Breyer famously put his firm Accel Partners on top of the of the venture capital heap with the investment in Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg.
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Historically, that role was the domain of venture capital firms scouring the countryside, analyzing business plans, and committing the seed-level investment capital needed to launch a new venture.
Meanwhile, Michael Moritz, a partner at the well-established venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, is upbeat about the current investment climate.
Campbell: The schools, the entrepreneurs, the infrastructure (venture capital and investment bankers).
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One big reason for the discrepancy in results is that far more of the students from national schools ended up in either investment banking or venture capital, the two most lucrative fields, according to our survey.
Alioto testified that he agreed to join the venture as a CEO and agreed to provide services including setting up the office operations and meeting with investment and venture firms to raise capital for the business.
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The great promise of the technology, which has attracted billions of dollars in venture capital investment, is that it will be able to undercut the cost of standard solar panels.
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These companies weren't the only ones poised to deliver investment returns to their venture-capital investors in the past year.
The Can-Do Early Stage Venture Capital Investment Club meets four times a year to hear pitches from prequalified entrepreneurs.
For example, the average holding period for a venture capital investment was previously four to seven years and today it is ten.
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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.
Ventures in 1970 Cloherty chairs the board of what could become the largest venture capital fund in Russia, the U.S.-Russia Investment Fund.
The reason for the dearth of such capital is that the venture capital firms that provided it in the past have not generated spectacular investment returns for the ir limited partners in recent years.
In America, according to one estimate, angels introduce about two-fifths of the new investment opportunities seen by venture-capital firms.
Comverge Chairman, President and CEO Robert Chiste sees much growth--and much venture capital investment--in the related demand response and smart grid industries.
Rex Health Ventures is an early example of venture-capital investment funds in the country started by a community, nonprofit hospital (Rex Health Care).
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Backed by venture capital investment and funding from the Government of Canada, Fongo has pledged to match its unique free calling service with equally innovative and disruptive offerings for wireless data.
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With my background in venture capital and investment banking, the Tides board chose a CEO from way outside what would have been its comfort zone 35 years ago and signaled its readiness to start a more entrepreneurial phase and adapt to new times.
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The Nordic region has become an attractive geography for venture capital investment by multiple standards of measurement.
Noteworthy accomplishments (ie. acquisitions, IPOs) give us more credibility the next time a woman entrepreneur goes out seeking venture capital investment or future partnership.
Raynes' suit claims her father used her trust like a piggy bank, illegally borrowing millions to use as venture capital and shifting investment losses to the trust.
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.
"There's an incredible amount of research and a very large sum of venture capital and private investment going into the field, " says Dr. Amit Patel, a cardiac surgeon and director of Cardiac Cell Therapy at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
The ultimate success of a venture capital firm rests with the talents, skills and knowledge of its partners as evidenced in their investment prowess.
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Tze, 34, is the managing director of Aquacopia, an investment firm providing venture capital to fish farms.
As part of the deal, Nottingham City Council will set up a venture capital investment fund for new start-ups.
The lack of investment activity is a symptom, says Mr. Afra, of the lack of companies able to take investment by international venture capital firms.
This may leave no room for many of the essentials of traditional venture capital, such as mentoring management and the individual venture capitalist's personal accountability to his partners for a specific investment.
The Blackstone investment alone is roughly equal to all the venture capital early-stage funding last quarter, across 52 deals, in all of India.
Totally dependent on a combination of government investment through the NIH (40%) and Venture Capital (60%).
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