With the premise being he would give each of them his sought-after merger and acquisition advice. Quattrone recently co-founded a new tech M&A investment advisory firm Qatalyst.
The startups were:
Investment Banking star Frank Quattrone may be getting all the press with the launch of his new tech investment banking firm Quatalyst . But Quatrone’s former firm Credit Suisse is quitely making a renewed foray into silicon valley, investing face time in building business relationships with local entrepreneurs, business executives, and vc’s. I attended a Credit Suisse event on Sand Hill Rd this week and will report a few of the high points here, later this week as our content moves onto this new site. I asked what might be from the street’s perspective, on the wisdom of the Bear Stearns bailout — and got a bit of a surprising answer.
This Churchill Club panel met at Dinah’s Poolside Cafe/Hotel April 23 2008 for a breakfast panel discussion of the state of venture investing almost half way into 2008.
The backdrop, of course, being an essentially closed IPO market, a buyer’s M&A market, soaring oil prices, a second quarter of weakening consumer spending, and of course US bond and stock markets undergoing continued major turmoil due to the ongoing mortgage derivates triggered financial crisis. But this panel of leading venture and angel investing professionals for the most part characterized the private equity investment business as percolating along just fine, thank you very much.
Today Apple went beyond opening up the iPhone to software developers with the expected software developer kit (SDK).
They also announced MS-Exchange Compatibility by licensing ActiveSync technology from Microsoft.
The third major component of this announcement was provided by John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins, who announced the establishment of a $100M “iFund”, dedicated to companies developing iPhone compatible software.
{mosimage}I attended this interesting panel discussion session Thursday Jan 10. It was organized by the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs, held at the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich campus in Palo Alto, and attended by about 130 local entrepreneurs and business people. The panel discussion was moderated by Mark Albertson, Executive Producer of Tech Closeup TV, and the four venture capitalists were selected because they are ‘A-round’ (sometimes also called ‘seed’, or first-round) investors, who need to be ahead of the cutting edge of investing trends. ‘A-round investment’ is currently the place to be due to systemic changes underway in the venture capital business.