Entries tagged "New Enterprise Associates"

VC Firm Name State Deals DC Deals Early/Seed Abs Capital Partners LP  MD  1 0 0 Blue Heron Capital LLC  VA  1 1 0 Camden Partners  MD  1 0 0 CIT GAP Funds  VA  3 3 3 CNF Investments LLC  MD  1 0 0 Columbia Capital  VA  1 0 0 Core Capital Partners  DC  4 0 0 Edison NJ 2 1 0 Envest Ventures  VA  1 0 1 Fortify Ventures LLC  DC  8 5 8 Grotech Ventures  MD  1 0 1 In-Q-Tel, Inc.  VA  1 0 0 JMI Equity  MD  2 0 0 Kinetic Ventures LLC  MD  1 0 1 Medimmune LLC  MD  1 0 0 Monumental Venture Partners VA  1 0 1 New Atlantic Ventures  VA  3 1 1 New England Partners  VA  1 0 0 New... Read More

Mr Cranky has a tendency to get over-cranked and sometimes, okay most of the time, ignores the good. I justify that by saying that there are enough outlets celebrating all that exists as good that just another voice puffing up our hot air startup balloon would not add any significant... Read More

A look at the most active VCs headquartered or with Offices in the DC Region.  Companies in Blue are headquartered outside DC. Numbers are gleaned from web articles and PWC MoneyTree. ... Read More

As an investor I judge startups by the quality of their idea and team. You can place all startups into one of four quadrants based on these measures. The Quadrants Lightning in a Bottle - Great teams with great products are the purest of gold. The highest of the high, these companies... Read More

No DC area Venture Capital firm made the list of the top twenty deal doers for Q3. Silicon Valley-based NEA a large DC reginal precence came in tied for 2nd place completing 29 deals in the quarter.  Grotech, the top pure local VC deal doer for Q3 completed 8 deals... Read More

Novak Biddle In July 2012 Novak Biddle Partners, the once formidable force behind DCs early stage venture financing ecosystem announced their intentions to raise a sixth fund. The past year has seen reshuffling at Novak Biddle as several partners have taken on reduced roles while increasing roles outside the firm.     Phil... Read More

  2011 Q1 2011 Q2 2011 Q3 2011 Q4 2012 Q1 2012 Q2 2012 Q3 Total Firm Tot DC Tot DC Tot DC Tot DC Tot DC Tot DC Tot DC Tot DC Acceleprise X X X X X X X X X X X X 6 5 6 5 ABS Capital 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 4 0 13 0 Boulder Ventures 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 8 3 Carlyle Group 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 5 2 CIT GAP 4 4 1 1 3 3 6 6 9 9 7 7 6 6 36 36 Columbia Capital 2 1 4 3 0 0 2 1 1 1 4 3 1 0 14 9 Core Capital 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 2 0 8 0 Edison 2 2 2 1 3 2 4 1 1 1 7 0 3 2 22 9 Flash Forward 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 3 3 Grotech 3 1 6 3 3 1 5 2 4 2 4 1 8 3 33 13 In-Q-Tel Inc 10 1 6 1 4 1 0 0 3 0 4 0 1 0 28 3 JMI 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 MD TEDCO 8 8 8 8 0 0 5 5 0 0 0 0 4 4 25 25 New Atlantic Ventures 3 0 4 1 7 2 7 2 4 1 5 0 2 0 32 6 New Enterprise Assoc 20 2 20 3 27 1 26 2 21 4 27 0 20 2 161 14 New Markets Venture 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 2 Novak Biddle 6 2 7 4 5 1 4 1 3 2 4 0 1 1 30 11 Paladin 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 4 1 9 4 Questmark 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 7 0 Revolution 1 0 ? ? ? ? ? ? 4 4 2 1 0 0 7 5 TDF 0 0 2 1 4 1 1 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 10 4 Updata 2 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 10 1 Valhalla 5 2 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 5 1 0 0 14 5 Total 76 26 69 28 66 13 69 23 57 27 83 16 61 22 481 155 Firms in Blue have substantial operations outside DC and are not primarily DC firms. ... Read More

In this political season there’s been a focus on the numbers. The 1 percent, the 47 percent and in Q3 of 2012 1 percent of the companies garnered 16 percent of the money raised in the quarter. Of the 890 companies that raised .5 Billion the top 10 raised ... Read More

DC’s Telecommunications Development Fund (TDF) is the top rated local firm rated by entrepreneur participants polled on the site TheFunded.com. TDF is closely followed by the more active New Atlantic Ventures Fund. Fund Rating Telecommunications Development Fund 4.3 New Atlantic Ventures 4.1 Paladin Capital 3.6 Questmark 3.6 In-Q-Tel 3.5 JMI 3.5 New Enterprise Associates 3.4 New Markets Venture Partners 3.3 Grotech 3.0 Novak Biddle 3.0 Core Capital 2.8 Edison Venture Fund 2.6 CIT Gap Fund 2.5 ABS Capital Partners 2.4 Valhalla 2.1 Columbia... Read More

In the last 2 months I've been asked 3 times about the upcoming October Angel Venture Forum in DC. I figured I’d do some research. Angel Venture Forum is one of at least 8 DC area, regularly scheduled venues and a host of untold ad hoc events that put entrepreneurs seeking... Read More

No VC did more deals last quarter than New Enterprise Associations (NEA), which isn't unexpected since the bi-coastal firm with US offices in Chevy Chase, Baltimore, New York and Sand Hill Road, is arguably the number one Venture Firm in the world.  NEA completed 4 out of their total 24 transactions in... Read More

    Rumors of the death of the DC VC are highly exaggerated. Tracing the source of capital inflows into the capital beltway tells the tale of a resurgence of DC VCs. Of the Forty DC area companies that were funded in the region last quarter an overwhelming amount of that capital... Read More

According to PWC MoneyTree, VCs in this government town are more risk averse then their bureaucratic government counterparts.  Actually it’s ex-Core Capital executive turned Energy Department Lending Czar, Jonathan Silver who took the fall for the government’s investment in Sylindra and proved government bureaucrats may have more tolerance for risk than... Read More

Which VCs are investing in DC? What is the geographic origin of the region’s venture financing? Q4 saw a big increase in DC VCs investing in the Capital Region with 48 percent of the checks written being signed by DC VCs.  That’s up from 29% in Q3. Another trend is the... Read More

What DC regional companies closed on VC funding in the 4th quarter? Well according to the NVCA and PWC Moneytree there were 45 deals concluded with a total value of 9M. That ranks the Capital Region 8th, in dollars invested and 5th in deals of the regions tracked. Of the companies... Read More

Later-stage, McLean VA-based, Cvent scored the number 2 spot for Largest VC Deals in Q3.  Cvent raised 6M from Greenspring Associates,Insight Venture Partners, and New Enterprise Associates (NEA). The number 1 spot was taken by Reata Pharmaceutical's who raised 0M from an undisclosed source (how do you pass 0M under the table and... Read More

(March 10, Vienna, VA) Ladies and gentleman tonight was a glamorous star studded night. Yes it was DCs own VC version of the Academy Awards if the Academy Awards served hors d'oeuvers purchased and warmed over from Costco. Imagine an Academy Awards snubbed by Angelinia Jolie, Brad Pitt, George Clooney. Imagine Brooks Brothers and... Read More