Happy Tuesday, everyone! (Web visitors, you can find an easier-to-read version of today’s newsletter here.) —– Top News in the A.M. Twitter is reporting its second-quarter earnings today, and industry observers will be listening to learn whether the company has solved its growth problem. They might be disappointed, reports Recode. —– Meritech Capital Just Raised $500 Million; […]
Paul Madera
Meritech Capital Partners Just Raised $500 Million; Here’s Why It Didn’t Raise More
Meritech Capital Partners has just closed on a fifth, $500 million fund. That’s a lot of money, but the 15-year-old, Palo Alto, Ca.-based late-stage venture firm could have raised much more than that. Fully 38 of the firm’s portfolio companies have either been acquired or gone public since the second half of 2009. Among them: Facebook, […]