Joanna Glasner

Based on conversations I’ve eavesdropped on at venture and private equity events in the past few months, it certainly seems like more industry insiders are eyeing investments in Latin America, particularly Brazil. Now there’s more hard data to back up that supposition. Fundraising for Latin American private equity and venture capital investment rose to $4.9 […]

Solyndra’s venture investors stand to lose hundreds of millions with the solar company’s bankruptcy filing. But while that stands as one of the largest venture losses to date, it’s certainly not alone. At peHub, we culled through twenty years worth of venture funding records in the Thomson Reuters database to find some of the largest […]

Normally, four venture-backed companies filing to go public in a single day would seem newsworthy enough to warrant a few posts on business and tech sites. Wednesday, however, with Steve Jobs just stepping down as CEO of the most valuable technology company on Earth, the planned IPOs of Jive Software, Brightcove, Eloqua and Genomatica took […]

When Alan Hall, co-founder of Utah-based Mercato Partners was trying to close his first fund in the depths of the 2008 financial crisis, it wasn’t easy to convince investors to take on a risk on anything, let alone a newcomer fund in one the riskiest asset classes known to man. But Hall and partner Greg […]

Seems I have come up with nothing insightful to say about Thursday’s market collapse. So, instead, I’ve redirected my efforts to the all-important task of inputting buzzwords into the Thomson Reuters venture funding database, hoping to find something insightful there. Based on preliminary results, I’ve come up with this: Businesses that put the word “intelligence” […]

The venture capital investment climate was pretty robust in the second quarter, with deal volume increasing and valuations on the rise. Those were some of the findings and observations from a Q2 venture financing report published this morning by law firm Cooley and a conversation with partner Craig Jacoby. The report identifies trends based on […]

I’m still rooting for a recovery but can’t help noticing markets have been acting these past few weeks as if a double dip recession is increasingly likely. So, with that in mind, I thought it’d be timely to take a look at which venture and private equity-backed companies are poised to perform best should the […]

On the “ is it hot or not” index of venture investing, consumer-facing Internet pretty clearly qualifies as “hot” lately, while real estate would definitely rank as “not.” But where the two sectors meet, VCs are finding some compelling investments. For instance, even amid what many consider a frothy period for Internet IPOs, the recent […]

In the foreseeable future, we will all be able to look much better, thanks to lustrous, robotically delivered hair transplants, injections to zap away chin wattles and fat-melting devices to whittle down love handles. Those, at least, are the promises of a few of the venture-backed companies in the cosmetic treatment space that have recently […]

Over the years, a lot of venture money has gone into revolutionizing the textbook business. And not all of those businesses turned into successes. During the dot-com boom, VCs sunk $27 million into Varsity Books, one of the earliest online college bookstores, taking it public in early 2000. At its height, the company had a […]