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Early-stage Regional Venture Funds–part 2 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Late stage large regionally based funds that invest in late stage or mezzanine deals. They failed due to: the dearth of deals in the region that have IPO potential and. With a portfolio of at least 20 investments, or you are at risk of the adverse selection problem.) Large regionally based early stage funds have mostly failed.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. And investors said they intend to invest more in cleantech than software going forward. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. A lot of the stats weren’t surprising.