This is going to be BIG.
MAY 5, 2023
Sometime in the next few weeks, I’ll complete my next investment. Last August, I passed the point at which I had spent literally half my entire life working in this asset class, having started at the General Motors pension fund doing institutional investments in venture funds and late-stage directs back in February of 2001.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
SEPTEMBER 15, 2019
In the Correlation post, they define “hit rate” as: the percent of invested dollars generating a 10X or greater return. It could be the number of investments in your portfolio that return the fund. It could be the number of seed investments you make that turn into billion-dollar valued businesses.
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This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 30, 2015
Those companies would have not only returned any fund that invested in them, but would likely return an entire career''s worth of investing over the course of several funds. Why invest at top dollar in the last round, when you can offer liquidity to early investors at a huge discount to the last round?
TechCrunch
MAY 26, 2022
Wale Ayeni , one of Africa’s well-known investors, has a new role as the head of Helios Digital Ventures, the venture capital strategy of private equity firm Helios Investment Partners, TechCrunch has learned. It raised $50 million in Series B earlier this month, in a round that marked PayPal Ventures’ first MENA investment.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
“Sugar is a massive consumer of water and in contrast, there’s big sustainability pitch for what we do. ” Senkut and Felicis invested in Cambridge Glycosciences almost immediately after seeing the company’s presentation at Y Combinator. That’s made form a sustainable source but also biodegradable.”
Innovation 2 Enterprise
NOVEMBER 4, 2020
She is also principal of Broadway Realty, investing in, and repurposing, historic properties. She served as the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, (2003/2004), one of the largest Rotary Club in the world. She began her professional career as a corporate loan officer with the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York.
Tomasz Tunguz
MAY 13, 2015
At the outset, Ariba sustained very high gross margins, in the low 80 percent range. At the time of its IPO, the company was only investing about 75% of its revenue and sales and marketing. In 2002, the company invested significantly in sales and marketing, but suffered a decline in revenue. The company spent $46.4M
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