venture capital

High valuations and competition among venture capital managers are making it harder for them to find better investment opportunities, a new survey from Preqin finds. In its survey of 221 venture capital fund managers in November, 55% of managers said they found higher pricing for portfolio companies ...

Startups creating solutions to make travel more efficient, frictionless and interconnected received a record amount of venture capital funding in 2017: At $25.45 billion, it was a substantial 32% increase over investments made in 2016. And the 2018 figure could be even higher. An analysis by Lufthansa ...

There's a compelling economic opportunity when more venture capital money starts flowing to women and entrepreneurs of color, says investor and philanthropist Jean Case. “It turns out that there's an untold story, which is out there in venture capital land there's extreme consolidation going on,” says Case, ...

“The power dynamic that exists in venture capital is despicably unfair,” he said in a statement provided to Axios in June. “The gap of influence between male venture capitalists and female entrepreneurs is frightening, and I hate that my behavior played a role in perpetrating a gender-hostile environment.

Total SA FP said Tuesday that its venture-capital arm has signed an agreement with Hubei High Technology Investment Guiding Fund Management Co. and Cathay Capital to launch an investment fund focused on innovation in the energy sector in China. Total Energy Ventures and Hubei High Technology ...

At the same time, the Federal Trade Commission confirmed it's investigating Facebook with "substantial concerns." So is tech beyond redemption? A new fund from Social Starts, a $60 million venture-capital partnership, is a reminder that there are still big hopes about using technology to improve the world.

The Bay Area—that is, San Francisco and Silicon Valley—currently accounts for nearly 45 percent of total venture capital investment in the entire United States. And the Acela Corridor, spanning Boston, New York, and Washington, comprises another third. Together, these two geographic regions attract ...

The amount of venture capital invested in biotech and health care startups based in Michigan nearly doubled in 2017. Venture investors put $115.2 million into 18 companies last year, compared with $63 million in 23 deals the prior year and 16 deals for $132 million in 2015. Those figures come from an ...

He and Robinson built their venture capital business into what's now River Cities Capital Funds, a downtown Cincinnati firm that has raised more than $750 million in six funds. They've been joined by a boatload of other firms providing capital and other forms of support to the burgeoning local startup world.

Luminate Security said it raised $14 million of seed and Series A funding from U.S. Venture Partners, Aleph Venture Capital and the ScaleUp program from Microsoft. As part of the announcement, USVP's Jacques Benkoski and Aleph's Aaron Rosenson will join the board. Luminate, founded in 2017 with ...

VC fund managers typically want to grow their businesses aggressively, just like the founders we back. But we normally have a clear ceiling on how high we can grow AUM before hitting practical limits to deploying capital within the traditional VC model. My partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, ...

Venture capital investments, on the other hand, come from hedge funds, private equity firms, or persons of extreme wealth. They're basically individuals and entities with the resources to pour millions of dollars into young and risky-yet-promising projects with the hopes of quality returns on the original ...

As an African-American, Frederik Groce, an associate at Silicon Valley's Storm Ventures, is a rarity in the venture capital world, where only 3% of all employees are black. In addition to being an atypical VC, Groce had an unusual journey into the industry. He grew up poor, planned on being a lawyer, and ...

"We at VGV are excited to be the new venture capital player in Ohio. Our model is unique to the Mahoning Valley, leveraging the many great assets provided by its incubators, businesses, universities, and institutions," Knight said in a statement. "We are looking forward to investing in a strong portfolio of ...

At Correlation Ventures, we spend a fair amount of time using our proprietary database to identify the telltale signs of successful startups. One question we asked recently is whether there are diminishing returns for adding VCs to the board of directors at venture-backed startups. Many of us have seen highly ...

The venture capital industry is the engine that drives the technology industry. The early risk capital that fuels startup innovation helped businesses such as Google, Facebook, Netflix, and Tesla get off the ground. And although only a small percentage of businesses in the U.S. receive venture capital, they ...