The Gym – A UK Dynamo CDVCA Member Fund Bridges Ventures sold its majority stake in The Gym, a milestone deal for Bridges and its fourth successful realization in just over 12 months, following the exits of The Hoxton (9x multiple),…
Earlier this month, Senators Max Baucus (D-MT) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT), the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, wrote to their Senate colleagues asking for comments and feedback on tax reform. In the letter, Senators Baucus and…
The House Appropriations Committee met today to mark-up the FY 2014 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Bill. The bill approved by the Appropriations Committee includes $221 million for the CDFI Fund, which while $3.9 million less than requested in…
The CDFI Coalition sent a letter to the CDFI Fund regarding the certification/recertification process on March 21, 2013. The Coalition requested that the CDFI Fund take steps to ensure that no CDFI was de-certified without notice of potential deficiencies in…
Gust hosts the preeminent conference on early stage investing, Venture Forward. It’s the only conference exclusive to accredited angel investors and VCs. This is not your standard pitch-fest and fluffy content: we address the practical issues facing early stage investors that impact their…
SJF Ventures conducted the final closing on its third fund with more than $90MM in capital commitments, tripling the size of the previous $28MM second fund. The target for SJF Ventures III was $75MM and the fund was substantially oversubscribed at its final…
A National Public Radio Broadcast by Greg Allen highlights the bait-and-switch technique of massive budget cuts used only for further tax cuts (Michigan, Ohio), though some states (e.g. Florida) with upcoming gubernatorial elections plan politically strategic investments. Paul Beck, a…
Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and eighteen of his Senate colleagues signed a letter to the Senate Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Committee today asking that $224.9 be provided for the CDFI Fund in the Fiscal 2014 Appropriations bill. The…
Social Impact Bonds (Pay for Success) offer an attractive alternative to the status quo of paying for programs instead of results. Despite our best efforts, the poverty rate today is roughly what it was when the War on Poverty began…
Taking a closer look at household balance sheets before and after the recession, Emmons and Noeth find that younger, minority and lessâ€educated families suffered the largest wealth losses during the economic crisis. They use data from the Federal Reserve’s triennial…