Early-stage venture capital firm Patron says its second fund has raised $100 million. The fund, announced Tuesday (Sept. 17), included investors such as Andreessen Horowitz Co-founder Marc Andreessen and General Partner Chris Dixon. Patron said the investor support highlights confidence in a future where technology is shaped by mass consumer adoption of games....
Venture capital group G Squared has reportedly raised $1.1 billion for its latest fund. The firm aims to tap into increasing investor demand for G Squared’s strategy of buying pre-existing stakes in start-ups, the Financial Times (FT) reported Monday (Aug. 26). As that report noted,...
Early-stage investment operation HIPstr has closed its $100 million debut fund. The company, launched by private equity executives David Moross and Mark Bezos — half-brother of Amazon founder Jeff — is an arm of HighPost Capital. “We launched HIPstr to capitalize on an attractive market...
Index Ventures has raised more than $2 billion for artificial intelligence (AI) projects. The venture capital (VC) firm announced the fund Wednesday (July 10), saying it would divide the $2.3 billion it had raised into two funds: $800 million earmarked for early-stage startups and the remainder for latter-stage companies....
June 23, 2023
Venture capital (VC) has long been viewed as the ultimate source of financing for startups, but according to Jay Wilson, investment director at U.K.-based investment firm AlbionVC, it couldn’t be further from the truth. “Venture capital is wrong for about 99% of businesses out there,” Wilson told PYMNTS in an interview, adding that “VC money is […]
February 23, 2023
FinTech firms are increasingly focusing on profitability, turning away from the growth-at-all-costs strategy many have long pursued. According to some investors, this strategic pivot from growth in favor of profits is...
November 15, 2018
Capital is finding its way into all sorts of funds and to all sorts of firms. Early-stage investments are mushrooming in size, and the competitive landscape is crowded, which makes...
February 28, 2018
Before Visa’s Everywhere Initiative was both an initiative and everywhere, it wasn’t even a project. At best—its originator and Visa’s SVP and global head of innovation and go-to-market, Shiv Singh, told Karen...
October 10, 2024
A recent stock market rally hasn’t made American venture investors any less cautious. That’s according to a report Thursday (Oct. 10) by Reuters, citing new Pitchbook-NVCA data showing around $37.5 billion of deals made in the quarter ending Sept. 30, down almost 32% from the prior quarter. A lack of liquidity has caused investors to seek tougher […]
September 17, 2024
Early-stage venture capital firm Patron says its second fund has raised $100 million. The fund, announced Tuesday (Sept. 17), included investors such as Andreessen Horowitz Co-founder Marc Andreessen and General Partner Chris Dixon. Patron said the investor support...
August 26, 2024
Venture capital group G Squared has reportedly raised $1.1 billion for its latest fund. The firm aims to tap into increasing investor demand for G Squared’s strategy of buying pre-existing...
August 18, 2024
Early-stage investment operation HIPstr has closed its $100 million debut fund. The company, launched by private equity executives David Moross and Mark Bezos — half-brother of Amazon founder Jeff —...
