Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. At the time I pointed out: “If I had realized exits almost certainly it would be because I invested in a company that failed. I have done 6 VC investments – all within the past 20 months.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

billion of total venture capital. List of 60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms The following includes venture funds founded by women or those that have a focus on funding women-founded or gender-mixed startups and early-stage companies. According to the PitchBook data, in 2022 U.S.-based

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 25, 2023

Register Venture capital firm Goodwater has concluded its latest funding round, raising $1 billion in capital commitments for its fifth early-stage and third opportunity-style funds. Most of the capital, 60%, will be allocated to early- and seed-stage startups. With this successful raise, the firm now manages $3.3

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 5, 2021

What does it mean for venture capital and Startupland? Let’s examine the relationship between total venture capital investment and the 10 year Treasury in some detail. The y-axis tracks enture capital investment by year and the year of the data point resides in the reddish circle.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 27, 2021

And our second Opportunity Fund, raised in 2014, has generated 7.3x Our Opportunity Funds invest in the later stage rounds of our top-performing portfolio companies plus a few later-stage investments in companies that are new to USV. Venture capital funds do not take down the entire capital commitment upfront.

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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.” Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

He spends most of his time wrestling with fragmented and imperfect private market data in a never-ending effort to derive market-beating investment signals. A sound investment process analyzes both macro trends and fundamental data to assess the probability of various potential outcomes. Shachi Shah. Contributor.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

a nonprofit dedicated to fostering the growth of startups and entrepreneurs in Oklahoma, is proud to announce surpassing the $100 million mark in total investments. These investments, collectively over $100 million, have provided vital early capital to help startups throughout the state to thrive. i2E, Inc., About i2E, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Give direct feedback to entrepreneurs on their businesses or if we’re not investing why it’s not a fit for us. Investing early in the lifecycle of a startups history where we can have the biggest impact on strategy & team development and deliver the highest returns if we are successful.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 22, 2017

The chart above shows the compound annual growth rate of venture investment rounds A through D in ten fastest growing venture markets plus the US from 2010-2016. It’s wonderful to see the expansion of venture capital across these geographies and especially at very healthy growth rates. India at $2.2B

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Long before that, the company engaged in anti-competitive practices and antagonized critics, especially female journalists like Sarah Lacy, who called out years of the company’s toxic issues as early 2014. It makes me want to quit venture capital entirely. I continue to emphasize that as an investor today.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2014

I’m a strong believer that investors invest in people, before they invest in a business plan, or an idea. Obviously, a key factor is always the state of the economy and the mood of the venture capital community. Investing is all about people-to-people relationships. Image via Flickr by Jeff Belmonte.

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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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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. In early 2014, Docusign became a unicorn and eventually went IPO in 2018 at a whopping $4.5B

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Register Japan’s Financial Services Agency plans to double the cap on the amount of money retail investors can invest in unlisted startups. At present, through crowdfunding, retail investors have a limitation of investing a maximum of 500,000 yen annually in individual unlisted startups. counterpart in structure and scope.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

She announced her retirement in the latest issue of Vogue magazine, writing that she will be “evolving” away from the sport to focus on family and her career as a venture capitalist. When Serena Williams steps from away tennis, she’ll be walking into an arena as white as the one she just left.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital. I invest heavily in relationships with journalists both because I like them and respect their profession and I know that there is a benefit to me in the long run if I’m not transactional in my relationships.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally. I also had the opportunity to learn firsthand how VC firms put together an investment fund and understood the type of LPs coming together to form a fund. (It and what’s your mental model for investing?

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The company’s latest funding round earned investments that will help Willowmore further expand its market presence and strengthen its position as a leading provider of smart access, IoT and analytics technologies. The round was also participated by SEEDS Capital, Enterprise Singapore’s investment arm. “We

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

How much money will they reserve from their fund for future investments in your startup? How much pull that investment professional has within his or her fund? which matters for getting future support) Where the fund is in its investment cycle (year 1 out of 10 or year 7 out of 10)? What percentage of their fund will you be?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent. The continent’s investment story. The report first highlights the growth of venture capital on the continent over the past six years; within this period, investments in African startups have grown 18x. Southeast Asia and Europe.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It’s not dissimilar to venture capital investments — you give a promising company (or person) the money that they need to grow, assuming that eventually, you’ll recoup your investment and turn a sizable profit. Not every creator economy startup is built for creators.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2024

billion from 10,000 individual investors since its founding in 2014, the firm has funded to date over 350 companies founded or led by women of its 1300+ current portfolio companies. The new fund will offer approximately 15-20 investments, diversified by sector, stage, and region over the span of 12 to 18 months. Having raised $1.3

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Revolution

JUNE 3, 2021

The percentage of early-stage venture capital dollars invested into Bay Area startups dropped 15% over the last 10 years, from 39% to 24%. And we have since we started our efforts in 2014. More than half of that percentage decline happened over the last year (32% ? A year ago, less than 10% of the 160 million-person U.S.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

However, for all their effort and importance to the tech ecosystem, raising significant venture capital seemed elusive to startups in Africa’s digital media landscape that rely on grants and personal funding to scale. Last year, only $115 million was invested in digital media startups in the U.S.

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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. With small amounts of money invested (sub $3 million) the risks are reasonably low for most VCs and the consequences of bad decisions or decisions a VC has limited say in is tolerable. In the Early Days.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

I was blown away by the ubiquity and convenience of mobile money in 2014 when I visited Kenya for the first time. The pace at which Dash managed to quadruple the size of its initial investment in the space of five months is intriguing. Other investors in the round include Global Founders Capital and 4DX Ventures.

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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.]

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

funds ever raised between the coasts,” the Chicago-based firm prides itself on being unique from other venture capital firms, and that stems from the founder and general partner Nick Moran, who previously worked for Danaher in M&A and product management, where he developed an analytical device for testing compounds in drinking water.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 15, 2017

The article pointed to the seeming collapse in the amount of venture capital raised by San Francisco startups relative to other regions. The slowing of venture investment more broadly across the US serves as a backdrop to San Francisco’s particularly strong correction. Note, the levels still exceed 2010-2013.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As venture capital totals grow in Latin America , the region is about to see its leading champion go public. One investor in the company that caught our eye for its Latin American investments is QED. One investor in the company that caught our eye for its Latin American investments is QED. Lauren Morton.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

According to PitchBook , VC investments were down 30% in Q2 2022 compared with 2021, and IPOs hit a 50-year low. While a few iconic brands including Uber, Airbnb, and Square emerged successfully from the last downturn, most venture-backed companies struggled during this period, and many ended up pursuing M&A strategies.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 1, 2023

Register Saudi Arabia-based debt and investment company Manafa announced raising $28 million in a Series A funding round co-anchored by STV and Wa’ed Ventures. It aims to bridge SME financing gaps by arranging investment from a larger segment of local retail and institutional investors. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

AppWorks , the Taipei-based venture capital firm focused on Taiwan and Southeast Asia, announced today it has closed its oversubscribed third fund, raising $150 million. Many of these LPs also participated in AppWorks’ $50 million second fund in 2014. AppWorks’ total assets under management (AUM) is now $212 million.

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