Venture capital

French president Jacques Chirac pledged €3 billion for innovative start-ups. But can France’s venture capital community manage this largesse?

US streets paved with venture-capital gold? That would come as a surprise to most American entrepreneurs, says Jonathan Zuck.

For the first time biotechnology has overtaken software as the US venture capitalists’ darling, according to the quarterly MoneyTree Report published by PricewaterhouseCoopers last week.

The early-stage funding scene got a bit less dire as Scottish Equity and InnKap launched new funds. Here’s what they’re looking for.

The first mobile phones with built-in GPS are about to hit the market – and they are prompting a new wave of VC investment in location-based services.

An obsession with the equity gap is obscuring the real reasons why universities are failing to commercialise their research, says one of the UK's leading spin-out investors.

The latest announcement from BASF Venture Capital America Inc. brings back memories of the dash for energy R&D 30 years ago.