David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. . All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. So, why invest in anyone who’s not a white or Asian male? .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households invest and save responsibly. The pair wanted to simplify investing for the millions that have trouble getting started or continuing to invest.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem.

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Source Link

APRIL 14, 2021

From Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a former slave who ran a prosperous dressmaking business that eventually led to her designing and sewing dresses for Mary Todd Lincoln, to Anne Wojcicki, founder of genetic testing and analysis firm 23andMe, women have proved they have what it takes to reach the top of the entrepreneurial mountain.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

These changes will create opportunities for founders across the entire stack of computer-aided design tools for architects, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools, and finally integration with 3-D environmental models to understand and design the lifetime impact of the buildings.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Register Soho.com.au , an AI-powered real estate discovery app, has secured a $750,000 equity investment from Singapore-based proptech venture capital firm Feedback Ventures. Established in 2018, Soho.com.au The funding round, led by Investible, adds to the $1.65 This funding round has propelled the valuation of Soho.com.au

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Register Blockchain Founders Fund , an early stage Web3 Venture capital fund based in Singapore , has announced the final close of its Fund II at $75 million. Currently, BFF has invested in over 100 startups including Altered State Machine, Splinterlands, GRID, Krayon and Magna.

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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. A while ago, I pulled up the Redpoint website from a decade ago, when the bios of the partners said things like “I invest in the internet.”

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Delve into his story as it unfolds with lessons from filmmaking, startup ventures, and the fascinating world of technology innovations and investing. This gave me a front-row seat to the world of tech/innovation, and I began making some personal angel investments along the way.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Multi-asset social investment network and Robinhood competitor eToro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gatsby — a fintech startup which also aimed to go head to head against Robinhood — for $50 million in a cash and common stock deal. That’s up from 10 million at the end of 2018, 12.3 Scaling our U.S.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. . All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. So, why invest in anyone who’s not a white or Asian male? .

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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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propel(x)

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It is important to consider doing something similar if you are thinking about investing in a startup. Before committing to an investment, it is important to understand what you are buying and what you are getting into. On the angel investing platform, this component is called Broker Review. What is due diligence?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Tribevest founder Travis Smith went on a fishing trip with his brothers in 2008 that he says they couldn’t afford. The brothers had dreams of finding their own financial freedom through investing in real estate, but didn’t have enough individual capital to go into business alone.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Champ Suthipongchai is a co-founder and general partner at Creative Ventures , a method-driven deep tech VC firm investing in startups that address the impact of increasing labor shortages, rising healthcare costs and the climate crisis. Invest in Earth’s biggest problems to save the planet and turn a profit.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

The fund is commemorating its new identity by investing an additional $300 million in emerging technologies and carbon neutrality via two early-stage funds: the Toyota Ventures Frontier Fund and the Toyota Ventures Climate Fund. . The Frontier Fund is a step outside of mobility.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sanjay Aggarwal Contributor Share on Twitter Sanjay Aggarwal is a venture partner at F-Prime Capital focused on frontier technology investment opportunities. From 2018 to 2021, investments in the AV sector across the U.S. Then, in 2022, investments fell to $4 billion, with 2023 likely to see further precipitous declines.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Investments began flooding into robotics around this time. Slowed investments have been compounded by continued economic woes and the recent bank collapses have further shaken confidence. What role have the pandemic, slowing economy and recent bank crisis had on your investments? The simplest example is autonomous vehicles.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The last few quarters did not play out as as expected for venture capitalists or entrepreneurs; instead of a pandemic-fueled recession that cauterized the flow of private investment into startups, the economic shifts brought on by COVID-19 have given many companies a tailwind. In the third quarter, things turned around.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Rebecca Mitchem is a partner at Neotribe Ventures , which invests in early- to growth-stage companies developing breakthrough technologies. As Chart C shows, the median Series C more than doubled in size over the last several years compared to the 2012 to 2018 time frame. Rebecca Mitchem. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Definitely not.

