A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 5, 2021

This study was based on a large sample of VC fund level returns from 2009 to 2017 and does not include the last few years which have been particularly strong for the VC sector. The Gotham Gal and I have been investing in the VC funds of managers we know well and have worked with closely on boards of startups for about fifteen years now.

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

In late-March, the United Kingdom's Huawei Cyber Security Centre Oversight Board reported that the company had not fixed critical security flaws in its products, even after promising to patch specific issues back in 2012. billion user records that hackers compromised in 2017. CI Security, a seven-year-old, Seattle, Wa.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 27, 2021

I’m taking people on board and asking them, what is your vision for small businesses? LinkUp launched in 2017. How do you keep the essence of what LinkUp is as it grows larger? When I’m looking for new employees, I’m looking for the right attitude, the right values. Is this something you are passionate about?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

The company’s misogynist culture was well documented before Susan Fowler tipped the scales in 2017 and I don’t recall a single investor saying anything about it up to that point. How many LPs are asking the top tier funds what they’re doing to enforce and oversee values and culture from a board perspective?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2019

Support more women in leadership, including: – On the Path of Leadership at the EO chapter, regional and global levels, – In local and national community and civic leadership, – In local and global businesses, and, – Placing women on boards of private and public companies.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 22, 2019

He didn’t win the global competition that year, but Carlos went on to participate in GSEA in a variety of roles—first as a special guest in the 2013 finals, then as a jury member in the 2015 semi-finals in Thailand and, most recently, as a jury member in the 2017 semifinals in Germany. He also hopes to make an impact on the world.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2020

He recruited Ann, a member of the firm’s Advisory Board, to be an independent facilitator. He’s an EO speaker , a recent EO 360° podcast guest and author of Never Go With Your Gut (2019) , The Blindspots Between Us (2020) and The Truth Seeker’s Handbook (2017).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

Today I’m excited to announce we’ve recently raised $30 million in growth finance led by 8VC , with Kimmy Scotti joining our board. So how did a company that provides storage grow so fast (we’ll exit 2017 with 10’s of millions in recurring revenue), why is it so defensible and is it really a tech startup?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Biggs explored the potential for blockchain technology to help solve humanitarian challenges through her venture, Proof of Purpose, in 2017, and her TEDx speech on Blockchain Technology that year is considered by many in the blockchain space to be one of the best in the genre. The move is significant with the news that Tesla has bought $1.5

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 28, 2019

Over the last year, the SEC has been investigating a significant number of token offerings that took place in 2017. One of the crypto projects that the SEC has been investigating, where I have had a front-row seat, is the Kin project that was birthed by USV’s portfolio company Kik , where I am on the Board.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

The first-ever FALAK UTS launched in May 2017 as a two-day summit on innovation and disruption. In 2017 there were 200 attendees. All of the costs of the event were covered by our sponsors, the main ones being TAMKEEN (The Bahrain Labour Fund) and the Bahrain Economic Development Board. Promoting Disruption.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Board meetings at @amplehills are dangerous. A post shared by Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) on Dec 20, 2017 at 8:06am PST When you're Ample Hills Creamery , the #1 rated ice cream shop in the country you can pretty much throw everything you've been told about fundraising out the window.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Bevy launched in 2017 and quickly helped companies like Atlassian, Duolingo, and Salesforce to scale hundreds of monthly in-person meetups and events. Ryan Smith, the founder of Qualtrics, also invested and has joined the board of directors. Derek founded Bevy ?—?a And it would be?—?but

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Jason Malki

MARCH 24, 2023

Rachelle received her Master of Science in Nonprofit Management from the Milano School for Management and Urban Policy in New York City in 2017. She also currently sits on the Junior Advisory Board for the Leopold Schepp Scholarship Foundation Event Planning Committee. Prior to that, Ms. Prior to founding Dare to Run, Ms.

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education board leadership media 98

TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Founded in 2017, Arizona-based Aira didn’t waste any time proving out its technology. version of FreePower on the horizon, and Jawad having just joined our board, this is an inflection point for Aira.”. The news also sees Axon CFO Jawad Ashan joining Aira’s board of directors. With so many partnerships in our pipeline, a 2.0

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As part of the transaction , Vangelov told TechCrunch that he will join Starco’s board and is getting shares in the new company, while himself and Soylent’s shareholders will become the largest single voting block in Starco. Despite that setback, the company went on to raise $50 million in 2017. And just who is Starco Brands?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Founded by Mark Straub and William Bares in 2017, Smile Identity is a major player in Africa’s ID verification and KYC compliance industry. These are relevant localized data that have long been left out of the bigger pool of KYC and fraud prevention.

