{"id":345,"date":"2010-04-13T17:36:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T00:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2010-04-13T17:36:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T00:36:14","slug":"vcs-flight-to-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/vcs-flight-to-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"VC’s flight to quality"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think it’s pretty clear that there’s been a flight to quality in venture capital<\/p>\n

There are two instructively contradictory data points out in venture capital land this morning:<\/p>\n

* First-quarter 2010 VC fund-raising was the worst since 1993 (Source)<\/p>\n

* Sequoia Capital&apos;s new $1-billion fund is oversubscribed by a reported $3-billion (Source)<\/p>\n

How can that be?, some might ask. How can one fund be so wildly oversubscribed when the industry is in the worst fund-raising doldrums in modern memory?<\/p>\n

via Growthology: VCs are Down! VCs are Up! The Compression of Risk Capital Commitments<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think it’s pretty clear that there’s been a flight to quality in venture capital There are two instructively contradictory data points out in venture capital land this morning: * First-quarter 2010 VC fund-raising was the worst since 1993 (Source) * Sequoia Capital&apos;s new $1-billion fund is oversubscribed by a reported $3-billion (Source) How can … Continue reading VC’s flight to quality<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-vc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}