Perhaps leading venture-capital firms will return to financing baby start-ups, which they long ago abandoned.
Most business school courses focus on high-level topics like financial engineering or venture-capital funding.
Yet even if some institutional investors felt let down, Facebook's early venture-capital investors were jazzed.
This and the venture-capital fund would help to push France in the right direction.
In January the company secured funding from Accel Partners and NEA, two Silicon Valley venture-capital outfits.
The academic research has in turn spawned a population of venture-capital-funded work in life science.
Neither Dartitup nor Gentlemint has raised any funding from venture-capital firms or angel investors.
European venture-capital firms lost money during 2000-10 after the bursting of the dotcom bubble.
Several set their pricing to resemble that of venture-capital firms or investment banks, structurally.
Litigation is just one of the things the big venture-capital funds now have to worry about.
Cyriac founded Shopkick in 2009, while an entrepreneur-in-residence at venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers.
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Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures, a venture-capital firm, has argued that the answer is yes.
As the city's law firms have grown, so have its accountancy, merchant-banking and venture-capital businesses.
Some 20 venture-capital firms are said to have refused to finance it in its early days.
The venture-capital backed company has signed deals this year with JA Solar, Solarfun Power Holdings and Yingli.
With no history of investing or personal wealth, she bootstrapped her way into the clubby venture-capital world.
At least half a dozen other venture-capital firms have launched nanotech funds in the past six months.
But drugs in the later stages of trials can gain the interest of venture-capital and private equity investors.
In theory, such specialisation should increase the efficiency of the venture-capital process, as it does in other industries.
Britain does not have a technology-focused venture-capital industry anything like as bounteous as that which serves Silicon Valley.
Some entrepreneurs whose investment needs fall somewhere between venture-capital and angels can play one off against the other.
But Bank of America, FleetBoston Financial, First Union, Bank One and Wells Fargo all have big venture-capital operations.
They frequently depend on venture-capital funds which are dwarfed by the cost of even a single utility-scale power plant.
Few understood why he funded 3Com at the time, laughs Richard Kramlich of New Enterprise Associates, a venture-capital firm.
These companies weren't the only ones poised to deliver investment returns to their venture-capital investors in the past year.
The expected offering follows 13 other deals in 2013 backed by financial sponsors such as private-equity or venture-capital firms.
Venture-capital funds, which back start-up companies and pay no income, were hugely popular.
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His Boston-based venture-capital firm, Polaris Partners, typically invested in biotech and Internet companies.
The firm has also launched a venture-capital arm that can take stakes in businesses that Xooglers might set up.
Even as some venture-capital firms have become skittish after the disappointing initial public offerings of Facebook, Groupon Inc.
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