Weekly Update #157: $271 Million in Sticker Sales
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Cambridge: Private equity, venture capital returns down in 2015, but better than public markets
The Cambridge Associates U.S. Private Equity index and the U.S. Venture Capital index returned 5.9% and 12.9%, respectively, in 2015, ahead of the Nasdaq Composite index, the S&P 500 and the Russell 2000, which returned 5.7%, 1.4% and -4.4%, respectively, for the year.
Line, the newly public messaging app, has funded at least 9 U.S. startups
Line, the popular Japanese messaging service that went public last week on both the NYSE and in Japan, partnered on a fund a couple of years ago with the New York-based venture firm Collaborative Fund in order to gain more of a foothold in the U.S.