Venture Capital Blogger

Venture Capital CalPERS CalPERS and CalSTRS to Withdraw from Venture Capital Funding CalPERS may withdraw from investing in venture capital, at least that’s the impression California controller John Chiang gave in a recent interview.  Mr. Chiang sat down with veteran venture capitalist Michael Mortitz  of Sequoia Capital to discuss how the pension funds are doing [...]

Venture Capital Media Venture Capital & Private Equity Investment in Media Some alarming predictions for investors in the technology, information, and media space comes from the CEO of Providence Equity Partners. Jonathan Nelson warns that investors in these areas will have a “culling of the herd.” Subscription-based businesses have survived relatives unscathed and continued to [...]

StarVest Partners StarVest Partners’ Farrington on the IPO Market A new trend that has developed over the last eighteen months is that institutional investors are looking for profitability rather than growth in their investments, according to Deborah Farrington. She is a partner at StarVest Partners, a New York-based venture capital firm which is the second [...]

Venture Capitalist Investing Venture Capital Investing Rises 15% But Still Very Low The data today is kind of depends on your disposition, whether you are a glass a half full or half empty person.  On one hand, venture capital investment rose by 15% from the beginning of this year; on the other, venture capital investment [...]

Pandora Investment Pandora Fundraising Round Draws Investment from Greylock Pandora Inc., is an online music start-up that has grown very popular, very quickly.  Coincidentally, as I write this I am listening to Pandora Radio.  The website offers users the opportunity to create their own radio station. A user simply chooses a favorite artist or genre [...]

Venture Capital Fund Raising Venture Capital Fund Raising Falls 63% Fundraising by venture capital firms dropped all of 63% in the first half of this year compared to the first 6 months of 2008.  Investors remain skiddish about forking over their money to venture funds during an uncertain economy.  Venture firms were able to raise [...]

Marc Andreessen Fund Marc Andreessen Launches Venture Capital Fund One of this weeks big stories is Marc Andreesen’s new venture capital fund.  He appeared in stories from Businessweek to the New York Times, all the kind of publicity a new fund would want and Mr. Andreessen deserves it.  He got his start as a leading [...]

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Life Sciences Investment Venture Capital Fund Investing In Life Sciences Closes 5am Ventures, a venture capital firm which will focus its investments in life sciences, has closed its third fund after passing its fundraising target of $150 million.  With 34 investors providing $159.2 million in committed capital, the firm is now ready to invest in [...]

Venture Capital Clean Technology Venture Capital Investment Rises from Clean Technology Venture capital has rebounded according to reports on the second quarter of 2009, after two dismal quarters for the industry.  Clean technology investments gave the much-needed boost to venture capital with a 12% rise from clean tech in Q1 2009.    Venture investments in [...]