Alexander Haislip

OVP Venture Partners recently held a $250 million final close on its seventh fund and added Mark Ashida to its partnership roster. Ashida will serve as partner at OVP, focused on the security, networking and infrastructure spaces. He previously was with Microsoft as general manager of Windows enterprise networking and, before that, was COO of […]

Early stage venture firm vSpring Capital has raised $56 million toward an anticipated $250 million third fund, according to regulatory filings. The new fund would be nearly three times larger than its second, an $86 million fund raised in 2004. Subscribers to PE Week can learn more about the firm and its new fund.

I’m finally getting to my November 13 New Yorker Magazine, which has an awesome, sprawling profile of Lagos by George Packer. I couldn’t find it on the New Yorker’s website, but Google found it mirrored here. One line jumped out at me last night as I was reading it. It made me think about the […]

Don Lam, the managing director of private equity firm VinaCapital, weighed in on various segments of the Vietnamese market on Bloomberg Television Wednesday. The take away: “If you missed the chance to invest in China seven to eight years ago, Vietnam would be the right place since it is seven to eight years behind China […]

iMooch, a web2.0 startup in New York, raised $250,000 from its founder’s friends and family to build a social network for people to make money from various forms of user-generated content, PEHub.com has learned. The startup is run by Nalin Patel, an MIT graduate who was the vice president of technology at the Hollywood Stock […]

I talked with Paul Ahlstrom of vSpring Capital yesterday. His firm has offices in Los Alamos and Albuquerque, so I asked him about the New Mexico VC scene. “With over $4 billion a year in R&D investment going into this region, you can’t ignore New Mexico,” he says. “I thought, ‘how could you pour several […]

Recent venture-backed IPOs took a hit during Tuesday’s stock market slide, but at least five of the eight companies to go public in February managed to hold onto most of their post-IPO pop. Above Water: *Accuray (Nasdaq: ARAY) traded down $0.89 to $25.76 per share, well above its $18 offering price. *Mellanox Technologies (Nasdaq: MLNX) […]

I’ve always been impressed with the technical talent New Mexico boasts with its national labs and the high number of PhDs per capita. The Business Journal wrote a story last month about VC funds targeting the region. It points out the following: * Psilos Group, which has more than $275 million under management, is raising […]

New Enterprise Associates announced last week that it has opened an office in India and appointed Ben Mathias to lead what the firm hopes will be between a $125 million and $200 million effort in the country. The fund will invest in mid to late stage opportunities in telecommunications, media, alternative energy, technology-enabled services and […]

Zero2IPO, a research and publishing company that tracks the Chinese venture capital market, has raised $16.5 million for an angel fund from investors, including IDG Ventures, according to a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In August, PE Week was first to report that Zero2IPO, which is based in Beijing, was working with […]