David Teten VC

MARCH 31, 2025

Orange Collective exclusively invests in Y Combinator companies before Demo Day. The team has founded 5 companies which participated in 5 graduating batches spanning from 2009 to 2017. They also have previous venture experience: Jason was a Partner at Peak State Ventures and Tara was a Partner at Initialized.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Today we’re wrapping our multi-week exploration of the global venture capital market’s second-quarter performance. At a glance, the Latin American venture capital and startup market appears similar to what we’ve seen from other growing ecosystems. A venture capital wave. billion was invested. billion across 526 deals.

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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. Consequently, the Bay Area experienced a surge, capturing over one-third of all early-stage venture funding in the U.S., marking its highest level since 2017. Seed- and Early-Stage U.S,

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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. Half of all venture funds outperform the stock market which is the benchmark most institutions measure VC funds against. Well, it turns out that is not right.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

The round was co-led by African early-stage VC firm Future Africa and Japanese but Africa-focused VC Kepple Africa Ventures. Other investors include Acuity Ventures, Aidi Ventures, Assembly Capital, Kairos Angels, Nama Ventures, RallyCap Ventures, and Remapped Ventures. You have to be as simple as possible.”

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab. To appreciate the scale of the opportunity, at the last Demo Day the investment firms in attendance represented over $40 billion of dry powder.

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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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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 billion, the company says.

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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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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. million donation-based fund intended to grow to $15 million to invest in “underserved” founders.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2021

Based in Sydney and Auckland, Dovetail is a full-service venture studio that works closely with founders who have a great idea, but may lack technical backgrounds. million USD) fund that will be used for seed, Series A and Series B rounds in 15 of the most promising companies that have gone through its venture studio program.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Intudo Ventures , the “Indonesia-only” investment firm, announced today it has closed its third fund, totaling $115 million. Called Intudo Ventures Fund III, it was raised in less than three months and oversubscribed. Chan pointed to crypto-exchange Pintu as a good example of Intudo’s investment thesis.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Twenty-three members of the Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab cohort are pitching today to an audience of over 300 investors, potential partners, and customers. Since its founding in 2017 the Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Labs has established a track record of success. Twelve of 23 cohort members are based in U.S.

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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. Qualcomm Ventures led an $18 million strategic round of funding in industrial IoT security platform CyberX.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The venture capital boom of 2021 was not built from merely traditional VC money. And amid all the noise, record-setting totals, and rapid-fire dealmaking, corporate venture investors were busy, investing gobs of parent-company cash into far-smaller concerns. How quickly is corporate venture capital investment accelerating?

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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’m just sharing. And then, my mom fell.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

While many funds are returning to more conservative check-writing , with a focus on profitability and business fundamentals, crypto remains a sector in the spotlight that attracts dedicated billion-dollar funds and investment terms that remind us more of 2021 than 2022. Influx of cash-rich attention.

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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. Board meetings at @amplehills are dangerous. Did that seed make this round our Series A?

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Booz Allen Hamilton, the Virginia-based, defense-focused IT consulting firm, today announced the launch of a corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, that will initially put $100 million toward “strategic” defensive and offensive technologies. In the U.S.,

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

Founded in 2017 by former Wall Street traders Michael Intrator, Brian Venturo, and Brannin McBee, CoreWeave began as a cryptocurrency mining operation before pivoting in 2019 to become a specialized provider of GPU-based cloud infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The company raised $1.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Conductive Ventures raised a $200 million Fund III to continue its focus on investing in founders where other venture capital firms did not see the potential. Carey Lai and Paul Yeh started the firm in 2017 after Lai had been with IVP and Yeh with Kleiner Perkins. Conductive Ventures launches $100 million enterprise fund.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 8, 2017

This is an e-mail I got from Amanda Weeks in February 2014, and the beginning of a two and a half year journey that culminated with Brooklyn Bridge Ventures leading a pre-seed round for Industrial Organic that kicked off about a year ago. Here are ten reasons why you should take the meeting." The conversation went like this.

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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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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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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…. 6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. In 2017, Softbank rounds caught folks’ attention. The fear of them investing in a competitor is real.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

with $15 million to Prove It The venture capital world has started firing up a few cylinders again and looking for businesses that it believes will help us all succeed in ways that resonate with new ways of working as we begin to return to work. Ryan Smith, the founder of Qualtrics, also invested and has joined the board of directors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

CoreWeave , an NYC-based startup that began as an Ethereum mining venture, has secured a large tranche of funding as it continues to transition to a general-purpose cloud computing platform. Magnetar contributed $111 million, with the remainder of the investment being split between Nvidia, Friedman and Gross.

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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. Could you expand on the work done by Digital Footprint, your third venture? . Marcos Heyd has invested his time and energy into solving problems in Argentina.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

million in a funding round led by Battery Ventures. It has now raised a total of $39 million since its 2017 inception. Battery Ventures General Partner Michael Brown believes there are “very few digital competitors to Obie, as landlord insurance is a nuanced, specialized insurance product.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. Understanding how your company will change as you move through these phases is critical if you hope to scale to a large business one day.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 4, 2025

Malaysian venture capital firm 1337 Ventures has invested in Arus Oil, a startup that converts waste into renewable energy. Established in 2017 by Syazwan Majid in Subang Jaya, Arus Oil […]

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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. The founding round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, a leading Silicon Valley-India venture capital firm. Uniqus Consultech Inc. The post Uniqus Consultech raises $12.5M

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Titan , a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at millennials, has closed on $12.5 We came from two different backgrounds with respect to investing,” Percoco recalled. “He I’m the exact opposite and couldn’t invest myself until after Goldman Sachs, where I went to work after Penn.”.

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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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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. Venture firms, unlike unicorns, often don’t have hundreds of employees to cut.

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