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venture capital enablement innovation ventures 145

Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

As an EO Vancouver member, he was the 2017 Entrepreneurs’ Organization Global Citizen of the Year Award. Uplevel your board and exec team. Bring a ringer onto your board or executive team. Manny Padda is an entrepreneur, angel investor and philanthropist who won the 2016 Canadian Angel of the Year Award.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Word travels at light speed amongst this small network of people who all know each other and even though they’re rivals they also sit on boards together and many probably went to business school together. The Invoca board and Mark gathered and discussed how our process was going. Some startups will have a hard time reorienting.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Goal board: create a board where you have goals or strategies that your company is striving for and each week you can focus on one goal or problem to solve or work on. You could even go a step further and have a board to acknowledge and encourage creative thinking. Originally published March 9, 2017.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 10, 2017

It’s an outstanding avenue for members to give back, especially if serving on the chapter board is not an option. The Atlanta EO chapter had a relatively small Accelerator program with 10 to 15 participants—or companies—and only one EO member overseeing the program on the chapter board. We transitioned to a quarterly membership cycle.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will take a board seat in the newly expanded Aurora. Aurora, which was founded in 2017, is focused on building the full self-driving stack, the underlying technology that will allow vehicles to navigate highways and city streets without a human driver behind the wheel.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Founded in 2017, Loship offered one-hour deliveries for a large range of products and services, including food, ride-hailing, medicine and B2B supplies. As part of the round, BAce Capital founder Benny Chen, the former managing director of Ant Group India, where he invested in Paytm and Zomato, will join Loship’s board of directors. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

million Series A round back in 2017, but it also raised $20 million in Series B funding in 2019. As part of the investment, Josh Zelman, vice president at Insight Partners, will join Bitrise’s board, while Matt Koran, also vice president at Insight, will act as a board observer. Between then and now, we reported on their $3.2

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 10, 2023

Their two plus year old startup just raised $20 million in funding and set up an advisory board comprised of eight unicorn founders and executives. Eber completed his PhD in 2016 and Wehmeyer was a Research Associate for a year, 2016 to 2017. Possibly the co-founders of Taktile, Dr. Maximilian Eber and Maik Taro Wehmeyer know.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

When they realized that what customers really were after was the information they were uncovering, and not so much the messaging capability, the company pivoted in 2017. The team started out building a messaging platform that provided a deep level of information about people that others might be emailing.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

Founded in 2017, Rainmaking APAC is a startup development company dedicated to helping businesses launch, build, and scale in their industries. program, a SGD 20 million initiative introduced by the Singapore Economic Development Board. Both Bain and Rainmaking APAC were selected to participate in the Corporate Venture Launchpad 2.0

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Fintechs have raised $23B across the regions since 2017. Their average size, especially for seed rounds, has grown from $750,000 in 2017 to $1 million in 2020. He added that what makes India a better market at this stage is because it isn’t a continent like the other markets and operations are uniform across board.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Since the firm’s first fund launched in 2017, MAGIC has invested in 70 companies at pre-seed and seed stages across these emerging markets. In 2017, Olubusi’s current startup Helium Health got accepted into Y Combinator. Some of these companies include Retool , Novo , Payfazz , and Mono. ” MAGIC Fund 1 was $1.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2021

After regulatory approvals for the funding are completed, Sequoia Capital India managing director Abheek Anand will join StashAway’s board of directors as part of the round. Since StashAway launched its app in 2017, more robo-advisors have emerged in the same markets it serves. For example, Syfe also caters to new investors.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs. Startup SG Tech Grant Startup SG Tech, a key initiative for technological firms in Singapore, underwent enhancements in 2017 to facilitate better cash flow for successful applicants.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

In 2017 we began inserting an “Inclusion Clause” into our term sheets because we believe that the culture one establishes at the earliest stages of one’s business will set out the course of how it will grow and develop. We immediately realized this was a great idea.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Antos founded Klarity in 2017 with Nischal Nadhamuni whom he met at MIT. As part of the investment, Sheila Gulati, founder and managing director of Tola Capital, joins Klarity’s board of directors. They bonded over Antos’ experience of having to review large amounts of data when he was a corporate lawyer.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

1: Shared scooters launched (fall 2017). The very first fleet of Bird e-scooters was launched in Santa Monica, California in September of 2017. Tens of thousands of these scooters are still in use today, and every month of continued service reduces their already low per-mile lifetime carbon emissions even further.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Smart Hustle covered Alice here , in 2017. Founded in 2017 by Elizabeth Gore and Carolyn Rodz, Alice uses AI to connect small business owners to resources from enterprise companies, governments and organizations, providing an online platform that acts as a free business adviser. Terms of the financing have not been disclosed.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The company was acquired by Snapchat in 2017 , and spun out into Foursquare in 2019. As part of the investment, Matt McIlwain, managing director at Madrona Venture Group, is joining Read’s board of directors. The trio previously worked together at location analytics startup Placed, where Shim was also CEO. Read Dashboard.

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Startup Catalyst

AUGUST 15, 2018

The 2017 Startup Catalyst Europe Mission cohort?—?Will They’re also really exciting to work with because maybe they’re getting into their first big commercial contracts, they’ve maybe got their first few employees on board, and they’re starting to get a bit more serious. Get on a board. Meet William McCullough.

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