Joanna Glasner

I had the chance to attend the Big Sky Venture Capital Confrence this fall and wrote a story on the opportunities in that region of the country for VCJ. Happened to be thinking about this weekend and thought I might share it with PEHub readers. –Joanna For most of the year, the posh Montana resort of […]

They come. They work. They vest. Then they move on to startup investing. That’s long been the plotline for tech executives. These days, the story is replaying often at the Mountain View, Calif.-based campus of Google. Chris Sacca, head of special initiatives at Google, is among the latest to depart the Googleplex to become an […]

Optimistic forecasts regarding consumer demand for health-enhancing foods and beverages appear to be spilling into the venture sector. In the last few weeks, at least five gastronomically oriented companies raised initial or follow-on funding from private equity investors. Startups’ product specialties ranged from cholesterol-reducing chips to nutritional supplements to supply chain automation software for natural […]

When Cindy Padnos set out to raise venture capital a decade ago for Vivant, her workforce management software startup, she could have used a mentor or two. “There was no one to help me figure out how to negotiate a term sheet,” says Padnos, now a managing director at early stage fund Advanced Venture Partners […]

Venture capitalists cashed in on Chinese investments last week with two debuts on U.S. exchanges that met with a mixed reception. ChinaEdu, an online education provider, and VanceInfo Technologies, an IT outsourcer, raised $68 million and $65 million, respectively, in their IPOs. Neither managed to price at the high end of expectations. Shares of Beijing-based […]

If venture capital were Boggle, Ryan McIntyre would have just scored a 17-letter word, the highest achievement for the game’s aficionados. The former Mobius Venture Capital principal and Boggle champ, who recently relocated to Boulder to join early stage firm Foundry Group, has had two portfolio investments sell in the past six months for a […]

Classmates Media was to be one of the first U.S.-based social networking sites to launch an IPO A closely watched offering from Classmates Media, one of the first social networking companies to plan a public offering, was withdrawn last week amid concerns about unfavorable market conditions. In a statement released last week, Classmates’ parent company, […]

Despite its $330 million price tag, Cisco’s acquisition of WiMax networking equipment developer Navini Networks, won’t deliver big gains to venture backers, who poured $195 million into the Richardson, Texas company to date. Cisco said the planned purchase will likely close in the second quarter of next year. It will be acquisition No. 124 for […]

Angel investment dipped a bit in the first half of the year, as average deal sizes declined and individual investors took on smaller stakes, according to a new report from the Center for Venture Research at UNH. In all, angels invested $11.9 billion in the first six months of 2007, a decrease of 6% over […]

The Congressional debate over tax treatment of carried interest – a topic much of the private equity industry thought (and hoped) had petered out over the summer – is poised for revival in the Senate as well as in the House. Starting in September, the Senate Finance Committee plans to begin tackling the issue of […]