The Equity Kicker

Every winter I help out as a volunteer for the CARIS Islington Cold Weather Shelter in north London near where I live.  The NightShelter (as we call it) offers dinner, bed and breakfast for between 15 and I think around 50 homeless people every night for the first three months of every year.  If [...]

As I mentioned back in January and as you can see from the picture above the UK and Ireland Tech Tour is coming up next month.  I’ve been on two Tech Tours before and they work well.  I will be attending this one.  For those that aren’t familiar with the format, the Tech Tours [...]

For those of you that don’t know it, the European Tech Tour Association has been organising two or three day ‘tours’ for as long as I have been in venture capital.  These can be either country or sector specific, and the best startups in a country/sector are selected to present to a [...]

As you might have seen, along with Coller Capital and HabourVest we at DFJ Esprit have agreed to acquire a portfolio of 3i venture capital investments.  Unfortunately the lawyers won’t let me say too much about the deal because we are now in the period between agreeing to acquire and formal completion.  What I [...]

One of the reasons I write this blog is as a sort of online scrap book or diary to record both my own thoughts and interesting third party content (I also have a Tumblog which does the same thing for more personal content) – and it has been bugging me for some time that [...]

I’m doing a panel next week at the Glasshouse Show Me The Money event next Tuesday.  The other panelists will be Michael Birch (Bebo and now the PRO Founders Fund), Rory Cellan-Jones (BBC) and Andreas Lazar (Allen & Co).

The idea is that the discussion will help entrepreneurs make the right choices about [...]

At the BVCA/Real Deals awards dinner last night we were pleased and honoured to receive the award for Venture Capital Deal of the Year for our investment in buy.at, which was acquired by AOL for $125m last year. 

Thanks go out to the organisers and judges but espescially to the team that [...]

I have added some Adsense links to the top of my left sidebar as a small experiment.  Any proceeds raised will go to CARIS a local charity in Islington, London which runs a homeless nightshelter, amongst other things.

Please let me know if this offends.