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MONEY TALK / Venture Finance / Ernst & Young / Thursday, 26 January 2012 11:27
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72% of global capital was raised in H12011 saw the largest PE-backed IPO everNYSE ranked first by capital raised
London, 8 December 2011 – After a promising start in the first two quarters, IPO activity dropped dramatically midway through the year, principally due to investors concerns about sovereign debt issues in Europe and Standard & Poor’s downgrade of US credit rating. Year to date, the capital raised globally is down by 45%, with US$155.8b, and number of deals is also...
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MONEY TALK / Venture Finance / BVCA / Thursday, 26 January 2012 11:14
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Over the past five years, venture capital -backed companies have outperformed other enterprises, according to new research. 'Exploring the success of venture capital-backed companies' - a report produced by Experian for the BVCA - tracked the performance of a sample of companies backed by venture capital (VC) since 2006, and compared it with a benchmark sample of comparable companies, based on size and sector.
25 January 2012
Key findings include:
• Venture capital-backed...
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MONEY TALK / Venture Finance / EVCA / Wednesday, 25 January 2012 09:43
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It is our pleasure today to submit the first fully revised draft of the EVCA Handbook of Professional Standards for member consultation. For the next two months, we invite members to review it and contact us with any feedback that they may have.
Robust and comprehensive professional standards are key to mapping the future of the European private equity and venture capital industry. More than ever, we need to ensure that we not only anticipate corporate governance standards but also...
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MONEY TALK / Venture Finance / BVCA / Wednesday, 25 January 2012 09:37
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This week the BVCA submitted its response to the European Insurance and Pensions Authority (EIOPA) on the proposed reform of the European pension fund system by applying Solvency II standards to EU pension funds via the Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision (IORP) Directive.
Mark Florman, Chief Executive of the BVCA, said:
"Imposing Solvency II standards to EU pension funds are not only unnecessary but a hindrance to economic growth at the worst possible time.
In the...
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MONEY TALK / Venture Finance / ThisWeekIn / Saturday, 21 January 2012 11:44
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Gil Elbaz and Nova Spivack of Common Crawl on This Week in Startups #222
Gil Elbaz and Nova Spivack of Common Crawl–a free and open index of over 5 billion Web pages–joined This Week in Startups to talk about web data access and democratization. Gil and Nova helped us tackle topics like search, social networking data and how ordinary users can make use of the crawl.
News Panel with Sean Percival and James Altucher on This Week in Startups #223
Sean Percival, EIR at Science, and...
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MONEY TALK / Venture Finance / PWC / Friday, 20 January 2012 16:22
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Clean Technology and Internet Sectors Show Double-Digit Gains in 2011
Washington, D.C., January 20, 2012 – Venture capitalists invested $28.4 billion in 3,673 deals in 2011, an increase of 22 percent in dollars and a 4 percent rise in deals over the prior year, according to the MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data from Thomson Reuters. The amount of venture dollars invested in 2011 represents the third highest...
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MONEY TALK / Venture Finance / Who Got Funded VC Report / Tuesday, 17 January 2012 16:24
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Happy new year everybody,
May 2012 be a step-year up from the current economic climate. Not my forecast, but certainly a wish!
A couple of local deals to report this month; first Taxibeat raises a new angel round and second (now couple of months old) Intelen closes Seed Round $250.000 from Greek Angel Investors. In the past month we also had Global Finance’s participation in Green Group - South Eastern Europe Fund Invests in Green Group and we had the launch of an...
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