A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 30, 2021

Dapper Labs came out of an incubator called Axiom Zen back in 2017. I wrote a short post on the USV blog announcing that we had invested in Cryptokitties , but in truth, we invested in much more. Financings don’t really interest me but companies do. And this is a fascinating company.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Register Japan’s Financial Services Agency plans to double the cap on the amount of money retail investors can invest in unlisted startups. At present, through crowdfunding, retail investors have a limitation of investing a maximum of 500,000 yen annually in individual unlisted startups. counterpart in structure and scope.

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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. Manager selection remains an important part of VC investing because the lower half of VC funds do not outperform the stock market.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2024

After my job salary was cut on February 10, 2017, I had to quickly figure out a solution for success. Despite having zero business background, I started my first company on April 16, 2017. Keep making bigger investments into smaller rooms, where the people in those rooms are making bigger impacts. They live in full abundance.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns. marking its highest level since 2017. Consequently, the Bay Area experienced a surge, capturing over one-third of all early-stage venture funding in the U.S.,

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

Instead, we got one of the most lucrative startup investments of all time from a company built off of a legion of drivers unable to make a living wage after expenses, without benefits, and not even classified as employees even when they work for the company for full time hours.

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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. In the last decade, we’ve socialized several Rise of the Rest-isms to describe investments that check those boxes.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. For posterity, here are some of the more recent investments… 2022 Hubly Surgical Hubly Surgical has an advanced drill, complete with auto-stop and visual feedback, to make medical drilling safe across underserved settings.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

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. They may want a lower valuation as a kind of risk premium for investing in you.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Magnetar contributed $111 million, with the remainder of the investment being split between Nvidia, Friedman and Gross. An Nvidia spokesperson said that the investment represents a “deepening” of its partnership with CoreWeave. Intrator says that the new tranche will lead to more efforts like this.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The investment is the largest-ever Series A round for the region, and it values Wave at $1.7 Four big-name backers jointly led the round — Sequoia Heritage, a private investment fund and a subsidiary of Sequoia; Founders Fund; payments upstart Stripe; and Ribbit Capital. Wave , a U.S. Both were Series C rounds.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

This undisclosed investment is Google’s third from the $50 million Africa Investment Fund targeted at the continent’s early- and growth-stage startups, which the company CEO Sundar Pichai announced last October. The fund is part of Google’s plan to invest $1 billion in “tech-led initiatives” over the next five years.

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

billion user records that hackers compromised in 2017. Mangrove Capital Partners led a $6 million investment in security operations center services provider CyberHat. According to a new report from Risk Based Security, 6,500 publicly known data breaches from 2018 exposed more than 5 billion user records, a decrease from the 7.9

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 14, 2022

In a section called Kitty Down , Packy describes the challenges that the Dapper Labs team went through between late 2017, when CryptoKitties launched, and the summer of 2020, when Top Shot launched. Well buried deep in a 66 page blog post on the Flow blockchain by Packy McCormick lies the answer. That latter bit is quite important.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Incredibly, prior to the investment, ProsperOps had only raised around $800,000. “This investment allows us to expand the scope of the work we perform for our customers and continue growing our engineering and sales teams.” Microsoft in 2017 acquired Cloudyn, which provided tools to analyze and forecast cloud spending.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 18, 2020

Invest in yourself, and your hard work will blossom.”. 2017 YLAI Fellow Neish’s hard work of creating a sustainable trans rights movement has blossomed far beyond his expectations. Neish credits the YLAI Fellowship as an influential opportunity to learn and invest in himself and his organization’s mission. By Jewelle Saunders.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

Upfront VI is our latest core fund and is $400 million to invest in early stage entrepreneurs. If you watch the short video below you’ll have a great sense on what is uniquely LA in 2017 — hearing from Mayor Garcetti, Kobe Bryant, Tyra Banks, Baron Davis and so many great advocates for the uniqueness of our city and some of our key stats.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When I started leading deals at First Round Capital, I sourced investments in 8 companies. I have now been investing on my own at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures for almost eight years exactly—which is pretty much about the time people say it takes to build up a company to a big exit. I don’t really have a particular goal with this post.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.). Seriously, this happens.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 31, 2021

