Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

What is the True Sentiment of VCs? I recently survey more than 150 VC friends from all stages and geographies what they thought about the market by asking “Which of the following statements best describes your mood heading into 2016?” But not a VC or Bill Gurley or myself would have spooked it 2 years ago.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

One of the biggest fears about the future of data is that everyone will turn into a number--that algorithms will turn everyone's personal experience into a single score that will decide whether or not you get what you want, a job, a house, a car, financing for a new business etc. That's important for a VC. or whether you get shut out.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” For funds with an overall return of 3-5x, which is what VC funds aim for, the overall return was 4.6x

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

Non VC Growth Rounds. The other major trend of 2012–2015 was the entrance of “non VCs” into late-stages of venture capital , which mostly consisted of hedge funds, mutual funds, corporate investors, sovereign wealth funds and even LPs doing direct deals. VC Infighting. Some called this “buying logos.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Twinco Capital , a Madrid and Amsterdam-based startup making it easier to access supply chain finance, has raised €3 million in funding. Leading the round is Spanish VC fund Mundi Ventures, with participation from previous backer Finch Capital and several unnamed angels.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Knife Capital , a South African venture capital firm, is raising a $50 million fund for startups looking to raise Series B financing. In 2016, the VC firm launched its current 12J offering with Knife Capital Fund II. These specialized Africa VC funds are welcoming co-investors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

These startups offer embedded finance solutions; Maelis Carraro , Catalyst Fund MD, explains the thought process behind this selection in a statement. First off, from Kenya, Koa enables users to save and invest, gaining control over their finances. However, the selected six startups this year are from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A few years ago, maybe in 2016, we held a discussion of blockchain and crypto technologies at the annual meeting of our limited partners. I recall someone in the audience suggesting that the NYSE and Nasdaq could rebuild their markets on top of these technologies.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

participated in four of Scale’s financing rounds, which is all of them unless you include the funding from YC the company secured as part of a cohort in 2016. In fact, Levine wrote one of the company’s very first checks. So like many great stories that started with a bold, cold email.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. 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. Experience. Relationships.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Stephen Deng, the co-founder and partner of DFS Lab, a firm that invests in digital commerce startups, serially compared the 2016 Southeast Asia funding landscape to where Africa might be in 2021, at $3 billion. In Africa, the first two unicorns were Jumia (in 2016) and fintech giant Interswitch (in 2019). billion and $2.8

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

New York but Africa-based VC Lateral Capital also invested after taking part in Mono’s pre-seed. In a region where more than half of the population is either unbanked or underbanked , open finance players like Mono are trying to improve financial inclusion and connectivity on the continent.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Here’s what I learned : The success of Zeta hinges on the idea that people want to share their finances in an ongoing and meaningful way, and that the world of finance is ready to shift from individualism to collectivism earlier and louder.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Before becoming a VC firm, Savannah Fund started as an accelerator program in Kenya. However , in 2016, Savannah transitioned into venture capital investing, focusing on seed and Series A stages within $25,000 to $500,000 checks. Startups who got accepted participated in cohorts for three months and received up to $30,000 in funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

At first glance, one might think that the WeWork rival, which had raised about $560 million since its 2016 inception, was another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. . Virgin Mobile co-founder Amol Sarva and former VC Edward Shenderovich founded Knotel, essentially reversing the WeWork model.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 6, 2016

The startup fundraising market in 2016 has been difficult to characterize. This posts analyses US headquartered information technology companies which VC-led investment rounds, except for the $793M Series C in Magic Leap , which I excluded as an outlier. VCs invested about $2B in January and February 2016.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” Why are all of the VC home runs from white men, or Asian men in Asia, plus a few Asian men in the U.S.?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Existing investors Base10 Partners and Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused VC) also participated. This brings the company’s total financing to $54 million. Launched in 2016, Chili Piper’s software for B2B revenue teams is designed to convert leads into attended meetings.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Their backgrounds, according to Ayele, run the gamut from finance and marketing to product and technology across a range of sectors. “We’ve built an algorithm-based matching platform where we curate relevant deals to VC investors. The company has made significant strides since launching in 2016. for law school.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

million in 2016, it was one of the largest disclosed rounds at that stage in Nigeria. . Just a month into 2021, Egyptian fintech startup Cassbana raised a $1 million pre-seed investment led by VC firm Disruptech in a bid to drive expansion within the country. When Stripe-subsidiary Paystack raised its seed round of $1.3

