In the midst of all the congressional hoopla about a new law that may raise the carried interest tax rate, a number of firms are defending their own -- most notably venture capital firms. In the battle to slay the anti-carried interest camp, the National Venture Capital Association has pulled...
The ``queen of the web'' for venture capital in Latin America, Susan Segal, has given up her throne. Known for pioneering investments in Internet start-ups, including Manhattan-based StarMedia Network Inc. and Buenos Aires-based MercadoLibre S.A., th The ``queen of the web'' for venture capital in Latin...
WASHINGTON--BUSINESS WIRE--June 28, 1996--National Venture Capital Association President Carl Thoma Friday congratulated the United States Senate for their quick action in passing the Securities Investment Promotion Act of 1996. "Today the Senate demonstrated that it can work on an issue important to millions of Americans in a bi-partisan, collegial...
Ohio Venture Association: [TABLE OMITTED] As president of the National Venture Capital Association, Mark Heesen is responsible for setting the strategic direction for all Association activities, including public policy efforts, research initiatives, educational programs, and member services. In this capacity, Mark works closely with the NVCA professional staff...
Venture Funds Collectively Outperform Public Markets in Nearly All Time Horizons NEW YORK, July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Venture capital performance showed positive returns across all investment horizons ending March 31, 2008, according to Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association NVCA. The one-year private...
The National Venture Capital AssociationNVCA and Dow Jones VentureWire released today the results from the firstdemographic survey of the venture capital industry. The survey, VentureCensus 2008, included responses from more than 500 professionals working atventure capital firms and offered a snapshot of an industry that is poisedto...
IPO Drought Creates Capital Market Crisis for Start-Up Community NEW YORK, July 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- For the first time since 1978, there were no venture-backed Initial Public Offerings IPOs in the second quarter of 2008 according to the Exit Poll report by the National...
As the U.S. economy limps along, venture capitalists in the USA, Europe, Latin America and Israel are prowling abroad and investing in other countries this year at a higher percentage than ever before, reports a survey released today. Traditionally, venture capitalists funded start-ups nearby to follow...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Looking past the economic downturn, big companies are charging back into venture capital, seeking new technology and teaming with start-ups and venture firms. In the highest numbers since the dot-com-boom era of 2000 and 2001, corporate venture capital funds last year invested in 21%...
The National Venture Capital AssociationNVCA and NewSchools Venture Fund today announced the creation of amulti-million dollar philanthropic venture fund focused on improvingeducation in the United States. The NVCA-NewSchools K-12 EducationInfrastructure Fund will invest in start-up organizations aiming to buildhigh-performing public schools by developing innovative human capitalsolutions and performance tools....
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 6 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- 2007 was a benchmark year for China's venture capital and private equity industries. Both the total number of funds raised and amount of capital invested reached historic highs. The venture capital and private equity markets saw an unprecedented boom during 2007 with total...
Even as Hudson Valley entrepreneurs dangled newfangled technologies and services for regional venture capitalists last week in Stamford, Conn., a new report showed that venture investment during the first quarter in New York was among the highest since the collapse of the dot-com bubble. Fifty-one companies in New York...
Venture capitalists invested $7.1 billion in922 deals in the first quarter of 2008, according to the MoneyTreeTMReport from PricewaterhouseCoopers PwC and the National Venture CapitalAssociation NVCA based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. Quarterlyinvestment activity was down 8.5 percent from the fourth quarter of 2007when $7.8 billion...
25th Annual Conference Scheduled for April 16-18, 2008 in Durham, North Carolina RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- The Council for Entrepreneurial Development CED announced today that its 25th annual Venture conference will provide unique perspectives from both the entrepreneurial and venture capital side of the fundraising equation, with...
To: BUSINESS EDITORS Contact: Emily Mendell of NVCA, +1-610-565-3904,emendell@nvca.org, for Thomson Financial; Matthew Toole, +1-646-822-7560, matthew.toole@thomson.com, Sandy Anglin, +1-646-822-7334,sandy.anglin@thomson.com, both of Thomson Financial NEW YORK, April 1, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Only fiveventure-backed initial public offerings totaling $282.7 billion inproceeds were issued in the first quarter of 2008, according to...
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Emily Mendell, National Venture Capital Association, +1-610-565-3904, emendell@nvca.org; Clare Chachere,PricewaterhouseCoopers, +1-512-867-8737, clare.chachere@us.pwc.com;Lisa Peterson, Porter Novelli for PricewaterhouseCoopers, +1-512-241-2233, lisa.peterson@porternovelli.com NEW YORK, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- While Silicon Valley and NewEngland remain the country's leading regions for venture capitalinvestment, they are not the fastest growing, according...
While fabled Silicon Valley still attracts the most venture capital in the USA, several other cities, states and regions boast the fastest growth rates for start-ups and venture dollars over the past decade. The number of start-ups in New Mexico, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Los Angeles and the Washington, D.C.,...
Venture Capitalists Finding Opportunities in "Unexpected" Pockets NEW YORK, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- While Silicon Valley and New England remain the country's leading regions for venture capital investment, they are not the fastest growing, according to The MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PRIVATE equity PE firms had a busy 2007. In the news were: buyouts of more than 40 big public companies--including Hilton Hotels Blackstone Group, Guitar Center Bain Capital Partners, and Alltel (TPG Capital, GS Capital Partners)--congressional hearings on...
The National Venture Capital AssociationNVCA, the trade association representing more than 470 venture capitalfirms in the United States, is celebrating its 35th year of advancingpublic policies conducive to the start-up economy. Since 1973, NVCA haseducated state and federal legislators, regulators, and academics on thecontributions of venture-backed companies to the...
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