Serengetee has been a rewarding venture so far not only for the partner foundations across the globe, but also for its founders.
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But, whereas Mr Fazio's interventions cost him his reputation and eventually his job, Mr Wellink is unlikely to venture so far in the Dutch bank's defence.
To better understand the relative attractiveness of the IPO market, and how their venture backers have done so far, I thought it would be illustrative to look at the biotech IPOs that have made it public since early July in greater depth: Durata, Hyperion, Regulus, Kythera, and Intercept.
So far Social Venture Partners has worked with 13 charities, most of them involving kids and education.
On China: They are doing a joint venture there with TenCent, so far things are going well, although not without challenges.
But, for all the buzz that has been created around Tech City, the whole venture's main product so far has been PR rather than new profitable businesses - lots of funky Shoreditch events, few signs yet of any billion dollar tech titans.
Detroit Venture Partners has invested in 17 companies so far including Detroit Labs, Are You A Human?
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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.
Most investments so far, particularly those in Linux companies, are fairly speculative: venture capitalists want to be covered in case Linux turns into a serious competitor to Microsoft's Windows operating system.
So far, it is running on cash from Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital, two venture capitalists based in Silicon Valley.
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