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CalPERS has allocated $200 million more to its $12 billion emerging manager program.
Margaux Avedisian, managing partner at BlockStream Ventures, speaks to Venture Capital Journal about bitcoin.
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Video date: March 2014
The California State Teachers’ Retirement System is shifting gears.
* Long-term target allocation is 11 percent * Actual allocation at 8.6 percent * Smaller buyout shops a focus From the looks of it, the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association could be one of the busiest limited partners in the industry this year. The system needs to commit up to $1.8 billion to private equity this […]
C2FO has named John Adams, David G. Brown, Lance T. LeMay and Jay Mandelbaum to its advisory board. Adams is a managing director at investment banking advisory firm XMS Capital while Brown is a managing partner of Oak Hill Venture Partners and a vice president of Keystone LP, formerly known as the Robert M. Bass Co. […]
Sponsored Video. This panel, "Three outstanding PE deals and why they worked," features Howard Morgan, co-President of Castle Harlan; Ted Beneski, CEO and Managing Partner of Insight Equity Holdings LLC, and Stephen Thomas, a Principal at Bain Capital. Morgan discusses Castle Harlan's investment in United Malt Holdings, which produced a 4.8x return for Castle Harlan when it sold the company to GrainCorp for $655 million.
Greylock Partners raised $1 billion for its 14th fund, making it the largest VC fund of 2013. Partner Joseph Ansanelli sat down with Venture Capital Journal (a peHUB sister publication) in December 2013 to talk about Greylock’s investment strategy.
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He said he and his partners “spend a lot of time talking about success. Can this thing be 10 times better than the alternative?”
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He also emphasized that venture firms cannot be afraid of failure. “Failure is actually a big big part of the process,” he said. ”We get thousands of business plans sent to us every single year. We invest in tens. Only a few of those actually blossom to become really big and successful companies.”
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Read more about Greylock's fundraising here.
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Video date: December 2013
David Cowan, a longtime partner with Bessemer Venture Partners, talks about Bessemer's culture and evolving strategy, including why partners believe scaling up is in the best long-term interests of its investors. Cowan spoke at Thomson Reuters' Venture Alpha West 2013 conference in Half Moon Bay, Calif.
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Video date: Oct. 9, 2013
Mark Suster, partner at Upfront Ventures, discusses the impact of venture "platforms," such as AngelList, at Thomson Reuters' Venture Alpha West 2013 conference in Half Moon Bay, Calif.
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Video date: Oct. 8, 2013.
Ben Horowitz, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz talks about how software is shaking up old-line industries at Reuters Technology Summit.
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Read more about what Horowitz had to say about hardware, IPOs and portfolio company services here.
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Video date: June 19, 2013