They are all controlled by a venture capital firm called Intellectual Ventures, based in Bellevue, Wash.
For the lender, the returns are somewhat like the returns of a venture debt loan.
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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.
We decided to take our participation a step further and conceive and incubate a venture in-house.
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Khosla Ventures recently added former Square COO Keith Rabois as a venture capitalist.
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So with all the success, it was a no-brainer to create a venture capital fund.
Jim Hornthal is a venture partner at San Francisco investment firm CMEA Capital.
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It also lacks a venture capital scene on the scale of that in London.
Koogle, now 49, was a venture capitalist's ideal hire:a smart guy with something to prove.
After college, Mr Pappajohn launched his own insurance company and then became a venture capitalist.
David Hornik, a venture capitalist with August Capital, helped fund Mr. Siegel's effort on Kickstarter.
Castlight was the brainchild of two health care technology veterans and a venture capitalist.
In one of his first potential deals as a venture capitalist, he looked at Baidu.
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It is tempting to put time-limits on such a venture, but that would be futile.
Each of the funds is set up as a venture fund, the company says.
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Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures, a venture-capital firm, has argued that the answer is yes.
If they want more money, they have to find a matching investment from a venture capitalist.
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The company traces its roots to a venture capitalist with a runny nose.
Victor W. Hwang is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley with T2 Venture Capital.
Earlier this year, he cofounded a venture fund LightBank, which has stakes in nearly a dozen companies.
Bessemer encouraged her to trade notes with Manuel Henriquez, who also happened to be a venture capitalist.
It was previously a charity but was taken over by a venture capital firm earlier this year.
Is a venture (say, horse breeding) a real business or a hobby, for which losses aren't deductible?
Other partners include Anne-Mari Paster, previously CFO of MPM Capital, a venture capital firm, and Nick Leschly, a biotech executive.
He points out that he made his fortune as a venture capitalist rather than a professional manager.
In 1996 the Sandoz family backed Parmigiani in a venture to sell watches under his own name.
Recruiting was critical at his startup and he sees it as a key asset as a venture investor.
Interestingly enough, there is now a venture capital fund, called RSS Investors, which is based in Cambridge, Mass.
The approach is akin to that of a venture capitalist spreading his bets among new ideas in fund-management.
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