Kaitlyn Landgraf Bartley
Boulder Ventures is targeting $60 million for a seventh fund, according to a regulatory document. Based in Boulder, Colorado, the firm invests in information technology and life sciences companies located in the Mid-Atlantic and Colorado.
Campaign contributions are pouring in ahead of the midterm elections set for 36 states. In California, for example, gubernatorial candidates Gavin Newsom and John Cox have raised a total of more than $50 million, with hundreds of individual donations from investors in PE and venture. And securities-law attorneys say that investment advisers — and particularly employees […]
Possible talks to take electric-vehicle company Tesla private have made headlines recently. Amid reports that Saudi Arabia’s public investment fund might supply the cash to support Tesla’s move to become private, Reuters reported that the sovereign wealth fund is in talks to invest instead in competitor Lucid Motors, with an initial outlay of $500 million. The […]
Funds raised by initial coin offerings have dropped this summer, with less funding raised in July than in any other month since November 2017. August projections also similarly low. The same is not true, however, for venture funding in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector, which year-to-date in 2018 has reached 2.8 times the total raised […]
Pantera Capital has raised $71.5 million for a third venture fund, according to a regulatory filing.
A batch of startups that joined to launch a venture-fund portfolio on the blockchain is offering investors refunds after the presale of the fund’s initial coin offering raised roughly one-tenth of its goal. In January, a group of 30 participants in a 500 Startups accelerator program launched 22x Fund. The ICO aimed to raise $35 million […]
July saw venture investors pour more cash into deals with U.S.-based companies than they did the same month a year ago, as deal count dropped slightly. In July 2018, investors put $8.2 billion to work into 310 companies, compared with the $4.8 billion they invested in 373 companies the same month a year ago. That […]
ClearSky has raised $244.7 million of a targeted $300 million for its first security fund, according to a regulatory filing. The venture and growth equity firm has offices in Florida, New York, Boston and San Francisco, and is led by Alexander Weiss, Jay Leek, James Huff, James Goldinger, and Peter Kuper.
Better Ventures is raising a third venture fund targeted at $35 million, according to a regulatory filing. The Oakland-based firm makes early-stage investments in sectors including education technology, healthcare, and clean energy, according to its website. It is led by Wesley Selke and Richard Moss. The filing lists no investors.
Institutional investors are eyeing blockchain and cryptocurrency investments with caution as regulators continue to crack down on fraud in the sector. Initial coin offerings have raised more than $13.6 billion in 2018, according to Coindesk. But many fail to follow through with the promises made in their projects’ white papers or fail to comply with relevant […]