Deal value smashes records while investment vehicles hunt for new ways to fire up drab returns

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UVIMCO provides investment management services to the University of Virginia and its related foundations.

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Investing in private equity goes meta | Finance & economics

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The University of California’s Office of the Chief Investment Officer (UC Investments) announced today (August 31) that its assets under management grew to $168 billion as of June 30, 2021, a 29 percent jump over the prior fiscal year and the largest one-year gain in its history. The additional $38 billion in assets over the previous year represents a 77 percent increase since 2014.

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At a time when many investors are content to follow the crowd and buy top techs like Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, Cathie Wood is looking for the next big innovators in buzzy fields like robotics, fintech and space exploration.

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Scott Malpass was the CIO of Notre Dames' endowment for 32 years and has always been a pioneer at the forefront of the endowment investing world - leading Notre Dames's early investments into Sequoia as well as some of the premier fund managers in China decades ago. Scott built the endowment into a powerhouse, scaling it from $400 million to over $12 billion of assets under management across 175 managers. In our conversation, we talk about the qualities he looks for in great investors, how asset classes have evolved over his 30 years of investing, and how Scott recruited top talent to work at Notre Dame’s endowment.

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The median investor in public companies gets below market returns. Investing in startups is at least as hard as investing in public companies, and probably a good deal harder. So why do people think it's going to work out well for individual investors to do it?

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The great battle of the venture capital industry.

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A veteran of the Yale Investments Office, Matthew S. T. Mendelsohn ’07 succeeds mentor David Swensen ’80 Ph.D. as leader of Yale's endowment.

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“Early stage valuations aren’t really valuations. They are the exhaust fumes of a negotiation about two things — the amount raised and the amount of dilution.” — Fred Wilson; source. “Those guys are…

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Are venture capitalists an endangered species? It’s an interesting question, as investing in private tech companies becomes increasingly competitive. 

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Today Bessemer Venture Partners, Forbes, and Salesforce Ventures announced the 2021 Cloud 100 List, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies. And — keeping consistent with previous years’ trends — the 2021 list was even stronger than the last. This year features bigger companies, higher valuations, and more market tailwinds than ever before — so much so, in fact, that the estimated valuation required to make the list was over $1 billion*. That’s right. The bar for this year’s list was so high that each honoree achieved the unicorn milestone. Between Stripe at $95 billion, Databricks at $28 billion, and Checkout at $15 billion, to get on the 2021 Cloud 100 list was a fight among giants. These honorees truly represent the best cloud companies globally.

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Our midyear report found that the industry continued to supersize in 2021 and is on track to post its best year by far.

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Everything is moving so fast out there. What if it's just getting started?

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We’re thrilled to announce the third edition of “A Guide to Marketplaces.” We published our first edition five years ago and the second nearly three years ago. So much has changed since then – from the rise of B2B marketplaces to new crypto-native platforms.  Even as we explore emerging sectors like climate and crypto, we […]

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Startup funding around the world is on a tear this year and, increasingly, it’s not just traditional venture investors driving that growth.

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Philip Rotner is the chief investment officer at Boston Children's Hospital, where he manages the hospital's endowment, pension, and short-term investment assets. In this interview, he explains why Boston Children's Hospital continues to be ranked as the number one pediatric hospital in the world, how Boston Children's built its proprietary investment model to support its mission of treating sick children, and how health system's don't ordinarily plan to sustain 12 months of losses caused by a pandemic. Although, Phil adds that investment markets have done just fine despite a challenging 12-15 months.

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In June we wrote a piece entitled This Time It’s Different: Maybe? where we highlighted the outperformance of Cloud / SaaS stocks vs. the broader market, while noting that within the sector, public…

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Guest post by Michael Palank (MaC Venture Capital) and Anubhav Srivastava (Tactyc) Readers can view this post in an interactive Tactyc model here. Earlier this year, Tactyc and MaC Venture Capital released an interactive seed-stage portfolio construction calculator, which serves as a high-leve

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The world's most valuable startups. What are they, and where are they? The podcast boom. Podcasts had a really good 2020, despite the lack of a commute. Nokia. We chart the rise and fall of Nokia — once king of mobile phones.

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