Sentences with phrase «venture fund managers»

The GCV Synergize Forum on accelerating corporate and venture partnerships showcases winning partnership models between traditional venture fund managers and CVC investment professionals.

Our team is passionate about working with leading growth companies, their founders, and the venture fund managers that help finance their businesses.

Our funds have acquired assets from corporate venture capital funds, bought limited partnership positions, and made investments along side our venture fund managers in fast - growing companies.

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Wesfarmers expects to free up $ 400 million of capital after establishing a joint venture with unlisted property fund manager ISPT.

With Sequoia Global Growth Fund III, the firm aims to buck the hot venture market trend of aggressive management fees set by managers of some megafunds.

New York hedge fund managers from Bill Ackman and David Einhorn to Silicon Valley venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya pitched their top investment ideas Monday at the Sohn Investment Conference, the annual gathering of some of Wall Street's highest - profile stock pickers.

According to a statement, the event aims to benefit and be of interest to audiences composed of institutional investors, fund managers, and other regional players in hedge funds and private equity / venture capital space, with a view to advance the region's investment industry.

Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist turned hedge fund manager who is also a former Facebook executive, has built up some credibility since his first appearance last year at the conference, which benefits pediatric disease research: Amazon stock is up some 34 % in the meantime.

• Venture Investment Associates, a Peapack, N.J. - based private equity fund of funds manager, raised a combined $ 230 million for two new funds.

The firm manages $ 25 billion in assets of venture capitalists, private equity fund managers, chief executives, and entrepreneurs who founded companies that went public or received private equity funding.

The state's first early stage venture capital limited partnership is one of three funds announced by Western Australian money managers this year, and one of two in a joint project by Cottesloe - based View Street Partners and Nedlands - based Mac Equity.

For Thiel, a contrarian by nature who later became a hedge fund manager, startup founder, and venture capitalist — all posts requiring an ability to reject herd mentalities, shun market bubbles, and seize overlooked opportunities — Girard's analysis of man's unconscious compulsion to imitate his fellow man was compelling.

Paul Thiel is a German - American venture capitalist and hedge fund manager.

Should governments pull the plug on megaprojects like ITER, it wouldn't stop private - sector players like Burnaby, B.C. - based General Fusion Inc., a year - old startup by former Creo Inc. managers that has so far attracted about half the $ 50 million in venture capital and federal research funds it says it needs to demonstrate a kind of «magnetized target fusion» by 2013.

I had been a funded entrepreneur and had also worked at a venture - backed company as a product manager.

• Klingenstein Fields Wealth Advisors, a New York - based investment manager, plans to raise $ 50 million for a venture fund, according to an SEC filing.

Or, put another way, they want to raise taxes on venture capitalists, private equity execs, hedge fund managers, etc..

Spotting the steady rise in clientele, money managers — from risk - seeking venture capitalists to boring old pension funds — have been getting into the death business.

The Industry Ventures investment team has a two - decade long track record successfully working with management teams, founders and venture capital fund managers.

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Spencer has over two decades of experience in Silicon Valley, starting as an investment banker and then becoming a venture capitalist, an entrepreneur, a manager of a venture capital fund of funds, and eventually a CFO / COO of venture - backed enterprise SaaS companies.

«Smart beta» funds already blur the line between passive and active management, but JSML goes a step further by relying on an active manager to determine its sector weighting; the portfolio is weighted to align by sector with the Janus Venture Fund, an actively - managed traditional mutual fund with a small - cap growth mandFund, an actively - managed traditional mutual fund with a small - cap growth mandfund with a small - cap growth mandate.

His flurry of ventures doesn't suggest someone preparing to run for president, according to a dozen fund managers, lawyers, and private - placement agents who were apprised of his recent activities by Bloomberg Businessweek.

GrowthWorks is currently the largest retail venture capital investor in Canadian «green technology» companies and is one of the largest managers of retail venture capital funds in Canada.

Given the risk of early stage investing and venture capital's famously high mortality rate of portfolio companies, it is imperative that fund managers earn high return multiples at these more modest M&A exit values to offset casualties and drive attractive returns.

Vintage Investment Partners invests in Israeli, European and U.S. venture capital and Israeli private equity funds managed by experienced managers with strong track records

Furthermore, many smaller fund managers are in the middle of their professional careers and therefore have not yet accumulated the personal wealth equal to that of successful venture capitalists who founded firms two or three decades ago.

