A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 13, 2021

It is a little known part of my career, but for a brief period from 1997 to 2001, I was part of a small group of investors who helped to create a startup ecosystem in Latin America. In that Chase Capital Partners meeting was a woman named Susan Segal who ran Chase’s Latin American private equity investing.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

a nonprofit dedicated to fostering the growth of startups and entrepreneurs in Oklahoma, is proud to announce surpassing the $100 million mark in total investments. These investments, collectively over $100 million, have provided vital early capital to help startups throughout the state to thrive. million in 2001. i2E, Inc.,

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Berkonomics

MARCH 25, 2012

For those of us who’ve invested in early stage companies, especially technology startups, we have confronted a universal problem. There are many ways to project the value of a company for purposes of pricing an investment, but all rely upon the revenue and profit projections of the entrepreneur as a starting point.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Amy Cortese published “Venture Capital, Withering & Dying” in the New York Times on Oct 21, 2001. Most vulnerable are funds that were raised and invested at the height of the bubble, in 1999 and 2000, when 70 percent of all high-technology venture capital for the last two decades was invested.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

Like the downturns in 2008 and 2001, this has been a very trying time for entrepreneurs running startups. At the same time, many investors are being more cautious with making new investments, preferring to focus on their existing portfolio before investing in new companies. A startup is not a lone adventure.

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David Teten VC

OCTOBER 31, 2024

We’re happy to share the latest in PEVCtech’s series profiling how investment managers are using AI, tech, and analytics to generate alpha. We have over $400 million of capital under management, our current portfolio is around 20 companies, but so far we have invested in over 40 companies since 2015.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

Martino founded Bullpen in 2010 with a focus on post-seed, pre-Series A startups, and he led the fund’s investments in companies like FanDuel, Namely, Ipsy, SpotHero, Classy, and Airmap. This geographic distinction is now less about actual geography and more about mentality and style of investing of these types of firms.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, to weigh in on what we are seeing, and while they’re trying to make sense of things, too, they noted a couple of things that could impact the velocity of deal-making that we’ve been seeing. We asked Beezer Clarkson, partner at Sapphire Ventures, and Josh Lerner, the Jacob H.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded by Tanya Van Court, who lost over $1 million in the 2001 bubble burst, the platform teaches financial literacy to children of all ages, helping them learn economic concepts, lingo and the principles of financial health. Brown, Ryan Bathe, CC Sabathia and Amber Sabathia. That teaches them how to spend money.

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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. They raise larger and larger funds, for example, after building up a track record of successful angel investments.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Morgan, and was a managing investment partner at SoftBank. Latin American venture capital and growth investments through 2018 had averaged less than $2 billion per year. As a banker covering technology, I thought there was an opportunity to invest in the region and decided to quit my job at J.P. He formerly worked with J.P.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Mikal is an early-stage investor at Wavemaker Partners investing in startups across North America, MENA and Asia and author of the newsletter Emergent , analyzing one fast-growing startup in an emerging market every week. Mikal Khoso. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Unlocking Pakistan’s potential.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

How you invest your time is just as important as how you invest your money Who’s #OpenToWork? “We also made sure to check their LinkedIns twice: once in early 2021, when there were practically no tech layoffs, and again in early 2023, in the wake of the worst round of tech layoffs since 2001.”

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

My godfather got me IBM stock right after that, so that''s how I knew that a stock market and investing existed. I got my first job in venture--at GM--in February 2001. My dad brought home an IBM PS/2 in 1987. I got an internship on the buy side at the GM pension fund in high school--in 1997.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

“We’ve seen that all before … what’s new-ish (at least since 2001) is the massive overhang of growth investments that will take startups years to grow into,” he wrote. ” The ‘unicorn glut’ theory of startup misery. ” Armed with experience, insurtech MGAs are paving the way for insurtech 2.0.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Juyeol has been with Lockton Korea since 2001. He established his own brokerage company, ESOP, in 2019 initially with a team of 8 specialising in reinsurance and retail, with clients from financial institutions, investment banks, asset management companies, private equity firms and more. The company recorded revenue of US$2.2

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The additional days off translates into a roughly 80,000-Euros investment per year. The positive impact more than justifies the financial investment. After having worked in London, Frankfurt and San Francisco, he returned to Hamburg in 2001, where he lives with his wife and his seven-year-old twins. But it’s worth it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The startup was founded by Tanya Van Court who had her own struggles with financial literacy after losing more than $1 million in stock during the bubble burst of 2001. The platform even recently introduced a feature called Goalsetter Invest, which allows users to buy and sell stocks. Goalsetter raises $3.9

