Nominations open for the 15th AVCJ Awards
Following a significant change in format last year, the 2015 - and 15th - AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Capital Awards features just one new prize. The venture capital deal of the year category has been split in two: early stage technology and late stage technology.
This is intended to acknowledge the proliferation of sizeable transactions in the technology space that would more accurately be described as growth capital than venture capital. To qualify as late-stage...
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