Highlights from the past week’s VC Investment Company news. Heritage Group Closes Healthcare Innovation Fund at $157 Million Heritage Group, a Nashville, Tenn.-based investment and advisory group that works with health-care companies, has raised its first formal fund, and already used it to back two privately held medical-technology providers, the group said. Heritage Healthcare Innovation [...]

Highlights from recent Life Science venture capital news. VM Index subscribers see full details of all Life Science Venture Capital deals from the past week plus profiles and analysis of thousands of investors and venture-backed companies.   North America  June 7th, 2012 – San Diego, CA Astute Medical Completes $40.4 Million Series C Financing Astute Medical, [...]

Highlights from the past week’s VC Investment Company news. Teralys Capital Injects $50 Million in Rho Canada Venture Fund II to Invest in Tech Startups Teralys Capital has announced a $50 million investment in Rho Canada Venture Fund II, concurrent with its initial closing of $100 million. Rho Canada, based in Montréal, will build continue [...]

A round up of deal activity in IT, Life Science, Med Tech & Biotech Venture Capital Investment over the past week. VM Index subscribers see full details of all Venture Capital deals from the past week plus profiles and analysis of thousands of investors and venture-backed companies. Total No. Deals NA EU Total Raised $ Total [...]

To use a DCF you need a CF to D.  For a start-up you'll only have a bunch of zeros where the revenue line should be, and the rest of your model will be completely meaningless. Start-up valuations are based on (inter alia): Exit potential and time-scale Benchmarking with other similar companies at a similar [...]