Jim Hornthal is a venture partner at San Francisco investment firm CMEA Capital.
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Tze, 34, is the managing director of Aquacopia, an investment firm providing venture capital to fish farms.
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.
If a venture firm subsequently believed that the value of an investment became impaired a markdown would be taken.
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Joining a long list of Silicon Valley investors in South America, Peter Thiel and his early-stage global venture capital firm, Valar Ventures, announced its first investment in a Brazilian company Tuesday.
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Meanwhile, Michael Moritz, a partner at the well-established venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, is upbeat about the current investment climate.
The venture firm says it generated a better than 15x return on their investment.
One of the winners in that transaction was venture capital firm Psilos, which made in five years 10 times its investment in Extend Health an unusual occurrence in health IT.
Breyer famously put his firm Accel Partners on top of the of the venture capital heap with the investment in Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg.
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The ultimate success of a venture capital firm rests with the talents, skills and knowledge of its partners as evidenced in their investment prowess.
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Founded in November 2008, Groupon has investments from venture capital firms such as Lightbank, Andreessen Horowitz and Battery Ventures, as well as Russian Internet investment firm Digital Sky Technologies.
If a corporate investor intends to acquire a company, its valuation expectations will be different from that of traditional venture capitalists who want to maximize their investment, said Paul Lee of Lightbank, an early stage VC firm in Chicago.
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Warren Weiss, a partner at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Foundation Capital, followed the company for nearly a year after hearing about it at an investment forum in 2004.
The early promise of unlimited cash from the Murdocks looks less definite at a time when backers consider cancer vaccines, which attracted a lot of money over the past decade, "dead as an investment, " in the words of Ivor Royston, an immunologist and a partner at San Diego venture capital firm Forward Ventures.
Like many venture firms, Kleiner doesn't disclose much detail about its investments, and the firm says that information on investment returns is confidential.
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Defying probability, she moved from secretary to investment banker, then to double-ranked institutional investor analyst to President of Rose Park Advisors, a venture capital firm that funds businesses that disrupt and innovate.
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