Sure, New Enterprise Associates is much, much bigger than most venture capital firms. And not all of their deals fall neatly into what we think of as traditional Series A-B-C venture.
NEA invests in private hospital systems in China. It does the occasional PIPE deal. It does big-ticket “growth” fundings that look a whole hell of a lot like private equity.
But NEA is definitely not a private equity firm, as it is here described in The Wall Street Journal.
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