A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 27, 2021

Our first Opportunity Fund, raised two years later in 2010, has generated only 3.9x That explains why our 2010 Opportunity Fund has a lower cash on cash return but a much higher IRR than our 2008 early-stage fund. Our 2014 Opportunity Fund has a higher cash on cash return but a lower IRR than our 2010 Opportunity Fund.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The post [Syqe in NoCamels] 2010-2019 Insights from a Decade of World-Changing Israeli Innovations appeared first on OurCrowd. In June, Syqe Medical, an Israeli pharma-tech company, announced the launch of the world’s first pharmaceutical-grade metered-dose cannabis inhaler. Read more here.

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Revolution

MARCH 1, 2023

We looked at the analysis in two parts: the 1997–2010 time period and the 2011–2020 time period. 1997–2010 The chart above captured fund vintages that were fully-seasoned and had distributed most of their holdings. 2010–2020 We then looked at the top quartile fund performers for fund vintages since 2010.

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500

APRIL 28, 2020

Since 2010, we have expressed our commitment to those values in multiple ways. Long before diversity and inclusion became buzzwords, we decided to make venture capital inclusive from day one at 500 Startups.

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500

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Since 2010, we’ve. We believe the new corporate landscape calls for new strategies. As one of the most active, early-stage investors in the world¹, 500 Startups has a unique perspective on the innovation economy. The post The Future of Corporate Venture Capital appeared first on 500 Startups.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The post [OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved in NoCamels] 2010-2019 Insights from a Decade of World-Changing Israeli Innovations appeared first on OurCrowd. Read more here.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 20, 2023

The red is a linear model based on data from 2010 to 2018 that predicts activity rates for each financing series of US & Canadian software companies. [1] By looking at the cumulative rounds since 2010, we can see that Seed, A, & B volumes all trended meaningfully above their predicted counts.

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500

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In 2010, 500 Startups started as a new kind of venture capital firm in Silicon Valley with a contrarian belief that talent can come from anywhere in the world. Back then, very few venture capital firms in the valley were focused on much outside of our collection of cities within the San Francisco Bay area. ”If

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 1, 2021

After witnessing the financial crisis first-hand, Tim and I embarked on a new journey in 2010 by founding Elenteny Imports, offering innovative logistics services to buoy wine, spirits and beer companies during unprecedented times. Evolving into entrepreneurship.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 17, 2024

She sold her first B2B SaaS startup in 2010, just one year after graduating with a B.S. Ooshma was named CEO of Intelligent Foods and managed 750+ employees working across multiple nationwide D2C food brands, including Gobble and Sunbasket. Ooshma has founded and built three businesses. in BioMechanical Engineering from Stanford University.

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500

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

back in 2010. As venture dollars increasingly shift towards being deployed outside of the U.S., firms need to be thinking about their strategy to manage the trend towards globalization. 500 began making bets outside of Silicon Valley and outside of the U.S. Today, in 2019, 49% of our overall portfolio hails from outside the U.S.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

During the early recovery, however, VC-backed M&A rebounded and skyrocketed: Annual deal values eclipsed $30 billion in 2010, holding steady before ballooning above $70 billion in 2014. This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on September 28, 2022. “

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

KeyPay was founded in 2010 by Phil Bernie, Richard McLean, Paul Duran and Kristian Reynolds, and is active in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and the United Kingdom, which Employment Hero said will help it grow in those markets. It has now raised a total of $220 million AUD.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

In 2010 somebody posed the question on Quora, “Is Mark Suster a Successful Venture Capitalist?” Helping companies get to next financing round successfully: I was just beginning this phase in Sept 2010 and said so. This is what I wrote on that Quora answer from Sept 2010. Lemons ripen early, great companies take time.”

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

At the start of 2010, there was some unwritten VC industry conventions that have been tested, challenged, and upended in the last decade. I don’t have the data, but I’d bet the “minimum ownership” requirements VC funds started 2010 with have gone down dramatically. What a difference a decade makes!

