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...Mr Breton warned that the design of the app could “trigger concerns on privacy rules” and undermine the whole venture....
...As a private company the chain of primary healthcare providers (aka GPs) has raised over $500m. Its last valuation is reported to be $2bn....
...Those ventures are typically small satellite ventures in the hundreds of millions of dollars, not multiple billions....
...Shares in the fund-of-funds group formerly known as Schroders Ventures have often lagged behind that benchmark by 20 per cent....
...Standing to benefit from Fitbit’s IPO are venture backers Foundry Group, True Ventures and SoftBank Capital....
...Insurance claims processor Quindell lost 18.3 per cent on fears that a telematics joint venture with RAC was running behind schedule, as the companies worked to redraft their agreement....
...“You don’t see many billionaires who became billionaires by being LPs – but plenty who did by becoming GPs,” Mr Morley said....
...Last year, it was valued at more than $3bn, with a $258m investment from Google Ventures and private equity firm TPG....
...the crisis caused big loses, he was forced to restrict client withdrawals, and assets dwindled, leaving investors with a handful of illiquid legacy assets, mainly related to his now bankrupt satellite venture...
...Private equity and venture capital groups in Latin America invested $7.9bn in a range of deals last year, up 21 per cent compared with a year earlier and the highest in five years....
...In May LightSquared, a satellite venture backed by Mr Falcone, filed for bankruptcy court protection after the hedge fund manager failed to strike a deal with creditors....
...This was 27 per cent more than they raised a year earlier, according to figures from the Latin American Private Equity and Venture Capital Association....
...After acquiring the chain in 2006 and buying out the Brazilian founders last year, GP hired JPMorgan Chase to sell the business....
...Philip Falcone, the billionaire hedge fund manager whose attempt to build a new 4G wireless communications network has been derailed by regulators, confirmed that he may place his LightSquared venture into...
...But following struggles during the financial crisis and concern over the size of his long-term bets on the satellite venture, investor funds have dwindled....
...Falcone’s move to siphon money from the fund to pay his own taxes as well as his decision to back LightSquared, a telecommunications start-up looking to build a 4G wireless network that could interfere with GPS...
...Others include regional membership organisations such as the Latin America Venture Capital Assocation; commercial data providers such as Zero2IPO Group for Asia; and development finance institutions (DFIs...
...Pritzker, founder of New World Ventures, a venture capital business that focuses on high technology....
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