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...One of Silicon Valley’s most prominent venture capital firms, Lightspeed Venture Partners, is seeking to use a private equity-style structure to sell $1bn worth of start-up stakes and free up cash to return...
...the financial institutions that has invested in its venture funds....
...The three-year-old company was valued at $1bn in August 2022, following a $101mn funding round led by top US tech investors Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners....
...The €2bn valuation, which includes the money raised, represents a substantial increase from June, when the weeks-old group raised €105mn at a €240mn valuation in a deal led by Lightspeed Venture Partners...
...Backers include venture capital firms in Europe and the US such as Accel, Burda, Insight Partners, Lightspeed and Sprints....
...Last February it said it had raised $300mn at a $10bn valuation in a round led by Lightspeed.Other previous investors in Wiz include Index Ventures, Greenoaks Capital Partners and Blackstone....
...Lightspeed Venture Partners, one of Silicon Valley’s biggest firms, is putting together a $1bn fund....
...The company has attracted backing from prominent venture capital funds, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst as well as Nvidia, Salesforce and former Google chief...
...Ventures....
...Goldman Sachs advised the vehicle to be funded by CVC Capital Partners Fund VIII and Haveli Investments. The deal is subject to regulatory approvals....
...Dean Meyer has joined venture capital firm Sequoia as a partner focused on early stage investments. He was previously an investor at Vine Ventures....
...Disney is facing proxy battles with Nelson Peltz’s Trian Partners and Blackwells Capital, which are seeking board seats and other changes aimed at boosting its share price....
...Lightspeed Venture Partners has hired Isaac Kim as the venture capital firm plans a foray into technology-focused leveraged buyouts, according to Bloomberg....
...“We did $500mn of venture investing last year. I can’t turn around to the venture team and say invest $2bn. There’s not enough deal flow,” he said....
...Antoine Moyroud, a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, which led Mistral’s first fundraising round, said he was “increasingly excited about the business” because of the speed with which it was moving...
...The shareholder meeting, which typically takes place in March or early April, is set to be a bruising one after Peltz’s Trian Partners said it planned to nominate two candidates to Disney’s board....
...More fundraising news: Lightspeed Venture Partners, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm, is seeking to use a private equity-style structure to sell $1bn worth of start-up stakes and free up cash to return...
...Carlyle recently closed the successor US buyout fund, CP VIII, at under $15bn in total commitments — 20 per cent less than the predecessor fund, and far less than an initial $27bn target set by Lee....
...The transaction allowed Quiet Capital LPs to sell half or all of their stake in the fund to new institutional investors at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Blackstone Strategic Partners — both secondary...
...“We are seeing crazy amounts of [limited partner investors] that are distressed and need to lighten their venture load,” said the head of a $2bn venture capital firm....
...But Antoine Moyroud, a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, a backer of French generative AI company Mistral, cautioned that the technology remained in the early stages of research and development and...
...Job moves Top Tier Capital Partners has named Jonathan Biggs and Michelle Ashworth as partners based in London....
...Now, Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital firm is fighting to retain the confidence of its own investors....
...One of the parts of the proposed rules that has sparked much concern is a carve-out for US limited partners (LP) — the endowments, pension funds and charities that put money into venture funds....
...The most chaotic year in the venture capital firm’s 51-year history has prompted some investors to ask unprecedented questions of the firm and its direction under chief Roelof Botha, DD’s George Hammond...
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