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Venture debt expert Zack Ellison explains the critical role of operational due diligence when lending to venture-backed start-ups.
Photo of Zack Ellison, founder of Applied Real Intelligence, a venture debt fund manager.
In part six of his series on venture debt, Zack Ellison from Applied Real Intelligence delves deeper into the nuanced strategies lenders use to mitigate the risk of lending to venture-backed start-ups.
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To generate liquidity for limited partners in its first fund, Primary Venture Partners has completed a $95 million secondary strip sale to StepStone Group, Venture Capital Journal has learned.
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Menlo Ventures' newest partner, Rama Sekhar, says 'it’s still too darn hard for [enterprise] companies to deploy AI.'
Chris McKinnon, who recently joined Morrison Foerster from SoftBank's in-house legal team, expects to see dealmaking pick up this year.
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An extended timeline to liquidity means LPs will be more careful about which GPs they continue to allocate to in 2024.    
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HATCo and Summa Health anticipate finalizing a definitive agreement in the next several months.
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VCs foresee more flat and down rounds this year for companies that last raised capital at heady valuations during the venture boom.
VCs have low expectations for IPOs, but see a rebound in M&A, citing optimism about lower interest rates and interest from private equity investors and better-capitalized public companies eager to get teams and technologies at a discount.
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The move comes just two months after Menlo announced that it had raised $1.35bn to invest in tech companies “leading the AI transformation.”
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