying for growth in technology startups and stocks, just as they had been 14 years earlier at the height of the last bubble.

Venture capital firms, in particular, have long been overwhelmingly averse to funding female - run enterprises, «and I don't see a trend line for any significant change,» added Trish Costello, CEO and founder of Portfolia, a platform designed to help women invest in entrepreneurial enterprises.

• Section 32, a San Diego, Calif. - based venture firm, has set out to raise $ 250 million for a second venture fund, according to a filing with the SEC.

• Rally Ventures, a Minnetonka, Minn. - based venture capital firm, plans to raise $ 150 million for its third venture capital fund, according to an SEC filing.

Earlier this week John Doerr, the illustrious investor and chairman of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, proselytized his bible for business management — a system he calls «objectives and key results,» or OKRs — in a video conference call with several Fortune staffers (myself included).

• Eight Roads Ventures Europe, a U.K. - based venture capital and private equity firm, raised $ 375 million for its third fund.

The firm has been investing under - the - radar in a mix of venture and private equity deals since 2014, but had not raised a large fund of pooled capital for deals until this year.

One of The Flatiron School's investors, Antonio Rodriguez, a general partner at the venture - capital firm Matrix Partners, said «a lot of hammers looking for nails in this space.»

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• Floodgate, a Palo Alto, Calif. - based early - stage venture capital firm, raised $ 131 for its sixth fund, according to an SEC filing.

• March Capital Partners, a Santa Monica, Calif. - based venture capital firm, is seeking to raise $ 150 million for its second fund, according to an SEC filing.

• Joy Capital, a China - based venture capital firm, is seeking to raise $ 300 million for its second fund, Joy Capital II, according to an SEC filing.

The investors at New York City - based venture capital firm FirstMark Capital, for example, receive more than 1,000 inquiries from entrepreneurs each year.

• EnCap Investments, a Houston, Texas - based venture capital and private equity firm, raised approximately $ 6.2 billion for its energy fund, EnCap Energy Capital Fund XI LP.

• Resolute Ventures, a San Francisco - based early - stage venture capital firm, raised $ 65 million for Resolute III, a seed fund.

The former White House senior policy adviser for infrastructure has joined real estate - focused venture capital firm Camber Creek as a partner.

• EMH Partners, a Germany - based private equity and venture capital firm, raised $ 350 million ($ 400 million) for its debut fund.

• OrbiMed, a New York - based private equity and venture capital firm, raised $ 431.53 million for its third Asia fund, according to an SEC filing.

• Breakout Ventures, a San Francisco - based venture capital firm affiliated with Peter Thiel - founded Breakout Labs, raised $ 60.1 million for a maiden venture fund, according to a filing with the SEC.

Lyft, the San Francisco - based ride - sharing start - up known for its pink mustache hood ornaments, announced today it has raised $ 60 million from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its total capital raise to $ 83 million.

• Three partners from Black Coral Capital, a Boston - based venture firm, are raising up to $ 400 million for an inaugural fund as partners of a new firm, Spring Lane Capital, according to an SEC filing.

• TLcom Capital, a London and Nairobi - based venture capital firm, raised $ 40 million for its new Africa fund, TIDE Africa Fund.

That gives the company credit for its intellectual property and the $ 724 million that it has raised, according to VC Experts, a venture capital research firm.

• Lemnos, a San Francisco early - stage hardware venture capital firm, raised $ 50 million for its third fund.

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• CapHorn Invest, a France - based venture capital firm, raised $ 150 million for a new fund, according to TechCrunch.

• Dundee Venture Capital, an Omaha, Neb. - based early - stage venture capital firm, raised $ 30 million for its thirVenture Capital, an Omaha, Neb. - based early - stage venture capital firm, raised $ 30 million for its thirventure capital firm, raised $ 30 million for its third fund.

• Atomic Labs, a San Francisco - based venture firm, is seeking to raise $ 100 million for its second fund, according to an SEC filing.

• CRV, a Cambridge, Mass. - based venture capital firm, filed to raise $ 450 million for a new main fund, CRV XVII.

• IDG Capital, a Beijing - based private equity and venture capital firm, filed to raise a $ 589 million for its fifth Chinese venture capital fund, IDG China Venture Capital venture capital firm, filed to raise a $ 589 million for its fifth Chinese venture capital fund, IDG China Venture Capital venture capital fund, IDG China Venture Capital Venture Capital Fund V.