Startup Catalyst

JUNE 21, 2018

In June we conducted our third annual mission to London for London Tech Week.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 3, 2018

The SaaS fundraising market remains ebullient through 2018 as vibrant M&A and an open IPO window trigger substantial liquidity for shareholders. Blockchain in the enterprise takes the reign as the buzzword for 2018. There are now 5 publicly traded software companies worth more than $10B, and 19 companies worth between $2.5B

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 18, 2018

Many Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree programs offer their students the opportunity to choose a concentration, which can also be called a "specialization" or a "track." In Australia, some educators may refer to this as a "major."

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The market pushed higher for nearly 36 months to a new high in September 2018 at 9.5x Multiples at IPO will be lower in 2019 than for most of 2018. But 2018’s multiples were at decade highs, and 2019s figures are are 40%+ larger than the trailing 8 year median. In February 2014, forward multiples touched 7.7x.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 11, 2018

2018 is a blockbuster year for software M&A multiples. Billion-dollar plus acquisitions in 2018 have commanded a median 17.7x In 2018, three acquirers have paid greater than 14x trailing multiples, and two have paid greater than 20x trailing. trailing enterprise value to revenue multiple. The corporate tax holiday.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 14, 2018

These are my ten favorite books from 2018. The (Mis)Behavior of Markets - Written by Benoit Mandelbrot, the Belgian mathematician who pioneered fractals, this book and theory inspired Naseem Taleb. It’s a powerful book on the uncertain nature of financial turbulence.

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Deskmag

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

In 2018, Coworking Spaces are again expecting great things for their market. Here is the first bundle of results of the latest Global Coworking Survey: The 2018 Coworking Forecast. Here is the first bundle of results of the latest Global Coworking Survey: The 2018 Coworking Forecast. There is currently no dip on the horizon.

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FundersClub

OCTOBER 17, 2018

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: GitLab announced its $100M Series D, led by ICONIQ, and minting it a new $B portfolio company.

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Deskmag

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Coworking spaces are growing. Each year they offer larger workspaces and serve more members than the year before. These findings are not new. But what does a detailed view of coworking spaces look like presently?

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Deskmag

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Whilst membership numbers and area are increasing in European coworking spaces, their popularity is slightly decreasing. Do large spaces with more members, private offices and employees lead to worse ratings among members? Yes, but less than expected. Surprisingly, it’s smaller coworking spaces in particular that are becoming much less popular.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 23, 2018

In the meantime, the number of series As has only declined 20% from its high, remaining relatively stable from 2014 through 2018. In the second quarter of 2018, there were three Series As for every five seeds. This means that the odds of a seed stage company raising a Series A have improved markedly in the last year.

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FundersClub

JANUARY 15, 2019

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: Coinbase announced its $300M Series E, led by Tiger Global, at a pre-money of $8B. Coinbase is a category-leading blockchain company.

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Deskmag

JANUARY 17, 2018

Have you already planned your vacations for this year? Combine some of them with exciting coworking events, extend your trip and turn them into a coworkation! From vibrant New York City, the breezy Hanseatic cities Bremen or Gdansk, to the tropical climate in Georgetown, Malaysia.

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FundersClub

JULY 20, 2018

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Her fibromyalgia diagnosis after university gave her even more drive to launch CAPAZ in 2018. In 2018, after Déborah finished researching the play, it went on tour around Lima, and her team launched their production with a new name, CAPAZ (Spanish for “able”). Fibromyalgia changed my life,” she believes.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Angel Flores, a 2018 YLAI Fellow, has made it his life’s mission to improve the lives of people with disabilities. The first time, only about 80 people participated, but in 2018, about 5,000 people took to the streets. One inspiring YLAI Network member in Nicaragua wholeheartedly shares these goals.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow Rondell Hamilton is the founder of Rennie’s Orphanage and Animal Rescue (ROAR) in Trinidad, a nonprofit organization managing the rehabilitation, repopulation, and rescue of wild animals. During my YLAI experience in 2018 at San Diego Zoo Global, I learned about managing all the moving parts of a conservation facility.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 29, 2020

Tamara Isch, a 2018 YLAI Fellow and a co-founder and COO of EcX Labs, has been breaking boundaries in her country, in her field of work, and in the world. By Elise Kemp. The results of this woman’s hard work and innovation are cutting-edge technology solutions to the biggest problems in Ecuador.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

