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VC Square Peg raises $450m to ramp up Israel investment Tel Aviv-based partner Philippe Schwartz: Founders are building companies in areas that were considered ‘out-of-scope’ for Israelis. International venture capital firm Square Peg Capital announced today that it had closed its fourth generation of venture capital funds of $450 million. The firm says that it looks to ramp up its investments in Israel. The raise, which takes Square Peg’s total capital commitments to over $1 billion, wa...

Australian VC Square Peg raises $450m fourth fund, to double down on SE Asia Square Pegs Singapore-based partners Piruze Sabuncu (left) and Tushar Roy. Premium Square Peg, Australia’s largest pensions-backed venture capital firm, announced that it is ramping up its investments in Southeast Asia after closing its fourth pool of venture capital at $450 million. Continue reading this story with a subscription to DealStreetAsia. Contact us for corporate subscri...

Australia Pensions Bet on Venture Capital in Record Raising Year Bloomberg 12/14/2020 Matthew Burgess (Bloomberg) -- Australia’s biggest pension funds are betting the nation’s first recession in about three decades will produce its next tech-unicorns, fueling a record year of venture capital fund raising. AustralianSuper Pty. and Host-Plus Pty. were among investors backing Square Peg Capital Pty.’s $450 million fund, the venture capital firm said Tuesday. The Melbourne-b...

This year has been a strange one for the world of books. Covid meant that bookshops were closed for much of the time, which meant that readers were denied the joy of browsing, and the affiliated pleasure of judging books by their covers. In turn, we authors were denied most of the usual ego-boosts normally associated with a new book: no launch parties, no literary festivals, no search, fruitless or otherwise, for your book on the shelves of Waterstones, no trips to out-of-the-way radio studios ...

Should i pay her he waited until 10 days ago? >> does that -- does anyone believe that. >> we havent heard from the white house or the president on that i think we -- >> yes, we have. he lied. he said on air force one, i dont know anything about it. thats a lie. >> the way that rudy giuliani laid this out, looks to me as if they went back and said, okay, what story can we make up with the facts that are here, the facts that were paying cohen $35,000 a month for a retainer, hes not doing much, le...

Laid this out, looks to me as if they went back and said, okay, what story can we make up with the facts that are here, the facts that were paying cohen $35,000 a month for a retainer, hes not doing much, lets figure out -- what we can say to fit this square peg into this round hole. >> the key event was the search of michael cohens office, that was the signal that the fbi was going to find out how the money moved around. he undoubtedly has -- i dont know if it was electronic or checks, thats wh...

Republican president and when he ran, he decided to run as a democrat. and i just -- i think he was as his wife described to me, he was the original square peg in the round hole. >> when i left the marines corps, i just decided that i would never walk on anybody elses treadmill, that i would find one thing that i really cared about it and do it as well as i could do it and find the next thing and do that. thats really been -- i dont have a career path. i announced for the senate nine months to t...

One in three chance of blowing up and burning down the house, that would never be allowed. but certain kinds of mortgages that had crazy teaser rates and ballooned in the end would be allowed. she draws the analogy. the question is, do you have the power that the consumer product safety commission has. does the consumer financial protection bureau have the authority to say no, you cannot make that kind of loan? >> well two things about the toaster situation. first, what were doing is actually mo...

Tried to say it. i saw it on twitter. they want him to be tougher. slap him back and be sharper. if he does do that and its not authentic, i think it will come off worse. >> greg: stuffing the wrong software in a different computer. it comes out -- >> dana: square peg, round hole. >> greg: exactly. >> eric: go to the comments. do we have that one? >> if you believe the line that newt gingrich is the outsider will shake things up in washington, you must believe that hillary rodham clinton didnt i...

Tried to say it. i saw it on twitter. they want him to be tougher. slap him back and be sharper. if he does do that and its not authentic, i think it will come off worse. >> greg: stuffing the wrong software in a different computer. it comes out -- >> dana: square peg, round hole. >> greg: exactly. >> eric: go to the comments. do we have that one? >> if you believe the line that newt gingrich is the outsider will shake things up in washington, you must believe that hillary rodham clinton didnt i...