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. Creating opportunities for women and minorities to grow.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

After a decade-long bull run, many venture capital funds have found themselves holding overvalued shares of companies whose IPO prospects have been either eliminated or significantly delayed. Greater geopolitical tensions around Taiwan The case for US venture capital outperformance by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2016

I know that white males get a majority of the venture capital funding. Swing lower and there go your funding chances--because these are investors looking for only the biggest opportunities. Now, I've seen the stats and the studies. Not a single investor turned her down.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

It all started in 2010 with Klout. I had been trading emails & Tweets with venture capitalist John Frankel and we were to meet in person in March 2011 at SxSW to talk about Klout and other investments he had made. Including ff Venture Capital’s unique approach to finding deals and the services they provide to their startups.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 28, 2022

So I clicked on the link to my Competing To Win Deals post, which I wrote in 2010, and read it. So I am reposting it below: The venture capital business is highly competitive. That way you put yourself in the position to win and you can work the specifics to close the deal when the opportunity presents itself.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. And he followed through.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The silver lining to the horrors wrought by Covid is that the pandemic opened the venture capital community’s eyes to the world of opportunity beyond the traditional tech startup hubs of California, New York, and Massachusetts. Today, cities around the country are entering a period not unlike early-stage Detroit.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 12, 2010

In order to give the angels who where there an opportunity to talk with these companies before things get frothy, I’ll refrain from naming all the companies here, but it was a really solid offering. Looking forward to doing at least two more of these in 2010! Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2010

Tuesday, January 19th 5:00PM Jan #140conf NYC Meetup An opportunity to discuss the emerging Real-Time Internet and the effects on business. RSVP: [link] 6:30PM Ultra Light Legal Series: January 2010 The Ultra Light Roundtable features a set of short talks on related topics of interest to entrepreneurs and business owners. Oh, and btw.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

While some adapt and survive, others end up retreating and creating M&A opportunity down the line for those left standing. The process starts slowly, but as the chart below shows, venture-backed M&A plummeted during the recessionary period, when venture investing also slowed.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I saw a few friends politely suggesting that “now was a great stock buying opportunity” meaning that given the stock market is off by 10% it was a great chance to buy and lock in presumably low prices before the market rises again. And by this I assume he meant that “market prognosticator twitter” was vomitous.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Sensing an opportunity to solve this problem, many entrepreneurs have developed voice-powered applications that allow providers to offer a better patient experience. million seniors lived alone in 2010), decreased independence ( 1.3 Other problems experienced by seniors include loneliness (more than 11.3 Here’s a look at it:

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

We cover a lot of venture capital news here at TechCrunch. Lately, we’ve had to touch on rolling funds, solo GPs and a faster-than-ever investing cadence that has rewritten the rules of venture investing. But there’s another venture capital trend worth discussing: venture capital firms going public.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

It highlights important events in the continent’s tech ecosystem until this point, compares its journey with other emerging markets and provides guidance into the opportunities within various sectors. And though they are inclined to follow the money, Endeavor wants them to look beyond usual market opportunities and map out exit pathways.

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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. As the YC example shows, Techstars had the opportunity to build one of the world’s top investing platforms for technical founders in every major tech hub outside the Bay Area.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Founded in 2010, Pipedrive’s calling card has always been that it is sales software designed to serve first and foremost the needs of sales people not their managers — built by sales people, for sales people, if you like — but has since matured into a more comprehensive CRM platform play also spanning marketing.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

We have no measure of the changes in available capital resources from entrepreneurs and their friends and family, but we have no reason to believe they have changed radically over the past few years. Let’s take a closer look at trends in government grants, angel investment and venture capital financings.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

The argument threaded through Fred’s posts above is that significant venture-scale opportunities for VCs existed outside the Bay Area. Just like Sequoia with their franchise model, or Accel, or the other larger funs, the top-tier venture capital firms have scaled up and out to grab these opportunities.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

