One of his top holdings is Internet Capital Group, essentially a publicly listed venture capital fund.
As a venture capital fund, IGNIA looks for early-stage investment opportunities in entrepreneurs and their businesses.
So with all the success, it was a no-brainer to create a venture capital fund.
His separate venture capital fund, Fontinalis Partners, has been investing in transportation companies that provide urban mobility services.
Interestingly enough, there is now a venture capital fund, called RSS Investors, which is based in Cambridge, Mass.
In other words the federal government will become something akin to a combination venture capital fund and drug company.
It has financial support from the Royal Society and a venture capital fund.
Manganello, who oversees an internal venture capital fund that provides engineers with seed money to chase their half-baked ideas.
During her time at Lucent, Russo served as chairman of Lucent Venture Partner s, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund.
That is precisely the bet being made by the giant venture capital fund Kleiner Perkins with its billion-dollar-plus green fund.
MassChallenge is also working with the Russian Venture Company, a government-sponsored venture capital fund, to design similar competitions in St.
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Ventures in 1970 Cloherty chairs the board of what could become the largest venture capital fund in Russia, the U.S.-Russia Investment Fund.
Venture capital fund managers have been more in the spotlight as they invest in successful start-ups in the difficult to predict internet market.
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Intellectual Ventures, a venture capital fund established by a former Microsoft executive, has invested in several start-up companies pursuing solar radiation management technologies.
The venture capital fund is an important part of its strategy.
This includes money given to the Charter School Growth Fund, a non-profit venture capital fund, to which another billionaire, Gap co-founder Doris Fisher, has also contributed.
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The qualified solicitor also worked as an investment banker and venture capital fund manager and was named in The Power List of the UK's 100 most influential black Britons.
Other than combining the venture capital fund with Evercore Partners, a New York investment firm, and expanding into a new "wireless incubator" venture funded partly by Sprint, they're staying the course.
Take OpenView Venture Partners, a Boston-based venture capital fund that got started in September 2006.13 It invests in small to medium sized software development firms, and provides operational assistance to those firms.
Other investors are picking up on this too: Saxon Windpower, the company that wants to put up six turbines on Parham airfield, is backed by a venture capital fund based in the Bahamas.
Great New York Times article on Vinod Khosla and his plans to start a venture capital fund to invest in companies that confront poverty in India, Africa and elsewhere by providing services like health, energy and education.
According to sources, when AOL chairman Tim Armstrong said it was acceptable for Arrington to continue to work for TechCrunch while starting a new venture capital fund to invest in tech companies, Huffington took it as an intolerable incursion into her territory.
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IGNIA, an impact investing venture capital fund that I co-founded with my partner Michael Chu, is focused on backing entrepreneurial efforts that address problems faced at the base of the socioeconomic pyramid in Latin America that have a disproportionate impact on the lives of low income families and business owners.
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Zinoviev, 28, whose informal conversational style sounds almost American, went to work in 1995 at Delta Capital (formerly TUSRIF, a venture-capital fund set up by the U.S. Congress to incubate Russian businesses).
Lief was sold but figured he couldn't get venture capital to fund this unproved theory.
This and the venture-capital fund would help to push France in the right direction.
As part of the deal, Nottingham City Council will set up a venture capital investment fund for new start-ups.
Stubblefield was co-founder of Lighthouse Capital Partners, a venture capital debt fund which has made over 100 investments.
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To make the conglomerate's new culture more explicit, Mr Zobel recently created a new subsidiary, run as a venture-capital fund.
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