Video: How Venture Capital Works
Venture Capital
February 04, 2010 Michael Hanewich

Silicon Valley Bank’s Michael Hanewich, head of life sciences on the East Coast, leads an hour long conversation between entrepreneur John Mendlein, chairman of Fate Therapeutics and former CEO of Adnexus (acquired by Bristol Myers Squibb in 2007 for more

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Venture Investing is Less Risky Than You Think
Venture Capital
August 11, 2010 Aaron Gershenberg
SVB analyzes a portfolio of funds from one of the worst vintages in Venture and finds a positive return is highly likely. Read More
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Under the Microscope: Trends in Life Science Investments, Mergers and Exits
Venture Capital
September 07, 2010 Dave Krimm
Online Seminar: Under the Microscope: Trends in Life Science Investments, Mergers and Exits Hear a variety of viewpoints about trends in the Life Science sector. Read More
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The Seed Stage Funding Gap
Cleantech
April 09, 2010 Rob Tompkins
Cleantech is a new sector that lacks a history of serial entrepreneurship and experienced angel investors that can help coach and fund young companies. With insufficient private capital going to seed funding in the current market, young companies are seeking strategies to get them to the point of venture readiness. Challenges and opportunities for commercializing promising new energy technologies may be hiding in government, corporate and academic research labs. In addition, public sector may play an important role in innovation beyond funding of basic research — through ARPA-E and stimulus programs — and in filling the funding gap for cleantech start-ups at the earliest seed stage. Read More
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Is SaaS the Silver Lining to the Cloud?
Technology
September 09, 2009 Prashant Nema

The economic recession and financial crisis have cast a dark cloud over most of the venture capital industry. The popular press continues to report bad news: poor exit markets, reduced venture investment and employee layoffs at technology firms. Despite these glum reports, innovative technologies are still being developed and many promising venture-backed companies are maintaining revenue growth. One example is companies developing the software-as-a-service model, the technology more commonly known as “SaaS.” As a provider of banking services to SaaS technology companies and as a consumer of SaaS offerings, SVB has observed SaaS as one of the bright spots in the venture capital industry. We expect that SaaS innovation will expand during the economic recession and SaaS technology will become a mainstay of enterprise computing.

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How Venture Capital Works - Video
Venture Capital
February 04, 2010 Michael Hanewich

How Venture Capital Works - Video 

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First Commercial Finance
Cleantech
April 09, 2010 Matt Maloney
The magnitude of opportunities in global energy markets is enormous, but scaling up a new technology to “utility” scale also presents unique challenges for the venture model. The leap from initial product demonstration and small scale manufacturing into production or assets in the hundreds of megawatts (and hundreds of millions of dollars) largely exceeds the capacity of venture equity financing. Given the current state of capital markets, start-ups are wondering what sources of lending are available for initial large scale manufacturing or projects and what role can and should government play (for example, through loan guarantees and grants) in “picking winners” and lowering the hurdle for new clean energy technologies to attract commercial capital and gain traction in the market.
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Dialing Down: Venture Capital Returns to Smaller Size Funds
Venture Capital
May 27, 2010 Sven Weber
Do small venture capital funds outperform large venture capital funds? SVB Capital is interested in understanding this issue and the many dynamics necessary for a healthy venture capital industry. Median fund sizes in venture capital have declined dramatically in recent years, and many limited partners have liquidity constraints that have caused them to reduce or pull back from allocations to the asset class. Read More
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