Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 4, 2020

We reviewed the data in May and compared it to the effects of the financial crisis in 2008 on startup fundraising. As a reminder, 2008 saw a 40% reduction in venture dollars invested in startups. These corrections match 2008. It took about six to eight quarters to return to normalcy. But the patterns this time are different.

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Dream It

JANUARY 23, 2019

Dreamit Ventures is an early stage venture fund that accelerates startups building transformative tech products in the fields of healthcare, real estate/built environment, and security. Every day at Dreamit, we see founders at various stages of that company-building process,” states Dreamit Managing Partner Steve Barsh.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Current round: $3mm in Series B by betaworks (lead)(largest investor in company), Ron Conway, Danny Rimer, Accelerator Group, Roger Ehrenberg, Howard Lindzon. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008. Founded in 2009 in San Francisco by David Soloff (ex-Lead Architect of Rapt, which was sold to MSFT in 2008).

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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. He is a successful entrepreneur, video game pioneer and venture capitalist and founder of the startup accelerator Play Labs @ MIT. The pandemic of 2020 has tested most sectors of the economy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

So as of 2008 total LP commitments were still at nearly $250 billion. What accelerated this was the collapse of the public stock markets. Our current fund was raised in 2008/09.] Consumers pulled their money out of these risky investments, but when LPs make commitments to VC funds they make 10-year, legally binding commitments.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

Satoshi gave us the playbook to build a decentralized internet stack back in 2008 and I feel quite confident that we will have massive mainstream applications running on this decentralized stack well before 2028. But none of that will matter if we don’t accelerate our focus on our warming planet.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

“While we certainly can’t draw causal lines directly to our efforts, I love that our awareness campaigns that started when Mark and I first shared our story on our 1-year transplant anniversary in 2020 and accelerated when we formed the Living Liver Foundation in 2022, coincide with the increase.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. Contrary to some press reporting, the boom in startups, the creation of accelerators and seed funds as well as the deserved popularity of AngelList do not signal doom for our industry. From this we have seen a commensurate boom in the number of startup companies.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

6/15/2008 – Application network of its own apps plus agency business plus ad network. 10/26/2008 – Agency business and branded applications – No more ad network or mention of their own apps. Buddy Media can build an application and drive 1 million users in just a few months.

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Dream It

APRIL 8, 2020

Having been at the forefront of the dot-com boom, 9/11, and the financial crisis of 2008, Jason knows what it takes to survive this downturn. In general, companies can expect to come out of accelerators at half the valuation they would otherwise have in favorable economic environments.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Specifically we talked about what single trigger vs. double trigger acceleration works and “termination without ’cause’ &#. . - We spoke about employment contracts for entrepreneurs – We talked about “change of control&# provisions in your contract and how to negotiate them. DEAL OF THE WEEK.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

My Dad was drafted into the Air Force and was given accelerated citizenship. So I was intrigued when I read Thomas Friedmans’s Op Ed in December 2008 about the need to Reboot America. Not least of which because my father immigrated to the US in the 1960’s for his residency program of medical school. He was fortunate.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

“We looked back historically over the last decade and a little bit more, and it turns out that even during the 2008-2009 economic downturn, the space industry continued to grow at 7% per year,” Crawford said, adding that they saw almost no correlation between the performance of the Global S&P 1200 and the space industry.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) ’s Accelerator program empowers early-stage entrepreneurs with the tools, community and accountability necessary to aggressively grow and master their businesses. How has your participation in EO Accelerator impacted your entrepreneurial journey? Did you conduct any practice sessions?

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 13, 2023

While a run on a bank by current depositors can clearly accelerate negative trends we must also be mindful of the responsible support of the startup ecosystem that can and should come from venture capitalists, angels and other stakeholders. history, behind only the 2008 failure of Washington Mutual with roughly $300 billion in total assets.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sopoong was launched in 2008 by Jaewoong Lee , who co-founded South Korea’s largest internet portal operator Daum Communication, which merged with Kakao in 2014. Nine of the 16 portfolio companies are participating in Sopoong’s first accelerator program, which launched in June and runs for six months.

