Gutsy venture firm New Enterprise Associates brings home results

Gutsy venture firm New Enterprise Associates brings home results

It’s time for an update on New Enterprise Associates, Silicon Valley’s largest venture capital firm.

VentureBeat’s last piece about the decades-old firm was critical. NEA’s tendency to make extremely large bets appeared to be backfiring. Witness its backing of large, fizzling companies like Vonage, Alien and SMIC — and its arguably foolishly stratospheric valued bets on early companies SolFocus and SugarCRM. Was NEA out of control?

Afterward, we got a handwritten letter from NEA’s leading partner, Dick… Continue Reading