Industry Ventures, with stakes in more than 600 venture firms, just raised $1.7B to snap up more stakes — and companies

Industry Ventures prides itself on trying to zig when others zag. When the outfit was first founded in San Francisco in 2000, the startup market was red hot, and its first product — a secondary fund — was a curiosity more than anything.  The idea of selling one’s shares to another buyer wasn’t yet seen […]