For Venture Capitalists

New Venture Capital Fund Gives Entrepreneurs a Cut of the Profit

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新风投基金模式:与创业者分享利润 In July, the announcing of a new fund named Upside may inject some fresh blood to the old venture capital model. Kent Goldman, a former partner at First Round Capital who left this year to start a new venture capital fund, Upside Partnership, says in an interview that “it’s a new type of partnership and something that I don’t think ever has been tried in venture capital before.” Read More »

When Venture Capital Met Big Data

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当风险投资与大数据相遇 "Big data" was one of the hottest topics in 2013. According to CB Insights, from Hadoop distributors to text mining platforms, private Big Data companies raised $1.28B across 127 deals in the first half of 2013. With an average of over $210M in funding and more than 20 financing deals per month, industry pundits will have some credibility when they inevitably describe 2013 as the “year of Big Data”. Read More »