But unlike the others, Juven is not a venture capital fund; the evergreen investment company is a spinoff from Goldman Sachs’ Africa principal team responsible for making several high-growth investments in the tech scene since 2014. Juven founder Jules Frebault led the Africa team, the Special Situations Group.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

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. Siemiatkowski also shares what’s next for the company as it ventures further into the world of retail banking after gaining a bank license in 2017. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This is a huge opportunity for founders to build a purpose-native company that will have generational impact on the community, for employees and investors alike. While people agree on the importance of becoming sustainable, sustainability practices are likely to take legacy players years to put in place and perfect.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy founded theBoardlist , a premium talent marketplace that helps diverse leaders get discovered for board and executive opportunities. I continued to listen to non-e-commerce pitches as well, simply to give myself a point of reference for evaluating online shopping opportunities. More posts by this contributor.

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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. To capitalize on this excellent growth opportunity, some entrepreneurs tend to make significant changes in a model that has been working reasonably well for them.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Investors are excited about the opportunities in the space market that are being unlocked by exit events and continued interest and private investment in the biggest and most successful space companies, including SpaceX.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Including a substantial number of investments with smaller opportunities only reduces the possible return on the entire portfolio. Size of the Opportunity 0-25%. The subjective ranking of factors (above) is typical for investor appraisal of startup ventures. TARGETCOMPANY.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Tan was a YC founder in the summer of 2008 and served as a partner there from December 2010 to November 2015. YC itself says it was founded in 2005 as “an antidote to the classic venture capital firm.” During his time as a partner, he advised and funded 700 companies and more than a thousand founders, YC says. .

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

In 2005, when Y Combinator started, there was already a well developed ecosystem of venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and Boston. But access to those venture capital firms was limited. Actually, this trend started with top VCs earlier, basically for the reasons Ben Horowitz wrote about in 2010.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

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. . Inkef Capital, Maki.vc, and Vendep Capital also participated in the Series B.). ” Using Happeo’s editing tools to build an intranet portal.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 13, 2021

Empirically, few small emerging investment managers hire placement agents, particularly in venture capital. Greycroft in 2010 also had an experienced team, but didn’t either. Private equity/venture capital managers have a much longer duration than most any other fund type. No historical relationship. .

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 29, 2023

In 2010, he introduced Beams, a leading Japanese fashion brand, to Taiwan. I knew it might be a huge opportunity.” He argues that brands who can effectively communicate with those audiences can sometimes unlock exponential business opportunities. This article is part of a partnership with Cherubic Ventures.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome Tech , which has built a digital platform aimed at immigrants and their families, has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s s SB Opportunity Fund.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Founded by Sheel Mohnot and Jake Gibson in November of 2019, San Francisco-based Better Tomorrow Ventures ( BTV ) has allocated $150 million to invest in startups at the pre-seed and seed stages. It has also reserved $75 million for an opportunity fund for follow-on investments. The personal finance company went public last year.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 18, 2022

Since 2010, I’ve worked as a media relations troubleshooter for some of the world’s leading organizations (NHS, HERE Technologies, Virgin). As leading venture capital investor in tech Eileen Burbidge MBE writes in the foreword to my new book, Exposure : ‘Seeking out media coverage may seem a vanity project. Or apply for a job?

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Haystack

JANUARY 12, 2020

So, with that Disclaimer, here are the main reasons seed stage firms have grown in size over the past decade, along with some risks and opportunities these conditions create: 1/ Catching Ambition – When some seed stage funds started, perhaps they didn’t know what their fund would turn into.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2023

billion in Flipkart over multiple funding rounds since 2010, according to TechCrunch reporting. We remain confident in the future of Flipkart and are even more positive about the opportunity in India today than when we first invested.” Tiger Global had invested a total of $1.2 Tiger Global declined to comment.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

They saw an opportunity to build a new navigation company as L5 band satellites have switched on in recent years. intelligence community’s venture capital and business development organization. He ran for governor in 2010, losing in the Republican primary against Meg Whitman, who made her name as the longtime head of eBay.

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