Many VC funds, especially recent vintages, have failed to return money to their investors. Swiss VC firm Redalpine is one exception, and this largely explains why its newly announced $ 200 million seventh early-stage fund was oversubscribed. Redalpine Capital VII, or RAC VII, is already well under way to back 15 to 20 European early-stage […]
Accel has a fresh $650M to back European early-stage startups
Early-stage rounds continue to account for the majority of investments in the European startup market, and on Tuesday one of the biggest firms in the region announced a new fund to bolster that trend. Accel has raised $ 650 million to back startups from seed to Series A across the U.K., the Continent and Israel. […]
Sequoia’s Jess Lee explains how early-stage startups can identify product-market fit
Founders at the early stages of building their startups may have already created a strong solution, identified a gap in the market, or may simply have an inescapable and driving motivation to build their own business. Ideally, they have a good combination of all three. But do they have product-market fit? And what actually is […]
The ‘valley of death’ for climate lies between early-stage funding and scaling up
Jonathan Strimling faced a dilemma. His company had spent nine years working on chemical processes that could turn old cardboard boxes into high-quality building insulation. The good news was the team had finally cracked it: CleanFiber’s technology pumped out insulation — really good insulation. It had fewer contaminants and produced less dust than other cellulose […]
TLcom Capital closes second fund at $154M to back early-stage startups across Africa
Venture capital activity in Africa has shown resilience over the past six months, with major firms backing startups on the continent closing their funds despite the ongoing funding winter. In the latest development, TLcom Capital, an African VC firm with offices in Lagos and Nairobi and a focus on early-stage startups, has concluded fundraising for […]