Atlas Venture Raising Half a Billion
Wade Roush11/5/08
Waltham, MA-based Atlas Venture has embarked on fundraising for a new venture capital fund, and hopes to raise $500 million, according to reports today in VentureWire and PE Hub. It’s the eighth fund the firm has raised since its founding in 1980; the seventh fund, closed in 2006, totaled $385 million.
Wade Roush is Xconomy's chief correspondent and editor of Xconomy San Francisco. You can e-mail him at wroush@xconomy.com or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/wroush.