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Jimmy has been with ADIVAH since 2010, after an earthquake that destroyed his community. ADIVAH is a group of youth volunteers who put their leadership into practice by serving the community. They truly live up to their name, as their actions “inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more,” the group says.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2023

billion in Flipkart over multiple funding rounds since 2010, according to TechCrunch reporting. To recap, Walmart is already a majority shareholder in Flipkart, and this new deal valued the online marketplace at $35 billion, a minor 7% valuation haircut from its last publicly announced valuation of $37.6 Tiger Global declined to comment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Prior to 2010, only part of the capital gain on QSBS was excluded from taxable gain under section 1202 and the portion excluded from gain was an item of tax preference subject to alternative minimum tax.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Established in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, 500 Global has a portfolio with $2.4 It serves as its primary investment vehicle for startups throughout the region’s growth journey, from pre-seed stages to the cusp of initial public offerings (IPOs). billion in assets under management.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Boomerang launched its email productivity software in 2010, and since its 2014 launch, Superhuman has raised $108 million to help users get through their inbox faster. Plus, talk about a large TAM! Startups have taken note. Trying to build a better email mousetrap isn’t exactly a novel concept, but it could be big business.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In 2010, Gastón participated in a social assistance trip to Peru; recognized the different social, political and economic needs of the area; and saw how his actions could affect the individuals in the community’s lives.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Consumer Reform and Protection Act, passed in 2010, stated that financial institutions were required to give consumers access to their financial data electronically either for personal or third-party use. Now, it might be healthcare’s turn.

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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. . In 2010, MoneyTree© reports that only 138 seed stage VC deals were done outside of California, New England, NYC Metro and the Pacific Northwest. All Seed-VC.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Now, this company was founded in 2010 by Jason Raznick and now claims 25 million readers a month of its financial content. Paul, Jason Raznick started this company in 2010 in his basement with a $3,000 investment. Congratulations, zingers, as you call yourselves at Benzinga, you deserve it.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 14, 2019

There was a time around 2010 and 2011 when Tumblr was the most engaging social platform that I was on. Tumblr was both a blogging platform and a social media application and while I always loved the versatility of the platform, native mobile applications benefit from simplicity, not complexity.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 11, 2020

The market bounced back to similar levels once in Q2 2010, but needed eight quarters to return to its previous volumes. The Series B market had a nice resurgence as well, followed by a retrenchment in late 2010 and then another surge. That grew to about $5B per quarter in 2007 and early 2008. in the quarters following the crash.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Chartio was founded in 2010, and participated in the Y Combinator Summer 2010 cohort. As for Chartio customers, unfortunately according to a notice on the company website, the product is going to be going away next year, but customers will have plenty of time to export the data to another tool. It raised a modest $8.03

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India (VVSEAI) was founded in 2010 to drive innovation and support scalable businesses in the Southeast Asian and Indian regions. This track record led most of our investors from VVSEAI Fund IV to return as investors in VVSEAI Fund V and increase their allocation,” he said.

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Y Combinator

APRIL 7, 2020

Before that, he joined YC in 2010 as the first non-founding partner to work on scaling YC beyond 25 companies a batch. He was the CEO and co-founder of Triplebyte (YC S15), a technical skills assessment used by companies including Apple and American Express to hire software engineers.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2019

In 2010, one venture dollar bought $1.24 If we look at the ROIC across IPOs across the last 12 years or so, we see that same initial dynamic of incredibly efficient companies in the 2010 and 2014 IPO cohorts. It’s tripled from about $92m to more than $300M since 2010. One venture dollar bought forty-two cents at IPO.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Meanwhile, Sequoia’s business unit, Sequoia Heritage, was formed in 2010 and currently manages $16.4 Iconiq is managing over $80 billion , up from $23 billion in 2020, and its client list includes Mark Zuckerberg , Sheryl Sandberg and Jack Dorsey. billion, according to Bloomberg.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

He has invested in more than 20 companies since 2010. According to Crunchbase, he co-founded Warehouse Investimentos in 2010, where he led deal-sourcing efforts. SoftBank describes Baer as one of the pioneers of Brazil’s venture capital industry.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Since 2010, roughly a dozen venture-backed unicorns have emerged in and around Salt Lake, in no small part because Qualtrics put the city on the map for founders and VCs. And that mass of talent, in turn, continued to build in Utah.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 6, 2023

Then GreenDot’s IPO in Q2 2010 at $1.4b Companies chewed gravel, gritting out each quarter. About 5 quarters later, the exit market offered a little sprig of hope. In Q4 2009, Amazon acquired Zappos for $1b. suggested the IPO market wasn’t icy. at $1.5b.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

From 2010 to today, the number of GitHub users has exploded from 500,000 to 103 million. New products like Meilisearch and Supabase are gaining traction exponentially faster than the legends of COSS like MongoDB, which were founded much earlier.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Singapore, Tech in Asia (TIA) is a digital news outlet specializing in providing coverage of startup and venture capital news to a readership primarily spanning Southeast Asia, India, and North America.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

NextView Ventures was launched in 2010 by Rob Go , a former partner at Spark Capital; Dave Beisel , who clocked time at Venrock and Masthead Venture Partners; and Lee Hower, a former investor at Point Judith Capital. The firm’s fourth fund, its largest to date, is oversubscribed, with early documents indicating a $70 million goal.

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