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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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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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

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. Galileo did it first in 1609, and we’re doing it again now.”

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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. This brings our combined funds under management to nearly $2 billion.

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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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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

For example, voice-powered ecommerce reached approximately $2 billion in 2017 and Gartner predicts that about 30% of web browsing will happen via voice (and without a screen) by 2020. In 2017, Medscape surveyed more than 14,000 physicians and found that 51% of them reported burnout, up from the 40% in 2013. Here’s a look at it:

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital. In 2017, Softbank rounds caught folks’ attention. 5/ Early Effects Of The Softbank Effect.

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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. Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with

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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. Despite the pandemic, Boston’s startup scene has continued to attract record numbers in venture capital volume. venture deals, and 10.3%

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

I was able to grow our monthly revenue by more than 30X in under two years without venture capital or angel investors.” – Michael Tindall “In 2017, two freelancer friends and I founded BigOrange, a firm supporting flexible work for women balancing motherhood, marathons, or other pursuits.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Collectively , they have raised over $100 million in venture capital. SafeBoda has rarely announced any of its funding rounds since its inception in 2017, but people who know the company’s dealings say it has raised over $20 million. Google sets up $50M fund to invest in African startups.

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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.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

In 2017, when Campos was in her early 20s, she learned to program and created a system to help manage her mental health. He first met Campos when she was participating in an accelerator program in 2017, and then again recently. Mental health startups are raising spirits and venture capital.

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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? billion in total capital raised, +$1.3 ” More capital then, into fewer rounds.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

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. And Runa Capital clearly has an interest in publishing the list. China is building a GitHub alternative called Gitee.

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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. These predictions weren’t entirely off the mark.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Sota Kimura, co-founder and CEO of SmartRyde, founded SmartRyde in 2017 after he experienced trouble getting a taxi from the airport to the hotel when he traveled abroad, Kimura told TechCrunch. It will also use the funding for global expansion, Kimura said.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

The four co-founders are continuing to pass major milestones with an acquisition strategy and timely funding since its launch in 2017 Drivers’ parking experiences around the country are now being enhanced through artificial intelligence, enabling them to readily come and go without checking out.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In November 2022, the “ Five-Year Startup Development Plan” was unveiled, leading to increased investments from venture capitalists, business corporations, and corporate venture capital entities (CVCs). billion yen from 2017 to August of the current year. While the U.S. By contrast, the U.S. accumulated 100.1

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

If you thought that the recent venture capital market was tough, let me tell you about 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. That means that 2022’s venture capital story has largely been written. With the first week of December under our belts, we’re not too far away from the end of the year.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Pan-African focused venture capital firms Samurai Incubate Africa, Future Africa and Consonance Investment Managers led the round. Individual investors like Stephen Pagliuca, the chairman of Bain Capital and Justin Kan of Twitch also participated. Today, the company is announcing that it has raised $2.7

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David Teten VC

MARCH 31, 2025

The team has founded 5 companies which participated in 5 graduating batches spanning from 2009 to 2017. Orange Collective exclusively invests in Y Combinator companies before Demo Day.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The firm has made seven investments since 2017 with check sizes between 25k and 100k euros. Dorm Room Fund is an American venture capital firm run by students that invests in student founders in the US and Canada using a $20,000 SAFE. G Ventures is “France’s First Student-Run Venture Capital Fund.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Wherever we looked, we’ve found venture capital flowing in record quantities. Inside Denver, Facebook started hiring back in 2017, the Denver Business Journal notes, opening an office in the city the following year , when Microsoft also built a technology center in Denver. Denver, our focus this morning, is similar.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Atrium (2017-2020). Essential (2017-2020). The startup targeted working professionals in cities, and raised only around $11 million in known venture capital. Still, even venture capital couldn’t make vending machines work well enough. Total Raised: $75 million. Total Raised: $330 million. Trover (2011-2020).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

As a private company, Coupang has raised billions , including capital from American venture capital firm Sequoia and Japanese telecom giant SoftBank and its Vision Fund. Earlier today, South Korean e-commerce and delivery giant Coupang filed to go public in the United States. Coupang’s surging scale. billion (+43.7%).

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 29, 2023

Wavemaker Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm with offices in Los Angeles and Singapore, led the funding. Established in 2017 by twin brothers Phan Thanh Long and Phan Thanh Vinh, MFast has rapidly expanded its footprint to cover all 63 cities in Vietnam.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

Fungible was launched in 2016 by Bertrand Serlet, a former Apple software engineer who sold a cloud storage startup, Upthere, to Western Digital in 2017, alongside Krishna Yarlagadda and Jupiter Networks co-founder Pradeep Sindhu.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Established in 2017 by fintech visionary Eric Barbier , Triple-A facilitates secure and efficient transactions through stablecoins and blockchain technology/ It offers support for prominent tokens like USDT, USDC, Bitcoin, and Ethereum. In total, the company has now raised $14 million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. In 2019, Italian startups attracted $850 million, compared to just €140 million in 2017, as the VC ecosystem became less insular and more international investors arrived.

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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. In a review of the year published last week, the firm noted that 21 companies in its portfolio have raised more than $33 million in funding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

By 2017, Duolingo would boast having 200 million users, which was double von Ahn’s goal when he first launched to the public on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage. She said to me, ‘Look, it worked for you to continue getting bigger and bigger checks from venture capital,’” von Ahn said. “‘But

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Notably, Kanarys founders join the (far-too-few) ranks of Black entrepreneurs launching businesses and raising venture capital. In 2017, studies showed that 98 percent of venture capital raised in the U.S. percent of venture capital funding raised. . “We

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