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500’s Past & Present: Betting on International Startups

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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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Where Have All the Angels Gone?

Tomasz Tunguz

Angel investing was an important part of the Startupland ecosystem. 2018 observed the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. Angels led 156 rounds last year, a figure that collapsed from 714 in 2015. In that same time period, the median angel round has fallen from $500k to $270k.

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Startup Capital: Feast or Famine?

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Let’s take a closer look at trends in government grants, angel investment and venture capital financings. According to the Center for Venture Research, The Angel Investor Market in 2010 was about $20 billion and funded about 60,000 companies, with about one-third of that capital committed to seed/startup stage companies.

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The Venture Capital Diversity Gap and Why It Matters

StartupNation

Creating opportunities for women and minorities to grow. This passion was one that I would foster and come to utilize within the VC space in order to support women from diverse and underserved backgrounds and communities so that they wouldn’t hesitate in the face of opportunities out of fear of not feeling like they belonged.

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Valuations 101: Scorecard Valuation Methodology

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For this round of investment, the angels collectively purchase 20-40% of the equity of the company and are seeking a return on investment of 20-30X in a period of five to eight years. Active angels invest in a diversified portfolio of 10 or more companies, usually spreading their investments over a few years.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

We also learn how, under his watch and as the company began to scale, Klarna missed the next big opportunity in fintech, instead being usurped by Adyen and Stripe. But whatever the intent, it would be another two years before the firm eventually had the opportunity to invest in Klarna at what was almost certainly a much higher valuation.

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Happeo lands $26M to provide a central intranet portal for employees

TechCrunch

But Ojansuu says that his view was shaped by his experiences working with customers at Gapps, a Finland-based Google Workspace reseller he helped to co-found in 2010. . ” Using Happeo’s editing tools to build an intranet portal.