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Faulty Logic in the Venture Capital and Female Founder Discussion
This is going to be BIG.
OCTOBER 1, 2014
We all have our inherent biases and what I am not arguing here is that the venture capital world is a fair playing field for anyone. I repeat: I AM NOT ARGUING THAT VENTURE CAPITAL IS FAIR TO ANYONE. billion went to women-led ventures.". billion went to women-led ventures.". Sounds awful, right?
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Investing in Blackbird
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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Investments That Don’t Work
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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The Trouble with Venture Capital Data
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 16, 2016
There aren't many people who get the chance to analyze venture capital fund return data. Well, CB insights lists somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 active VC firms as of 2013--meaning firms that did 4 or more deals that year. or be an institution big enough to see a ton of different funds over time. Cash in the bank.
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The Geographic Concentration of Venture Capital(ists)
Ian Hathaway
APRIL 28, 2020
One of them, Mark Kvamme , left Sequoia Capital to found Drive Capital in Columbus, Ohio; but that was back in 2013. I don’t doubt that some venture capitalists have left The Valley to start funds elsewhere. However, venture capitalists (the ones investing in startups) are concentrated by geography even more.
The Changing Venture Landscape
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? That used to be called A-round investing. Of course we can’t.
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Charting the Path to Success in Tech Investing: An Exclusive Interview with GoAhead Ventures’…
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”).
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In the News: Israeli tech companies raise $2.24B in Q3; record since 2013
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).
4 essential truths about venture investing
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. Venture outcomes are driven by a power law.
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UTEC, one of Asia’s largest deep-tech investment firms, launches new $275M fund
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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How to Raise First Dollars in a Difficult Market: The Venture Perspective
TechCrunch
JULY 6, 2022
Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than we’ve seen for some time. 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.
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Singapore’s TC Ventures invests in German, French startups
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. Headquartered in Singapore, Transport Capital’s core expertise is in Real Assets and Private Capital Markets.
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2022 Was The Year We Decided To Not Raise Another Venture Capital Fund. What Happened Next.
Hunter Walk
DECEMBER 27, 2022
When Homebrew Started Investing Its Own Money, The Reaction From Our Venture Capital Peers Surprised Me [Part One]. During the last several years venture firms approached fundraising like trips to an All-You-Can Eat buffet: fast, frequent, and without regards for the digestive impact. Just as the markets collapsed!
Startup Investing: The New Trend in Alternative Assets
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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Stacked raises $35M to bring passive investing tools to retail crypto traders
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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Broaden your view of ‘best’ to make smarter, more inclusive investments
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. Image Credits: Versatile Venture Capital (opens in a new window). Contributor.
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What SOSV’s Climate Tech 100 tells founders about investors in the space
TechCrunch
JUNE 10, 2021
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. In other words, who invested in the Climate Tech 100? There are always valuable insights embedded in a list like the 100.
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Alto raises $40 million to help individuals make tax-savvy investments in assets like crypto and artwork
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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Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment
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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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?
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? . We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.”
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Fund Investing Versus Fund Management
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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137 Reflecting On Haystack’s Investment In HelloSign (Acquired By Dropbox)
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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How a Company Becomes a Pillar of Its Local Community
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. In 2013, Indianapolis-based ExactTarget was acquired by Salesforce for $2.5 as do manufacturing workers.
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Welcoming New Partner and Global Digital Transformation Expert Flavio Dias as We Step Up Our Presence in Brazil
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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5 things first-time founders must remember when working with VCs
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. Zach DeWitt. Contributor. Share on Twitter.
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AWS launches new $30M accelerator program aimed at minority founders
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced. of total venture capital invested, according to Crunchbase. The current system capitalizes women and minority founders at 80% less than businesses overall.
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115 The Story Behind Our Investment In SecondMeasure
Haystack
FEBRUARY 17, 2019
We were lucky to invest not only during this time, but also doubled down in an extension. 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. That is not the case today.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 8, 2014
Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. But notably you had the following changes: Horizontally scalable computing & storage systems, which meant you required less capital up front for hardware. We have invested $17.3 Venture Capital. And then the world changed. Welcome to the future.
