TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The venture capital market appears to be getting later, larger and more expensive. But for smaller players, is the shift toward bigger, more mature rounds undercutting their ability to attract capital and reach scale? Late-stage deals made Q3 2020 a standout VC quarter for US-based startups. billion in total capital raised, +$1.3

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

VC investment, according to “Beyond Silicon Valley,” a new report co-produced by venture firm Revolution and PitchBook. VC dollars have gone to Bay Area startups. As recently as 2017, more than 50% of early-stage Bay Area dollars were received by Bay Area startups. But that was a long time ago.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 5, 2021

There has been this narrative about investing in VC funds that you have to get into the top quartile (25%) or possibly the top decile (10%) in order to generate good returns. I have heard that for as long as I have been in VC and probably have written it here a few times. As you can see, investing in VC funds can be very profitable.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The “ ROSS Index ”, created by Runa Capital , lists the fastest-growing open-source startups with public repositories on GitHub every quarter. ” It says it builds a self-sustainable “privacy-friendly alternative to very popular and widely used surveillance capitalism web analytics tools”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

But when the seed-stage VC — a backer of e-bike maker Zoomo and solar data firm PVcase — debuted with a $13.6 million fund in 2017, its focus was “obviously contrarian,” founding partner Rokas Peciulaitis told TechCrunch, as the “industries in vogue at the time were AI and Fintech.” billion in value.

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FundersClub

JUNE 15, 2017

Jerrod Engelberg of FundersClub hosted a Q&A on FC Live with Brayton Williams of Boost VC , and the full video can now be watched here: Q&A with Brayton Williams of Boost VC — FundersClub Live Series. FundersClub Portfolio News. Million Amid Expansion Push. " Investor Thoughts.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

The tech industry loves generalizations — and don’t worry, I enjoy my fair share too — but as the downturn continues to play out, it’s increasingly important to think about the structural changes that may be forming in the venture capital landscape. The autonomous vehicle startup raised $1 billion after launching in 2017.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and nationwide protests, venture capital firms are making newfound commitments to invest in, or at least evaluate, potential investments that are led by diverse founders. ” It is important to note in this statement that this is not just a moral imperative, but an economic one, as well.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The crypto market is showing no signs of slowing down as funds and investors alike continue to deploy massive amounts of capital into the ecosystem. Today’s evidence of the trend: Dragonfly Capital, a crypto-centered investment firm, closed its third venture fund for $650 million, the firm’s managing partner, Haseeb Qureshi, told TechCrunch.

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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.). What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.”

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2017

Historically VC has been an apprenticeship business. VC ASSOCIATIONS. Let’s Talk Ops , Venture Capital Operations Association – fund operations professionals. Let’s Talk Ops , Venture Capital Operations Association – fund operations professionals. National Venture Capital Association.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The deal is a coup not only for companies that eschew venture capital backing — Mailchimp is famous for its bootstrapping history — but also for the city of its founding, Atlanta. But there are markets where the gains still stand out despite the generally warm climate for private capital investments into private companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Qwick today announced that it raised $40 million in a Series B financing round led by Tritium Partners, with participation by current investors Album VC, Kickstart, Desert Angels and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. Jamie Baxter co-founded Qwick in 2017 with Chris Loeffler. million in capital.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Our findings confirmed a significant shift away from the traditional tech hubs of the Bay Area, New York City, and Boston, with the proportion of seed- and early-stage VC dollars funneling into the Bay Area falling below 30% for the first time in more than a decade. marking its highest level since 2017.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Microtraction , an early-stage venture capital firm based in Lagos, Nigeria, saw funding nearly quadruple for its portfolio. 2019 saw the local VC firm invest in six companies. From the outside in, startups see Microtraction and other early-stage VC firms like Ventures Platform as a means to that end.

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Haystack

JANUARY 2, 2020

A topic that’s been on my mind a lot in 2019 is “time diversity” in venture capital funds. From what I’ve gathered from LPs and VC mentors, in previous eras, the initial deployment period of a VC fund (not including reserves for follow-ons, etc.) These are firms that have returned capital at scale.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Christina Melas-Kyriazi, partner, Bain Capital Ventures. But data-driven founders who can tell a sweet story with the right metrics are much more likely to get an investor’s attention, according to Blair Silverberg, co-founder and CEO of Hum Capital. How to find a job as a scout for a VC firm. Ethan Choi, partner, Accel.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Today, it’s Prewave ‘s turn to demonstrate that the global supply chain is still one of the hottest tickets for raising VC bucks. For its latest cash injection, Prewave has also attracted European VC heavyweight Creandum , which has previously backed the likes of Spotify, Klarna, and iZettle.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

