TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

I have experienced two major financial disruptions in my career: the bubble burst in 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008. Early-stage investments are also tightening, as investors focus on lower valuations that accommodate revised paths to an exit, and on business health, which is now becoming more important than growing at any cost.

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disruption health capital investing 97

Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

In 2005, when Y Combinator started, there was already a well developed ecosystem of venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and Boston. But access to those venture capital firms was limited. Many traditional biotech investors are still looking for the controlling legal terms that went out of vogue in tech in the early 2000’s.

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incubation startup VC business incubator 22

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

million in Q3 2022, “the lowest it has been since the beginning of 2021,” writes Rak Garg, a principal at Bain Capital. Twitter Space: What can today’s founders learn from the 2000 dotcom bubble burst? In 2000, many high-flying internet startups turned into smoking craters. “That person was me.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It wasn’t long before venture capital firms started up and major tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Samsung had R&D centers and accelerators located in the country. And in 2020, Israeli companies made 121 funding deals on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and global capital markets, raising a total of $6.55 So how are they doing?

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startup ecosystem startup incubation culture 88