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...Sequoia, Vy and DFJ Growth all took part in a $675mn round of funding for Musk’s tunnelling start-up The Boring Company last month. They have also backed Musk’s rocket company SpaceX....
...As a private company, Planet had raised about $380m from investors including DFJ and Founders Fund....
...Coinbase settled on a direct listing after considering a traditional IPO and the possibility of selling equity tokens, said Barry Schuler, a partner at DFJ Growth, which first invested in the company in...
...The investment, led by DFJ Growth, values the San Francisco-based company at about $1.5bn....
...Existing investors, including Silicon Valley venture capital firms Khosla Ventures and DFJ Growth, as well as private equity firm KKR, also participated in the round....
...Alongside Morgan Stanley, existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and DFJ participated in the new round, which was led by Union Square Ventures....
...Data from Go4Venture Advisers, an analyst group, and DFJ Esprit, the venture capital firm, suggests that Europe’s new tech companies now raise more “growth” funding rounds of $10m or more than five years...
...Current shareholders, including Tiger Global Management, August Capital, RRE Ventures and DFJ Growth, also participated in the round, according to a person familiar with the deal....
...Figures from Go4Venture Advisers, an analyst group, and DFJ Esprit, the venture capital group, show that in 2010, European start-ups received $808m during growth funding rounds, either solely from US investors...
...“Investors see the same size of the population [as China], the huge growth potential, the untapped market in second tier cities and towns . . ....
...The investment round is led by DFJ’s growth fund but the company claims it is the first funding to include major investments by financial institutions in a Bitcoin company (there are no details on how much...
...The funding round in the San Francisco-based start-up that lets people store, send and accept payment in bitcoins, was led by DFJ, the venture capital group....
...“It’s happening because the companies emerging from Europe have global potential,” said Simon Cook, the chief executive of DFJ Esprit, the European arm of the DFJ Global Network investment group....
...The cost of advanced electronic components has been driven down by the rapid growth of the smartphone industry....
...“It isn’t hard to look at China’s growth and to see that we are heading for somewhere between $30bn-$50bn start-ups over the next three to five years,” adds Rishi Navani of Matrix Partners, a venture group...
...The $15m investment comes in addition to the $35m that Foursquare raised in December last year from DFJ Growth and Capital Group....
...Investors include Accel Partners, Balderton Capital and DFJ Esprit....
...Dominic Lee of Hong Kong law firm de Bedin and Lee, says: “The greater China market will see less growth this year but it is a developing sector and we must not lose sight of the fact that that growth will...
...“There’s not an easy way to play if you’re a retail investor,” says Simon Cook, chief executive of European venture capital group DFJ Esprit....
...Successful start-ups tend to require financing of “between $20m to $100m over three to five separate investments,” says Richard Marsh, a partner at DFJ Esprit, a venture capital firm....
...The new funds will be used to further fuel the company’s growth throughout Russia and to hire staff....
...DFJ Esprit’s Angels’ Co-Investment Fund says it puts the majority of its “angel” investors’ money into EISs, but will include “some small SEIS deals as part of the portfolio”....
...And, this week, DFJ Esprit launched a Seed EIS and EIS Angel Co-investment Fund, allowing private investors to access “top tier” venture capital deals....
...“Clean tech is not a mature industry – there aren’t 200 growth companies to choose from,” he says....
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