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Venture Capital and Private Equity Legal Leaders Pressured to Cut Costs Due to Deal Volume Dips and Rise of Procurement, Says Apperio Study
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Legal Leaders Pressured to Cut Costs Due to Deal Volume Dips and Rise of Procurement, Says Apperio Study

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VC and PE Firms Both Troubled by their Law Firms’ Lack of Billing Accuracy, Timeliness and Predictability as Need for Legal Spend Scrutiny Increases Venture Capital (VC) and Private Equity (PE) firms may differ in many ways, but they share a similar predicament – increased pressure to cut legal costs......
Truist Insurance Continues Its Expansion with the Acquisition of Insurtech Wellington
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Truist Unveils Venture Capital Division with New Fintech Investment

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Truist Ventures leads latest funding round for global payments network Veem Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC) today announced the launch of Truist Ventures, a corporate venture capital division created by integrating investments in technology companies from the heritage SunTrust brand with BB&T Ventures. The firm, which also is announcing its latest deal......
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CoverWallet Announces New Digital Insurance Package for Venture-Backed Startups

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CoverWallet, an Aon company and a leading digital insurance platform for businesses, today announced a new digital insurance product for venture capital (VC)-backed startups. With this new management liability package, VC-backed startups can instantly buy and manage Directors & Officers insurance (D&O), Employment Practices liability (EPL), and Fiduciary coverage online.......
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Former Airbnb President Joins Tapas Capital as Venture Advisor

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Tapas Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm, today announced that Greg Greeley, formerly President of Airbnb and Vice President of Amazon Prime, will join as an Advisor. Greeley, whose recent departure from Airbnb was announced last week, stated, “I’m looking forward to applying my experiences of incubating new businesses and......
TrueBridge Capital Partners Raises $600 Million for Sixth Venture Capital Fund-of-Funds
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TrueBridge Capital Partners Raises $600 Million for Sixth Venture Capital Fund-of-Funds

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Venture capital investment firm TrueBridge Capital Partners announced the close of its sixth venture capital fund-of-funds, TrueBridge Capital Partners Fund VI, L.P. (“Fund VI”) with $600 million in limited partner commitments. With this latest fund, TrueBridge surpasses its previous fund of $450 million and now manages over $3.3 billion in assets. Read More: Strider Announces......
PitchBook Establishes Office in Hong Kong to Support Growing Customer-Base & Accelerate Greater China Data Initiatives
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Venture Capital Fundraising and Investment Dollars Remained Healthy Through 1H 2020 Amid Slowdown in Exits and Deal Count Due to Impacts of COVID-19

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Despite external economic headwinds, venture capital (VC) fundraising activity exhibited strength in Q2 2020 while exit and dealmaking activity slowed due to the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor, the authoritative quarterly report on venture capital activity in the entrepreneurial ecosystem jointly produced by PitchBook and......
VIVA Investment Partners Joins Forces with SPiCE VC to Build Digital Securities Ecosystem
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VIVA Investment Partners Joins Forces with SPiCE VC to Build Digital Securities Ecosystem

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The World’s First Fully Tokenized Venture Capital Fund Will Scale with Strategic Partners SPiCE VC, the leading venture capital (VC) fund in the digital securities ecosystem which has revolutionized the VC asset class with a liquid tokenized fund, announced its partnership with Swiss private equity firm VIVA Investment Partners AG......
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Global Investor Conference Emphasizes Why the Future of Investment is Female

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Karim Nurani contributes his summary on the recently concluded Global Investor Conference in this exclusive guest article for Global FinTech Series: ______ On Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020, the Global Investor Conference (GIC) returned with an assortment of excellent speakers to discuss investing during the age of the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously,......
Brewer Lane Ventures Launches and Hires Insurtech Vet Martha Notaras as Managing Partner
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Brewer Lane Ventures Launches and Hires Insurtech Vet Martha Notaras as Managing Partner

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Founded by Former Chief Investment Officer of New York Life, John Kim, Brewer Lane Ventures Is a Fund Focused on Investing in Early-Stage Insurtech and Fintech Startups Brewer Lane Ventures, a new venture capital firm focused on investing in the insurtech and fintech industries, announced it has brought on Martha......
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