I am a fan of and a practioner of investing in risky assets. When crypto went crazy in 2017 and then blew up, it was mostly a blip in our portfolio values. USV has invested in a number of them and so have the Gotham Gal and I. I believe you must take significant risk to earn significant returns.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

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? We’ve invested heavily in inventory management software so we can track every bin and every item of your stuff and know where it is at all times.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Unfortunately, in 2017, Surcos Argentinos shut down due to a change in its business model, management, and mission. Marcos Heyd has invested his time and energy into solving problems in Argentina. Impoverished villages in Argentina do not have the appropriate resources or knowledge to have nutrient-rich diets.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

intends to use the funding to investment in technology and scale its business operations and teams in the United States, India and the Middle East. It was also the first investment for Sorin Investments, an early-stage tech fund founded by private equity veteran Sanjay Nayar, Former Chairman of KKR India. Uniqus Consultech Inc.

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Source Link

MARCH 30, 2022

In 2017, we shared 3 ways to empower your entrepreneurial community. However, it’s important to consider what barriers entrepreneurs of color face that may keep them from being able to benefit from investment and support resources. Here are some additional recommendations for empowering your network in 2022.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

And, with that warning, I offer to you, the big stories in the startup and investing ecosystem of 2018, written in ascending order of importance and magnitude…. In 2017, Softbank rounds caught folks’ attention. The fear of them investing in a competitor is real. 6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Recognizing this, The Veteran Fund announced the winner of its $100,000 Veteran Pitch Competition and the recent closing of its inaugural oversubscribed investment Fund I. With one click of a smartphone’s camera, building owners and service providers gain much-needed insight in 50 to 80% less time and cash invested.

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Revolution

JULY 13, 2023

Revolution Growth first partnered with Scopely in 2017 when we led the company’s Series C. Core to our investment thesis was Scopely’s platform approach to IP partnership and game development, its exceptional ability to drive monetization among users, and the team’s dedication to becoming the preeminent free-to-play mobile gaming publisher.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The Allen Institute for AI has a small accelerator that launched in 2017, which provides up to a $500,000 pre-seed investment and up to $450,000 in cloud compute credits. Beyond Converge, surprisingly, there aren’t many incubator programs focused exclusively on AI startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

they could invest in entrepreneurial communities and the best founders would then bring in new founders. Bevy launched in 2017 and quickly helped companies like Atlassian, Duolingo, and Salesforce to scale hundreds of monthly in-person meetups and events. It’s no wonder they’ve both performed so well. Derek founded Bevy ?—?a

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Ahmed became acquainted with Swanson while working at Swanson’s last startup, DataScience.com, which was acquired by Oracle in 2017. investment to harden AI projects from attack by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch. “We have several years of cash runway available to continue to advance this field.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Falcon Edge Capital led the new tranche of investment in the Indian startup, which has raised about $630 million to date, according to research firm Tracxn. According to rating agency ICRA, insurance products had reached less than 3% of the population as of 2017. An average Indian makes about $2,100 in a year, according to World Bank.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

The open source product proved so popular that he launched a company to support it in 2017, and began building a commercial product for users with enterprise requirements. DBeaver takes $6M seed investment to build on growing popularity by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This is already leading to a massive acceleration in both the investment and application of artificial intelligence in the health and medical ecosystems. As a result, human life expectancy increased from 31 years in 1900 to 72 years in 2017.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The startup raised a total of $107 million from investors, including Highland Capital Partners, White Star Capital, Insight Venture Partners and Nestlé itself, which led the Series C in 2017. “It’s an evolution brought on by the pandemic but taking hold for the long term.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

billion invested in Latin American startups, Q2 2021’s closest rival in terms of quarterly venture totals was the second quarter of 2017, when $2.6 billion was invested. This year is different, and the second quarter of 2021 was simply an outlier event. With some $7.2

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