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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From venture capitalist to 'compassionate capitalist'
through social impact bonds. “Social impact bonds enable a social organization to raise capital for preventive action, to establish a track record of social performance and to be paid for that social... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
venture capital, we've seen that there is a definite correlation between investing in more women later stage if there are more female partners involved. Flint: What about raising capital as a female-focused... View Details
- 28 Feb 2022
- News
Equal Partner
Courtesy Pialy Aditya A couple of years ago, Pialy Aditya (MBA 2005) got an unexpected inquiry from a venture capital firm: Would she be interested in being a partner? Though she wasn’t looking for a new job, she was intrigued by the... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
go forth." The Women's Venture Capital Fund successfully completed its capital raise at the end of 2013 and currently has four companies in its portfolio. "NVoice Pay, whose... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was... View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- News
The Puzzle of Life
partner with Silicon Valley–based InCube Ventures and Venture Health. "When I came to HBS, I didn't know what venture capital meant," says Farquharson, a native of Jamaica who moved to the United States with his family at age 10. "People... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
real positive characteristics.” The future of venture capital sits in two sectors, Breyer predicted—artificial intelligence and China. This summer, Breyer and IDG Capital Partners, the Chinese company he... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Euro Vision
2010 to $9.2 billion in 2014, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. In the second quarter of this year, European venture capital firms raised a combined $2.25 billion, 63 percent more than over the same... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
(dot-org) WEBSEs populate e-philanthropy, Austin found that dot-coms dominate. They can more readily attract the venture capital and technical talent vital to Internet companies. “Imagine a start-up dot-org asking a major foundation for... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
1967 Founds Asset Management Company 1980 Provides early capital for Amgen, joins board 1998 Appointed chairman, San Francisco Opera Association 1999 Funds BUILD, nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship to disadvantaged youth 2002 Receives... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
Peter Wendell In 1982, with almost a decade of experience at IBM under his belt, Peter Wendell went "searching for the country's next IBMs," as he puts it. Enlisting the help of some friends (including classmate Gil Lamphere), he founded Sierra Ventures, a venture... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
plunge, new deals dried up, forcing venture firms to return billions in uninvested capital. Even so, venture firms have an estimated $64 billion in capital “overhang” that has not been invested, according to VentureOne, a unit of Dow... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12 months. They wanted to support... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
Ties on Investment Bank Affiliation and IPO Success." In research conducted with Ranjay Gulati of Northwestern's Kellogg School, Higgins found that "what matters most when executives are trying to raise money is their professional ties... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 21 Oct 2021
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DraftKings Backs New VC Firm
Photo courtesy Drive By DraftKings A recent article in the Boston Globe reported that the venture capital firm Drive by DraftKings, led by Meredith McPherron (MBA 1993), had raised its first venture fund.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
requirements for the organization. These challenges are radically different from the venture’s early needs. With founders likely having ceded power in return for raising the capital needed to be successful,... View Details
- 12 Sep 2016
- News
HBS Alumni Startups Are Raking in VC Funds
New data shows that HBS alumni are leading the b-school pack in raising venture capital to fund their startups, according to an article on the website Business Because. According to data compiled by... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
seemingly missing in Japan’s financial world. They couldn’t put their collective finger on it—not until, that is, they built their own VC firm. To be clear, the trio did not set out to create the first female-led venture capital firm in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Breyer Illustration by John Cuneo In a year when the highest percentage of HBS graduates ever went to Wall Street, Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) headed west to join an upstart venture capital firm called Accel Partners. He figured he’d stay a... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs
Birchbox, a beauty product subscription box service that has grown to more than 1 million subscribers. “We started raising funds and suddenly we were in rooms where there were no people who looked like us,” said Barna, now the first... View Details