About Eniac Ventures Eniac Ventures is the first independent seed stage
venture firm investing exclusively in mobile technologies.
Clint is a Managing Director and co-founder of Ulu Ventures, a $ 50m seed stage
venture firm investing in enterprise IT companies from Stanford and Silicon Valley.
When
a venture firm invests in a high - growth company, the investor expects to either be a member of the company's management team or sit on its board of directors, thereby taking an active role in the operations of the business.
In order to get a closer look at
the venture firms investing in female founders, we compiled a list of all the firms that closed 45 or more investments between 2010 and 2015.
Not exact matches
That's partly because 94 percent of
investing partners at
venture firms are male and, female entrepreneurs say, less likely to understand the potential of a business that specifically targets women as customers.
Singaporean
venture capital
firm Vertex Ventures has raised $ 210 million to
invest in start - ups around Southeast Asia and.
In a conversation with Fortune, Gupta talks about the evolution of the
venture ecosystem over the last decade and his
firm's contrarian approach when it comes to
investing in early - stage companies.
Many minority and women business owners know that professional investors — whether Angel networks or
Venture Capital
firms — are highly unlikely to
invest in their business.
A number of
venture capital
firms are starting to
invest in Initial Coin Offerings, despite the risks.
«I don't want to say this is a great day — because it will have a negative impact on human beings, and I want to be compassionate,» says Linkner, the founder of Detroit
Venture Partners, a $ 50 million venture capital firm that invests in early - stage start - ups in th
Venture Partners, a $ 50 million
venture capital firm that invests in early - stage start - ups in th
venture capital
firm that
invests in early - stage start - ups in the city.
VC 100: U.S.
venture capital
firms ranked based on capital
invested in U.S. early - stage deals in 2014 (in USD millions *).
SAN MATEO, Calif., April 16, 2018 / PRNewswire / — Trident Capital Cybersecurity (TCC), a leading
venture capital
firm investing exclusively in cybersecurity, today announced the appointment of Myrna Soto as a Partner.
The Los Angeles - based seed - stage
venture capital
firm will pause seed
investing «until the seed market corrects.»
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.
«The small number of
venture firms with female founders and / or an unusually high percentage of female partners
invest at elevated levels in female entrepreneurs,» according to a 2016 CrunchBase report on
venture capital funding.
«Soylent is a community of people who are enthusiastic about using science to improve food and nutrition,» Chris Dixon, who works at
venture - capital
firm Andreessen Horowitz, wrote in a 2015 blog post after the
firm invested $ 20 million in Soylent.
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.
He approaches business in the same brash manner, cajoling the likes of Rupert Murdoch and one of Silicon Valley's top
venture capital
firms to
invest heavily in Vice's expansion.
Andreessen agreed to
invest $ 50 million of his
venture firm's money in the deal on the bold assumption that he and Durban ultimately would win the founders» trust.
• AT&T (NYSE: T) and Coral Group, a Minneapolis - based
venture capital
firm, have teamed up to launch a
venture fund that will
invest in startups focused on connected services and platform technologies.
In 2009,
venture capital
investing in Canadian tech companies and fundraising by Canadian VC
firms dropped to the lowest levels since the mid-1990s (though there has been a slight uptick this year).
Investors would get a (then) 35 % tax credit on money
invested in a portfolio of startups managed by his
firm, GrowthWorks Capital (now part of Matrix, a public holding company he created to bring together different divisions of his empire, including
venture capital and mutual funds).
Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures noted that some
firms, including hers, have begun steering their most promising portfolio companies toward «modern
venture firms that have women and people of color in
investing positions,» according to TechCrunch:
To be sure, Irish
venture capital
firms have their own trouble raising money, which often makes it difficult to
invest in startups for the long - term.
At the same time, a recent reform to Canada's Income Income Tax Act has made it as easier for U.S.
venture capital
firms to
invest in Canadian startups.
