Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure.

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Paul G. Silva

MAY 29, 2020

In 2014 the great Steve Blank gave the startup world its first widely-respected quantitative assessment system: the Investment Readiness Level (IRL). A few years later Village Capital took the IRL to the next level, creating the Venture Investment and ReAdiness Level (VIRAL).

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

Instead, we got one of the most lucrative startup investments of all time from a company built off of a legion of drivers unable to make a living wage after expenses, without benefits, and not even classified as employees even when they work for the company for full time hours.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less). (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Our last fund was $200 million but as you may already know since we raised that fund we added new partners Greg Bettinelli and Kara Nortman and Venture Partner Hamet Watt – all of whom are busy looking at new deals for the firm in addition to Yves Sisteron (the founder), Steven Dietz (also part of founding team) and myself.

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Dream It

MAY 14, 2020

The Baltimore-based startup graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2014. Silversmith invested additional equity to support the acquisition of Tissue Analytics. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland, with a satellite office in Kansas City, Missouri. Tissue Analytics, Inc. Tissue Analytics, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

You’ve had a few difficult years outside of work – I feel confident 2014 is going to be a great one! I’m thankful to the founders of the companies that I invested in where the business has been on a crazy growth trajectory over the past year or two. I feel confident in our 2014 plans.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

But by 2014 much had started to change. And since we all knew that Sam’s dealflow and judgment were sound we empowered him to make early-stage, accelerator-like investments in early-stage entrepreneurs under the Upfront brand. She joined Mesa Global where she is doing both venture capital and investment banking.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

Firms like Baseline, Felicis, ff Ventures, Founder Collective, Freestyle, HomeBrew, IA Ventures, K9, Lowercase, NextView, Resolute, Rincon, Crosscut and the countless other great firms we all now know didn’t exist. We discussed how initial investments and follow-ons work in this short 2-minute clip.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2021

Contributed by Julia L F Goldstein, the founder of JLFG Communications , which helps businesses share their world-changing ideas through clear and concise content. Here’s the difference: A hobby or side hustle involves a discretionary investment of time and money. Entrepreneurs, however, usually call themselves founders or CEOs.

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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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HPA

JANUARY 8, 2025

Chicago, IL – January 8, 2025 – Hyde Park Angels ( HPA ), a premier early-stage venture capital group specializing in investing through its unique People First model, is pleased to announce that its portfolio company, Simple Mills , has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Flowers Foods , Inc.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

2018 YLAI fellow Kenishia Mais is the founder of ThrivingDollars , a financial education platform empowering young adults with the tools and resources they need to make smarter decisions, create their ideal financial lives, and gain the freedom to pursue more of what they love.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 26, 2021

On November 17, we are hosting our second Aspiring Founders Forum for women who aspire to become a startup founder. Speakers include: Jessica Livingston , Co-founder at Y Combinator. Diane Green , Co-founder and former CEO at VMware. Surbhi Sarna , Group Partner at YC and Co-founder at nVision. Stay tuned!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The investment is the largest-ever Series A round for the region, and it values Wave at $1.7 Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. Wave , a U.S. Both were Series C rounds.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

I believe the middle isn’t being “gutted” but rather is being supplemented by “opportunity funds” and “growth funds” that sit side-by-side “core funds” allowing the firms to stay small and nimble while still being able to grab prorata rights of their best early-stage investments.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

In 2014, Young and Cavins invested their life savings into Outdoorsy, sold their homes and jumped into an Airstream Eddie Bauer trailer. The following interview, part of an ongoing series with founders who are building transportation companies, has been edited for length and clarity. . Why not open it up to RVs?

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Register According to iLife * founder Nelson Lee, roughly $200 billion in premiums are signed annually in the U.S. Founded in 2014, they are an early-stage venture capital firm that’s active in both the US and Asia, with a total AUM of 400 million USD. This article is part of a partnership with Cherubic Ventures.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Register Startup founders are often too focused on the amount of money they can get from an investor that they mostly fail to see the value that other investors have to offer to grow their businesses further. Sharon Lou, venture partner at Indelible Ventures , considers this as one of the top mistakes that founders commit when raising funds.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2020

Written by Ruchir Punjabi , the co-founder and chief digital officer of Distributed Energy , a company that matches investors with renewable energy projects across Africa, Middle East and India, and the founder of Langoor, which was sold to Havas Group in 2019. Ruchir Punjabi has been an EO member since 2014. Cash Is Everything.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

In fact, the headline of one read, “How Putting $10m into uBeam illustrates everything that is wrong with tech investing today.” But “what is wrong with tech investing today?” Could you withstand the public scrutiny every day of being a young tech founder and show up every morning filled with enthusiasm?

