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Tiger Global is raising a new $3.75 billion venture fund, one year after closing its last

TechCrunch

million venture fund called Tiger Private Investment Partners XIV that it expects to close in March. The fund is Tiger’s 13th venture fund, despite its title — the partners might be superstitious — and it comes hot on the heels of the firm’s 12th venture fund, closed exactly a year ago, also with $3.75

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Foreign investors, mature startups redraw New Zealand’s VC funding landscape

TechCrunch

Over the last two years, New Zealand’s startup scene has seen record venture and early-stage investment. A noticeable trend is that deal sizes are getting larger as early-stage ventures and angel-backed ventures scale and require larger quantums of growth capital.”. Elevating Kiwi startups into scale stage.

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Taking advantage of Latin America’s market downturn

TechCrunch

Andre Maciel is the founder of Volpe Capital. Jennifer Queen is the founder of Pina , a PR firm focused on startups and venture capital firms. Latin American venture capital and growth investments through 2018 had averaged less than $2 billion per year. Image Credits: Volpe Capital. Share on Twitter.

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African payments company Flutterwave raises $170M, now valued at over $1B

TechCrunch

New York-based private investment firm Avenir Growth Capital and U.S. New and existing investors who participated include DST Global, Early Capital Berrywood, Green Visor Capital, Greycroft Capital, Insight Ventures, PayPal, Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Management, Worldpay FIS 9yards Capital. .

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Hambleton Lord and Christopher Mirabile Are Changing the Face of Angel Investing

Angel Capital Association

As friends, they quickly sensed the potential for partnership, and in 2010 joined forces and merged their groups to build what is now a nationally-recognized angel network, Launchpad Venture Group. In 2018, they granted the Angel Capital Association a no-fee license to their entire library of training materials to help found ACA University.

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After bootstrapping since 2002, Articulate raises $1.5B on $3.75B valuation

TechCrunch

Most companies don’t announce their first venture investment after almost 20 years in the business, nor do they announce that round is the equivalent of a good startup’s entire private fundraising history. CEO Adam Schwartz founded the company with his life savings in 2002 and hasn’t taken a dime of outside investment since.

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Ed Zimmerman: The Growing Scarcity of Series B Venture Rounds

WSJ - The Accelerators

ED ZIMMERMAN : The funnel for venture funding isn’t cylindrical — it’s shape follows a more Darwinian conical path, as many seed stage companies march into the cone’s wide entrance and far fewer make it to the cone’s narrow end.