Sentences with phrase «venture funding firm»

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Only 2 % of venture funding went to female founders in 2017, and just 8 % of partners at the top venture capital firms are women.

Funded by alumni from the McCombs School of Business, where it is housed, Texas Venture Labs will selectively take on projects and provide (student) labor to help the firms get off the ground.

The youngest successful founders were those who had received funding from New York City - based venture capital firms, although even then their average age was 38.7 — old enough to have been Mark Zuckerberg's parent when he started Facebook from his dorm room at 19.

Sandy Miller, IVP General Partner, weighs in on the Silicon Valley venture capital firm announcing a $ 1.5 billion dollar fund this morning.

• Qiming Venture Partners, a China - based venture capital firm, has set out to raise a $ 900 million sixth venture fund, according to a filing with tVenture Partners, a China - based venture capital firm, has set out to raise a $ 900 million sixth venture fund, according to a filing with tventure capital firm, has set out to raise a $ 900 million sixth venture fund, according to a filing with tventure fund, according to a filing with the SEC.

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

While three of the top five investors in unicorns are venture capital firms SV Angel, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, it's mutual funds snagging the remaining two spots: Fidelity Investments and T. Rowe Price.

Yet another Silicon Valley venture capital firm raising yet another fund isn't usually big news — it happens all the time.

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.

• 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 fund, Olympus Growth Fund Fund VII.

Anu Duggal took what she learned as an ecommerce entrepreneur to launch a venture capital firm called Female Founders Fund.

Notably, it's only Sequoia's second investment in a blockchain - related company in that venture capital firm's 45 - year history; the first was earlier this year, in Polychain Capital, in a $ 200 million round in which Andreessen, Union Square Ventures, Founders Fund and Bessemer Venture Partners also particventure capital firm's 45 - year history; the first was earlier this year, in Polychain Capital, in a $ 200 million round in which Andreessen, Union Square Ventures, Founders Fund and Bessemer Venture Partners also particVenture Partners also participated.

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.

• 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.

Check out this 2014 snapshot of the top 100 U.S. venture capital firms, corporate VCs, and other market players funding early - stage deals.

As VC firms raise larger funds and pump capital into venture - backed companies at various stages, they allow them to stay private longer.

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

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.

«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.

As we've noted before, VC firms are raising larger and larger funds, pumping capital into venture - backed companies at the various stages, and likely inflating already - inflated tech valuations.

• 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.

Only 2 % of venture funding went to female founders, and just 8 % of partners at the top venture capital firms are women.

• 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.

«But in the course of the last three years, we've seen a dramatic explosion,» says Fortino, who now leads the Ann Arbor office of venture capital firm Mercury Fund.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 XIfund, EnCap Energy Capital Fund XIFund XI LP.

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

Green helped Weiss raise $ 2 million in seed funding, which she used to assemble a small team, including creative director Helen Steed, a beauty industry vet who'd helped build Bumble & Bumble, and COO Henry Davis, who came from the London office of venture capital firm Index Ventures.

• 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.

• 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 Ffund, TIDE Africa FundFund.

In April, the San Francisco startup raised US$ 22 million in funding from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Van Espahbodi, managing partner of Starburst Accelerator LLC, a consulting and venture firm, added that the public - relations push behind Orion Span may be an effective way to help the company attract funding, too.

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

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• Kairos Ventures, a Los Angeles - based venture capital firm, raised $ 74.7 million toward a $ 150 million venture fund, according to an SEC filing.

• 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.

If there isn't another fund, the venture firm just becomes a zombie.

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).

• 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.