The Venture Intelligence Blog

Anand Sanwal, Founder of US Venture Capital databased firm CB Insights, has an interesting critique of email pitches he receives from VCs  (which, going by number of email types he's quoting, happens quite a lot. Ah, the US market!).  Extract: Strategy 4: The Warning Hey Anand, Joe here from Scary Partners.  Love CB Insights and what you guys are doing. I know there has been a lot of companies getting funding in your space so was wondering if you have more seriously begun to think about fundraising.  I know you’ve grown out of revenue to-date but as competitors get funded, raising might make some sense to ensure you stay ahead of them. I would love to chat. Thanks, Joe The Review  .... Cons: For us, someone else raising doesn’t mean much. We’ve seen a bunch of companies come and go in our space with a lot more money than us. The new entrants will be the same.  And so while this email gets a response, it doesn’t do anything to frame why the firm might b...

Secondary transactions rise as global PE firms buy out stakes of earlier investors Private Equity firms invested about $1,886 million across 90 deals during the quarter ended March 2012, according to a study by Venture Intelligence . The investment amount was almost half that was invested in the same period last year ($3,614 million across 107 transactions). The immediate previous quarter had witnessed $1,470 million being invested across 120 transactions. There were six reported PE investments worth over $100 million (and none above $200 million) during Q1’12 compared to 9 such transactions in the same period last year (which included 5 transactions over $200 million). Three of the $100 million+ investments in Q1’12 went into the hospitals & clinics sector: $110 million into Care Hospitals (by Advent International) and $100 million each into DM Healthcare and Vasan Healthcare (by Olympus Capital and by the Singapore Government-owned GIC respectively) reinforcing the year-end Ventu...