Each of the funds is set up as a venture fund, the company says.
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Earlier this year, he cofounded a venture fund LightBank, which has stakes in nearly a dozen companies.
She represented the company I profiled here, and the venture fund I wrote about here.
Lofberg is leaving his job as chairman of Merck-Medco to head the new venture fund, effective yesterday.
"Like every venture fund, it's been a tough go, " says Bohnett from his office in Los Angeles.
She joined the venture fund Mayfield in 1998, and later became a partner at VSP Capital.
The venture fund is backing a company that is building data and Web hosting centers in Mexico.
Blogger Michael Arrington kicked off quite a kerfuffle when he announced he was starting his own venture fund.
Mills, a physicist and a co-founding partner in Digital Power Capital, an energy tech venture fund.
Part of the new venture fund's approach will be to closely manage start-ups.
Google Entrepreneurs is not an incubator, an accelerator or a venture fund.
While there are no structural requirements that a venture fund must meet, these funds are generally organized as limited partnerships.
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Implicit in this approach is a much more hands-on approach than as an investor in a 3rd party venture fund.
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Whether Google should use its cash pile to become a technology venture fund is an entirely different question of course.
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This partnership will not have a new venture fund dedicated to Glass, since the firms have enough capital to invest, Maris said.
The aim: to be the preeminent venture fund in the mobile industry.
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So why is Google so invested in this type of venture fund?
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They have the potential to include a much wider range of investors than a typical venture fund, and may attract heightened scrutiny.
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The following year he received an unsolicited visit from Kathy Xu, who was running a venture fund for Baring Private Equity Partners.
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Petersburg went awry when the Ministry of State Property there declared the venture fund's controlling position null and dismissed the idea of compensation.
The Pipeline Fund is a social venture fund that invests in women-led for-profit social ventures and trains women philanthropists to become angel investors.
Once a pension has made the decision to invest in a venture fund, it typically is locked in for an average of ten years.
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The firm was founded in 2006 by Stewart Alsop, an early investor in TiVo and Netcentives, and Gilman Louie, who previously ran a CIA-affiliated venture fund.
GoPro was first introduced to Gou through former Flextronics CEO Michael Marks, who had invested in GoPro through his venture fund at Riverwood Capital, said Woodman.
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Next Innovation will charge a 2% management fee and a 20% carry on profits after an 8% hurdle, somewhat akin to the way a venture fund works.
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Two weeks ago I was at the Network CEO Forum his venture fund, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, puts on and there were over 150 CEOs from around the globe.
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Did you know that the Vatican has a venture fund?
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The firm invested in Instagram through its first venture fund.
His small German operation lacking resources, he teamed with another BorgWarner business unit and then applied for funding from the fledgling corporate venture fund to bring it to market.
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