These trends have accelerated in the current decade and are fueling burgeoning interest in new paradigms in venture capital that better align the interests of investors and fund managers and that provide the potential for outsized investment returns for which the asset class is known.

In the world of venture capital and private equity, it is a share of the investor's profit that is paid to the manager of a fund.

Assessing over 200 venture capital fund secondary transfers where our firm acquired interests, we identified several criteria that venture capital managers use to find a new limited partner:

These trends have fueled speculation about whether the venture model is broken and have driven interest in new paradigms in venture capital that better align the interests of fund managers and investors and that provide the potential for outsized investment returns.

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For example, venture capital fund managers and angel investors tend to put more emphasis on both market and finance issues, so those are areas that you should focus on when approaching these types of investors.

Stephen also has a valuable perspective of investment management from his previous role as Senior Investment Manager with a Venture Capital fund.

«Investor fit» is particularly important to angel investors compared to venture capital fund managers.

Private angel investors and venture capital groups, fund managers and corporate investors seeking to work emerging crowdfunding companies

Negotiated a platform joint venture agreement with Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investment Funds on behalf of co - investor / managers for management, development and investment in retail property located in the People's Republic of China and India (venture size of $ 300 million)

Kirk Falconer PE Hub — IPO (Canada) Polychain Capital, a blockchain technology hedge fund manager backed by U.S. venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Sequoia Capital, is planning to launch an initial public offering in Canada, according to a report -LSB-...]

Bitfury's market share, unmatched computing power, and ability to scale, in combination with a Board of Directors that former hedge fund manager Michael Novogratz and renowned venture capitalist Bill Tai have both agreed to serve on, offers Hut 8 an extreme advantage in a competitive marketplace.

This article focuses on yet another challenge for first - time micro venture capital fund managers who seek to grow a successful and durable business — deploying the raised capital prudently with an eye towards subsequent, larger funds.

May 18, 2010 — Alberta Enterprise, a fund of funds manager investing in knowledge - based industries, today announced a $ 15 Million USD investment in the latest clean energy fund from Chrysalix, a venture capital (VC) firm focused on early - stage clean energy technologies.

For our largest accounts, an independent investment advisor or wealth manager may also recommend alternative investments (including hedge funds, private equity / venture funds, and private debt) for your portfolio.

May 18, 2010 — Alberta Enterprise, a fund of funds manager investing in knowledge - based industries, today announced a $ 14 Million investment in the latest fund from Yaletown Venture Partners, a venture capital (VC) firm focused on seed and early - stage companies in the Information Technology and Clean Technology sVenture Partners, a venture capital (VC) firm focused on seed and early - stage companies in the Information Technology and Clean Technology sventure capital (VC) firm focused on seed and early - stage companies in the Information Technology and Clean Technology sectors.

And although proposing a bill to address sexual harassment in venture capital or trying to eliminate the unconscious bias of the fund managers might help raise some awareness, it's not likely to solve the problem anytime in this century.

Unlike venture capital fund managers (called «VCs»), angels can be gutsy, fast decision makers because they invest their own savings.

This is set by the expectations of the investors in VC funds, the relative risk levels compared to other investment classes and the performance achieved by other venture capital fund managers.

Through having more women use their investment power to invest in the types of fund managers, leadership teams, financial returns companies they want to see more of in the world, we believe, it will drive the initial impetus to change the gender - gap in venture capital.

Absent an exemption, if a pension plan subject to ERISA is a limited partner in a venture fund, then all of the venture fund's assets are subject to regulations that require the venture fund assets to be held in trust, prohibit certain transactions and place fiduciary duties on fund managers.

While we typically invest 65 - 75 % of our funds of funds portfolios in early stage venture capital, we inevitably have exposure to the public markets through venture - backed companies that have gone public and late stage companies which are marked to public comparables by our underlying fund managers.

Investor Panel: Insights from the leading strategic and financial investors in connected health Casper de Clercq, Partner, Norwest Venture Partners Wainwright Fishburn, Partner, Cooley LLP Lucian Iancovici, Investment Manager, Qualcomm Ventures Maxwell Kahn, Managing Director, Merck GHI Fund Session Leader: Julie Papanek, Canaan Partners