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How about that $20B Figma-Adobe deal?
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Figma is somewhat of a classic startup and venture capital success story. Following a seed round back in 2013, Figma attracted regular external investments through a mid-2021 Series E worth $200 million that valued the software upstart at around $10 billion, per Crunchbase data. How about that $20B Figma-Adobe deal?
The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?
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? . We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.”
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A decade of fintech failures: 4 innovations that didn’t live up to the hype
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
But lost in all of the celebration of success and the billions of dollars in venture capital funding are the ideas that did not succeed. Algorithm-based buy/sell/hold advice for investment portfolios Fintech must remember that the average consumer doesn’t like thinking about money and often wants someone else to take care of it.
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How growth investing grew so big so quickly
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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Extra Crunch Live: Join GC’s Peter Boyce and Katherine Boyle for a live Q&A today at 4 pm EST/1 pm PST
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 8, 2020
General Catalyst is widely recognized as one of the top venture capital firms, with portfolio companies that include Snap, Kayak, Airbnb, Stripe, HubSpot and GitLab. Boyce has been with General Catalyst since 2013, leading investments in companies like Ro, Macro, towerIQ and Atom.
i2E Management Co. Inc. leads $5.2 million investment in PhotoniCare Inc.
Innovation 2 Enterprise
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. iMCI) is a private, for profit investment and fund management company operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of i2E, Inc. iMCI currently manages $88 million across five venture funds. . – September 3, 2020 – PhotoniCare, Inc.,
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Sarah Guo joins the wave of women leaving venture jobs to launch their own funds
TechCrunch
JUNE 7, 2022
Sarah Guo is the latest woman to depart their position at a venture capital firm with plans to launch one of their own. Guo joined Greylock in 2013 as the firm’s first woman partner and will now transition into the role of board partner. Sources confirmed to Axios that Guo is planning to launch her own fund.
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African tech took center stage in 2021
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 30, 2021
Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. But two months into 2020, the pandemic did an excellent job of lowering expectations as investment activities from local and international investors slowed down.
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TechCrunch+ roundup: 20 questions VCs ask, crypto compliance tips, Indian investor survey
TechCrunch
MARCH 24, 2023
Venture capital funding in the region “dried up in the second half of 2022,” so he inquired about their current pace of dealmaking, which investment trends they’re watching and how founders can reach them. Fellow first drew notice in 2013 with a Kickstarter campaign to fund production of its Duo coffee maker.
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Reports say African startups raised record-smashing $4.3B to $5B in 2021
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
In this piece , I spotlighted what influenced this venture capital growth — which, at the time, was pegged at a little over $4 billion. In 2021, fintech startups got 63% of the continent’s total investments. Like two years ago, 2021 showed the Big Four countries’ preponderance in terms of investment destination.
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Alexa von Tobel will join Disrupt 2021 as a Startup Battlefield judge
TechCrunch
APRIL 22, 2021
Prior to Inspired Capital, Alexa founded LearnVest in 2008 with the goal of helping women in particular make better investments and learn financial planning. After raising $75 million in venture capital and growing the service to 1.5 that highlights entrepreneurs.
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Feel free to borrow these New Year's resolutions
This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 1, 2013
In 2012, I started my second company--a venture capital firm called B rooklyn Bridge Ventures. More sleep in 2013 will have mental health effects beyond the time investment. 3) Invest in your real friends. The quicker you can do so, the quicker you can move on to a better investment of your time.
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The Coming Wave of Venture Capital and What It Means for Your Startup
Tomasz Tunguz
JULY 22, 2014
Through the first six months of 2014, VCs have raised about as much as all of 2013. The second quarter of 2014 is the sixteenth largest by capital deployed sinced 1995, making it a top quartile quarter, but to break into the top five, that figure would need to triple. But make no mistake; software investments are the real story.
The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018
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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