Venture Capital

Headlines in 2015 have been particularly worrisome for global investors. Front pages talking about “The Great Fall of China” and a “Wild Week for World Markets” have seen stocks and share investors around the world make a dash for the door. Yet while we see listed...

Magic Leap, a secretive company making wearable technology for mixing digital imagery with the real world, is seeking to raise $827 million. Jaunt, maker of a 3-D camera for filming virtual reality video, has nabbed a total of $100 million, including $65 million in September....

SAN FRANCISCO — The worth of hot technology start-ups seemed for years to go in only one direction: straight up. Now there are signs of growing unease over the dizzying valuations of some of the most richly priced private companies....

It has often been said that every company is a software company or even a big data company, but as I attended the Intel Capital Global Summit last week, another thought occurred to me: every company is now also an investment company....

Convertible debt with an equity kicker – these days usually a discount on the conversion price – has been a part of the venture capital landscape for as long as I have been in the space, which takes it back thirty some years. In the...

In my previous blog, I wrote about two factors that distinguish investment due diligence in seed and early stage high impact investing from investment due diligence for more established businesses. On the one hand, seed and early stage due diligence is binary – every...

On Friday, October 30, 2015, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally adopted final rules for implementation of Title III of the JOBS Act, which allows companies to offer and sell its securities through the use of crowdfunding. The final rules are the culmination...

HealthMyne, Inc. has added Milton Silva-Craig, J.D., MBA to its board of directors. Silva-Craig, currently CEO of Q-Centrix, brings more than 20 years of executive management expertise in the field of healthcare IT to the board....