March 20th, 2012

Index Launches Its First Life Sciences Fund: $200M And Partnering With Glaxo and Johnson & Johnson

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Index Ventures may be best known on these pages for its technology investments, but today it launched a new fund that points to how the company is willing to put its money into other examples of strong innovation. The life sciences fund will see Index put in $100 million of its own capital, and have it matched by $50 million each from big pharma leaders GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson &amp… → Read More

March 19th, 2012

Dumb Employers, Lucky Startups And An Untapped Reservoir

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A group of women is re-entering the workforce today and reshaping how products are made across key tech sectors like health & wellness, commerce and social products. Not only do they have the experience of raising families, but they’ve been business and technology leaders earlier in life. They’re becoming founders and leaders at startups and in the very companies they’ve been buying products… → Read More