Unlike a post made on this blog on April 1 of last year, this post actually does confirm I have indeed moved on from investment banking to pursue new opportunities. Specifically, I decided earlier this year to join a venture capital firm here in New York City and just had my first day on the job [...]
Entries Tagged as 'venture capital'
Moving On, For Real!
August 16th, 2011 · View Comments · Personal, VC, socent, tech
Tags:fintech·New York·New York City·New York City Investment Fund·NYC·NYCIF·socent·tech·VC·venture capital
Critical Mass and New York City
August 5th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, nextNY, tech
Over the past few days, I’ve been at home in Alabama, which as you may imagine, is quite different from New York City. Other than the grossly uncomfortable heat index (100+ every day) and noticeably shorter skyscrapers here, I’ve also noticed that some of the mobile tools that I used in New York are no [...]
Tags:Foursquare·Giving Pledge·Gowalla·New York·nextNY·Sweet Home Alabama·tech·VC·venture capital
VC Fundraising Nears 7-Year Low
July 13th, 2010 · View Comments · VC, tech
Yesterday, the National Venture Capital Association released VC fundraising figures for Q2 2010. The $1.9 billion raised in this past quarter represents a 56% drop from the $4.4 billion raised in the same period in 2009, and is the weakest fundraising experienced by the VC industry since Q3 2003. Dealbook reports on some commentary from [...]
D.light Design Raises New Venture Funding
June 24th, 2010 · View Comments · VC, socent
Wow, it’s been a great week for the world of social venture capital and impact investing! First we get the news that IGNIA has closed on its first fund, and today, we receive news that D.light Design has raised $5.5 million in Series B funding from Omidyar Network, plus all of its major Series A [...]
Tags:Acumen Fund·D.light·DFJ Frontier·Draper Fisher Jurvetson·Garage Technology Ventures·Gray Matters Capital·impact investing·Nexus Venture Partners·socent·social venture capital·VC·venture capital·venture philanthropy
IGNIA, a Social VC Firm, Closes its First Fund
June 23rd, 2010 · View Comments · VC, socent
If you’ve followed this blog for awhile (or just thought about this blog’s URL) you probably know that one of my passions is the intersection of investing and social impact. I’ve written at length about what I learned about for-profit social entrepreneurship from Nathaniel Whittemore and StartingBloc, new incubation initiatives like the Unreasonable Institute, why [...]
Tags:base of the pyramid·BoP·Ignia·impact investing·JP Morgan·Omidyar·rockefeller·social entrepreneurship·social VC·Soros·venture capital
Why U.S. Billionaires Should Create a Social PE Firm
June 18th, 2010 · View Comments · VC, socent
If you read CNN.com or the Wall Street Journal, you’ve likely run across a headline this week about Warren Buffet and Bill Gates (who have already given away a significant portion of their fortunes) issuing a challenge to the wealthiest individuals to do the same and give away 50% of their wealth. This challenge, called [...]
Tags:Berkshire Hathaway·Bill Gates·Gates Foundation·Giving Pledge·Melinda Gates·Microsoft·PE·private equity·social entrepreneurship·VC·venture capital·Warren Buffett
