Venture capital firm returns slip 2.9 percent in the first quarter of 2009, according to an NVCA report citing a “shortage of exit opportunities” for continued declines.
|
Industry reports reveal limited partners are unleashing less funding to venture capital firms and in turn VCs are pumping less cash into startups.
|
National Venture Capital Association announces set of recommendations aimed to improve IPO conditions for startups and VCs.
|
Security startup snags funding in a tough market. But problems predate this recession as VC excitement for security has nosedived since 2000.
|
$3.4B raised in the fourth quarter a 71% decline from 2007; some see a shakeout that would halve the industry.
|
NVCA predicts that drought will slow new investments and fundraising in 2009.
|
Venerable investment firm plans to exploit economy's weakness and extend to second and third funding rounds.
|
Returns lost ground but stayed in positive territory in the second quarter, according to Thomson Reuters calculations.
|
Fundraising almost flat but number of funds drops dramatically.
|
Collapse of IPO, M&A markets parches VCs, according new reports; median price in M&A deal falls as time to exit rises.
|
With the capital markets in turmoil, the U.S. presidential election is taking on added importance. What do VCs want and who can deliver?
|
167 deals—the lowest total in 9 years—close in the second quarter; UK and France plunge while Germany gains.
|
Funding races ahead in the second quarter amid a slowdown in the United States, reports say. Where is U.S. funding going? American VCs come in nearly double on investments in China, injecting $583 million in 47 deals.
|
Alma mater ties are powerful as a survey finds that two in five VCs attended one these elite institutions.
|
With the IPO window shut and M&A down, venture capitalists may be feeling like they’re in the Sartre play “No Exit.”
|
Germany’s clean technology, UK’s life sciences, and Taiwan’s semiconductors highlight innovation hotspots beyond the United States.
|
Based on trailing 12-month performance, funds post an 8.8 percent increase compared with the previous quarter.
|
Fourth quarter pushes venture-backed issues to $10 billion in 2007, double the 2006 take, but the M&A door has swung shut. In the final quarter, only 45 venture-backed M&A deals were completed, the least since the first quarter of 1998.
|
Startup targets carriers and handset makers as investors continue to pour money into the crowded mobile social-networking market.
|
Juice Wireless' funding comes as roughly $431 million has been shot into 92 mobile social-networking companies in the first three quarters of 2007. Time for a shakeout?
|
Page
1
of
3
|