While FundersClub may operate a platform for companies to seek investment, they only select a single - digit (1 to 2 percent) of startups to appear on the platform, with top
venture capital
firms such as Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz already
investing nearly $ 1 billion in companies that they've funded.
Venture firms with a woman partner are more than three times as likely to
invest in companies with women CEOs.
Venture capital
firms invested $ 29.5 billion in 4,041 deals in 2013.
Detroit
Venture Partners was founded in November 2010 and the
firm aims to
invest $ 2 million to $ 3 million annually into about 15 tech start - ups.
«Zynga is being punished in the public market,» says Jeff Clavier, a
venture capitalist and managing partner of SoftTech VC, an early - stage
venture firm that has
invested in the social gaming industry.
I was asked recently why
venture capital
firms all appear to
invest in the same «stuff.»
This
venture capital
firm invests in different business segments, including those that focus on compliance issues.
The most recent round of funding for fuboTV included Sky UK, a telecommunications company with 11 million United Kingdom customers as of 2015; Scripps Networks Interactive, the parent company of HGTV, Food Network, and Travel Channel; 21st Century Fox, whose stable of entertainment properties includes the Big Ten Network, FOX Sports 1, FOX Sports Regional Networks, and the YES Network; and Northzone Ventures, a London - based
venture capital
firm that mainly
invests in early stage software and technology companies.
This U.S.
venture capital
firm invests in a diverse set of industries, including RegTech startups for a number of areas, including government, healthcare, and financial applications.
In January this year,
venture capital
firm Andreessen Horowitz
invested $ 20 million in the company.
The fund, organized by the St. Louis Regional Chamber, a civic economic development organization, Cultivation Capital, a St. Louis - based
venture capital
firm, and Twain Financial Partners, is already
investing in local startups.
Although the country's
venture capital ecosystem is slowly improving (Canadian
firms invested $ 2.3 billion in 2015, compared with $ 1.9 billion in 2013), VCs are still not equipped to participate in blockbuster deals.
This UK
venture capital
firm invests in all types of technology - backed startups.
Additionally, JetBlue Technology Ventures is
investing alongside GGV and other
venture firms in a $ 36 million series C round of funding for Gladly, bringing the company's total capital raised to $ 63 million.
Sequoia Capital, among Silicon Valley's most prestigious
venture capital
firms, has hired its first female
investing partner in the U.S.
The top
venture capital
firms investing in VR are Rothenberg Ventures, Intel Capital, and Google Ventures, according to the PitchBook report.
So are
venture capitalists, who since 2007 have
invested US$ 4.7 billion in 356 online - ad
firms according to Dow Jones VentureSource, a research
firm owned by News Corp..
California - based SVB Capital
invested in Brazilian
venture capital
firms last year through a $ 340 million fund.
Whitman told local media that HPE plans to work with the Singapore Economic Development Board, local universities, and
venture capital
firms to identify Singapore - based startups that specialize in areas in which HPE is also
investing.
the structure of the
Venture Capital industry (there were a limited number of VC
firms each needing to
invest millions per startups),
So says Bill Gurley, partner at VC
firm Benchmark of Menlo Park, California, who on Thursday posted a lengthy blog post on the new world of
venture capital
investing for startups as he sees it.
The NBA star has partnered with former NBC executive Stuart Goldfab to create M7 Tech Partners, a
venture capital
firm that will
invest in early - stage startups.
Silicon Valley is a unique environment where
venture capital
firms line the streets, share expertise and are unafraid of
investing in the dreams of imaginative entrepreneurs.
Dell Technologies said on Monday it has combined the
venture capital operations from its two predecessor companies, computer maker Dell Inc and data storage
firm EMC, and said it plans to
invest about $ 100 million a year in startups.
The workplace collaboration company is teaming with several
venture capital
firms — including Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Spark Growth, and Social + Capital — to create an $ 80 million fund that will
invest in software projects that complement its technology.