'vc' Tag
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France’s new record for VC investment
January 16, 2020In 2019, 736 French startups raised over $5 billion in venture capital financing, a new record. This figure compares favorably to Germany ($3.5 billion raised in VC) and the UK (about $8 billion). The full study from EY can be found here. Notably, France’s top five on this list include Ynsect, an innovative insect-based animal […]
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VC’s squirrels this year
January 16, 2018The Chairman of one my portfolio companies shared this with me the other day. The best jokes are those that touch closest to the truth, and this one is no exception.
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5 hacks for jobseekers to catch a VC’s attention
June 16, 2017Apparently my recent post, “So you want a job in Venture Capital?” proved popular (bumped me up a hosting bandwidth pricing tier, but hey it’s for a good cause). Some people suggested that since I downplayed the value of drafting a sample investment memo, I should offer some constructive and concrete actions that ambitious jobseekers […]
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French VC sector brain vastly under-illuminated
September 7, 2016Remember International Women’s Day back in March ? Oh, so you’ve forgotten already… Since apparently women in France are only slightly less attracted to entrepreneurship than men (and by slightly, I mean 0.1%), it feels like the French VC industry stands at a mere fraction of total brain capacity. What do YOU think? [graphic credit: […]
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The VC world in France needs more transparency. I’ll start.
June 10, 2014Having waxed extensively about the opacity of France’s venture capital industry, I’ve decided it’s time that I practice what I preach. The venture capital sector in France operates in a fog of complexity, with limited accountability, misleading performance statistics, and in some cases deliberate secrecy. I believe this is wrong. I believe that a VC […]
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Ranking of Global VC Firms
August 23, 2010Oliver Gottschalg, a professor at HEC business school in Paris, has produced what is thought to be the first ranking of global VC firms by performance, based on data from research firm Preqin. Note that this list considers only those firms for which complete performance data on all relevant funds was available, hence the notable […]
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VC’s beat entrepreneurs: Barça victorious
February 18, 2010To suggest that the performance by 11 VC’s posing as wanna-be athletes wearing Barça jerseys Tuesday night on the field of FC Barça’s ‘mini estadi’ somehow compares to the actual professional football club would be borderline sacrilegious in this cathedral of football. But, like FC Barcelona has done countless times over the ages, on Tuesday […]