VC Recap: Importance Of Billion Dollar Exits; AirBnB To Jumpstart 2017 IPO Market?
Introducing Trusted Insight's Venture Capital Recap, a compilation of the most important venture capital news of the previous day. Here are the stories you may have missed:
Lightspeed China hopes to raise $260mn for its second fund
Lightspeed Venture Partners' sino-affiliate closed its debut fund last year at $168 million, $18 million over target.
Dolby Family Launches Venture Capital Fund
Dolby Family Ventures anticipates making four to seven investments per year, with capital at risk of approximately $3 million per company. The fund is not affiliated with Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
Exclusive: Kohlberg Looking to Sell Singer Sewing Machine Company
(Reuters) - The Singer sewing machine company, largely credited with helping develop the U.S. fashion industry by allowing clothes to be made more cheaply and efficiently, is exploring a sale that co...
Leopard Capital on the Frontier of Frontier Markets in South East Asia
Ken Stevens has been working in market research and investments for 23 years in Southeast Asia. Previously head of research and an investment banker at CLSA Securities in Thailand, he cofounded Leopar...
Carlyle Group Seeks Brazil Payday With CVC Travel Group IPO
The owners of Brazil's largest travel agency group in terms of revenue, CVC Brasil Operadora e Agência de Viagens S.A, have revived plans for an initial public offering of shares, in a potentially luc...
Perspective of a Gulf private equity investor
Muhannad Qubbaj, the Managing Director of Private Equity, outlines the international Limited Partner (LP) base of Gulf Capital's latest fund and approach to proprietary origination of deals. Interview by Ruth McKee of Mergermarket.