VC financial engineering fuelling tech bubble?
Financial engineering is an accusation more often levelled at private equity than its venture capital brethren, but ever-higher levels of downside protection for investors in large funding rounds has raised questions about aggressive VC term sheets. Mikkel Stern-Peltz reports
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