As part of the deal, Nottingham City Council will set up a venture capital investment fund for new start-ups.
The qualified solicitor also worked as an investment banker and venture capital fund manager and was named in The Power List of the UK's 100 most influential black Britons.
Partly to address that, it took what now looks like a disastrous punt (though other investment banks have done likewise) in creating a hedge-fund venture in 2005 run by John Costas, the former head of investment banking.
The favourite is a joint venture between Manchester Airport and the Australian infrastructure investment fund Industry Fund Management.
It will also depend to some extent on the fortunes of its new Asian vulture fund, a joint venture with investment house Rothschild Inc.
Online publisher Buzzfeed received funding from Hearst Media, and patient health records company Hello Health brought in an investment from Sandbox Industries, a venture fund sponsored by BlueCross and BlueShield.
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Short Definition : Venture Capital (VC) Funding is an investment fund that manages money from investors who are seeking private equity stakes in startups and small to medium sized firms with strong growth potential.
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As a venture capital fund, IGNIA looks for early-stage investment opportunities in entrepreneurs and their businesses.
Other than combining the venture capital fund with Evercore Partners, a New York investment firm, and expanding into a new "wireless incubator" venture funded partly by Sprint, they're staying the course.
As these micro-cap venture capitalists now raise their own funds giving them more ammunition to participate in later financing rounds of a start-up they are siphoning off more investment deals and fund-raising dollars from larger venture firms.
The investment in Allegheny Child Care comes from its new venture-capital fund.
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Ventures in 1970 Cloherty chairs the board of what could become the largest venture capital fund in Russia, the U.S.-Russia Investment Fund.
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She worked as a lawyer at Wall Street firm Skadden, Arps and then as a venture capitalist at GE Equity in Hong Kong, leaving in 1999 to run a small responsible-investment private equity fund, Maven International, in the city.
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