A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 17, 2020

I woke up to a dream this morning where I was playing a game that was very similar to Turntable.fm , a failed effort to create a social music experience that had a moment back in 2011 and that I had invested in via USV. Investments that don’t work haunt me. And investments that don’t work are often failures of execution.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

a16z crypto is a venture capital fund that has been investing in crypto and web3 startups — across all stages — since 2013.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 12, 2022

We at a16z started investing in bitcoin in 2013 , several years before we had a dedicated crypto fund. It’s hard to … The post Investing in Lightspark appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. We have always been big believers in Bitcoin , its unique history and its foundational role in crypto. .

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

While investing in fixed income may have received less focus over the past decade (with historically low interest rates), times have changed, and higher rates (and inflation) are putting the opportunity cost of not investing idle cash into sharp relief. In 2013, just 8% of corporate debt was traded electronically.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. For posterity, here are some of the more recent investments… 2022 Hubly Surgical Hubly Surgical has an advanced drill, complete with auto-stop and visual feedback, to make medical drilling safe across underserved settings.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Israel’s startup funding is climbing at a strong pace as tech companies raise $2.24B in Q3 , the most raised in Israel in any quarter since 2013. Speaking of funding, Ride Vision is an Israeli startup we are currently investing in which provides motorcycles with collision avoidance (think how Mobileye has impacted car safety).

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For Entrepreneurs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

We worked together with Pacific Crest, an investment banking firm with a specific focus on SaaS, to survey 155 SaaS companies on a variety of topics such as growth rates, CAC (cost to acquire a customer), gross margins, churn rates, etc. The goal of the survey is to provide useful operational and financial benchmarking data. […].

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Notably, Speak is the third startup in which OpenAI, the AI lab closely aligned with Microsoft, has publicly invested through its fund — the others being Descript and Mem. Zwick came from the edtech industry — he sold his first startup, the flashcard app Flashcards+, to Chegg in 2013 after dropping out of Harvard.

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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

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

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. Today, I want to highlight four ideas that are true across different stages of investing. Unicorns were hard to come by when Aileen Lee penned her now-famous article in 2013.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

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. In 2013 we launched many firsts to reinvent our firm.

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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. Share on Twitter.

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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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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking. The majority of the funds pay back our early investors who believed in us enough to trust us with their money.

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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. Established in 2013, Transport Capital is an investment management and financial advisory company focused on maritime and aviation.

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Haystack

JANUARY 20, 2019

When I started out investing (via a fund — not my money), I was just investing based on a simple schedule: About once a month, invest $25K into one company I liked. That escalation from $25K back in 2013 took a little over four years. Fund investing is easy — fund management is not. Pretty easy.

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Haystack

JANUARY 28, 2019

Over five years ago, as I began to deploy the first Haystack Fund, I was lucky to select HelloSign as my sixth investment ever. I took Joseph out for lunch, told him about me and Haystack, and asked to invest in the company. At that time, back in 2013, Docusign was known to be a well-performing company. price tag.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

When DBeaver creator Serge Rider began building an open source database admin tool in 2013, he probably had no idea that 10 years later, it would boast more than 8 million users. DBeaver takes $6M seed investment to build on growing popularity by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 24, 2018

“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.” The post A Critical, Yet Often Overlooked, Investment in Company Culture appeared first on THE BLOG. Dave can be reached through fathom.net.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 2, 2023

207 Applications Approved for over $8 Million in Tax Credits to Support Investment in 28 Companies TRENTON, N.J. million in private investment as supported in 2023 by the New Jersey Angel Investor Tax Credit Program (ATC). million in tax credits, based on a percentage of eligible investment.

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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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Onevest

APRIL 30, 2015

But the data shows a rapidly growing trend in accredited investors investing together. Trending Investment Strategies Global investor surveys have shown that since the crises of the early 2000s more affluent and sophisticated investors are choosing to invest in partnership with each other. That means safety in investing.

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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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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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Haystack

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

We were lucky to invest not only during this time, but also doubled down in an extension. The company received investment interest for a few years, but took their time to raise the Series A. 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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OurCrowd

JULY 15, 2019

The digitization of early-stage investing has provided a new channel for smaller investors to gain access to this asset class. The post [OurCrowd in Crowdfund Insider] OurCrowd Provides Perspective on Portfolio Performance: 35 Exits Since 2013 appeared first on OurCrowd. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

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. So, why invest in anyone who’s not a white or Asian male? . Katherine Boe Heuck. Contributor.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

As such, the company “hired aggressively” to meet customer demand and invest in new products. I made the decision to hire and invest ahead of revenue growth, and the current economic slowdown has meant that this revenue growth did not materialize as quickly as expected. Sound familiar ? We’d love to hear from you.

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Gust

AUGUST 30, 2014

Unfortunately, a private company in the US may not take investment money from “anyone” The only people who are legally eligible to purchase an equity interest in a private company without a great deal of special paperwork are, as you noted, Accredited Investors. Invested Interests'

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Resources Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse “‘It’s a canon event’ TikTok trend, explained” Chris Dixon’s blog at cdixon.org “ Come for the tool, stay for the network “ “ The next big thing starts out looking like a toy (..)

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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. . So, why invest in anyone who’s not a white or Asian male? . 100x investment opportunities only come along in VC occasionally. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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