The U.S.-Russia Fund is one of the largest Russian VC funds, but it's not the most successful.
Top-tier Silicon Valley VC funds have always loved throwing money at Stanford geeks.
As well noted, the majority of VC funds and groups are male dominated.
Angel and VC funds are a force behind the companies driving this transformation.
She said VC funds will be put to the test in the next few years and the fittest will survive.
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The Indian government, to its credit, has been taking steps to make it easier to operate VC funds inside India.
Through its investments in VC funds, the firm can see which startups are outperforming and which are rotting in portfolios.
It will be as true of hedge funds as it is of VC funds as it is of making smartphones.
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Because of India's riskiness as an emerging market, Western investors pouring money into Indian VC funds generally demand a higher return.
It is precisely because early VC funds make those excess profits that current VC funds make less than average market profits.
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Many VC funds are never profitable and only 25% are strong performers.
First, VC funds are providing more operational support to their portfolio companies.
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The financial returns of VC funds over the last decade are weak.
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Moreover, these companies seem well suited to receive money from today's bigger VC funds, notes David Wessels, an adjunct professor of finance at Wharton.
And Carney has access to several VC funds as an investor including Charles River Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Northbridge Venture Partners, and Webb Investment Network (WIN).
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The horizon for VC funds is 10 years and the hurdle of having a body of data that you could go public on has only gotten higher.
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He is an angel investor and he exposes all these deals to quite a few of us who are investors who have also who invested in other VC funds.
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Developing VC funds to promote development in Africa or in Southeast Asia would go a long way toward helping the business talent in those regions develop ideas and create sustainable jobs.
India's antiquated rules add more costs by forcing virtually all large funds to incorporate on the island nation of Mauritius, off the coast of Africa, which has a treaty with India that allows VC funds to take dollars out of India without being taxed on capital gains.
Kauffman now plans to move more of its VC allocation into public equities, invest directly in start-ups to avoid paying fees, and invest in fewer, smaller VC funds where the venture partners put up at least 5% of the equity, instead of the 1% it was seeing for years.
What they want for Christmas: fewer VC firms, smaller funds, and saner valuations.
Imagine for a second what your reaction might be if you went to a panel to hear from other women about their experiences doing a tech startup and a VC, the person that funds startups, told you that she thinks that women should work on things they are naturally gifted at, and she believes shopping is one of them.
Generating great VC returns requires access to the small group of best-performing funds.
If you take a look at the Big Data tab of CrunchAnalytics, you can see that VC investments in big data followed the same downward trend, with the peak of venture capital funds raised by big data startups occurring in 2010.
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