In 2018, we saw this trend reach new heights with more corporate venture capital (CVC) funds than ever. This year we dove headfirst into the rise of corporate venture capital, the changing nature of venture capital education, and the important task of startup ecosystem building.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The Warren Buffett firm invested about $260 million in Paytm in 2018, acquiring a 3% stake in the financial services startup at a valuation of about $10 […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 20, 2019

Rafael, a 2018 YLAI Fellow and an entrepreneur in Honduras, saw years later a need for his skills in the country’s cultural heritage sector. “My Rafael López is a 2018 YLAI Network Fellow and the co-founder and CEO of Malengu, a Honduran fashion brand. She told me I would be successful because I took care of my money,” Rafael says.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2019

How far along was the typical SaaS Series A in 2018? The chart below shows a representative sample of SaaS Series As’ ARR and projected ARR growth rate for 2018. The median business was at $1.8M in ARR and growing at 250%. Breaking this down a bit more into quartiles, the ARR quartiles were: 25th.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 4, 2021

In fact, the number of women-owned businesses has increased 31 times between 1972 and 2018 according to the Kauffman Foundation (in 1972, women-owned businesses accounted for just 4.6% of all firms; in 2018 that figure was 40%).

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Source Link

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Data was extracted from the 2018 Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) report from the U.S. More than 25,000 jobs were created in 2018 by firms 0-1 years old in Tarrant County. Census Bureau.

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For Entrepreneurs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Thank you to the readers of forEntrepreneurs who participated in taking the … The post 2018 SAAS Private Survey Results- Part 1 appeared first on For Entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

August 2018 saw an exodus of top execs, including Evernote’s chief technical officer, chief financial officer, chief product officer and head of HR. ” Small, the former CEO of platform-as-a-service company TokBox, came on in 2018. ” Small, the former CEO of platform-as-a-service company TokBox, came on in 2018.

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For Entrepreneurs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This is the sixth annual survey we’ve produced together, which provides data to help SaaS companies benchmark their … The post 2018 Private SAAS Company Survey- Part 2 appeared first on For Entrepreneurs.

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For Entrepreneurs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

For the seventh year in a row, we’re proud to work with KBCM Technology Group (formerly Pacific Crest Securities) to share results from a survey of ~385 private SaaS companies. Thank you to the readers of forEntrepreneurs who participated in taking the survey!

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

NEC X has graduated over 130 startups since 2018 that have worked with NEC X’s innovation team, researchers, industry experts, coaches, mentors, and advisors to develop their products and establish market fit.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Across all stages, companies were seeing higher post-money valuations, anywhere from about 40% at the earliest stages to over 200% in the growth stages in the 2018 to 2022 period, compared to 2012 to 2018. Between 2012 and 2018, the median valuation of a Series C company was $120 million. Source: PitchBook data from 2012-2022.

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For Entrepreneurs

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Please find below a selection of photos from the event:… The post Zero to 100 – Photos from the SFO Sept 2018 event appeared first on For Entrepreneurs. Thanks to all of you who helped make the Zero to 100 event in San Francisco such a great success.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Forethought AI won Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2018. TechCrunch Live records each Wednesday at 3:00pm EDT / 12:00pm PDT. Since then, the company raised two rounds of funding and is now a leader in human-centric artificial intelligence.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

billion Marketo acquisition in 2018. It could be that — like IBM buying Red Hat for $34 billion in 2018 or Salesforce acquiring Slack for almost $28 billion in 2020 — Adobe’s executive team saw a company that could fundamentally alter their organization. For IBM, the Red Hat acquisition was about the hybrid cloud.

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For Entrepreneurs

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

We recently released Part 1 results of our private SaaS company survey in partnership with KBCM Technology Group (formerly Pacific Crest Securities). This is the sixth annual survey we’ve produced together, which provides data to help SaaS companies benchmark their performance against their competition.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In 2018, Y Combinator released its first mega list of the top companies valued at $150 million or more that have gone through the accelerator. There were 141 companies from 24 countries in the winter 2018 batch , compared with 377 companies across 47 countries in the summer 2021 group. have joined this desirable list.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In 2024, I expect most of these figures to revert to the mean - not the peaks of 2020-2021, but more akin to 2018. In almost every category, the time between rounds is also at decade highs. The public valuation environment & pace of venture capital investments mirror those years better than others.

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