For Institutional Investors

Releasing the potential of a Capital Markets Union in Europe

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 释放在欧洲建立资本市场联盟的潜力 This is a guest post by Dörte Höppner, Chief Executive of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA)  The drive towards a Capital Markets Union got well and truly under way with today’s publication of the European Commission’s Green Paper, which identifies private equity and venture capital as playing a key role in the Europe’s economy. The ... Read More »

Women VCs and CEOs: few and far between

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職場中女性成為風投家及總裁並不常見 Given the wealth of research indicating the importance of diversity in top management, the latest Diana report titled “Women Entrepreneurs 2014: Bridging the Gender Gap in Venture Capital”  recommends institutional investors to demand that VCs include women partners and invest in more businesses with women on the team. You don’t need research and a report to know that women ... Read More »

The Turning Point for Venture Capital?

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风险投资业的转折点? Following a rapid reversal of fortunes at the turn of the millennium, the venture capital industry has experienced largely lacklustre returns which have led to tough fundraising conditions for all but a select group of top-tier managers. Read More »

The Global Unicorns Universe

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全球独角兽俱乐部 Aileen Lee 's Unicorn Club trend article gets a lot of attention when TechCrunch released the ground breaking analysis, Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups in November 2013. We followed the Unicorn Club and its related articles including A Unicorn? In Israel? by Noam Bardin from Waze, Read More »