2009 startup ecosystem VC 
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. Pitchbook estimates that there is about $290 billion of VC “overhang” (money waiting to be deployed into tech startups) in the US alone and that’s up more than 4x in just the past decade.
This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
In the early spring of 2009, the fundraising nuclear winter of the previous year hadn't yet thawed. I was out trying to save my startup by talking to as many investors as I could. VCs pitch for money, too. No one ever thinks about VCs having to pitch, who they pitch to, or how it works.
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Founders Coop
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
This post is an attempt to unpack the changes we observed both during and after our time with Techstars, to draw out potentially useful lessons about how things might have gone differently. ——— In the Beginning: Champions of the Local Startup Ecosystem Techstars launched its first program in Boulder in 2007.
TechCrunch
MARCH 28, 2023
The Tory Burch Foundation, which was launched in 2009 by fashion designer Tory Burch, has a long history of supporting women entrepreneurs. Regarding the landscape for women overall within the startup ecosystem, she said she hopes it will get better.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Without further ado, here are the five judges who will pick the 2021 Startup Battlefield winner: Kirsten Green is the founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm she formed in 2010. Clicker, which launched at the TechCrunch50 conference in 2009, was acquired by CBS Interactive.
Hunter Walk
AUGUST 26, 2022
Box had just 50 employees and was hitting an inflection point when I joined in 2009, so there was far more work to do than people to do it. We’d all benefited tremendously from having access to scout capital…could we create a new model to bring more women into this part of the startup ecosystem at scale?
Don Dodge
APRIL 6, 2015
None of the local VC firms invested. from Sequoia Capital and have gone on to raise over $1 Billion from VC investors. Despite deep local roots in Boston and strong ties to Harvard and MIT, they decided to shut down Ycombinator Cambridge and moved everything to Silicon Valley in January of 2009.
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