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  2. History of private equity and venture capital - Wikipedia

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    The history of private equity, venture capital, and the development of these asset classes has occurred through a series of boom-and-bust cycles since the middle of the 20th century. Within the broader private equity industry, two distinct sub-industries, leveraged buyouts and venture capital experienced growth along parallel, although ...

  3. Cirrus (interbank network) - Wikipedia

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    ATMs. 2,000,000+. Founded. 1982; 42 years ago. ( 1982) Owner. Mastercard. Cirrus is a worldwide interbank network that provides cash to Mastercard cardholders. As a subsidiary of Mastercard, it connects all Mastercard's credit, debit, and prepaid cards, as well as ATM cards issued by various banks worldwide bearing the Mastercard/ Maestro logo.

  4. Venrock - Wikipedia

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    Venrock (portmanteau of Venture and Rockefeller) is a venture capital firm formed in 1969 to build upon the successful investing activities of the Rockefeller family that began in the late 1930s. It has offices in Palo Alto, California , New York City , and Boston, Massachusetts .

  5. Business Development Bank of Canada - Wikipedia

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    The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC; French: Banque de développement du Canada) is a Crown corporation and national development bank wholly owned by the Government of Canada, mandated to help create and develop Canadian businesses through financing, growth and transition capital, venture capital and advisory services, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.

  6. Rotating savings and credit association - Wikipedia

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    savings.club enables users to join clubs administrated by the company and leverages on credit card payments and rates much lower than traditional auto loans. History. Informal agreements of this type have arisen all over the world for centuries. The first academic description of them was by Shirley Ardener in 1964.

  7. Benchmark (venture capital firm) - Wikipedia

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    Chetan Puttagunta, General Partner. Sarah Tavel, General Partner. Miles Grimshaw, General Partner. Victor Lazarte, General Partner. Website. www .benchmark .com. Benchmark is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Bob Kagle, Bruce Dunlevie, Andy Rachleff, Kevin Harvey, and Val Vaden. [1]

  8. List of venture capital firms - Wikipedia

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    Maveron. Mayfield Fund. Menlo Ventures. Meritech Capital Partners. Morgenthaler Ventures. New Enterprise Associates. Norwest Venture Partners. Oak Investment Partners. Optimize Capital Markets.

  9. Pitango - Wikipedia

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    In 2001, Polaris Venture Capital changed its name to Pitango Venture Capital, to avoid confusion with Boston based Polaris Venture Partners. Although the Boston firm was founded in 1996, which was after Pitango was founded, the Israeli firm decided to change its name. Pitango takes its name from the semi-wild Surinam Cherry that grows in Israel.