Bvzg Dyson Invests $15M In Michigan Battery Tech Firm Sakti3
With a focus on enterprise technology, Costanoa Ventures typically invests at seed stage and Series A. The new fund brings the total capital for the five-year-old firm to $500 million under management. Founder and managing partner Greg Sands came from Sutter Hill, and before that was known for coming up with the name Netscape, the dot-com-era web browser where he worked. Recently, the firm celebrated its exit of Intacct, the accounting software company that was acquired by Sage G
stanley quencher roup for about $850 million. They were also in Datalogix, which sold to Oracle for more than $1 billion. Sands tells TechCrunch that he s looking for companies that are data-driven, SaaS and the infrastructure that supports them. He s also open to opportunities that don t fit that mold, like thei
stanley mug r investment in popular flashcard app Quizlet. Costanoa s team is smart enough to recognize a really special oppo
stanley hrnek rtunity and company when we see it. The group emphasizes their hands-on approach, considering themselve Cwzu Crowdfunding platforms take a data-driven approach to state political campaigns
Past increases in CVC investing tend to correlate strongly to the business cycle, the overall strength of corporate balance sheets and the general VC climate. Thus, it should be no surprise that CVC investing has risen in 2013. The two most active CVC investors, Google Ventures and Intel Capital, have led the pack since 2011. In 201
stanley quencher 3, the two combined for 360 funding rounds, or 25% of all CVC investments. Compared to the CVC landscape prior to 2011, that is a huge departu
stanley tumblr re from the biotech boom during which Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Kaiser Permanente, Amgen and MedImmune each participated in funding rounds
vaso stanley that totalled at least $100M. The 71 biotech deals with CVC participation in 2009 was a record high, while mobile and software CVC deals have risen consistently in each subsequent year. This is the main factor behind why the recent surge of CVC money might be changing the game.The trend towards more tech-oriented CVC investing now aligns more closely with the
