TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

However, for all their effort and importance to the tech ecosystem, raising significant venture capital seemed elusive to startups in Africa’s digital media landscape that rely on grants and personal funding to scale. BCM was founded by Seyi Taylor and Bankole Oluwafemi in 2013.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Venture Souq, Endeavor Catalyst and existing investors also participated in the round. . Tamatem publishes games relevant to Arabic users and customizes its games to fit the culture. . Tamatem makes the games culturally relevant to the end-users,” said Hammo. Tamatem has over 120 million downloads across its portfolio and 3.5

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.] Revenue acceleration is, too.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The interior design space is particularly competitive: predictions state that by 2026, the market will be worth $270,410 million , and in turn, a whole host of new ventures are battling for consumers’ attention and business. Founded in 2013, my online interior design company, Decorilla, is now celebrating its seventh year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In 2013, Homejoy had a fresh $24 million Series A from Google Ventures and First Round — considered a huge round at a time when Instacart had just raised an $8 million Series A and Snapchat had done a $13 million Series A round. Where should you internationalize?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

The venture most notably incubated the blogging platform Medium. 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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

More venture capital is flowing into meal delivery service companies as consumers seek out better-for-you food choices. That has attracted venture capitalists’ attention and led to some recent cash infusions, including Shef and WoodSpoon for homemade items, and Little Spoon and Serenity Kids in the baby food arena.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Outdoor cooking industry leader and famed kettle-grill-maker Weber has acquired June, the smart cooking startup founded in 2013 by Matt Van Horn and Nikhil Bhogal. But another key ingredient was just how much Weber proved to be a place where the company’s culture was still centered on customer focus and a love of food.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

in 2013 after moving to Los Angeles. . Yami wants to offer an authentic offering of Asian culture, tradition, and products to both Asian Americans and other Americans interested in Asian culture. Morgan and GGV Capital. The Series B brings its total raised to $60 million, said Zhou, who did not disclose its valuation. . “For

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 24, 2016

Culture Index) and Fregata Fitness, Inc. I learned a valuable lesson during this low point: I had never truly “failed” before in any business venture. Culture Index) and Fregata Fitness, Inc. Doug is also an EMP graduate, Class of 2013. By Doug Kisgen, owner of Kisgen Group, Inc. Iron Tribe Fitness). 5000-listed company.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Grip Security today announced that it has raised a $6 million seed round led by cybersecurity-focused YL Ventures, with participation from CrowdStrike CEO and co-founder George Kurtz and a group of other angel investors with deep roots in the cybersecurity industry. Bring CISOs into the C-suite to bake cybersecurity into company culture.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong, contrarian advice for the venture capital industry: don’t sit on your founders’ boards. Khosla, who spoke onstage at the Upfront Summit in Los Angeles this week, spoke about the culture of capital. The advice comes at a reflective time for the industry.

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Haystack

JANUARY 28, 2019

At that time, back in 2013, Docusign was known to be a well-performing company. I took Joseph out for lunch, told him about me and Haystack, and asked to invest in the company. Ultimately, Joseph invited me into the seed round. That turned out to be a good lunch.

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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. Waze’s 100 employees received about $1.2 This came decades ahead of most western governments.

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Revolution

APRIL 4, 2019

I have worked closely with co-founder and CEO Marc Katz and his team since we made our first investment in 2013 and I am very proud of the company, as well as the culture the team has built. We know they will be great partners and helpful to Marc and his team in continuing to build the brand.

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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. Venture investors have extraordinary power to impact broader society norms. These things, in turn, exert a determining influence on our culture.”.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

A lot has changed since when I wrote my first check in 2013. 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. They have to deliver on this promise, though. We all now know how big the stakes are.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

And this week, the company announced it had raised a super-sized $20M Series A financing co-led by Kent Bennett from Bessemer Venture Partners and also Goldman Sachs. When I began investing in 2013, the Series A rounds were quite fast and furious after the seed rounds. The round was completed last fall, but announced this week.).

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Haystack

DECEMBER 30, 2019

What am I preparing for in my little world of technology, startups, and venture capital? The Venture Capital Ecosystem: The public markets are soaring. 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.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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Haystack

JANUARY 20, 2019

That escalation from $25K back in 2013 took a little over four years. Over the years, that check size grew slowly to $50K, then a few $100Ks, and I followed-on into a few at the $250K level, with two outsized pile-ins at $400K and $600K total exposure, respectively.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Image Credits: Versatile Venture Capital (opens in a new window). Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Competition became an integral part of society due to historical, cultural, and other factors. Companies from the same market can share technologies, like Ford and GM did in 2013 with the transmission , consult each other, or lend a hand when there’s a supply shortage. It wasn’t their first time: earlier, they’d made a clone of eBay?—?a

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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. As a result, the venture industry has exploded — either to meet that opportunity, or because of low interest rates, or both.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Duo has a culture centered around inclusion and belonging. They play an important role in helping Atomic Object live out its values and foster a great company culture. The founder, Daniel Young, is working hard to cultivate a culture of inclusion and openness. Founded in 2013, Koddi was built to innovate in the adtech space.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

Jason Furtado and Stephan Richter founded Boston-based Shoobx in 2013, according to Crunchbase. No doubt the venture slowdown and practically dead IPO and SPAC markets have contributed to the surge in M&A activity. Butter raises $22M led by Norwest Venture Partners to end accidental payment churn.

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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. How quickly can a word’s meaning change?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

raised more money from venture capitalists in 2021 than ever. According to Briter Bridges , another publication that tracks VC investments in Africa, only 3% of the total funding raised by startups in Africa since 2013 has gone to all-women co-founded teams. backed by Accenture Ventures and Susa Ventures.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2012 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2013; Slack in 2014 (after prematurely saying there wasn’t one); took a break in 2015-16, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; in 2017 it was Coinbase ; and last year, 2018, it was Airtable.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 20, 2019

A last-minute trip to drop my wife off at her internship in October 2013 led to the brightest idea I’ve had so far as an entreprener. We landed at a campus that was open to a rookie with no experience in counseling, no background in psychology who wanted to recruit for a venture that was yet to go live. I heard things take time.

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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. Tis the season for new venture funds, apparently.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

ED ZIMMERMAN : The funnel for venture funding isn’t cylindrical — it’s shape follows a more Darwinian conical path, as many seed stage companies march into the cone’s wide entrance and far fewer make it to the cone’s narrow end.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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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. Mondays were for my Venture Partner role on Sand Hill Road; from Tuesday – Thursday, I was out meeting new founders, helping existing companies, meeting friends in the ecosystem. Fridays, I tried to keep free from meetings.

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Haystack

JUNE 29, 2018

5/ (Pill) Bottle Returns – This is the part where we talk about the venture-scale return. 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.

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OkDork

DECEMBER 9, 2022

It’s a romanticized trope that startup culture loves to spread far and wide: Look at Amazon! He bought it in 2013 for $250 million, and the company has likely generated significant revenue and profits since then. Join 157,000+ subscribers getting my FREE weekly business tips. Jeff Bezos Net Worth: How He Built the Amazon Empire.

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Haystack

JUNE 2, 2018

When I started back in 2013, I would try to respond to all the cold and “lukewarm” intros and investor referrals I received as a matter of courtesy. When I started investing and no one knew me, I would just invest in folks I knew well. There wasn’t a lot of noise for me.

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