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The New Venture Landscape

K9 Ventures

In May 2011, I wrote the post: Investor Nomenclature and the Venture Spiral. The party rounds , which were the range in late 2010 and early 2011, became less common and we started to see the smaller funds begin to lead rounds. Series C/D is the new Mezzanine. Welcome to the new venture landscape!

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Ten Takeaways from Deloitte’s 2010 Israel VC Indicator Survey

VC Cafe

38% of venture capitalists believe that their focus should be on updating the technological incubators program. 13% of respondents believe this gap to be in Mezzanine financing and no venture capitalist believes that there is no investment gap. 77% of venture capitalists believe the gap is in Seed and First Round.