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Hunter Walk

MAY 17, 2024

We way underestimated Textio’s stickiness within HR and how deeply HR execs would invest in Textio. If 2024 Kieran could whisper something into the ear of 2014 Kieran, what would you have told her about the difference between leading a team vs leading a company? HW: I think of you first and foremost as a founder, not a ‘female founder.’

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

Clearly the founders and senior executives of a company are the most valuable resources and their time should be maximized on the most valuable tasks. One area I’ve had much discussion with the companies in which I’ve invested in is bringing on board an operationally focused CFO. Inbound cease-and-desist orders?

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

For Health2Sync Founder Ed Deng, keeping diabetes patients with other chronic diseases alive is not enough. Focusing on seed stage investments, Cherubic aims to be the first institutional investor of the next iconic company and back founders who dare to dream big and change the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

We have have been funding agriculture technologies, water conservation, wireless electricity, aquaponics and so forth in addition to our standard investment themes in software, data, video and retail innovation. We are predisposed to backing founders who solve problems in which they have personal knowledge that is authentic.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 29, 2023

What connects these two brands is that they were both elevated to overseas success by the same person, Fujin Tree Group Founder Jay Wu. Founded in 2014, they are an early-stage venture capital firm that’s active in both the US and Asia, with a total AUM of 400 million USD. I knew it might be a huge opportunity.”

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 22, 2023

Register “Young musicians today treat music-making kind of like playing video games,” says PoChang Wu, co-founder of OurSong, an NFT-based platform for music collection and community building. “After investing so much time and effort, giving up seemed a great loss.”

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HPA

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Congrats to Divey Gulati and Dhruv Saxena, the co-founders of ShipBob, for being listed in the 40 Under 40 Class of 2022 list from Crain’s Chicago Business. Gulati and Saxena created ShipBob in 2014 as they saw a need for more efficient shipping for ecommerce businesses. Read more in Crain’s Chicago Business.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

A fantastic example is Demis Hassabis, co-founder of the machine learning AI lab DeepMind. It was enough to secure a formal meeting with Thiel, who went on to invest US$1.85 million in DeepMind, and recouped over 80 times that amount when Google bought the company in 2014.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

AMP Robotics , a Denver, Colorado-based startup creating robotic systems that can automatically sort recyclable material, today announced that it extended its Series C round to $99 million, thanks to an investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. Horowitz founded AMP in 2014 after earning his Ph.D. from Caltech.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

New York-based Endeavor is a global community of “high-impact” founders across almost 40 underserved markets in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent. The continent’s investment story. This is compared to 37%, 70% and 66% in the U.S.,

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

But that’s hardly fair compensation when your former cube mate gave you $25,000 of money she didn’t really have to invest in you, took tons of risks with her money, and now has to pay a VC price for that money a year after she invested it. Convertible debt WITH a cap is stupid for founders. Investors call Bull Cap.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Register Asia Pacific-based early-stage VC Investible has announced the appointment of Charlie Ill to the newly-created role of group Chief Investment Officer, as well as the promotions of Jayden Basha to Principal and Ben Lindsay to Investment Manager. In the past three months, Investible has deployed A$9.8m

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Founder’s perspective. You’ll get empathy. Experience. Relationships.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 8, 2017

This is an e-mail I got from Amanda Weeks in February 2014, and the beginning of a two and a half year journey that culminated with Brooklyn Bridge Ventures leading a pre-seed round for Industrial Organic that kicked off about a year ago. The round, which was raised in two tranches, was recently announced by Inc Magazine.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

To help take things to the next level, Relay has also announced it has raised $5 million in a seed funding round led by Khosla Ventures, which also invested in Timeful back in 2014 , with participation from Neo, BoxGroup, SV Angel, and a handful of angels.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In March 2019, SoftBank Group International made headlines when it announced the SoftBank Innovation Fund, which started out with a $2 billion commitment to invest in tech startups in Latin America. The Japanese investment conglomerate has dramatically ramped up its investing in the region, and so have a number of other global investors.

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