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Venture capital (VC) is a type of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth. Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for equity, or an ownership stake, in those companies. Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing risky start-ups in the hopes that some of the firms they support will become successful. Because startups face high uncertainty, VC investments have high rates of failure. The start-ups are usually based on an innovative technology or business model and they are usually from the high technology industries, such as information technology (IT), clean technology or biotechnology.
Kleiner Perkins, formerly Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), is an American venture capital firm which specializes in investing in incubation, early stage and growth companies. Since its founding in 1972, the firm has backed entrepreneurs in over 900 ventures, including America Online, Amazon.com, Tandem Computers, Compaq, Electronic Arts, JD.com, Square, Genentech, Google, Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Nest, Synack, Snap, AppDynamics, and Twitter. By 2019 it had raised around $9 billion in 19 venture capital funds and four growth funds.
William Henry Draper III is an American venture capitalist.
Lazard is a financial advisory and asset management firm that engages in investment banking, asset management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients. It is the world's largest independent investment bank, with principal executive offices in New York City, Paris and London.
The Harvard University endowment is the largest academic endowment in the world. Along with Harvard's pension assets, working capital, and non-cash gifts, it is managed by Harvard Management Company, Inc. (HMC), a Harvard-owned investment management company.
Piper Jaffray Companies is an American multinational independent investment bank and financial services company, focused on mergers and acquisitions, financial restructuring, public offerings, public finance, institutional brokerage, investment management and securities research. Through its principal subsidiary, Piper Jaffray & Co., the company targets corporations, institutional investors, and public entities.
Susan Rasinski McCaw is a businesswoman, former diplomat and philanthropist. She served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Austria (2005-2007) and is currently President of SRM Capital Investments, a private investment firm. McCaw has worked in the investment industry for over twenty-five years. Previously, she was President of COM Investments and a Principal at Robertson Stephens & Co., a San Francisco-based investment bank. McCaw also worked as an Associate in Robertson Stephens Venture Capital Group. McCaw started her career as a Business Analyst for McKinsey & Company in New York and Hong Kong.
Perella Weinberg Partners L.P. is an independent, privately owned, global financial services firm providing corporate advisory and asset management services to clients around the world. Founded in 2006 by Joseph R. Perella, Peter Weinberg, Terry Meguid and several other partners from financial institutions, the firm is a private partnership with approximately 650 employees. It is headquartered in New York City with offices in London, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Denver, San Francisco, Calgary, and Houston.
Campbell Lutyens is an independent private equity advisory firm exclusively focused on primary fundraising and secondary transactions in the private equity, private debt and infrastructure & Energy markets. The firm has offices in London, New York City, Hong Kong and Singapore and comprises a team of over 120 professionals representing over 35 nationalities.
Probitas Partners is an independent, global advisory firm focused on raising capital as a placement agent for private equity fund sponsors as well as providing portfolio management and liquidity solutions, through the private equity secondary market, for investors in private equity. The firm operates through three primary businesses: fund placement, portfolio management and secondary advisory.
James W. Breyer is an American venture capitalist, founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, an investment and venture philanthropy firm, and a partner at Accel Partners, a venture capital firm. Breyer has invested in over 40 companies that have gone public or completed a merger, with some of these investments, including Facebook, earning over 100 times cost and many others over 25 times cost. On the Forbes 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked #722 with a net worth of US$2.4 billion.
Maria Contreras-Sweet served as the 24th Administrator of the Small Business Administration from 2014 to 2017. She was formerly the executive chairwoman and founder of ProAmérica Bank, a commercial bank focusing on small to mid-sized businesses with a specialty in the Latino community. Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Contreras-Sweet immigrated to Los Angeles, California and has since been involved in both the private sector founding a private equity firm and in public service as the California Secretary of Business, Transportation, and Housing under Governor Gray Davis.
Scott Mills Sipprelle is a venture capitalist and was the 2010 Republican candidate for Congress in New Jersey's 12th congressional district. Sipprelle founded Westland Ventures, a Princeton-based investment firm, which helps emerging companies by providing growth capital.
Joanna Rees is a venture capitalist who founded Venture Strategy Partners and VSP Capital in San Francisco, California. She also made an unsuccessful run for Mayor of San Francisco in the November 2011 election.
Mark E. Farrell is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 44th Mayor of San Francisco from January 23 to July 11, 2018. Before his appointment as mayor, he served on the Board of Supervisors for nearly two terms, representing District 2.
Rede Partners is an independent private equity fundraising advisory firm focused on primary fundraising, secondaries, strategic advisory projects and investor relations advisory. The firm has offices in London and New York with a team of over 40 professionals. Rede Partners was founded in 2011 by Scott Church and Adam Turtle. Scott's career began at Merrill Lynch where he remained for sixteen years, ending it as a Managing Director within the private equity group (placement). He moved to Lazard where he was a Managing Director in the private funds group. Adam, previously a Director within the investor relations group at private equity firm Actis, began his career with Credit Suisse's private fund placement group.
Valar Ventures is a US-based venture capital fund founded by Andrew McCormack, James Fitzgerald and Peter Thiel. Historically, the majority of the firm's investments have been in technology startups based outside of Silicon Valley, including in Europe, the UK, the US and Canada. Valar Ventures originally spun out of Thiel Capital, Peter Thiel's global parent company based in San Francisco, and is now headquartered near Union Square in New York City. The firm's namesake is the Valar of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, who are god-like immortal spirits that chose to enter the mortal world to prepare it for their living creations.
Women in venture capital or VC are investors who provide venture capital funding to startups. Women make up a small fraction of the venture capital private equity workforce. A widely used source for tracking the number of women in venture capital is the Midas List which has been published by Forbes since 2001.
Vani Kola is an Indian venture capitalist. She was listed as one of the most powerful women in Indian Business by Fortune India. She is the founder and Managing Director of Kalaari Capital, one of India's leading early stage venture capital firms.
Norma Hason Nahmias Yaeger is an entrepreneur, stockbroker, business pioneer, and published author. In 1962, she became the first woman to enroll in Hornblower & Weeks, Inc. training program for stockbrokers. She is the first woman who demanded, and got, the right to join her male trainees on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The Stock Exchange did not previously allow women to set foot on its floor. Norma Nahmias was the only woman invited to be on Hornblower & Weeks’ Management Advisory Board. She registered with the Liquidity Fund with the SEC; it was the first Money Market Mutual Fund in California. Norma Yaeger registered and opened a full-service stock brokerage firm, Yaeger Securities, Inc., in 1981. When the Affirmative Action Bill AB-1933 passed in 1989, she started a second brokerage firm, Yaeger Capital Markets, which she opened in 1991. Her numerous licenses include the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), National Association of Security Dealers (NASD), Chicago Board of Options, and the Commodity Exchange. She spends a lot of her time giving lectures to empower and encourage women. Breaking Down the Walls, the memoir of her years as a Wall Street and business pioneer, is her first book, published in 2014.
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