Both Sides of the Table
JULY 10, 2012
So we’ve seen an explosion in the number of startup companies and subsequently a huge burst in the number of incubators. In NY you find the broader Flatiron / Union Square are home to USV (obviously), IA Ventures, First Round Capital, FF Ventures and the incubators General Assembly and TechStars. Our lease runs out in 2013.
UBI Global
MARCH 19, 2021
What you need to know about the next World Benchmark Study Since 2013, UBI Global has conducted the World Benchmark Study, an analysis of the impact and performance of hundreds of business incubators and accelerators from around the world.
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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
JUNE 18, 2019
Libra has been incubated by Facebook. When USV invested in Coinbase in early 2013, our rationale was that digital currencies and digital assets (like Bitcoin and beyond) were a breakthrough technology, similar to TCP/IP, HTTP and SMTP. A new blockchain & cryptocurrency project, Libra , was announced today.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
“We first invested in Avametric at Initialized in 2013 and he had experience prior to that as well. A serial entrepreneur, Bloom’s last business was the AR imaging company, Avametric, which was backed by Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator and wound up getting acquired by Gerber Technology in 2018. The Honest Co.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 14, 2014
Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. With the success of Idealab in the 90’s every city was building out incubators. With this fund we also wanted to broaden our partnership ranks and added the talented Jamie Kantrowitz. But by 2014 much had started to change.
Ecosystem Builder Hub
JULY 1, 2020
These can be policy makers, entrepreneurs, students, incubator managers and staff, universities, professors, educators and researchers, or just citizens. I also do research on incubators, as intermediaries between entrepreneurial and the ecosystem and how they decrease the gap between them. We are all connected to our ecosystem.
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 28, 2020
During my five years with Global Founders Capital, Rocket Internet’s $1 billion VC arm, I saw more than a hundred of Rocket’s incubated companies attempt to internationalize. For background, Rocket Internet has helped launch some very successful businesses internationally, including HelloFresh ($12.9 billion market cap), Zalando ($21.2
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