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

While Cauris provided debt financing, Tiger Global and JAM Fund, the investment firm of Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen co-led the equity bit. Other VC firms involved in the equity round include Kinfolk, Soma Capital, Ingressive Capital and Magic Fund. The seed round was a mix of $7 million equity and $10 million debt.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. By January of 2016, that number had ballooned to 229. In addition to high profile companies like Fab.com, Quirky, Homejoy, and Secret, numerous other VC-backed companies began to shut their doors. Layoffs have also become more prevalent.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Other notable players in the space include Ÿnsect , a Paris-based startup that has received substantial VC-backing for bug farms , while U.K.-based On top of that, InnovaFood creates organic fertilizers out of insect poop to boost plant and crop growth. Growth industry.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

And then there are those that do want to raise VC money but don’t want to use it for specific things. Former Goldman Sachs investment banker Marc Helwani founded i80 in 2016 after investing in early-stage New York-based fintechs in 2014-2015 via his VC fund, Avenue A Ventures. At that time, it was still relatively new.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. 15 steps to fundraising a new VC or private equity fund. Katherine Boe Heuck is a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022), a past intern at Versatile VC and a current intern at Metaprop NYC. David Teten. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Startups and VC Many apps today assume that data lives in only one location, typically a single cloud database. This is the first time that has happened since the end of 2016. Cultivating capable coffee currency : Becca reports that Blank Street cracked the code on making coffee shops attractive to VC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

billion in Q2, the lowest quarterly tally since 2016. That figure was not a historical record, mind; the Q3 total looks to be only the fourth-biggest VC quarter in India’s startup history since at least 2013 and, perhaps, ever. What are the youngest VCs in the world focused on? Smaller startups are also seeing strong results.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap. There’s latent demand for life insurance currently unaddressed by much of the financial services industry, and embedded finance can be the solution. Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap. 5 predictions for the future of e-commerce.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

This appointment comes a month after Ayeni left the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, where he led venture capital investments across Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia for over 5 years. “I’ll call it a mid-cap VC fund. It’s not early, and it’s not quite growth.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Will the next company to raise $100M in financing just poach from decent seed-stage companies and pay triple the amount to lock up talent? Will folks be able to buy a house and raise their families here? Will the Bay Area’s cost structure compress the precious runway these newco’s have? These questions have been rattling around my brain.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

How to make a deal with a VC at a tech conference. His previous company, Uhana, launched in 2016, was backed by NEA and had been acquired by VMWare in three years. In 2016, total VC investments in the U.S. Pandemic reset leads investors to focus on resilience, adaptability. were about $80 billion.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

“My work with startups and the ecosystem began in 2016 when I founded Startupmedia to help startups and the ecosystem tell their stories and school myself in starting/scaling businesses. For founders opting for VC funding, swift closure of funding rounds is advised to maintain focus on product development.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. In addition, their portfolios look far more diverse than VC industry norms. Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

billion last year — up 153% year-over-year in terms of global VC deal value — and include a range of outfits, from payments companies to digital banks to corporate spend players. Private equity firm Eldridge and Andreessen Horowitz co-led the financing, which also included participation from funds and accounts advised by T.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Before Dash, Boampong was the co-founder of OMG Digital, a YC-backed Ghanaian media startup he started alongside Jesse Ghansah — the current CEO of Float — in 2016. . Founder and CEO Prince Boakye Boampong started the company in 2019.

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