Joanna Glasner
Identified, a Facebook-centered career networking application popular with younger workers, is on track to raise close to $27 million mostly from individual and angel investors. Cofounder Brendan Wallace says there are a number of benefits in taking that route.
People are interacting with their mobile devices in unprecedented (and sometimes strange) ways. A look at five of the top behavioral changes from this week's Ignition West conference.
New data confirms what observers of the Brazilian venture and private equity scene have long been saying: There’s a lot more investment capital going into the region and a lot more exits too.
Talk about capital intensive startups! The textbook rental side has raised $25 million in private funding, according to a securities filing. That brings the total raised to well over $200 million.
Yelp may have pulled off its public market debut amid great fanfare Friday. But it’ll take a lot more offerings to winnow down the rest of the IPO pipeline, which is the fullest it’s been in several years.
Endowments saw very nice double-digit returns from venture capital and private equity investments in fiscal 2011. But those gains still lagged returns from public equities. Those were some findings from a study released Tuesday by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) and Commonfund, based on data from 823 U.S. colleges and […]
Sequoia Capital appears to be raising a new fund. Called the “Sequoia Capital Growth Principals Fund, LP,” the fund will be incorporated in the Cayman Islands, according to documents filed Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Its principal place of business will be on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, Calif., where Sequoia […]
As someone who spends more time reading venture funding data than any human should, one trend that’s long stood out is the comparative paucity of capital going to companies in the Southeastern U.S., and in particular, Atlanta. Last year, companies in the Atlanta metro area raised $374 million in venture funding, according to Thomson Reuters. […]
(CORRECTION: The story in its original version incorrectly stated taht the Russian Venture Company is a $2 billion fund-of-fu.) The Russian government has been spending a lot of money in recent years on efforts to rev up its entrepreneurial ecosystem. Now it appears more of the strategy and budget will be directed at cross-border investments, […]
Common wisdom is that it’s an unusually tough time to raise capital for early-stage healthcare investing. But Cambridge, Mass.-based Flagship Ventures is demonstrating that it’s possible to buck the trend. This week, the 11-year-old firm announced it has raised $270 million for a fourth fund that will be dedicated principally to early-stage investing and in-house […]