Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

We knew better than to start funding raising in August, when larger VC firms have a harder time assembling full decision teams – so in August we would plan and September we would commence. Many VC firms expressed interest, nearly every one took a meeting and several called Mark and the team back for meetings.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

I first got introduced to them by my friend Kevin Marshall back in March of 2016 when they were Creditbridge (Petal is to Creditbridge what Frogger is to Highway Crossing Frog, I suppose). That's important for a VC. What card do you know tells you how much you'll pay in interest *next month* based on what you pay now?

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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.” Expect more of this.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

In 2016, we set out to develop a rigorous methodology for tracking progress on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in venture capital, and to measure and benchmark those data through our biennial VC Human Capital Survey. To begin with, as an industry, venture capital can only improve what we measure.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2015

I saw a few friends politely suggesting that “now was a great stock buying opportunity” meaning that given the stock market is off by 10% it was a great chance to buy and lock in presumably low prices before the market rises again. The impact hits VCs in an immediate way that most entrepreneurs don’t realize.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

It is clear that Black, women, Latinx and LGBTQ+ startup founders face an uphill battle when it comes to getting a share of the VC investment pie in Silicon Valley. It’s working with another Indy based VC firm, Allos Ventures , and Paul Ehlinger from Allos will be a venture partner at Sixty8. So that is why we launched Sixty8.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. MakeSpace , the leading provider of next-generation storage for consumers, today announced an additional $17.5 Strategy. We were fine with that.

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In 2016, the VC firm launched its current 12J offering with Knife Capital Fund II. The plan was to give startups access to networks , money and expansion opportunities. “We These specialized Africa VC funds are welcoming co-investors. and Europe. .

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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. But Levine saw the kernel of something with huge potential, and despite being a relative unknown in VC at the time, didn’t want to let the opportunity pass him, or Wang, by.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Or will we have to repeat the same conversations about representation failings within VC funds? Make serious headway with accelerators.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 19, 2022

We called it Tech:NYC and I first wrote about it here at AVC in March of 2016. I welcome Jason to Tech:NYC and look forward to working closely with him and the city and state leaders to step up to the opportunity that is in front of us. I agreed to co-chair the organization and have been in the chair role since then.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

It significantly broadens investment opportunities and a startup’s potential to raise capital through only a few legislative provisions. Even the more realistic projection, $300 billion , is 10 times the current VC investment market. Holdback until 2016 at the Earliest While startups wait, the SEC deliberates.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

The seed round follows a $620,000 angel and pre-seed round BCM raised between 2016 and 2020, bringing its total funding to over $2.9 MaC Venture Capital led the round while VC firms Luminate, Unicorn Group, Future Africa, and several angel investors participated. million in seed funding to expand its audience and build new verticals.

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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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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2018

Why are more US VCs investing in international startups? Take a look at The Fortune Unicorn List : of the top 100 most valuable unicorns in 2016, 39 are currently based outside of the United States. This implies that the US is still the center of the VC industry, even while there is more opportunity for US VCs to invest abroad. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

They saw me as an American that could bring them business opportunities and that was it, I felt that I was judged more on the merits of the value that I could bring than I would in the U.S. — Spurred by opportunities, I started a successful import and export business in China, and after a few years I had over 30 employees.

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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 9, 2023

The company, which uses a combination of computer vision and machine learning to create a system that can quickly and accurately inspect vehicles, has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round led by Hanaco VC, a venture capital firm based in New York and Tel Aviv. The CEO also sees a longer-term opportunity with robotaxi fleets.

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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. Consider starting as an LP in funds for diversified exposure, access to deal flow, and networking opportunities.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend. In contrast, male-only founded U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Money is emotional and complex, and the opportunity within the multiplayer fintech reflects just that. Here’s what to know per Danny Crichton and Alex Wilhelm: PSA: most aggregate VC trend data is garbage and Are SAFEs obscuring today’s seed volume are two pieces that explain some of the reasons why the numbers might be flawed today.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

But when you’re running a VC firm, especially as an emerging manager, how do you know which investors and limited partners (LPs) to target? The venture capital community has significant influence on what potential LPs see as great investment opportunities. As a result, capital can be concentrated in certain areas.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Register Established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, SoGal Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated to early-stage investments in diverse founding teams, operating in both the United States and Asia. Partnering with Elizabeth at Stanford, they addressed the stark gender imbalance and inequity in the VC industry.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

CoinAfrique, whose team will join Autochek and help them run operations in the region, was founded in 2016 by Matthias Papet and Eric Genetre. “We New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape. over 2022-2027. The company, which in October last year raised $13.1 TLcom and 4DX drive $13.1M

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The proliferation of fintech services across Africa remains in full swing as investors remain bullish about the opportunities that abound in the sector. Launched in 2016 as a Nigerian and U.S.-based New York-based private investment firm Avenir Growth Capital and U.S. hedge fund and investment firm Tiger Global led the Series C round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

. “We’ve built an algorithm-based matching platform where we curate relevant deals to VC investors. Professionals can find interesting opportunities to mentor startups and get paid gig opportunities. Professionals can find interesting opportunities to mentor startups and get paid gig opportunities.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

The argument threaded through Fred’s posts above is that significant venture-scale opportunities for VCs existed outside the Bay Area. Just like Sequoia with their franchise model, or Accel, or the other larger funs, the top-tier venture capital firms have scaled up and out to grab these opportunities.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

During his time at Accra in 2016, he met Quao, a trained pharmacist in Ghana at a hackathon whereupon talking found out that their interests in medical testing overlapped. This is why he sees decentralized, digitized healthcare as the next leapfrog opportunity for sub-Saharan Africa. This decentralised approach is what attracted U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

That firm, founded in 2016, announced on March 29, 2022 that it closed $310 million in capital across three funds. At that time, most VC activity was dominated by the now-defunct Austin Ventures and Sevin Rosen Funds. ATX will be the first midcontinent VC to have top decile performance two funds in a row,” he told TechCrunch. “It

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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

JULY 25, 2021

It recently completed its fourth VC round that values it at a whopping $6 billion , triple the price it fetched a year earlier, and it has so far raised at least half a billion dollars. By 2016, China was shipping 30 billion packages a year , already accounting for 44% of global shipments. The China opportunity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

The funding comes just a few months after Bucketplace acquired Singapore-based online furniture platform HipVan , and Lee said that the company will continue to seek acquisition opportunities and strategic partnerships both in Korea and overseas markets. Image Credits: OHouse app.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. That company sold to Germany’s WireCard in 2016 (with a 3 million customer base) and after three years the founders were able to strike out again. Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Fintech unicorn Interswitch, Africa-focused VCs Rising Tide Africa, Launch Africa, EchoVC, Consonance Investment, CcHub Syndicate, CMC 21 & Alsa, ShEquity, Five35, Sakore and Nikky Taurus also participated in the round. 3 million (~$6,000) from friends and family and grants since 2016, Shuttlers’ growth has been staggering.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sun King raises $260M to widen clean energy access in Africa, Asia Founded in 2016, Qotto designs and distributes stand-alone solar kits and lanterns to individuals residing in the least electrified regions of Africa.

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