Innovation Fund 2 is NC’s Investing Tool into Growth Startups
Last Wednesday, N.C. Treasurer Janet Cowell talked to investment leaders such as Falfurrias Capital Partners’ Hugh McColl and Bull City Venture Partners’ Jason Caplain. The goal of the discussion was to update private equity on the return’s of North Carolina’s first investment fund and to announce the second larger fund. The first fund -Innovation Fund – was and a […]
Pension Funds a Source for Early-stage Commercialization? Silicon Valley Bank Invests in Ireland
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has announced it will lend $100 million to the Irish innovation sector as part of a new partnership with the National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF). According to Reuters, SVB intends to invest in Ireland’s technology, life science, cleantech, private-equity, and venture capital businesses over the next five years.