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2 weeks ago | 
mercurynews.com | Kate Clark |Katie Roof
By Kate Clark and Katie Roof, BloombergThere’s a crisis brewing for the next generation of venture capitalists. While Silicon Valley heavyweights like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz are still able to bring in big checks, up-and-coming VCs are finding fundraising increasingly difficult. Hundreds of small firms — which make up the majority of the VC industry — are struggling to raise money in the current market.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Kate Clark |Katie Roof
There’s a crisis brewing for the next generation of venture capitalists. While Silicon Valley heavyweights like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz are still able to bring in big checks, up-and-coming VCs are finding fundraising increasingly difficult. Hundreds of small firms — which make up the majority of the VC industry — are struggling to raise money in the current market.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Kate Clark |Katie Roof
There’s a crisis brewing for the next generation of venture capitalists. While Silicon Valley heavyweights like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz are still able to bring in big checks, up-and-coming VCs are finding fundraising increasingly difficult. Hundreds of small firms — which make up the majority of the VC industry — are struggling to raise money in the current market.
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2 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Kate Clark |Katie Roof
Attendees work on a laptop computers during the Google I/O Annual Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Google Inc. has successfully wooed developers to build applications for smartphones and tablets based on its Android mobile software. (Bloomberg) -- There’s a crisis brewing for the next generation of venture capitalists.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Kate Clark |Katie Roof
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2 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Kate Clark |Katie Roof
Cyera says it helps companies with data-breach readiness and risk assessment. Photographer: Bloomberg Creative Photos/Bloomberg Creative Collection(Bloomberg) -- Data security business Cyera is set to be valued at $6 billion in a new investment round, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The $500 million financing would almost double the company’s $3.4 billion valuation from late last year.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Kate Clark |Katie Roof
Data security business Cyera is set to be valued at $6 billion in a new investment round, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The $500 million financing would almost double the company’s $3.4 billion valuation from late last year. It’s led by Lightspeed, Greenoaks and Georgian, with participation from existing investors Accel, Sequoia Capital and Sapphire Ventures. Cyera was founded in 2021 by Yotam Segev and Tamar Bar-Ilan, Israeli army veterans who worked on cloud security.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Kate Clark |Katie Roof
Thrive Capital, the venture firm founded by Josh Kushner, told investors last week that one of its funds made $522 million on an unusual bet — an investment in publicly traded car marketplace Carvana Co.The windfall, outlined in a letter to investors reviewed by Bloomberg, underscores Thrive’s expansion beyond traditional startup investing, including public market trading and, recently, a plan to start and buy businesses it thinks can benefit from artificial intelligence.
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3 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Kate Clark |Katie Roof
A Carvana vending machine in Uniondale, New York (Bloomberg) -- Thrive Capital, the venture firm founded by Josh Kushner, told investors last week that one of its funds made $522 million on an unusual bet — an investment in publicly traded car marketplace Carvana Co. The windfall, outlined in a letter to investors reviewed by Bloomberg, underscores Thrive’s expansion beyond traditional startup investing, including public market trading and, recently, a plan to start and buy businesses it...
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Kate Clark |Shirin Ghaffary
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