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Confessions Of A VC Who Raised Money During Financial Armageddon
We started to plan for our fundraising for Greycroft II, our second fund, around Christmas 2008. This was a few months after Lehman Brothers collapsed.Our team of four partners agreed among ourselves...
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You Think It's Hard To Raise Money For A Company? Try Raising It For A VC Firm
We started to plan for our fundraising for Greycroft II, our second fund, around Christmas 2008. This was a few months after Lehman Brothers collapsed.Our team of four partners agreed among ourselves...
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IT'S OFFICIAL: The IPO Market Is Crippled -- And It's Hurting Our Country
On October 13, 1971, Intel Corp, a manufacturer of semi-conductor memory circuits went public with a common stock underwriting of 350,000 shares at $23.50 per share for a total of $8.225M and for a...
View ArticleAlan Patricof: There Are Too Many Startups
Alan Patricof has been investing in startups for a long time.A pioneer in the venture capital and private equities industries, the founder of Apax Partners and more recently Greycroft Partners, it is...
View ArticleAlan Patricof On Startups: It's Going To Be Survival Of The Fittest
While startups are popping up everywhere, it is hard for angel investors or smaller private equity funds to keep up.One solution could be to loosen or change restrictions on IPOs to allow investors to...
View ArticlePATRICOF: The Dynamics Needed For Small Market Cap IPOs No Longer Exists
In 1971, Intel went public with an initial offering of 350,000 shares at $25 per share. A group of 63 firms underwrote the modest $8 million offering.The small scale of this IPO is impossible to...
View ArticleAlan Patricof Explained Why He Ditched His $40 Billion Fund For A $75 Million...
In 1969, Alan Patricof founded Patricof and Co., an early venture capital firm. Over the next 40 years, he turned that into Apax, one of the largest private equity firms in the world. And then he left...
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The new tax law is good for startups, but not good enough
With the passing of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 earlier this week, sighs of relief could be heard not only from the general business community, but also from the venture capital industry. The...
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A former Google exec just won funding from the US VC giant Greycroft for a...
The Spanish peer-to-peer payments app Verse aims to be Europe's answer to Venmo and has just secured $8 million in seed funding.Verse bagged funding from the US VC fund and Venmo investor Greycroft,...
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GREYCROFT FOUNDER: For the first time ever, VCs are giving millions to...
Alan Patricof is the chairman emeritus at Greycroft.He writes that given the timeline of the coronavirus pandemic, VC firms will have to invest in startups, early-stage companies, and new CEOs without...
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A renowned 85-year-old VC is teaming up with a former SoulCycle exec to back...
Alan Patricof, an 85-year-old veteran investor, is teaming up with Abby Levy Miller, a former SoulCycle exec and founding president of Thrive Global, to launch Primetime Partners, a new fund to back...
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