Lawrence Aragon

For the first three quarters of this year more than $33 billion has been put to work in U.S.-based companies. That is $3 billion more than the amount invested in all of 2013, according to the MoneyTree Report from the NVCA and PricewaterhouseCoopers, based on data from Thomson Reuters.

Speakers on tap for Wednesday morning include  Andrew Redleaf, founder and CEO of Whitebox Advisors, Andrea Auerbach, managing director of Cambridge Associates, John Skjervem, CIO of the Oregon State Treasury, and Paul Yett, managing director of Hamilton Lane.

Marc Andreessen joins Bill Gurley and Fred Wilson in sounding the alarm that the tech startup world is overheated. Key word: "vaporize."

A new fund DCM is raising for China will be focused on growth-stage investments, a source familiar with the effort told Venture Capital Journal.

Act now! Today is the last day to enter our contest to win a free ticket to the hardware-themed venture capital track of a our LP-GP Summit on Sept. 18 - 19 in New York.

Snapchat, a photo-sharing service for smartphones, raised a new round from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers that values the company at $10 billion, according to two media reports.

BugHerd, an Australian developer of software to track website bugs, announced that it had raised $1 million in Series A funding from Tank Stream Ventures, Starfish Ventures and 500 Startups.

U.S.-based venture capital firms raised $18.3 billion for 146 venture capital funds in the first six months of 2014, with mega-funds leading the charge.

Limited partners are fond of ranking the funds they invest in. We thought we’d turn the tables a bit and rank the LPs themselves based on how well their funds have performed.

Spectrum Equity beat the target for its seventh fund by more than $150 million, according to an SEC filing.