Posts tagged Venture Capital Industry
Hot (and cold) sectors to watch
Dec 28th
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(Editor’s note: Steve Fredrick and Don Rainey are general partners at Grotech Ventures. They submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
As we mentioned in a recent column, 2009 wasn’t as bad as advertised for the venture capital industry. The first half of the year was rocky; however, growth stormed back in the latter half of [...]
An event about the brave new VC world (tickets here)
Dec 18th
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The venture capital industry we’ve known for the past decade is fading away, and a bunch of question marks hover over its future.
I’m pleased to announce that VentureBeat is partnering with the Founder Institute to kick off an event called Future of Funding, designed specifically to help address these questions.
Here’s the context: The [...]
Venture capitalists say industry will shrink, slowly
Dec 16th
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The chorus declaring that the venture capital industry is shrinking now includes 90 percent of VCs, according to the National Venture Capital Association’s annual survey, Venture View 2010.
That’s, uh, pretty overwhelming. Things are a little more divided when it comes to the size of the contraction, but even then 58 percent of respondents [...]
Chile’s Austral Capital to help Latin American startups reach the US — and vice versa
Nov 18th
Santiago, Chile-based Austral Capital is one of a growing number of Latin American VC firms making names for themselves. Thanks to aggressive support from the Chilean government, the less than two-year old company has funded several Chilean start-ups, including Atakama Labs, which I wrote about earlier today. And it’s also moved quickly to set up [...]
Chile’s Austral Capital to help Latin American startups reach the US — and vice versa
Nov 18th
Santiago, Chile-based Austral Capital is one of a growing number of Latin American VC firms making names for themselves. Thanks to aggressive support from the Chilean government, the less than two-year old company has funded several Chilean start-ups, including Atakama Labs, which I wrote about earlier today. And it’s also moved quickly to set up [...]
