In Germany seed money has roughly quintupled in the past five years, says Hendrik Brandis of Earlybird Venture Capital, a venture-capital firm in Munich.
Most of the rest is held by FTV Capital, a venture capital outfit that made a killing when Invesco bought ETF vendor PowerShares.
Other partners include Anne-Mari Paster, previously CFO of MPM Capital, a venture capital firm, and Nick Leschly, a biotech executive.
The holding company for failed Washington Mutual , seized by the U.S. government and now in bankruptcy court, disclosed this week that it sold limited partnership stakes in three venture capital funds run by FTV Capital, a San Francisco venture capital firm.
In the autumn of 2008 Sequoia Capital, a big venture-capital firm, produced a presentation for the companies in which it had invested that included a slide with a picture of a gravestone.
Josh Wolfe is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Lux Capital Management, a venture capital firm focused on emerging technologies across energy, healthcare and technology.
Intellectual Ventures, a venture capital fund established by a former Microsoft executive, has invested in several start-up companies pursuing solar radiation management technologies.
"Almost all of our companies are looking for Android and iPhone developers, " said Bijan Sabet, a general partner at Spark Capital, a Boston venture capital firm, whose portfolio includes Twitter Inc.
Stubblefield was co-founder of Lighthouse Capital Partners, a venture capital debt fund which has made over 100 investments.
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Mr. Breyer is a partner at a venture capital firm and also serves as a director at Dell Inc.
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Like a venture-capital firm, they are seeding a number of small causes in a style that has come to be called venture philanthropy.
Mr Ivanishvili talks of Georgia as if it were a venture-capital project he might run for a year or so, installing an independent judiciary, free media and good managers.
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"The government could have offloaded assets when the market was at its peak which would have helped the fiscal deficit, " said Jerry Rao, venture advisor at New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital firm.
Zinoviev, 28, whose informal conversational style sounds almost American, went to work in 1995 at Delta Capital (formerly TUSRIF, a venture-capital fund set up by the U.S. Congress to incubate Russian businesses).
He walked away from covering venture capital at one of California's biggest newspapers, the San Jose Mercury News, to run a venture capital Web site from the second bedroom of his Fremont, Calif.
Spark Capital, a Boston venture capital firm, has managed to gain early stakes in some of the hottest names in consumer technology.
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Douglas Leone of Sequoia Capital, a big venture-capital firm, reckons that in emerging markets like China around 50% of start-ups backed by foreign venture capitalists in the internet and mobile sectors are copycats, and in markets like Brazil it is closer to 70%.
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Davis, now a partner at venture capital firm Highland Capital Partners, calls the arrangement a good one for Microsoft.
According to Dow Jones Venture Source, of the companies that received a round of venture capital financing in 2010, only 6% had a female CEO, and just 7% percent had at least one female founder.
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Lou Volpe is a managing general partner for Kodiak Venture Partners, a Massachusetts-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments.
Panos Lioulias, chief executive of Qubis, a venture-capital outfit that nurtures spin-offs from Queen's University in Belfast, thinks indigenous entrepreneurs are a big part of the remedy.
The bank is uniquely positioned as a lender to the venture capital industry with a strong deposit franchise.
Atlas Venture, a leading international venture-capital firm, is the project's main backer.
Erel Margalit is the founder and head of JVP, Jerualem Venture Partners, a leading Israeli venture capital firm dedicated to building world class media technology companies.
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Data collected by the law firm Cooley LLP and presented in their publication Venture Capital Report provides a picture of the kind of fund raising rounds venture-capital backed companies are experiencing.
Warren Weiss, a partner at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Foundation Capital, followed the company for nearly a year after hearing about it at an investment forum in 2004.
So the angel boom is definitely a boon for venture capital funds which are seeing a large flow of prototype-stage investment opportunities.
They are all controlled by a venture capital firm called Intellectual Ventures, based in Bellevue, Wash.
As a venture capital fund, IGNIA looks for early-stage investment opportunities in entrepreneurs and their businesses.
Murthy and his wife Sudha sold a chunk of shares to start a venture capital firm.
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