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PRESTON: I sort of lament the fact that less than 1% of all the VC investments go into energy...
...photograph below of a fierce-looking group of men cradling antique machine guns comes from an old album in my home. It dates from about 1930, and its caption reads, "Sheik Mahmoud of Kurdistan. Surrendered to Political Officer Victor Holt VC accompanied by FO M.O." "Sheik Mahmoud" was Mahmoud Barzanji, chieftain of a famous Kurdish clan, who led a series of revolts against British rule in Iraq after World War I. "FO M.O." was Royal Air Force Flight Officer Max Oxford, my late father...
...partners, all veterans of the tech industry, see a new opportunity in bailing out the European venture capital firms that found their investment portfolios floundering when the Internet bubble burst. Venture capitalism needs their help. As dotcom companies wrote down their assets, went bankrupt or held fire sales, their VC backers found themselves with little to return to their own investors. As many as 80% of Europe's incubators and independent early-stage venture firms are expected to disappear by next year. Jean-Bernard Schmidt, founder of Paris' Sofinnova venture capital firm and chairman-elect of the European Venture Capital...
...business cannot be turned around, SecondWind will use its contacts to try to find a buyer for the assets. SecondWind this month attracted its first customer - one of the largest Dutch captive funds, and one that preferred to remain anonymous. SecondWind charges a flat consulting fee to VC firms and an additional "results" fee if it is successful in orchestrating an exit, such as an initial public offering or trade sale...
...Borgdorff, managing partner of fund investments at Amsterdam's NIB Capital Private Equity, which has j11.5 billion to invest in private equity partnerships, says bringing in outside business people to salvage portfolios is part of a general restructuring of the VC industry in Europe. "Venture capital needs to rethink its business model," Borgdorff says. Smaller VC firms are already testing new models. London's Ariadne Capital, for example, acts as a sales agent for its companies, taking a slice of the revenues as they are created, rather than waiting for an exit strategy - like an initial public offering...