We're living through the third financial crisis of the modern venture capital era, following the dotcom crash and the housing bust. READ MORE
Private equity and venture capital will feel the effects of the coronavirus
As market chaos mounts and coronavirus uncertainty persists, private markets are feeling the pressure. READ MORE
Venture capital open for business on record amounts of dry powder
Venture capitalists are almost all working from home, but they have not stopped investing in startups. READ MORE
The economy’s hurting. What does that mean for startups who plan to go public in 2020?
After the The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, President Donald Trump announced a travel suspension from Europe to the U.S. for 30 days beginning late Friday. READ MORE
Private Equity and Venture Capital Firms Shared their Outlook for 2020
For the third year in a row, S&P Global Market Intelligence conducted an annual survey among global Private Equity (PE) professionals,[1] this time expanding its outreach to Venture Capital (VC) firms around the world. The study focused on 2020 investment sentiment, the main risks for portfolio companies, preferred investment strategies and exits, and how the PE community is approaching Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors. READ MORE
VCs have to fundraise too
Walking into the Hotel Palace in Berlin mid-February is like stepping through the looking glass.
It seems like a regular startup conference — everyone is talking about fundraising, unicorns and disruption — except the founders have disappeared and the kings have become paupers. Everything is a little topsy turvy. READ MORE
2020 Private Equity Compensation Report Shows Increases
Cha Ching!
Private equity and venture capital firms are having another bang up year. READ MORE
Venture Capital Insanity Should Help Crowdfunders
I’ve always been a big fundamentals guy. Unlike Silicon Valley, I’ve always preferred smart growth to dumb hypergrowth. READ MORE
Why Bootstrapped Apparel Brands Like Aviator Nation Are Opting Out Of Venture Capital
In 2020, there are hundreds of new apparel brands launching every single day—and venture capital abounds. READ MORE
A Decade-Long Scorecard for Women Raising Venture Capital Shows Progress, But Is It Enough?
Women entrepreneurs are raising more money than ever. That should be good news, and in some ways, it is. In advance of International Women's Day on March 8, Crunchbase has released a slew of data about women and venture capital during the past decade. While women raised more money, they don't appear to be making much progress when compared with their male peers. Here are six takeaways from the findings. READ MORE
Self-driving car company Waymo raises $2.25 billion in first external round of funding
Waymo, the self-driving arm of Google's parent company Alphabet, announced Monday that it has raised $2.25 billion in its first external round of funding. And, it said, it expects to raise even more money as it looks to scale and expand its business. READ MORE
Big Corporations Are Rushing Into Venture Capital. That May Not Be a Good Thing.
When Jim Adler joined Toyota Motor, he had never before worked for a car company. But Adler had something Toyota wanted badly: experience in venture capital. READ MORE
How to Profit Without Venture Capital
Just a few days ago, I was on the phone with a friend and fellow founder who runs a direct-to-consumer marketing platform and had spent quite aggressively on user acquisition over the past year. Casually, I suggested that he should work with a former colleague of mine who was a whiz at growth marketing and could probably lower his Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) by more than 25 percent. He didn’t hesitate for a moment before replying: “I don’t want to spend it. We need to focus on profitability — our core product — not growth.” READ MORE
How An Early Pinterest Investment Turned NFL Legend Joe Montana Into An All-Pro Venture Capitalist
With less than a minute left in the 1981 NFC championship game, the odds weren’t looking good for Joe Montana’s San Francisco 49ers. They trailed the fearsome Dallas Cowboys by six points as the quarterback rolled to his right, chased by a squadron of defenders, including the six-foot-nine-inch Ed “Too Tall” Jones. But Montana kept his cool, losing Jones with a pump fake before lofting a spiral into the gray sky toward the deepest part of the end zone—where the football landed in the outstretched hands of tight end Dwight Clark to put the Niners ahead for good. READ MORE
How Venture Capital in the US and China is Shifting
There’s no shortage of headlines amidst the escalating US-China trade dispute. Even with the recent outbreak of Coronavirus, the US administration seems to have no intention to lift tariffs on China. The Chinese government is also implementing currency controls to prevent capital outflow that we have observed in the last five years. Additionally, home-grown trends continue to influence the trajectory of cross-border investments. In the wake of ongoing speculation, investors in both countries are left to navigate an increasingly complex web of political and economic variables. READ MORE
Sustainable start-ups should consider corporate venture capital first
Urgent issues like the climate crisis, environmental degradation threatening millions of species, social inequality and other challenges mean that the global economy needs to immediately transform itself to become sustainable. READ MORE
Majority of Private Equity and VC Staff Are ‘Dissatisfied’ With Pay
Compensation increased for the sixth straight year in 2019 — but not enough, according to survey of private equity and venture capital professionals. READ MORE
Private Equity & Venture Capital Valuations Draw Scrutiny
The valuation of private equity and venture capital investments has recently been garnering greater marketplace attention, with investors demanding more transparency and information than ever before. READ MORE
Want To Attract Venture Capital? Think Like A Screenwriter.
When Tim Ellis enrolled at USC in 2008, he majored in aerospace engineering but he secretly hoped to become a screenwriter. Instead, he ended up creating an entirely new way of building rocket ships. The two things have a deep connection. Storytelling and vision have influenced the unique ways that Ellis has attracted investors and built a groundbreaking company. READ MORE
What happens when venture capital money runs out?
Uber. Lyft. Snapchat. These ubiquitous companies rarely, if ever, turn a profit; venture capital funding made them household names. So what happens when the VC money dries up? Some of them crash pretty spectacularly. READ MORE