As featured in TechCrunch. The IPO window is currently wide open. Riding the wave of strong IPO performance over the past few years (the classes of ‘12 and ‘13 IPOs have on average returned 234% and 78%, respectively, according toRead More…
My partners and I hosted a CEO Dinner this evening in SF on Mobile Commerce & Community. We had a terrific crowd of about 30 CEOs in attendance from some of the top companies in the mobile arena. Sam ShankRead More…
As featured in TechCrunch. Scrolling through reports of recent venture financings, the names of the firms involved has changed quite a bit over the past few quarters. Of note, hedge funds have entered the later-stage, pre-IPO investment arena in aRead More…
As featured in TechCrunch. Average valuations for venture-backed M&A deals typically come in a pretty tight range. According to the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), in ’13 there were 377 total M&A exits of venture-backed companies with mean pricing ofRead More…
(above, GGV Partner Jixun Foo with Nimble Storage CFO, Anup Singh, at a recent GGV CEO Dinner) This past Friday, GGV portfolio company Nimble Storage achieved a successful IPO, pricing at $21/share, 23% above the mid-point of its initial filingRead More…
As published in TechCrunch. As excitement grows for the upcoming Twitter IPO, the federal government shutdown and pending debt ceiling issue looms large. There are some in silicon valley who believe that the current innovation cycle, powerfully led by mobileRead More…
Below you can watch my conversation with Emily Chang, host of Bloomberg West, on the growing threat of cyber crime and our recently announced investment in AlienVault.
Today AlienVault, the leading provider of Unified Security Management and crowd-sourced threat intelligence, announced a $26.5M financing, led by GGV Capital, with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Trident Capital, Sigma West and other existing and new investors. We’re very excited toRead More…
As featured in TechCrunch In 2010, had you suggested to the smartest Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors that LinkedIn would have a larger market value in 2013 than Groupon, Zynga or Twitter, you would have been laughed at. Had youRead More…
As published on TechCrunch. It’s finally happened. Some fourteen and a half months after its IPO, Facebook shares closed on Friday above its IPO price of $38/share for the first time since the date of its IPO. Investors who boughtRead More…