SPAC Frenzy Emboldens Silicon Valley Startups To Forgo Enterprise Funding
SPACs flipped the script for the multidecade development model for early-stage startups so that young companies with little or no income can enter public markets earlier.
VC Firms With SPACs Are Eyeing Startups They're Invested In
These days, extra enterprise capital companies are both forming their very own particular function acquisition corporations, or SPACs, or having inside conversations about doing so.
Why Enterprise Tech Is Dominating Venture Capital
With a seemingly daily influx of innovations coming to market, there’s certainly no shortage of trends to chase for investors looking for the next hot growth opportunity.
Elliott Robinson Shares His BLCKVC Story
Elliott Robinson is a partner, growth equity at Bessemer Venture Partners, where he leads growth equity investments across the enterprise software and cloud computing technology sectors. Elliot recently shared an experience that reminds of the importance of engaging and empowering black venture investors.
Enterprise Tech 30: The 2020 List
An exclusive list of the most promising private companies in enterprise tech, as determined by the most prominent venture capital investors in the sector.
Kleiner Perkins Welcomes Mamoon Hamid To Its Leadership Team
Kleiner Perkins today announced that Mamoon Hamid will be joining the firm as a general partner and managing member. Hamid has a proven track record of investing in many of the leading enterprise startups of the last decade – including early investments in Slack, Box, Yammer, Intercom and Netskope, where he also served on the board of directors. Hamid spent the last six years as the co-founder of Social Capital, where he led the firm’s venture practice. Before that, he was a partner at USVP.
How NEA Envisions The Trucking, A.I. Industry
The big Silicon Valley venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is investing in the workaday business of freight load hauling, which could hardly seem more different from the future-bending tech projects that have attracted VC money for decades.
Brentwood Fund VI Raises $1.15B
Brentwood Associates said July 12 that its latest fund closed with $1.15 billion, exceeding its $750 million hard cap and target. Fund VI will make control investments in companies with enterprise values between […]
Here’s a chart of the most valuable brands in the world... notice anything?
U.S. tech stocks may be under pressure lately, but they are still the top dogs when it comes to brand power....
KKR Exits Visma
KKR said June 29 that it has agreed to sell its entire remaining stake in Visma, together with a smaller stake from Cinven, to an investor group led by HgCapital. GIC, Montagu and ICG are also part of the investor group. Press reports peg the Visma sale at $1.8 billion. KKR acquired Visma, a Norwegian software company, in 2010 at an enterprise value of $1.3 billion. KKR was advised on this transaction by ABG Sundal Collier, Morgan Stanley, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, EY and OC&C.