This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

What are the most significant education technology trends of 2010 and beyond? Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Monitoring, analytics and design iteration for social interaction RSVP: [link] Friday, February 5th 12PM: The Future of Social Media in Higher Education How is social media changing the way college students learn?

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 6, 2023

What will a venture capital turnaround feel like? Then GreenDot’s IPO in Q2 2010 at $1.4b Will it be gradual or sudden? What will change the sentiment in the market? In 2008, I had just become a venture capitalist. Three months later, Lehman fell & the Global Financial Crisis started. at $1.5b.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Despite the growth in awarded venture capital (VC) funds, a staggering disparity remains between the amount of total VC funds invested in entrepreneurs and the portion of those funds invested in ventures founded and/or led by women—particularly women of color. I’ve created 15 funds in the last year alone. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Founded in 2010, Coupang is sometimes described as the Amazon of South Korea, but for years it has managed the impressive feat of achieving an even higher dollar retention rate than Amazon, according to a report by Goodwater Capital. Coupang consumer research by Goodwater Capital.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2019

In 2014, I published a post called Do Startup Require Less Capital to Succeed than 10 Years Ago ? In the analysis, I created a metric, the return on invested capital (ROIC). In 2010, one venture dollar bought $1.24 First, availability of capital. It’s tripled from about $92m to more than $300M since 2010.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 25, 2010

8AM Regulatory Scrutiny of Social Media: The Impact on PR Communicators in 2010 and Beyond. We're kicking off 2010 with demos from four exciting new local startups. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. RSVP: [link]. Tuesday, January 26th. RSVP: [link] Wednesday, January 27th. RSVP: [link]. Saturday, January 30th.

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500

APRIL 28, 2020

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

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

A portion of the capital — $10 million — was debt, while the rest was a Series A equity tranche led by Georgian Capital Partners. million in capital. The company previously closed a seed round in April 2010 and a small venture round in February 2020; the Series A is its first round since the latter.)

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It seems that every internet company and their dog have at least one venture capital (VC) arm under their wing, with the likes of Google Ventures (now GV), Microsoft Ventures (now M12), Salesforce Ventures , Twilio Ventures , and Zoom Ventures all serving their corporate namesakes potential cash cows via hundreds of equity investments.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2017

In 2010, classic SaaS was booming, the benefits of a subscription model were finally becoming clear to the public markets and the mass-market. The chart above breaks out 14 different software categories and shows the amount of dollars invested in each category indexed to 2010 levels. Cybersecurity investments are classic hockey stick.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Blippy (and their competitor Swipely – which was founded by Angus Davis , who has a great track record from both Netscape and TellMe, both aim to capitalize on the era of consumers living more openly ala Twitter, Foursquare and Gowalla. 11.2mm in Series A, rumored pre-money of $35mm; $1.6mm angel raised in Jan 2010. OpenCandy.

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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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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. The Spark Capital website (it’s one of my favorites). Current round: $10mm in Series B by Norwest (lead), Storm Ventures and Adams Capital. Other Deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Peer-to-peer lending service; started on FaceBook; claim to own 79% of the US peer lending market in March 2010 with a whopping $8,664,750. Investors: Foundation Capital (lead), with existing investors: Morgenthaler Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan Partners. Investors: Union Square (lead), Spark Capital (lead).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. mm in Series A; IdealLab ( Bill Gross ), Index Ventures ( Danny Rimer ), Revolution LLC ( Steve Case ), First Round Capital , BetaWorks , Jason Calcanis.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 22, 2017

The chart above shows the compound annual growth rate of venture investment rounds A through D in ten fastest growing venture markets plus the US from 2010-2016. It’s wonderful to see the expansion of venture capital across these geographies and especially at very healthy growth rates. The US, meanwhile, grew 75%.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

It will also be my last venture capital deal. Venture capital is a pretty opaque industry and if I can shed some light on what it’s like to do this, or to decide to stop doing it, I’m happy to help. I’ve decided that this is long enough for me—especially given the fact that when you’re in venture capital, you don’t just stop.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2024

Many new seed funds started & the rate of company formation surged during the early 2020s driven by an ebullient capital markets. The Seeds of the 2010 era are the pre-Seeds of today, making the comparison impure. The orange crush of seed investment has outpaced the growth in Series A & Series B rounds.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

The company launched in 2010 as Zee Aero and then merged with Kitty Hawk Corporation. This new capital will be used to fund the development of the company’s sixth-generation electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Previous investors Target Global, 468 Capital and Earlybird Venture Capital also participated.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 20, 2023

The post-Covid surge in venture capital pushed valuations & activity to record breaking heights. 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] Since then, investing activity dropped precipitously.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. When interest rates are too low for too long, capital flows toward riskier assets that offer the promise of higher returns.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Register Venture capital firm 500 Global has successfully closed its 500 Southeast Asia III fund, amassing $143 million in capital. Established in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, 500 Global has a portfolio with $2.4 Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

When deal-making slows, VC dollars typically favor the perceived market leader, starving other venture-backed businesses in the same space of capital. 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.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

For years there has been a pervasive opinion across the entrepreneurial landscape that the US has a shortage of capital required to startup and grow new ventures. But, what evidence do we have of this shortage of capital? Let’s take a closer look at trends in government grants, angel investment and venture capital financings.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

NextView Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital fund, has raised an $89.6 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. venture deals, and 10.3%

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Fink About It

MARCH 24, 2016

In June of 2010, something really extraordinary happened in the world of Philanthropy. The post Conscious Capitalism appeared first on Fink About It. The post Conscious Capitalism appeared first on Fink About It. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet began recruiting for what is known as “The Giving Pledge.”

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Register Singapore-based venture capital firm Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India (VVSEAI) has successfully concluded its fifth funding round, raising $541 million. 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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

These professionals often receive inquiries from founders, equity investment firms and venture capitalists looking for ways to save on or avoid capital gains taxes on future business sales. Qualifying for Section 1202’s capital gains tax exclusion takes careful planning.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. What gives?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Andreessen Horowitz’s recent hire of former Jordan Park Group Chief Investment Officer Michel Del Buono suggests the venture capital firm is getting into startup founder wealth management. Both Iconiq Capital and Sequoia Capital offer money management services. Andreessen Horowitz is not the first to dip its toe in this arena.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

If you want to raise venture capital more easily the advice could be quite practical and counter-intuitive. It is 2010. Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. That means that they likely raised money at a particularly high price relative to 2010 prices.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2022

It has also led to eye-popping levels of capital raised by early-stage companies, some of which were years away from entering the clinic with their first product. Capital is the fuel that advances scientific and technological innovation, and it means a life science startup can create products that benefit the world at large.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

General Atlantic, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Princeville Capital and sovereign wealth funds, ADQ (UAE) and Qatar Investment Authority co-led the round. . Founded in 2010, Trendyol ranks as Turkey’s largest e-commerce company, serving more than 30 million shoppers and delivering more than 1 million packages per day. billion valuation.

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