Tag: corporate finance
How to approach (and work with) the 3 types of corporate VCs
Scott Orn Contributor Scott runs operations at Kruze Consulting, a fast-growing startup CFO consulting firm. Kruze is based in San Francisco with clients in the Bay Area, Los Angeles and New York. Bill Growney Contributor Bill Growney, a partner in Goodwin’s Technology & Life Sciences group, focuses his practice on…
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Why don’t more VCs care about good tech (yet)?
Johannes Lenhard Contributor One of the VC partners in a well-established London firm told me straight out: Venture capital is money [laughs], it is a risky asset class, perhaps the wildest asset class […] and it has the biggest possible returns. I have detailed elsewhere how I think caring more…
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Big VCs stacked billions in Q1 while smaller firms saw their haul shrink
Q2 2020 is the least-certain quarter I’ve ever covered Alex Wilhelm 7 hours Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. After spending perhaps more time than we should have recently trying to figure out what’s going on…
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Uber pushes adjusted quarterly profit target to 2021
Uber has pushed its target to achieve a measure of profitability to a quarter in 2021, reversing a decision made just three months ago to move up the goal to the end of this year. Uber will miss its target to reach an adjusted EBITDA quarterly profit in the fourth…
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Autotech Ventures raises more than $150 million with an eye on ground transportation startups
Autotech Ventures popped on the scene three years ago with a $120 million debut fund and a plan to invest in early-stage ground transportation startups. Now, with investments in 26 startups and a handful of exits, including Xnor.ai, DeepScale and Frontier Car Group, the venture firm is back with a…
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Introducing the term-sheet grader
Jamie Goldstein Contributor Jamie is the founding partner of Pillar VC, a Boston-based seed-stage venture capital firm. He has spent the last 22 years investing in early-stage startups. When we launched in 2016, we took the unusual approach of saying we’d buy common stock in startups. We believed then, and…
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