This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

When I first started in venture capital, back in 2001, I used to fund funds. I worked for an institutional investor that invested in both venture capital funds and later stage growth deals. My job was to figure out why certain firms were winning and why they might continue to win.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Since first investing in Oklahoma startups in 1999, i2E, and now its independent Venture Capital Fund management partner, Plains Ventures, have managed numerous early-stage debt and equity investment funds, making 452 investments in more than 250 companies. million in 2001. Novazyme Pharmaceuticals Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. So the people who invest in VC funds have two problems.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 3, 2012

For a solid six or seven minutes, I was pretty pissed at Fred Wilson for his last post on the age of venture capitalists. he's only been in venture for two years and only through one market, an up one!" I even started writing a post defending the new crop of younger investors and why they can be value-add to investors.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

There are real changes in the venture capital industry and it would have been fun to talk about them. We need venture debt, factoring companies and public markets. Dave McClure argued passionately that since the overwhelming majority of exits are sub $100 million we need to readjust how much capital goes in.

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JUNE 22, 2011

I guess that makes USV, Spark Capital, Foundry Group, Accel, Benchmark, Revolution (along with several others) pretty happy right now. source: Capital IQ. In any given year there are about 50 venture-backed companies or so that are bought for $100 million or more. source: Capital IQ. And well they should be.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We were now set to close at $46 million in new capital. We found a way to get a round of venture capital closed after all of this. We were based in London. It became a social activity.

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MAY 7, 2011

Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001. With StackOverflow, Joel raised money through venture capital. Union Square Ventures is an investor. The software is not difficult to build and the hosting element has become a commodity; the hard part is building a community. Fog Creek now has 35 people.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When venture capitalists scale back investing activities it can be very swift and leave many companies that are in the process of fund raising hung out to dry. Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Bank, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, Elevate Capital, Portfolia’s First Step and Rising America Fund and Pipeline Angels also participated in the round. Goalsetter , a platform that helps parents teach their kids financial literacy, announced the raise of a $3.9 million seed round this morning, led by Astia.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s been talk of a slowdown in venture funding recently, with TechCrunch looking at it from different angles, including the fintech sector, a PitchBook report and even earlier on how startups should prepare in case it happens. We asked Beezer Clarkson, partner at Sapphire Ventures, and Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. That’s new.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The ability to raise capital is less impressive than finding sustainable ways to build a base of paying customers. EDT, we’re hosting a Twitter Space with new contributors who are covering climate, crypto, venture capital and more. “Across the board, the variance in metrics is stark,” says Townshend.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

But, still, every startup, especially those seeking angel and venture capital funding, are conditioned to project this growth curve – because investors love it. At this stage, entrepreneurs may leverage their growth momentum to attract venture capitalists and other investors. Surging Growth: This period started in 2001.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

We seed funded a company a few years ago called Parachute Home that has grown 180% CAGR (compounded annually) and is now doing tens of millions of revenue with very little capital raised. I will use some examples from Parachute and some other portfolio companies to give you examples from our experiences of watching successful brands grow.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

She also covers consumer packaged goods startups, and medical tech and biotechnology ventures. He didn’t raise any capital for Chaotic Moon. He launched his latest venture, Strangeworks in 2018 and raised $4 million in seed stage capital. Ecliptic Capital provides seed-stage, and early-stage investment to startups.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In general, periods in which capital is scarce, investors are cautious, and returns and asset values are weak offer the best times to take risks. Capital  — Measured by the lender tightening survey from the Federal Reserve. Taking extra risk in the 2001–02 and 2008–09 time periods paid off. That discomfort is the point.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Andre Maciel is the founder of Volpe Capital. Jennifer Queen is the founder of Pina , a PR firm focused on startups and venture capital firms. Latin American venture capital and growth investments through 2018 had averaged less than $2 billion per year. Image Credits: Volpe Capital. Share on Twitter.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In general, periods in which capital is scarce, investors are cautious, and returns and asset values are weak offer the best times to take risks. Capital  — Measured by the lender tightening survey from the Federal Reserve. Taking extra risk in the 2001–02 and 2008–09 time periods paid off. That discomfort is the point.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Individual accredited investors in typical angel deals put personal capital at risk for an equity share of growth-oriented, start-up companies. Such comparisons can only be made for companies at the same stage of development, in this case, for pre-revenue startup ventures.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Venture-backed: 42 years. At the same time, according to research by All Raise, only 15 percent of all venture capital funding is allocated to female founders. Below are the findings related to average founder age: All companies (with at least one employee): 42 years. Fastest growing 0.1 percent of companies: 45 years.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Even more excitingly, a large portion of this capital is coming from international investors from across Asia, the Middle East and even famed investors from Silicon Valley. After years of lagging behind, over the course of the past 18 months, Pakistan’s technology ecosystem has come to life in unprecedented fashion.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