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

We started the firm in 2008, on the cusp of the Global Financial Crisis, and it’s somehow fitting to be entering our 15th year as the laws of financial gravity reassert themselves once again. Founders’ Co-op turns fifteen this year.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 18, 2022

Since 2008, the US experienced an unabated 12 year bull market fueled by four waves of money printing which increased US money supply by 30%+. Market prices accelerate faster with single-winner auctions. The slides are embedded above & linked here. My brief narrative of the slides follows. This experiment culminated with Covid.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 3, 2023

HD is also one of ten startups recently accepted into the Google for Startups Accelerator: Southeast Asia program. This new funding round will allow the company to solidify its leading position in the healthcare marketplace space while accelerating HDcare, HD’s new innovative elective surgery product.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

“Teaming up with Bending Spoons will [accelerate] the delivery of improvements across our teams, professional, personal and free offerings.” . “For Evernote, this decision is the next strategic step forward on our journey to be an extension of your brain,” Small wrote.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Once the startup is able to prove its potential and sustain this exponential growth during the growth-inflexion phase, its growth continues to accelerate at a fast pace, attracting more customers to try the offering. The primary focus should be on carefully assessing the operations and getting them in sync with the revenue growth.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

We are excited to team up with Wirecard Turkey under the leadership of its CEO Serkan Yasin and we continue to actively look for further M&A opportunities in the region to accelerate its growth and development” Wirecard Turkey (Wirecard Ödeme ve Elektronik Para Hizmetleri A.?.)

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

The end of the lengthy startup boom that first formed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and largely powered through until the final months of 2021 is shaking out, changing how the market views certain entities. Y Combinator, or YC for short, is the world’s best-known accelerator. Let’s talk about it. The return of fear.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

With the new cash, which brings ThreatX’s total raised to $52 million, CEO Gene Fay tells TechCrunch that ThreatX will “accelerate” investments in platform development while scaling sales and marketing initiatives. ” Real-time protection or no, it’s true that API attacks are a growing cyber threat.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Husk Power Systems , a clean energy company that has been at the forefront of fueling rural electrification since 2008, is planning to launch 500 solar mini-grids in Nigeria over the next five years. The company plans to have additional technological and business model innovations, and the use of AI and IoT to remotely manage its fleet. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Shriya Nevatia of accelerator program On Deck cited the Pitchbook data as a reason for optimism, pointing out the recent increase in the percentage of deals with at least one female founder in a tweet yesterday. in 2008 — that’s quite fast!!” Wrote Nevatia: “This is sooo much closer to 50% — up from 11.8%

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Michael Seibel was chief executive of Y Combinator’s accelerator up until 2020, when the accelerator evolved from a more traditional partnership to no longer having multiple CEOs. YC says that no one else’s role at the accelerator has changed with today’s executive shakeup.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

AccountsIQ says the injection of capital will be used for accelerated growth and recruitment across sales and marketing, customer success and engineering to continue to enhance the product. With the acceleration of cross-border e-commerce and macro events like Brexit, that customer profile is evidently expanding.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Sanchali Pal first woke up to the world’s climate crisis after watching the 2008 documentary Food Inc. Together we can accelerate the pace of change by demonstrating our demand for a cleaner society.” “Companies and governments change when enough people demand it through their actions and behaviors.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Andy Areitio is a partner at the early-stage fund TheVentureCity , a new venture and acceleration model that helps diverse founders achieve global impact. If you take a look at the last two recessions in the United States (2000 and 2008), you will see that the stock market crash coincided with corrections to valuations in the VC market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Many things have accelerated in the world of fintech over the past year, not the least of which is the trend of digital banks aimed at specific communities in the U.S. Co-founder and CEO Ken Lian came to the United States from China in 2008 to attend college.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

The Canada-based company got its start in 2008 as the payment processing company Zomaron, and rebranded itself as Paystone in 2019. In addition, Al-Ansari expects growth to accelerate for the rest of the year. Paystone , a payments and integrated software company, secured another strategic investment this year, this time $23.8

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 22, 2023

In a statement, both companies said that they will have to collaborate on investments into HYUH and Hanyang University affiliate startups and accelerate their internationalisation efforts into Singapore and the rest of the world. He added that cross-border success depends on the strengths of the ecosystem players.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Originally from Munich, Germany, the company has been around since 2008 — Schufa acquired a majority stake in finAPI in 2019. Working with finAPI, we can gain more speed, agility, and depth to accelerate innovation and shape the future of open finance in Europe and beyond,” Yapily founder and CEO Stefano Vaccino said in a statement.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Seventy-six percent of Colombians use fintech services, according to an Ernst & Young report, the highest fintech adoption rate in Latin America, and from 2008 to 2022, the percentage of Colombian adults who hold a banking product rose from 55% to over 90%.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 23, 2017

We elevated the business value to new heights in 2008 and yet I was powerless to stop the carnage as it plummeted to earth a few years later due to errant decision making. Whitaker is co-founder and board member of RevTech Accelerator, a leading venture accelerator seed fund.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

In 2008, he ended up in a clinic, spending $35,000 on every kind of blood, stool, saliva or urine test there was to figure out why he continued to get sick. The company will expand geographically and accelerate much of its R&D that has been going on since Athletic Greens was started a decade ago. Image Credits: Athletic Greens. “I

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