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Contact Financial Holding, Egypt’s non-bank consumer finance provider, has invested $9 million in the country’s ecommerce super-app Wasla , setting the stage for the rollout of new online shopping capabilities, products and regional expansion.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

OutSystems was founded in 2001, making it older than most companies that we cover on TechCrunch, and yet it remains privately held. TechCrunch had asked the company to break down its stated plan to invest its new capital in both go-to-market (GTM) capabilities and product (R&D) work. based software company has raised.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 29, 2023

Early-Stage investing is inherently cyclical, and for the first time in over a decade we are experiencing a downcycle. An important question leaps out: Is it better to invest more or less during a downcycle? 25% of those outcomes were initially funded during downcycle years (2001-2003 and 2008-2011) with the rest during the upcycles.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 27, 2024

Their DNA was wrapped up in a VC mindset that starting valuations were less important given the lofty later stage valuations and frothiness at that end of the market (hence over 1000 “unicorns” today vs only 8 in 2008 and 1 in 2001). Those micro VC funds need to be invested or they will have to return the capital, hence valuations are bid up.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

There’s also been tremendous growth when it comes to dollars invested in female-founded companies. One 2018 study found that, during investment pitches, female entrepreneurs are more likely to be asked “prevention” questions, or those related to safety and potential risks and losses.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Yoon founded a seed fund, Forest Ventures focusing in automotive sector and was an investment director at SAIC capital, one of the leaders in China’s automotive industry. Before SAIC, she led the Corporate Venture Group at Maxim Integrated, where she led multiple strategic technology acquisitions and venture investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

At an accelerator … Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. And so forth.

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APRIL 3, 2012

I've been in venture capital (with the exception of a year in product management and two years as an entrepreneur) since 2001, when I started doing late stage venture and fund investing at a big financial institution.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Simple: according to Mike Polaris has followed on nearly every seed investment that they’ve done. Total raised: $30mm.

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OurCrowd

MAY 4, 2020

“Historically, investing in times of economic downturns – such as after the Internet bubble burst in 2001 and 2002, and after the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 — has proved lucrative because you’re buying at a discount. That’s a very good entry point for new investors,” Medved says. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

That spurred investments in riskier assets. When the market started to collapse, prices were dragged down even further by accounting scandals, such as Enron in 2001 , Arthur Andersen in 2002 and WorldCom in 2002.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I’ve seen friends (and family members) lose much of their savings that way over the years because “Black Swans” happen and in 1987, 2001, 2003 & 2008 (just to name a few from my memory) huge market gyrations caused much financial distress to people seeking short-term gains. So, too, investments.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 1, 2021

My favorite example of a world class pivot comes from the CEO and board of one of my most successful investments. Green Dot Corporation was formed by an entrepreneur in the year 2001 to create a product to permit those without credit cards to purchase items on the Internet. My story of a great pivot.

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OkDork

DECEMBER 9, 2022

His parents invested $300,000 to help Amazon get started. In the last quarter of 2001, Amazon finally turned its first profit. So he’s clearly investing a significant amount of resources into the development. He started it in 1998, and it has made a number of successful investments over the years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Tekever — based, fittingly, in historic maritime superpower Lisbon, Portugal — was founded back in 2001 and has only been offering commercial services since 2018. It invested in a Brazilian drone company, Santos Lab, several years ago, giving it a foothold in that part of the world.

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JULY 30, 2015

One of the first things I did when I joined the venture asset class as a lowly institutional LP analyst in 2001 was to build the VC fund cashflow model. Just about every analyst who looks at fund investing has built one. They're only investing in the ones that make it past seed, so isn't that a better bet? It's not perfect.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. Andersen had lost its long-time CEO, George Shaheen, was hemorrhaging staff and wasn’t exactly known as being an Internet pioneer.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 13, 2023

Virtually zero investment, and in return, he learned that there was a market for shoes online and which ones appealed the most — instant market knowledge and research. originally coined the term in 2001, and it was then adopted by author Steve Blank. It is a tester of your idea with a minimal investment. Remember Nick?

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As the entrepreneurs are hardly making any money to pay their personal bills, they devote a great deal of time and energy in making elaborate pitches for raising investment capital. Surging Growth: This period started in 2001. Some of the common mistakes made at this stage are –. Go On, Tell Us What You Think! Did we miss something?

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