Jason Malki

JANUARY 15, 2024

Charting the Path to Success in Tech Investing: An Exclusive Interview with GoAhead Ventures’ Founding Trio GoAhead Ventures (“GoAhead”) is a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm founded by three Stanford graduates: Takeshi “TK” Mori, Clancey Stahr and Phil Brady (the “Managing Partners”). How did you break into tech investing?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a new program, AWS Impact Accelerator , that will give up to $30 million to early-stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+ and women founders. Since 2015, Black and Latinx founders — who have fewer funding routes available to them to begin with — have raised just 2.4%

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

What every startup founder should know about exits. Her role includes gathering and analysing data on SOSV portfolio companies and syndicate investors, managing the funds’ databases and CRM, and reporting SOSV’s quarterly investments to external data providers. But what can founders learn from the list about climate tech investors?

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

Fortunately, that didn’t happen, and he kept on climbing and gaining skills and single-handedly founded his own company, one which has reached Series B and raised $33 million, a significant amount of money for any startup, but particularly for a startup run by a Black founder. It was eventually acquired by Virgin Mobile.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

As a partner at Wing Venture Capital, Zach Dewitt focuses on early-stage investments in transformative enterprise technologies. After winning the 2013 TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch-off , I decided to drop out of business school to pursue my startup full time. As many founders can attest, the startup journey can be lonely at times.

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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. I’m not a big fan of governance; I think if you engage as a team member with a founder, you have much more influence than if you’re sitting on a board and voting,” he said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Speak , an English language learning platform with AI-powered features, today announced that it raised $27 million in a Series B funding round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund , with participation from Lachy Groom, Josh Buckley, Justin Mateen, Gokul Rajaram and Founders Fund. ” Image Credits: Speak.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. . All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. So, why invest in anyone who’s not a white or Asian male? .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Alternative investments are having a moment. Institutions have fueled a large part of this growth, investing at record pace into alternatives like crypto, private companies and real estate. Institutions have fueled a large part of this growth, investing at record pace into alternatives like crypto, private companies and real estate.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Alex Iskold is a co-founder and managing partner at 2048 Ventures , an early-stage lead investor in technology and data companies. After making pre-seed investments for seven years, I have observed how different the pre-seed stage is from Series A and later-stage investing. Share on Twitter.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

For Health2Sync Founder Ed Deng, keeping diabetes patients with other chronic diseases alive is not enough. In 2013, Ed launched Health2Sync in his home country of Taiwan. “Action is data-driven. He wants them to experience the fullest and highest quality lives possible.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Register Bynder, a global player in Digital Asset Management (DAM), received the much-needed boost for its operations with new investments coming from Thomas H. The company recently announced that it received a majority investment from (THL), a premier private equity firm investing in growth companies. Lee Partners, L.P.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Thomas Rush is founder of Bootstrapp and Head of Investment Platform at ConsenSys Mesh. Revenue-based investing ( RBI), also known as revenue-based financing, or revenue-share investing, 1 is a natural next step for the private equity and early-stage venture investment industry. Thomas Rush. Contributor.

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500

MARCH 18, 2020

I first met Flavio in 2013, when he co-invested alongside 500 Startups in Olist, one of Brazil’s largest online marketplaces–which recently raised a Series C round. He became instrumental in building Olist’s name.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 1, 2014

So, if you''re going to argue that the process of venture capital is inherently unfair to women, here''s the logic that you *should not* use: "Less than 3 percent of the 6,793 companies that received venture capital from 2011-2013 were headed by a woman, according to a study from Babson College released Tuesday. It doesn''t prove squat.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners (UTEC) , a deep-tech investment firm, announced the first close of its fifth fund, which is expected to total 30 billion JPY (or about $275 million USD) by June 2021. UTEC’s deep-tech investments around the world. So far, 25 of its investments have exited.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

We recently sat down with three VCs to figure out the best way to go about spinning up an investing network from scratch and negotiating the first term sheet. VCs are trying to invest in leaders, so they know there’s going to be a power dynamic here. Securing funding is a stressful endeavor, but it doesn’t have to be.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Smart founders use this extra resource to their advantage. Most associates need some entrepreneurial experience before actually making investments. Jordan joined us a couple of years ago from Fox Filmed Entertainment where he worked in corporate strategy and he previously had worked for GCA Savvian in investment banking.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

million) investment in Netherlands-based aquaculture investment fund Aqua-Spark , bringing its total investment to €25m. As a single-family office with an impact investing mandate focused on combating the biodiversity crisis, Silverstrand is focused on advancing regenerative food systems and natural climate solutions.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

