John Ruffolo isn’t as famous as some investors but he’s very well-known in Canadian business circles. The longtime head of Arthur Andersen’s tech, media, and telecommunications practice, he joined OMERS roughly a decade ago when a former colleague became CEO and brought him aboard the...
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March 27, 2021 albert
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BBG Ventures, an eight-year-old, New York-based seed- and early-stage venture firm that only backs founding teams which feature at least one woman, just locked down $ 50 million in capital for its third fund, a major leap over its first two funds, both sized at...
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March 26, 2021 albert
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Two years after launching its $ 56 million debut fund, Kindred Ventures, a San Francisco-based pre-seed and seed-stage venture fund founded by Steve Jang and Kanyi Maqubela, has closed its second fund with $ 100 million in capital commitments. Jang is himself a founder who...
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February 2, 2021 albert
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This morning OpenView Venture Partners announced that it has closed $ 450 million for its new, sixth fund. The capital pool is its largest to date, coming in at roughly 50% larger than its preceding fund five. OpenView is based in Boston, but invests globally....
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October 14, 2020 albert
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Vy Le and Dzung Nguyen, the founders and general partners of Do Ventures, an investment firm focused on early-stage Vietnamese startups New investment firm Do Ventures announced today the first closing of its fund for Vietnamese startups, which is backed by several of Asia’s most...
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September 8, 2020 albert
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Balderton Capital, one of the so-called “big four” early-stage VC firms in London (the others being Accel, Atomico and Index), has raised a new $ 400 million fund to continue backing European tech startups at Series A. Dealroom recently released a report that pegged Balderton...
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November 12, 2019 albert
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PeakSpan Capital, a four-year-old, Burlingame, Ca.-based venture firm, has closed its second fund with $ 265 million in capital commitments, according to a new SEC filing that shows that 68 investors were involved in the fundraise. That’s a meaningful jump in size from the firm’s...
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January 10, 2019 albert
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In what looks like a European first, the London-based early-stage venture capital firm Balderton Capital is announcing that is has closed a new $ 145 million “secondary” fund dedicated to buying equity stakes from early shareholders in European-founded “high growth, scale-up” technology companies. Dubbed “Balderton...
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October 2, 2018 albert
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The Kriesel high-performance electric converted Porsche, Jeff Bezos sells $ 1 billion in stock annually to fund Blue Origin, Hyperloop One completes Vegas test track and 23andMe can now let you know if you have the genes for Parkinson’s. All this on Crunch Report. Read...
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April 7, 2017 albert
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Floodgate, a Palo Alto, Ca.-based early stage venture capital firm, has raised $ 131 million for its sixth fund, according to an SEC filing that shows the 11-year-old firm turned to just eight investors for the capital commitments. Though small by today’s fundraising standards, the fund reflects...
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