Category: Private Equity
Three years after raising $450 million, Andreessen is back with a new $750 million life sciences fund
Life sciences is big business in venture capital land and firms are raising big dollars to find the companies that will lead the next healthcare revolution. Chief among them is Andreessen Horowitz, which announced its third life sciences fund with a $750 million final close earlier today. Andreessen went back…
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After closing its $2.2 billion latest tech fund, KKR adds top Cisco exec to its leadership team
KKR, the multibillion-dollar multistrategy investment firm, is beefing up its technology practice with the appointment of Rob Salvagno as a co-head of its technology growth equity business in the U.S. It’s a sign that KKR is taking the tech industry seriously as it looks for new acquisition and investment opportunities.…
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NASA sets 2022 launch for air quality sensor that will provide hourly updates across North American
NASA is sending a payload that could help improve air quality forecasting to orbit aboard a Maxar 1300-class satellite whose primary mission is to provide commercial satellite communications for Intelsat customers, the agency announced today. NASA’s new air quality measurement tool is called ‘TEMPO,’ which stands for Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring…
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Being a child actress prepared me for a career in venture capital
A great investor needs to be comfortable operating independent of the pack Crystal McKellar 9 hours Crystal McKellar Contributor Crystal is the founder and managing partner of Anathem Ventures, and is passionate about finding and funding great teams that have developed breakthrough technology that they are pragmatically leveraging to win…
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All eyes are on the next liquidity event when it comes to space startups
At the FAA’s 23rd Annual Commercial Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington, DC on Wednesday, a panel dedicated to the topic of trends in VC around space startups touched on public vs. private funding, the right kinds of space companies that should even be considering venture funding, and, perhaps most…
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As the venture market tightens, a debt lender sees big opportunities
David Spreng spent more than 20 years in venture capital before dipping his toe into the world of revenue-based financing and realizing there was a growing appetite for alternatives to venture capital. Indeed, since forming debt-lending company Runway Growth Capital in mid-2015, Spreng has been busy writing checks to a…
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