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SAP Ventures raises new $650M fund

by Steven Loeb, October 2, 2013

The firm has now raised over $1 billion in funding in the past year

SAP Ventures is having a pretty spectacular year. Not only did a dozen of the companies it invested in see exits, but the firm has now raised a big new pile of cash that it will use to expand its presence internationally. The firm has closed a brand new $650 million fund, called SAP Ventures Fund II, it was announced on Wednesday. It ...

Eniac raises $12.9M seed-stage mobile fund

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, September 26, 2013

NY- and SF-based seek another 20 to 25 mobile startups to fund

Eniac Ventures raised its second fund, totalling $12.9 million. This after about nearly five years of investing out of a $1.6 million fund raised in 2009. Eniac focuses solely on mobile technologies across five categories: Big data, enterprise, Ad-tech, consumer and social, and commerce. It's not surprising given that its four founding partners have mobile backgrounds and have been either ...

Greylock Partners raises a brand new $1B fund

by Steven Loeb, September 10, 2013

Firm will invest in early-stage marketplaces and cloud storage companies

Greylock Partners is one of the oldest venture capital firms still standing, having been around for nearly fifty years now. But because of some key investments over the past decade, including LinkedIn, Facebook, and Workday, it is still going strong. Perhaps stronger than ever. The firm just raised a brand new fund, its fourteenth overall, only a couple of years after raising $1 billion ...

M&A of VC-backed startups hits four-year low

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 18, 2013

Venture investing sees lowest quarter since third quarter of 2010

So much for starting the year with a bang. Not only are venture capitalists keeping their purse strings drawn tight, acquisitions are often an optimal outcome for startups. But it looks like buyers haven't had the appetite. Venture capital merger and acquisition activity in the US dropped in the first quarter of this year, ending with the fewest exits ...

SoftBank Capital announces new $250M fund

by Steven Loeb, February 7, 2013

PrinceVille Fund will help western companies compete in Asian markets

(Updated to reflect comment from SoftBank) SoftBank Capital, the venture group affiliated with Japan’s Softbank Corp., has closed a new $250 million fund, it was announced Thursday. Called SoftBank PrinceVille Investments, L.P. or “PrinceVille Fund," it will focus on helping growth-stage companies break into global markets, specifically those in Asia. The PrinceVille Fund’s investment focus will continue the themes of previous Softbank Capital investments ...

Report: Google and Twitter execs team up for new fund

by Steven Loeb, February 6, 2013

Hunter Walk and Satya Patel are forming a new $25 million VC fund called Homebrew

(Updated to reflect comment from Hunter Walk) A new venture capital fund may be in the works, brought to you by former executives Google and Twitter. Hunter Walk and Satya Patel are forming a new $25 million VC fund called Homebrew, Fortune reported Wednesday. The fund would go toward backing technology startups that "enable the people-based economy" for both consumers and ...

Samsung to put $1.1 billion into fueling innovation

by Steven Loeb, February 4, 2013

Two new funds, along with new Strategy and Innovation Center, to boost Samsung's American presence

It is not unusual for top tier tech companies to be heavily involved with funding new innovation. After all, that is their bread and butter, and what will help keep them ahead of their competitors. Giants such as Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook have all set up funds to find the next great idea. Now you can add Samsung to that list, ...

Norwest promotes three new partners

by Kristin Karaoglu, January 23, 2013

Matthew Howard, Jeff Crowe and Sonya Brown move up the ranks

Norwest Venture Partners announced Wednesday morning that it's promoted Matthew Howard and Jeff Crowe to Managing Partner, and Sonya Brown is now General Partner. The promotions come at a time NVP has been actively investing in growth-stage investments. In the last 12 months, NVP made 30 new venture investments and grew the firm to 80 employees around the world. The ...

Redpoint Ventures closes $400M fund

by Steven Loeb, January 16, 2013

This is the firm's fifth fund, and it now manages over $3.3 billion

Redpoint Ventures has closed its latest fund, its fifth overall, it was announced Wednesday. Entitled Redpoint V, it is a $400 million early stage venture capital fund. The firm's previous fund, Redpoint IV, which closed in 2006, was also a $400 million fund. Redpoint now manages over $3.3 billion across its multiple funds. Redpoint will use this latest fund to support early stage ...

VMware CTO Stephen Herrod joining General Catalyst

by Steven Loeb, January 16, 2013

Herrod will stay on as an advisor to VMware

Stephen Herrod is leaving enterprise and virtualization giant VMware to join venture capital and growth equity firm General Catalyst, it was announced Monday. Herrod worked at VMware for 11 years, where he served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Research and Development. In his new role with General Catalyst, Herrod's focus will be investing in, and supporting, entrepreneurs at early-stage ...

Sequoia Capital raises $700M global fund

by Steven Loeb, December 18, 2012

Money reportedly to be used to invest in mature companies in late-stage rounds

Sequoia Capital may have raised a combined $1 billion for three early stage funds just a few months ago, but the firm obviously has interest in investing in later stage rounds as well. So to do that, the firm has gone ahead and raised yet another fund. Sequoia Capital has raised $700 million for a new global fund, according to a ...

General Catalyst launches student-run fund in Boston

by Steven Loeb, December 12, 2012

Rough Draft Ventures will invest in student founded start-ups

Good ideas can come from, literally, anywhere. Some random person, who has no experience with ever founding a company, might just have the next big idea in his head. Or it could be some dorky college kid sitting in his Harvard dorm room who creates something that will completely change the world over the next decade. Don’t think that venture ...

Morgenthaler Ventures to raise $200M for new fund

by Steven Loeb, December 5, 2012

Firm's tenth fund will focus on early stage IT companies

Who says venture capital is slowing down? Yesterday it was revealed that Sequoia Capital was looking to raise a new fund, mere months after raising $1 billion and they were not the only ones: venture capital firm Morgenthaler Ventures is looking to raise a new fund, according to sources close to the fund. The fund, which would be Morgenthaler’s tenth, ...

Sequoia Capital looking to raise another fund

by Steven Loeb, December 4, 2012

	VC firm closed out a nearly $1 billion fund in August The amount raised by VCs may have slowed last quarter, but that is not going to stop firms from continuing to raise money to invest. Only a few months after raising its last fund, venture capital firm Sequoia Capital is at it again. The firm is looking to raise a seed fund, according to a Form D filed with the ...
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