Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) — Paul Otellini, chief executive officer of Intel Corp., talks with Bloomberg’s Brian Weiss about the company’s plan to invest 0 million in US technology companies over the next two years to spur domestic job growth. The investment is part of a .5 billion effort by a group of 24 venture-capital firms [...]
Scale Venture Partners Sharon Wienbar on the changing VC industryis the venture industry finally rightsizing itself so at least the top quartile venture firms can get decent returns? Sharon Weinbar, venture capitalist at Scale Venture Partners, believes so. In this third segment in a series of interviews with Bambi Francisco, Sharon talks about the challenges [...]
Highland Capital founder Paul Maeder points to: a broken model; the end of an innovation cycleif you hang around enough technology conferences with bankers, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, you’ll hear a lot of grumbling about the state of the venture capital industry and how it’s broken. After all, the venture capital narrative recently is generally [...]
Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) — Henry Kravis, co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., talks with Bloomberg’s Ryan Chilcote about US President Barack Obama’s plan to ban banks from backing private-equity funds and its impact on KKR. (This is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)
Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) — Citigroup Inc. plans to sell or split off its billion Citi Private Equity unit, expanding the list of money-management businesses the US bank is disposing of to reduce debt, people familiar with the matter said. Bloomberg’s Jonathan Keehner reports. Source: Bloomberg)