Register Transport Capital , a globally-recognised investment management and advisory firm focused on the maritime and aviation industries, has launched its new venture capital arm named TC Ventures. TC Ventures invites founders around the world who are seeking to disrupt and reimagine the maritime and aviation industries to connect.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 30, 2024

This interview is with Anjan Pathak , Co-founder at Vantage Fit. Anjan Pathak, Co-founder, Vantage Fit Anjan, can you tell us a bit about yourself and your journey to becoming a founder in the health and wellness technology space? As the co-founder of Vantage Fit, I am deeply involved in driving our technological progress.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 24, 2018

Dave is a co-founder and partner at Fathom , a strategy and creative consultancy based in Connecticut. “While monetary investment is also important, the research found it had a more positive impact when recognition was core to the organization’s talent strategy.” Written by David Louden.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Stacked , a web-based platform that provides passive investment tools for retail investors interested in crypto, just announced it raised a $35 million Series A co-led by Alameda Research , a crypto trading firm owned by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Bybit and BitDAO partner Mirana Ventures co-led the round alongside Alameda.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” two founders in a garage?—?(HP

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

At the turn of the 20th century, any number of American municipalities with similar access to talent, materials, investment, and transportation might have emerged as the beating heart of the automobile industry. Hill Street Studios/Getty Images There was never a guarantee that Detroit would become the Motor City.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Ben Doherty and Zachary Maurais, former founders of the delivery app Favor, launched Sunroom in May 2018 with the mission of “boosting the profitability” of mid-size property managers and apartment owners by giving them a way to outsource their leasing operations.

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StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff speaks with Angela Barbash, CEO of Ypsilanti-based company Revalue, about how she helps individuals make for-profit investments that have a positive impact on society. Angela: We provide financial planning and investment management and research and due diligence services for value driven investors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. Broaden your view of ‘best’ to make smarter, more inclusive investments. What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. David Teten.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , it’s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach. What do early-stage founders need to know to capture VC interest, and dollars, in a challenging market?

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Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

” If we’re talking about the US and you are NOT at the Accredited level ($1 million in investable assets, or $200,000 annual income), then for the moment you are actually not allowed to invest in privately held startups (emerging public companies, of course, you can buy on the stock market like everyone else.).

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Founder Bounty

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

One inspiring entrepreneur success story is that of Sara Blakely , the founder of Spanx. Starting on a Shoestring Budget Blakely started Spanx with just $5,000 of her savings and no outside investment. The Beginning of an Idea In 1998, Sara Blakely was working as a sales trainer in Florida, selling fax machines door-to-door.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Chris Dixon is the founder and managing partner of a16z crypto and author of the new book Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet. Robert Hackett is an editor at a16z crypto who worked closely with him on the book as an editing and thought partner.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The founders are likewise transformed by the many years of struggle and personal growth necessary to build and successfully lead a large business. Gone is the uncertain new startup founder, replaced by someone almost impossibly formidable and experienced. I first met and interviewed the DoorDash founders on Friday, April 26, 2013.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In a letter to employees that was posted on Plaid’s website, CEO and co-founder Zach Perret said the company saw a rapid increase in usage by its existing customers, a large number of new customers and “substantial revenue acceleration” during COVID. As such, the company “hired aggressively” to meet customer demand and invest in new products.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Derek Zanutto is a general partner at CapitalG , Alphabet’s independent growth fund, where he invests in data, security and SaaS-based enterprise software. It was 2013, and I’d been camping out in Uber’s San Francisco offices for weeks. Despite our valuation concerns, we ended up making the investment.

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Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Hunter Walk: You started at Instacart in 2013, just a year after it was founded, which obviously turned out to be an epic decision. Nilam Ganenthiran : The story of me joining Instacart in 2013, is actually rooted in an epic bad decision. NG: Beacon Software is a new company that my co-founder Divya and I started earlier this year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Chih-Han Yu, chief executive officer and co-founder of Appier Group Inc., Founded in Taiwan, Appier was the fund’s first investment outside of India, and is now also the first company in its portfolio outside of India to go public. Photographer: Billy H.C. Kwok/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

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