The truth is, most pre-IPO investors eventually move on from their venture capital investments.
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Electric car makers such as Tesla Motors and Fisker Automotive began to attract huge venture capital investments.
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Startups that offer this type of financing models have also grown quickly and attracted venture capital investments.
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More recently, he formed the holding company True North, which is composed of businesses ranging from advanced composites to venture capital investments.
Yet, when considering the legendary successes of venture capital investments in IT Google, Apple, Cisco, Oracle, Atari, Amazon one inevitably wonders: where are the Googles, Oracles, and Amazons of clean energy?
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According to Maples, he and Miura-Ko are highly complementary: while he is continually optimistic and quick to believe what he sees, she is value-oriented and, like us, approaches venture capital investments by assimilating mountains of data.
Schroer's fund, invested largely in pharmaceuticals and biotech, is up 35% so far this year on the strength of some good venture-capital investments and investor excitement over the potential genomic revolution.
At the same time, Kleiner Perkins, one of the most famous venture capital firms with investments in companies like Google and Amazon, has a track record of hiring many women partners.
Ms. Nazarian is one of the primary shareholders of Nazarian Enterprises, a venture capital group with investments in green energy, and SBE, an entertainment group that owns several luxury hotels, restaurants and nightclubs.
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Following the graduates back to their homeland in China and India, our banks, venture capitalists, capital and investments have contributed to the globalization of our economic secret sauce.
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Mattias Ljungman of Atomico Ventures was in Ireland last October as part of an international tour by his venture capital firm seeking new investments in start-ups and early-stage businesses.
The interagency team could, for instance, recommend sensible reforms to our high-skilled immigration policy, improvements in intellectual-property law, better-designed grant programs that push innovative ideas from universities into companies, regulatory reform around the approval of drugs and medical devices, and policies to sustain a robust venture-capital industry and investments in science and math education.
Looking into some esoteric investments like venture capital simply can't be done cost- effectively with only a few million dollars.
Sequoia Capital is one of the famed Silicon Valley venture capital firms, with past investments in Apple, Cisco, Google, and Oracle.
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More fundamentally, collecting small sums from millions of users is expensive, says Simon Levene of Accel Partners, a venture-capital firm that has investments in both Gameforge and Playfish.
Founded in November 2008, Groupon has investments from venture capital firms such as Lightbank, Andreessen Horowitz and Battery Ventures, as well as Russian Internet investment firm Digital Sky Technologies.
Aggressive cyber security investments by venture capital-backed startups and sizable corporations are obviously a huge step in the right direction, but it is equally clear that much more must be done.
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However, if it could be done, this quadrant would certainly deliver on the high cost of capital demanded by venture investments in the space: this is high risk, high return domain.
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Felix Salmon has a great catch here, a look at a Kauffman Foundation report into the success or failure of their investments into Venture Capital funds in past decades.
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"These states are lower cost areas, but their labor forces are not competitive and therefore are not going to attract venture capital money or big outside investments, " says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Economy.com.
The market changes have left Kleiner, the most active venture capital firm in cleantech, with dozens of investments that may never pay off, threatening its image as the gold standard of venture capital.
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According to the Cleantech Group, only 2% of global institutional venture capital was focused on smart water investments.
Venture capital companies were panicking about their investments and ePrize was no exception.
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Patel has been called by venture capital firms to consult on potential investments.
His other business investments are in venture capital in companies that range from telecommunications to construction materials, beer and energy technology.
All venture capital firms are partnerships and their investments are partnership investments.
Venture-capital and private-equity investments actually rose slightly in the third quarter.
According to the article (see below) and public documents, the fund is invested about 50 percent in passive index strategies and 50 percent in active strategies including hedge funds, venture capital, real estate and special investments.
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