Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

We All Know That Dollars into Venture Have Gone Up … As a starting point, we know that the dollars into venture have steadily rebounded to pre great-recession levels, with just under $30 billion committed to US technology venture capital in 2015. That’s money that fuels our startup ecosystems.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 4, 2021

Related: Detroit’s Monica Wheat Strengthens Startup Ecosystem with Equality and Inclusion. In one such effort, which began in January 2015, Gilbert shared an idea with Tincher that had been sparked as a result of a passion of one of Gilbert’s sons: buying and selling collectible sneakers. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Once my startup gets off the ground — and as COVID-19 gets under control — I’d like to visit the United States to test the market and meet with investors. Dear Noteworthy, Congratulations on founding your startup! startup ecosystem, and you can start now, even before you physically come to the United States.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

When they return, young people like Morrison are finding that Atlantic Canadians have quietly built a robust startup ecosystem that has resulted in a dozen acquisitions to companies like IBM and Salesforce, the sum of which likely surpasses $5 million in cash and stock. Soon, the region’s hard-luck narrative stuck.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

The number of accelerators has more than doubled since 2014 , while the number of accelerator-backed startups in the U.S. has nearly quadrupled in the same time period (investments from 2005 to 2015 and total investments through 2021 ). Moreover, rumors of deeply unethical behavior at accelerators are starting to surface frequently.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By the time the new century came around the area began to shift to look like a modern startup scene. Over time the Boston area watched the development of a robust technology startup ecosystem across industries like cybersecurity, robotics and biotech with companies like Hubspot, Wayfair, Rapid7, Boston Dynamics and Moderna, to name but a few.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Tavel is also a founding member of All Raise, the nonprofit organization focused on women in the venture capital and VC-backed startup ecosystem. Alexa von Tobel , the co-founder and managing partner of Inspired Capital, can likely relate to the startup founders on the TechCrunch stage.

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Founders Coop

AUGUST 7, 2018

It’s incredible to look back at how far our startup ecosystem has come in that time. In 2015 we closed our third and largest fund to date , allowing us to double-down on our strategy of filling the seed-stage financing gap in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle in 2013 was a different place.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy continues to have structural problems for startups: Credit is based on a company’s financial history, so loans are off-limits. However, in June 2020, the Italian government sponsored a €1 billion investment program aimed at the native startup ecosystem, creating a new venture arm: CDP Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Despite the pandemic’s economic impact, Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem has proven to be very resilient. Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem was not immune, and had less exits, but it still did relatively well, with $8.2 billion invested in 2020, according to a report by Cento Ventures and Tech In Asia.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Source: DocSend At DocSend, we studied the fundraising process of 175 startups at the seed stage in 2019 and analyzed data to understand which seed startups were successful in fundraising and why. Data shows that white, younger male founder teams from the West coast tend to raise more money, more easily.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 10, 2016

For all the talk about late stage rounds, megarounds and unicorns, early stage startups are benefitting disproportionately from near-record years of venture capital investment. Of the $42B invested in startups in 2015, 34% or about $14B was raised in series A and seed rounds. That figure is up from 18% in 2005.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

annually between 2015 and 2020, its market size topping $1.3B For example, Shift’s Defense Ventures Program offers “8 cohorts of up to 25 Fellows from across the US Armed Services, (…) immersion programs focused on venture capital, the technology startup ecosystem, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

In addition to a fund, the overall Capacity organization provides direct mentorship, consulting and connects founders to a broad network of talent, diverse forms of capital, and existing resources focused on the post-startup stage of growth. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 21, 2015

But, is there any observable relationship between the federal funds rate and the startup ecosystem? The chart above shows the federal funds rate starting in 2000 through 2015, compared to the dollars in billions of venture capital investment.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

We originally filed to go public in March of 2014, and didn’t actually become a public company until January of 2015. We’d all benefited tremendously from having access to scout capital…could we create a new model to bring more women into this part of the startup ecosystem at scale? It was also one of the hardest.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

In addition to a fund, the overall Capacity organization provides direct mentorship, consulting and connects founders to a broad network of talent, diverse forms of capital, and existing resources focused on the post-startup stage of growth. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Dropbox is expected to IPO in 2015 at a valuation exceeding $10 Billion. TechStars Boston and MassChallenge are doing a great job accelerating local startups. Bolt, Blade, UMass Venture Development Center, and several others are also supporting the Boston startup ecosystem. They got their initial funding of $1.2M

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

39:40 – What’s a strong opinion he had about running a startup that he’s changed since running Meesho? 41:10 – How has the Indian startup ecosystem evolved? 43:30 – Can foreigners come to India and start a startup? 45:45 – After Meesho, what’s the most exciting startup in India?

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

startup ecosystem. SPAC-led transactions with European companies from 2015 through February of this year, for example. SPAC news tells us that blank-check companies are still finding a diverse set of companies to take public. But what about other regions? Unicorns are hardly unique to the U.S. Is the SPAC game afoot in Europe?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

In total, Aqua Security has now raised $265 million since it was founded in 2015. ” 2020 was a record year for Israel’s security startup ecosystem. Existing investors M12 Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Insight Partners, TLV Partners, Greenspring Associates and Acrew Capital also participated.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 29, 2015

Company Market Cap, $B (2015-04-29) Cash & Eq., $B. Most importantly, the number of large market cap companies capable of acquiring substantial SaaS startups would decline. If Salesforce were to sell, the M&A landscape in the startup ecosystem would lose an active acquirer. Microsoft 398 95. Oracle 211 44.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

Right now, Egypt is home to a burgeoning fintech startup ecosystem, and today, one of its biggest players, Paymob announced that it has completed an $18.5 Paymob was founded in 2015 by Alain El Hajj, Islam Shawky, and Mostafa El Menessy. million Series A round. In July 2020, Paymob raised $3.5

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Onevest

MARCH 27, 2015

At 1000 Angels , the private investor network that connects startups with investors, we have been monitoring closely the new regulatory landscape for startup fundraising. So these rules are expected to be effective in the early part of June 2015. It is not intended to provide legal advice. When Can I Use Regulation A+?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. Syndicate leads are often experienced angel investors or successful startup founders.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

China’s efforts have been ongoing since around 2015, when the Edward Snowden revelations prompted anxiety over the extent of U.S. Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland all have significant quantum research capacities and flourishing startup ecosystems. intelligence activities. In fact, the U.K. and China.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

When APCO pivoted away from government relations work in 2015, Chris McCannell joined leading Republican lobbyist Doyle Bartlett, former House Financial Services Republican staffer Greg Mesack and the team at what was then The Eris Group. This letter emphasized how important patents are to startup companies.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This letter emphasizes how vital immigrants are the to the US economy, the startup ecosystem and the Angel community. The Protecting Americans Against Tax Hikes Act was passed in 2015 as a tax reform bill. PATH Act While the PATH Act isn’t anything new, it is vital for small business owners and should be understood properly.

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