Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I said, “It’s much easier now than it was in 2008/09.&# And time is the enemy of all deals so start sooner rather than later, as anybody who was planning to raise in October 2008 will tell you. Or worse yet they may never get financed. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. That’s a fact.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He’s personally led more than 50 financing rounds. led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. It’s part of what makes him so likable.

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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. Our current fund was raised in 2008/09.] After all, most people don’t understand that “venture capital is a get rich slowly&# scheme. Nobody understands this better than First Round Capital. The top quartile funds have performed well.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. Mo & I both have double majors with one being finance / econ. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2011

Back at the end of 2008, when the economy was in the tank, and funding was tough to come by, NYC Seed, a small local fund with some government and local academic backing supported my startup, Path 101. That additional financing enabled Hilary Mason, our Chief Scientist at the time, to fully commit to moving to NYC.

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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. When you’re running your own venture — especially if it’s your first — it’s unlikely you will find the time to deep dive into how venture capital firms work.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. Same with VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. So get out there and start raising your capital! Let’s be honest – the same is true for VC’s.

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Here are the trends in venture capital financings from 2006 through 2010 – the number of seed stage deals funded and total investment by region in millions of dollars. . Then, I looked at angel investment in the US over the past five years, as reported by the Center for Venture Research , in billions of dollars.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

There are real changes in the venture capital industry and it would have been fun to talk about them. What micro VCs need to consider is what happens when several of your companies want to grow and require VC financing? Or when the economy turns downward and they all need financing extensions? Answer: Not much.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Often times when companies raise “bridge” financing (this is money from internal investors. Doxo (November 2009 financing, just announced in May 2010 as company exited stealth mode). Short answer: no.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

Some LPs might not make capital calls because they are worried about the environment, and some LPs might actually no longer have the liquidity to fulfill these capital calls. LPs failed to make capital calls in the late 90s during the dot-com bubble burst, after September 11, and during the financial crisis in 2008.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Venture Financings we Discussed. Spun off from Freewebs in 2008, based in Palo Alto. Current round: $2mm Series B from Tomorrow Ventures (Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google) and Lars Hinrichs (Xing founder). Current round: $8.5mm Series-C led by Jafco Ventures with DCM , Emergence Capital, and August Capital participating.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

We’ve had two companies where we had to bridge finance them several times before they eventually IPO’d We had a portfolio company turn-down a $350 million acquisition because they wanted at least $400 million. Early-stage venture capital is about extreme winners. It sold to Amazon for > $1 billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital?

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

The company raised $50 million Series C funding led by NewView Capital, with participation from SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund and King River Capital. During the 2008 economic downturn, Almond’s family lost their home. I’ve wanted something like this to exist for 20 years,” Almond said.

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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. Usually, entrepreneurs use bootstrapping to finance their expenses. Today, disruption is rather slow-paced. Not every startup see such hockey stick growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

That’s the beauty of markets and of capitalism. That was written in September 2008. Put simply, it’s really hard to build a strong company when all of your competitors are giving away free s**t fueled by venture capital chasing winner-take-all returns. Why Financing in Falling Markets is So Damn Difficult.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Less than 2% of venture capital funding went to all-female founding teams in 2021, marking a five-year low, new data from Pitchbook shows. So how is it that despite the recent boom in startup funding, the venture capital industry is actually becoming an even tougher place for women to raise money?

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Everyone loves an underdog, which is why investors and tech journalists are so fond of discussing startups that launched during the Great Recession of 2008, like Airbnb, Uber, WhatsApp, Mailchimp, Square and Venmo. If your company is too nascent to be valued, convertible notes might be a viable way to secure early financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing. There is no such thing as a uniform price. That’s fine. I’m a VC so I have an obvious bias.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

I lived and invested through the 2008 crisis, and I’ve been trying to share the lessons I learned through that struggle with my portfolio companies, some of which I want to share with you. Remember, if you don’t ask investors for support now, someone else in their portfolio will.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro. .&# Jody didn’t exactly have an easy time fund raising because he’s not one of the prototypical Silicon Valley funded entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

What is happening to risk-taking in venture capital? I have looked at tech from both sides now (h/t Joni Mitchell ), as a three-time entrepreneur and as a venture investor through two downturns. More posts by this contributor. Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Now, there’s some extremely capital-intensive businesses where you need buckets of money before that traction is generated, and that becomes harder to finance in downturns. I’ve always said that the low-interest rate environment that we’ve had really since 2008 has generated an interest-free loan on risky startups.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Venture capital totals are sagging in most geographies, and falling share prices for tech companies large and small have soured sentiment on the future value of high-growth and often cash-hungry startups. Tiger, the mega-crossover fund, has evolved from a market-dominating change agent in technology financing to a bag holder.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

But for Ansaf Kareem, venture partner at Lightspeed, the tough times can be seen as a good thing because they often create the best companies. “If 2008 and 2000), not only have we seen outstanding companies being formed, we’ve also witnessed great venture firm performance during these windows,” he said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

While at Pinterest she helped it expand internationally, close its Series C financing and led three acquisitions. Tavel is also a founding member of All Raise, the nonprofit organization focused on women in the venture capital and VC-backed startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

The companies that took their first venture capital during the craze decided to join forces with other well-capitalized competitors. But that’s all I’m giving away now; read the entire survey to see where investors are finding hope, what is no longer venture-backable and what wave of edtech innovation they think we’re in today.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Startups that managed their finances wisely now can boast a strong balance sheet, lower expenses and plenty of cash. Seed-stage investing is the best place for venture capital to deploy when global uncertainty sprouts up. At the same time, they’ve been able to raise big rounds at increasing frequencies.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. One of the most common areas of attention respondents highlighted were startups focused on construction and manufacturing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The round was led by Pan-African early-stage venture capital firm, TLcom Capital , with participation from nonprofit Women’s World Banking. The raise comes after Pula closed $1 million in seed investment from Rocher Participations with support from Accion Venture Lab, Omidyar Network and several angel investors in 2018. .

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Haystack

APRIL 27, 2018

At a minimum, getting to the Series A derisks (perhaps temporarily) a seed investment in a world where the shapes of investment outcomes can take a decade or more (consider, Uber is now a decade old and DocuSign, which just went public, was started in 2008). Historically, startups have by default relied on venture capital as financing source.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Tribevest founder Travis Smith went on a fishing trip with his brothers in 2008 that he says they couldn’t afford. The brothers had dreams of finding their own financial freedom through investing in real estate, but didn’t have enough individual capital to go into business alone. The Tribevest dashboard Image Credits: Tribevest.

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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. In the past decade, we lived through an unprecedented run of optimism and climbing valuations, and the gut check we’re seeing now has been long in coming.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.) was spun out, and the valuation was set by that financing round.

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