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FundersClub

OCTOBER 17, 2018

We invested at Seed, Series B, and Series D. We invested at Seed. Gecko Robotics announced its $20M Series A led by Founders Fund. We invested at Seed. We invested at Seed and Series A. We invested at Seed and Series A. GitLab provides open source code collaboration software.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In 2023, the industry attracted substantial investments, with strong financial inclusion and blockchain technology gaining acceptance in some countries. This investment came from a consortium of regional investors, including Northstar Group, Alpine Ventures, Patamar Capital, and January Capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

Much hope remains after the crypto winter almost froze the sector: the Luna crash , the bankruptcy of Celsius and the arrest of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried for alleged fraud. Bubble had to pop,” People of Crypto co-founder Simone Berry said. “It Pryce Adade-Yebesi , the co-founder of Utopia Labs, agreed. billion and $4.2

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Register Ficus Capital has announced that it invested $400,000 in Assemblr , a Bandung-based start-up that is focused on helping users to create AR content via its web-based platform. Assemblr is Ficus Capital’s first investment outside of Malaysia. Remember Me. No account yet? Mavcap is the fund’s anchor investor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The Family co-founder and CEO Alice Zagury announced in a blog post that the French startup accelerator is suing Oussama Ammar for multiple claims — breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery. According to her, other people working for The Family have asked several times to see documents that proved that investments went through.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 12, 2019

We brought together the best of all worlds: Conscious customers invested in uplifting the underprivileged, a low-cost and motivated rural workforce, and passionate leaders in urban communities who nurture and grow global opportunities,” Ravi explained in a 2018 interview published on Inc.

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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. You might remember our profile of the firm back in 2018 when it officially launched with a $100 million enterprise fund.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

It’s a known fact that the number of venture dollars flowing to Black and Latinx founders is dismally low. 31, Black and Latinx founders had raised $2.3 billion in funding that had gone to all founders up until that point in 2020. . billion venture dollars invested between 2018 and 2019. of the total $87.3

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. Broaden your view of ‘best’ to make smarter, more inclusive investments. What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. David Teten.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2023

This remarkable achievement has now propelled its visionary founders, Donggyun Ko, Chaeyoung Lee, and Donghwan Shin, onto the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 list in consumer technology. At the heart of their accomplishments lies WeBudding, a digital stationery marketplace that has gained a substantial following since its launch in 2018.

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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. L-R: Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Currently, he is a venture specialist for emerging technologies at Schaeffler and manages start-up ecosystems for partnering and investments. Since 2018, he is investing with an emerging tech VC focused on web3 and managing early-stage deal flow. How did you break into entrepreneurship and tech investing?

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 1, 2023

Tim was previously the CEO / founder of Hyperpilot, which is a startup backed by top funds like NEA and Bessemer aiming to run Kubernetes on autopilot that achieves 5–10x cost and performance benefits. The company was later acquired by Cloudera in 2018. How did you break into tech investing? and Jasper.ai.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When Christopher Male’s son was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in 2018, the long-time investor found himself in unfamiliar territory. “At So far, AIF has invested in seven early-stage companies. AIF brought in Rob Sarrazin from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to serve as its chief investment officer and managing partner.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Andy Stinnes , general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners , leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser, offering operational support for portfolio companies based on his 20+ years in executive roles in business software. Andy Stinnes. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

This comes barely two weeks after Naspers, via its early-stage tech investment vehicle Naspers Foundry, invested in another South African insurtech platform, Ctrl, in its $2.3 Naked’s latest investment is a Series A round. According to a statement released by the company, Naspers Foundry invested $8.3

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

New York-based Endeavor is a global community of “high-impact” founders across almost 40 underserved markets in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. CAGR from 2018 to 2023 compared to Eastern Europe’s 6.9%, Asia Pacific’s 6.8%, Western Europe’s 4%, North America’s 3.5% The continent’s investment story.

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