Pension fund stays focused on its top, local venture relationships, which include Battery, Spark, TCV, Insight and Union Square
The large networking company also said it woudl establish a development center to sponsor research on cyber security
Spanish investor has put money into two early-stage firms and backed two portfolio companies
Cultivian Sandbox Venture Partners, a Midwestern venture fund focused on the agriculture industry, has raised a portion of a planned $200 million second fund. To date, the firm has sold one portfolio company to ag giant Monsanto and has another company in registration to go public.
The National Venture Capital Association this week named a new president after sifting through more than 100 resumes during a roughly three-month executive search. So what new course will the appointee, Bobby Franklin, chart for the association? Offer your suggestions to Franklin in the comments section below.
According to a new study published by Harvard and Carnegie Mellon academics, individual venture capitalists are roughly five times more powerful than venture firms as leading indicators of successful startups.
Andreessen Horowitz is paying close attention to the rising tide of hardware innovation and plans to keep the foot on the gas of the services it offers portfolio companies, according to General Partner Ben Horowitz.
From their work ethic to their idealism, people in Silicon Valley tend to do things a bit differently. Turns out those differences extend to the way many of Silicon Valley’s newly rich think about generational wealth.
The VC firm had backed three local companies based in the state capital; they raised lots of funding and all have recently exited
Accel Partners has allocated another $100 million for its Big Data Fund 2, and the firm has added Anthony Deighton, CTO of Qlikview, and Shlomo Kramer, CEO of Imperva, to its advisory council.