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Returns for brand-name VC funds

finance.fortune.cnn.com

Term Sheet The latest on private equity, M&A, deals and movements — from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. Crosslink Ventures IV (2001): 246% (104%).

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Magento Keeps Going from Strength to Strength

VC Cafe

million in an equity deal to an undisclosed investor. We didn’t hide the challenges Magento faces in distributing an open source ecommerce solution when covered Magento last November , but customers are continuing to adopt it as their ecommerce platform of choice. million in an equity deal to an undisclosed investor.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing. Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) 4) help nurture and grow the companies they invest in. 5) liquidate their investment in each company at the highest possible price.

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The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

iii. Post bubble period 2001-2009 totals $218.2 My full answer to this question follows: Public companies with equity market capitalizations of less than $1 billion have been negatively impacted by these market changes—and within this group, companies with capitalizations of $500 million or less have suffered the most. cents or 6.25

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

Or, as my friend Marc Andreessen might say, Software Eats the Private Equity World. While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago.

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What to Expect When You're Expecting Venture Capital Returns

This is going to be BIG.

One of the first things I did when I joined the venture asset class as a lowly institutional LP analyst in 2001 was to build the VC fund cashflow model. If you could return investors nearly triple their money and mid 20's returns consistently, compared to the 8% long term return in the public equities market, they'd more than accept that.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

So this has always been our most significant focus area, whether in 2022, 2021, or 2001. . You know, a lot of times, what we hear is: “Hey, what does the company do is $5 billion of equity value is $10 billion.” We believed this thing would be able to unlock a multi-product distribution and really strengthen the business mode.

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