Venture capital journal
Encyclopedia
The Venture Capital Journal, or VCJ, is a monthly glossy magazine that covers investment trends, financing techniques and news from across the Venture Capital industry. The magazine, founded in 1961, focuses on venture capital
and features expert analysis and commentary. Top venture capitalists who have been featured in VCJ include Jim Breyer, Steve Westly
, John Doerr
, William Henry Draper III
, Timothy C. Draper
, Pitch Johnson, Vinod Khosla
, Ray Lane, Michael Moritz
, Tom Perkins
Lip-Bu Tan, Arthur Rock, Heidi Roizen
, Paul Wythes, and Don Valentine
.
VCJ, based in San Francisco, is a division of Thomson Reuters
. It is published by Jim Beecher and edited by Alastair Goldfisher. The editorial staff is composed of Lawrence Aragon, Joanna Glasner, Connie Loizos and Mark Boslet. The staff of VCJ also contributes to peHUB.
Venture capital
Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
and features expert analysis and commentary. Top venture capitalists who have been featured in VCJ include Jim Breyer, Steve Westly
Steve Westly
Steven Paul Westly is an American venture capitalist and politician. He was the State Controller and Chief Financial Officer of California from 2003 to 2007 and was one of the top candidates in the Democratic primary for Governor of California in the 2006 election...
, John Doerr
John Doerr
L. John Doerr is an American venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, California, in Silicon Valley. In February 2009, Doerr was appointed as a member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide the president and his administration with advice and...
, William Henry Draper III
William Henry Draper III
William Henry Draper III is a prominent American venture capitalist.-Early life and career:Draper was born in White Plains, New York, the son of Katherine and banker and diplomat William Henry Draper, Jr. He attended Yale University with George H. W. Bush, graduated in 1950, the year after George...
, Timothy C. Draper
Timothy C. Draper
Timothy Cook Draper is the founder of the global venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson.Draper is third in a line of venture capitalists. His father, William Henry Draper III , founded Draper & Johnson Investment Company in 1962, Sutter Hill Ventures in 1968, Draper International India in...
, Pitch Johnson, Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla is an Indian-born American venture capitalist and an influential personality in Silicon Valley....
, Ray Lane, Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz is a Welsh-American venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in Silicon Valley, and a former member of the board of directors of Google Inc.-Life and career:...
, Tom Perkins
Tom Perkins
Thomas James Perkins is an American businessman, capitalist, and was one of the founders of leading venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.-Biography:...
Lip-Bu Tan, Arthur Rock, Heidi Roizen
Heidi Roizen
Heidi Roizen is a Silicon Valley executive, venture capitalist, and entrepreneur.She graduated from Stanford University in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in English and earned her MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business three years later.From 1983 to 1996, Roizen was co-founder...
, Paul Wythes, and Don Valentine
Don Valentine
Donald T. "Don" Valentine is an influential venture capitalist who concentrates mainly on technology companies in the United States. He has been called the "grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital"...
.
VCJ, based in San Francisco, is a division of Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters Corporation is a provider of information for the world's businesses and professionals and is created by the Thomson Corporation's purchase of Reuters Group on 17 April 2008. Thomson Reuters is headquartered at 3 Times Square, New York City, USA...
. It is published by Jim Beecher and edited by Alastair Goldfisher. The editorial staff is composed of Lawrence Aragon, Joanna Glasner, Connie Loizos and Mark Boslet. The staff of VCJ also contributes to peHUB.