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Explaining carried interest

The Equity Kicker

Carried interest’ is the name given to the profit share schemes that investors in venture capital funds, typically called ‘LPs’, use to incentivise the partners at at the funds in which they invest. Venture Capital' If there is no hurdle then the maths are fairly simple.

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Battery Ventures Announces New $750 Million Fund

VC Cafe

A midst a 72% decline in funds raised by Israeli venture capital funds in 2009, Battery Ventures announced the completion of its new fund, BV-9, totaling $750 million. The Israeli office of Battery Ventures includes: Scott Tobin, Itzik Parnafes, Avi Domoshevizki, Eyal Shinar and David Sokolic.

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Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

needed to launch the venture initiative, and then must work to retain that support over time as conflicts arise (which they will). Knowing Steve’s fondness for military metaphors, think of the corporate venture as fighting a war on two fronts at the same time. That second fight must obtain the permissions, protection, resources, etc.

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