billion , it begged an obvious question: If the original idea didn’t work, why not adjust its model or do something completely different while it still had capital? Ed Sim, co-founder at boldstart ventures was part of Dawntreader Ventures in the late 90s when his firm invested in an early version of the company called Metapa.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 22, 2014

If this pace of fund raising continues, 2014 would mark the biggest year for VCs since 2001, when the industry raised about $38B. The second quarter of 2014 is the sixteenth largest by capital deployed sinced 1995, making it a top quartile quarter, but to break into the top five, that figure would need to triple.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The judges for this pitch-off will be Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator) on day one; and Sven Strohband (Khosla Ventures), Victoria Beasley (Prelude Ventures) and John Du (GM Ventures) on day two. Yoon Choi — Muirwoods Ventures. Alright, alright. .”

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 24, 2014

And the venture capital firms that pulled back in 1996 missed the best three years of return in the history of venture capital industry. Those that managed companies in 2008 or thirteen years ago in 2001 know exactly how fear feels. Internet Uncategorized Venture Capital Investing' And this is not it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Contact has been in the business of consumer finance since 2001, while Wasla was founded in 2018 by former Serag Meneassy and Taymour Sabry , both ex-Rocket Internet entrepreneurs, and investment banker Mahmoud El Said. “It’s million in funding from a number of investors including Ventures and Glint Consulting.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

As for the capital-raising event, I think it’s hard for the bankers to know where it will land with the broader market, so I’m not as negative as maybe some others. Here’s more: Now north of $200 million in revenue, [ Nextiva ] is a quiet giant and, notably, has not taken venture capital funding along its path to scale.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 27, 2024

The recent data from ACA for all Angel Groups shows a similar recent pattern, with only 7% in the $1-3 million range and 12% in the 3-6 million range: Source: TCA Venture Group, Angel Capital Association Angel Funders Report There are of course higher valuations (as expected) in Series A compared to Seed/Pre-Seed, and dispersion in each stage.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

Natalia Holgado Sanchez is head of capital markets at Secfi , an equity planning, stock option financing and wealth management platform for startup executives and employees. Capital was extremely cheap to borrow as interest rates dipped as low as 1.67% (compared to rates in the last few years bottoming out at 0.25%). Contributor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

A growing number of investors have begun suggesting that certain venture-backed startups that have yet to find so-called product-market fit throw in the towel. Now, if you were to tell me VCs were starting to return capital to LPs, I could see some parallels. So that’s $2 million to $3 million in capital in reasonable times.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even even before the pandemic itself has been fully tamed.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

On the phone … Me: So, you raised venture capital? I have never come across a sophisticated A, B or C round venture capitalist who thinks convertible notes are a smart move for entrepreneur or investor. We raised a seed round. About $1 million. Me: At what price? Him: It wasn’t priced. We raised a convertible note.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital. Recently I’ve been debating with a number of young startup companies that are raising money in the next few months, “what is the right about of capital to raise at a startup?&#. It’s a tricky question with no clear answer. There are trade offs.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 21, 2015

Figuring out how much capital your startup may need to raise will inform lots of different strategic decisions. A startup’s growth rate is often highly correlated with the amount of capital it can invest in sales and marketing. More customers means more bookings, which means more capital and so on.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2013

After I graduated in 2001, I remember it seeming impossible to feel the same way about living in New York City. It''s My Life Venture Capital & Technology' Being intensely involved in community life there made the campus seem small and familiar. Also, let us know if you''re willing to host.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Venture-backed: 42 years. At the same time, according to research by All Raise, only 15 percent of all venture capital funding is allocated to female founders. Below are the findings related to average founder age: All companies (with at least one employee): 42 years. Fastest growing 0.1 percent of companies: 45 years.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. So how did I come to work in the world of venture capital?

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