In 2017, they raised $11 million out of $1.03 Data visualization by Miranda Halpern , created with Flourish VC funding to Black web3 founders popped last year, bucking trends by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch web3 startups received $16.5 billion that year).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Felix Williams is the founder and managing director of Lagomaj Capital. TechCrunch sat down with Williams to learn more about how he got into venture capital, and his plans for the future. When did you first become interested in venture capital? While growing up, I had no idea what venture capital was. Louis well.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Each had different yet complementary skills — Michael Famoroti , an economist; Bode Ogunlana , a software engineer; Abdul Abdulrahim , a data scientist; and Preston Ideh , a corporate lawyer — and in 2017, they launched a media startup to address the dearth of information and data-driven insights in the West African country. .

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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.). What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.”

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 17, 2019

The number one challenge women face is a significant disadvantage in securing access to venture capital funding compared to their male peers. In 2017, just 2.2% of all venture capital in the US went to companies founded solely by women. Find the Right Investors - don’t throw your pitch to just anybody.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Mental health startup Ksana Health has received $2 million in seed funding led by re:Mind Capital, the mental health VC arm of Christian Angermayer and Apeiron Investment Group. to 13.1%) between 2009 and 2017. The answer Vira seems to offer is extremely detailed data on well-being that will be funneled to a therapist.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

When SoftBank announced its first Vision Fund back in 2017 , TechCrunch gawked at the size of the fundraising vehicle and its $100 million minimum check size. The Vision Fund poured capital into a host of companies with big plans, or what could at least be construed as grandiose hypotheses about the future. And after deploying $98.6

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. Based on this paper, Blue Future Partners and PEVCTech recently completed a large-scale survey to find out which tools are most commonly used by venture capital firms.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. Plastomics: St. Louis, MO St. Tania Seger, CEO of Plastomics , leads a company born of deep AgTech expertise in the region.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Collectively , they have raised over $100 million in venture capital. Last year, fintech startups accounted for 25% of the VC funding which flowed into Africa, while startups from the Big Four received more than half of the continent’s total funding. Google sets up $50M fund to invest in African startups.

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Startup Catalyst

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In November 2017 we delivered our first Investor Mission, heading to San Francisco for an intensive week meeting with angels, VCs, corporate venture programs, accelerators, startups, pitch events, and dinners. Catalysed – The ‘Goldilocks’ Zone – by Dan Gavel from Black Sheep Capital. Who we took.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

NextView Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital fund, has raised an $89.6 NextView Ventures was launched in 2010 by Rob Go , a former partner at Spark Capital; Dave Beisel , who clocked time at Venrock and Masthead Venture Partners; and Lee Hower, a former investor at Point Judith Capital. A hot Boston VC Summer.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The “Start” Track: Geared towards entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas, this track offers a starting capital of $50,000 SGD by Enterprise Singapore and support from an Accredited Mentor Partner (AMP) of the entrepreneur’s choice. The applicant is required to possess a minimum of 30% shares in the company.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You might not know yet of XYZ Venture Capital , a four-year-old, San Francisco-based seed-stage venture firm, but many veterans of Palantir are surely aware of it. At the same time, Fubini began raising his own pool of capital under the brand XYZ Ventures, eventually launching a $70 million fund.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Payments infrastructure company Stronghold has launched a venture capital arm to deploy $100 million of its balance sheet capital in startups and funds in three core strategies — underrepresented founders, fintech, and web3, CEO Tammy Camp told TechCrunch in an interview. It has raised $3.3

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

billion user records that hackers compromised in 2017. Cybersecurity Venture Funding News Deepwatch, which provides managed security services, closed a $23 million Series A led by ABS Capital Partners. Sequoia Capital led the round. CI Security, a seven-year-old, Seattle, Wa.-based

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

million Series A investment in June from a group of investors that includes Archer-Daniels-Midland Company’s venture arm ADM Ventures, Cavallo Ventures, Genoa Ventures, Lever VC, Thia Ventures, iSelect Fund, Stage 1 Fund, Lifely VC and Satori Capital. million to bring its total funding since 2017 to $20 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The venture capital boom of 2021 was not built from merely traditional VC money. A host of other capital sources played a role in the global trend , from new methods of disbursing angel and seed capital to crossover funds pouring into late-stage startups. How quickly is corporate venture capital investment accelerating?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Mayor Eric Garcetti at Upfront Summit, February 2017 I first sat down with then councilman Eric Garcetti on the Ides of March 2012 — almost 5 years ago exactly. It’s amazing to see the success of LA under Mayor Garcetti and that’s why I urge you to turn out to reelect him tomorrow — March 7, 2017 - every single vote matters.

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