Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

Despite that lack of experience, I am fortunate in that I have direct access to many of the greatest VC leaders and franchises for mentorship and guidance. Like VC platforms, these funds could potentially be either as price-insensitive and/or provide more value via portfolio and market insights than a typical seed fund can. Granted, 6.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

However, in 2013, Stone and the others shifted their focus to individual startups. In 2017, Stone publicly announced he was returning to Twitter to lead strategic vision, brand, and culture, where he remained until 2021. “The [web3] culture doesn’t appeal to me. million in seed funding (5.1

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MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” Why are all of the VC home runs from white men, or Asian men in Asia, plus a few Asian men in the U.S.?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Nicole Centeno founded the company in 2013. Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets. Is cell-cultured meat ready for prime time? One of the companies that jumped into this category early was Splendid Spoon , a meal delivery service specializing in ready-made plant-based soups, bowls and smoothies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

There is an unmet need of $260 billion to $320 billion for women-owned company funding, according to a 2013 study conducted by the International Finance Corporation. Furthermore, women founders receive less than 3% of all VC dollars. Data from Women in VC show that only 5.6% VC firms are women-led and only 4.9%

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Khosla, who spoke onstage at the Upfront Summit in Los Angeles this week, spoke about the culture of capital. Khosla has a history of criticizing some of the mainstream wisdom by VCs. Onstage, he pointed to a TechCrunch piece he wrote in 2013, titled: “70-80% Of VCs Add Negative Value To Startups.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. It’s identical to what’s happening in Africa: Less than 1% of all VC dollars went toward startups with one or more women founders last year, according to The Big Deal , which details investments in Africa.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

With over 150 customers now, they range from financial institutions such as VC and PE firms, consumer product companies, and media organizations. When I began investing in 2013, the Series A rounds were quite fast and furious after the seed rounds. That is not the case today.

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Haystack

JANUARY 20, 2019

That escalation from $25K back in 2013 took a little over four years. As a side note, one of many reasons LPs are more comfortable with spinouts from existing VC firms is that the GPs in those cases have been exposed to the sophistication of fund management through their previous roles.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

But it’s been hard to argue against this position in the last 10 years, as the country powered ahead, famously producing ground-breaking startups like Waze, which was eventually picked up by Google for more than $1 billion in 2013. As in other countries in “COVID 2020”, VC tended to focus on existing portfolio companies.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The entire seed market is wholly different from when I sent the first Haystack wire in March 2013, and with every fund comes a new game to learn to play. That period of life was extremely frustrating in those early days, and it was incredibly hard to earn the trust of institutional LPs to eventually build a VC fund.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. 15 steps to fundraising a new VC or private equity fund. Katherine Boe Heuck is a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022), a past intern at Versatile VC and a current intern at Metaprop NYC. David Teten. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

When venture capitalist Aileen Lee coined the term in 2013, there was a very good reason to call a privately held startup worth more than $1 billion a unicorn: There were only 39 of them. Through the first three quarters of 2021 alone, VC investment jumped by half year-over-year, from $166 billion in 2020 to $240 billion through Sept.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Dataiku has taken a leadership position helping enterprises put massive datasets to work at unprecedented speed and creating a culture of AI focused on delivering compounding business results.” There’s signs VC investments in AI startups are cooling. We are pleased to partner and contribute to their impressive journey.

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Haystack

JANUARY 12, 2020

Rather, this short blog is filled only with my own observations from being in the middle of the evolving seed market since 2013. If you’re reading this looking for data and hard numbers, charts, and footnotes, you’ll be disappointed.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Grab your calendar and add these two: We’re doing a Data and Culture Transformation event on April 26 for the big data aficionados, and now is your last chance to buy discounted tickets for our in-person TC Sessions: Mobility event on May 18 and 19, as well as the virtual event on the 20th. Startups and VC. Stay tuned.

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Haystack

JUNE 29, 2018

PillPack raised a bit over $100M and, if the rumors are true, getting purchased for $1B (or close to it) for a company formed in 2013 is a fantastic outcome in a relatively short period of time. 5/ (Pill) Bottle Returns – This is the part where we talk about the venture-scale return.

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Haystack

MAY 19, 2018

Fast forward to 2013 — we became parents, I started investing, and life as we knew it changed. Five years ago, I didn’t think I would be a venture partner at a VC firm, or that I’d be managing a handful of seed funds (and their corresponding entities), or that I’d be responsible for three other little people.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

If you’ve ever run a large group of people, you know that culture change isn’t done at the podium. I’m concerned that we’ll wind up with something akin to another de Blasio administration—because a progressive Mayor who cared about inequity was what we were supposed to get in 2013. Three cents?

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Israeli startup ProFuse aims to cut the production price of lab-cultured protein. PitchBook has ranked OurCrowd as Israel’s most active investor each year since we were founded in 2013, with investments in more than 330 portfolio companies. Learn More. Affordable lab-grown meat gets closer to your plate. Top Tech News.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

For instance, as I’ve previously written , “In 2011, only 28% of Europe’s venture-backed tech deals were seed stage… [but] in 2013 and 2014, roughly half of all European tech venture deals were seed stage.” Since then, the global allocation to seed funding has significantly increased. Because the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

WorkAngel , a mobile-first employee reward and recognition platform, has raised millions of dollars to date from prominent VC backers. Another vendor in the space is Bonusly , which was launched in 2013 by co-founder and CEO Raphael Crawford-Marks. The startup today announced that it raised $18.9

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Haystack

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Today is the day I begin to write my annual “Reflecting On 2018” post for tech, startups, and VC — but I don’t think I can get my mind in a place to do that work until I clear my brain first. This year, our family (and me personally) went through some foundational changes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

The data is based on a sample of 2,500 companies that have used AngelList to syndicate deals from 2013 through 2020. Optimism reigns at consumer trading services as fintech VC spikes and Robinhood IPO looms. Optimism reigns at consumer trading services as fintech VC spikes and Robinhood IPO looms. But will it?

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

Last year was a big year for these leaders—even if the VC funding numbers don’t show it—and we’re excited to see what these entrepreneurs do in 2021. They’re highly committed to body positivity and diversity, both in their advertising and in their company culture. They’ve done innovative work with sizing, taking over 1.5

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David Teten VC

OCTOBER 31, 2024

I also led the development of the world’s first financial super app in 2013 for the largest bank in the CEE region. We are actively building our VC network and are well known among founders for our great support to the companies we have been investing in.

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