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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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The Exchange touched on this topic a few weeks ago , noting that “number of rounds raised by female-founded and co-founded companies fell year-over-year, with dollars invested in those rounds collapsing to 2017-era levels.” A VC rebound. In the third quarter, things turned around. It was an impressive comeback.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Monique Villa is an investor at Mucker Capital , an early-stage VC fund investing in startups across the U.S. Getting a seat at the VC table. The wave of venture capital interest in geographies other than Silicon Valley has been building momentum over the past 5+ years. VC deals by region, as of June 2019.

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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 haul.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

I am so proud and humbled to be able to formally announce that Upfront Ventures has raised its 6th venture capital fund in the past 21 years. A huge thank you to all of the Limited Partners who have entrusted us with your capital, time and reputations.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

However, the research shows a possible interesting trend away from the VC-backed startups of the last 10 years. In 2017, Battery Ventures published its own BOSS Index, but the index was abandoned. Of course, open-source doesn’t mean these companies will never monetize or not go on to raise venture capital.

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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. Instead, venture firms cut costs in quieter ways.

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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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 5, 2021

According to a 2017 survey by the FDIC, 25 percent of U.S. USV and many others in the tech sector, venture capital sector, and crypto sector have issued comment letters opposing this rulemaking. The issue is “unhosted wallets” and how regulated exchanges and other “hosted wallets” interact with them.

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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. billion in total capital. Dollar volume is half the venture capital activity matrix, of course. Let’s explore.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Collectively , they have raised over $100 million in venture capital. Fintech startups and those from Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt and South Africa get looked at the most by venture capitalists. The accelerator program has supported more than 80 startups in seed to Series A stages with equity-free mentorship and resources.

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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. Founder-market-geography fit is one of those factors.

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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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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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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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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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

NextView Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital fund, has raised an $89.6 The NextView Ventures team did not immediately respond to request for comment. A hot Boston VC Summer. Despite the pandemic, Boston’s startup scene has continued to attract record numbers in venture capital volume.

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year. The European VC also led the pre-seed rounds of Kippa and Edukoya.

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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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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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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.) So, I spent years trying to learn from other VCs.

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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. Sounds good? Let’s get into the data.

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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

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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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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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. Sadly, the SEC looks at crypto tokens and sees securities that they want to regulate as such.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Endless anti-union tantrums, delivered with the confidence that only a VC who had a single personal interaction with a union 7 years ago could muster. Probably a correlation here with why there was more venture funding for golf tech than women’s fertility until very recently…. I’ve heard many fast and hard passes.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Sign with message reading “Please Check In” at the headquarters of short-term rental technology company Airbnb in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco, California, October 13, 2017. How to find a job as a scout for a VC firm. How to find a job as a scout for a VC firm.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

When I started emPawa Africa, I wanted to experiment with the VC model by investing in many artists,” said the artist who recently completed a program at Harvard Business School. . According to him, powering artists and people in the creative space should be done in a startup/VC manner.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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. This investment is directed toward seeding corporate venture capital (VC) funds that, in turn, invest in Singapore-based early-stage high-tech companies.

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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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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

While I don’t have portfolio level stats for them, their new endeavor Foundry Next (to invest in smaller funds and then follow-on into key investments) has built up an LP basket of 23 positions in a variety of new VC funds. The global story is undeniable, but what about what’s going in the USA outside the Bay Area?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Other investors involved in the round include Partech, Picus Capital, Tencent Exploration, Africa Healthcare Master Fund, P1 Ventures, Laerdal Million Lives Fund and M3 Inc. Reliance previously raised a $2 million seed round months post-YC in 2017.

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