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.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 43 U.S. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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StartupNation

JULY 28, 2021

So, while it comes as no surprise that 2019 was also a record year for female founders securing these dollars, many would be shocked to learn this funding amounted to a mere 3.4% It would be reasonable to assume that VC funding would drop in 2020, especially during the uncertainty of the pandemic. at its all-time high. . However, U.S.

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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. She is also the co-founder of Build In SE , a community of founders, funders and ecosystem partners committed to company building in the Southeast (#BuildInSE). Getting a seat at the VC table. and Canada.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The startup has gone through Snap’s Yellow accelerator , an in-house effort from the social media company that began in 2018. The company also did Ready Set Raise, an equity-free accelerator put on by Female Founders Alliance , in the fall. The conversation with investors hasn’t been as simple, the co-founder said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2018, he and Akintola Adesanmi — who was no stranger to how rent worked in Nigeria and also desired to effect change — brainstormed Spleet , a platform that partners with apartment owners to list their properties and offers renters options to pay rent monthly, quarterly and biannually. “So Nigerian proptech Spleet gets $2.6M

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Haystack

JUNE 1, 2018

Talk to any Bay Area VC in the last 24 hours, and the talk of the town among investors is universal : “ What do you think of the SV Angel news? Against a backdrop of more and more seed deals being done, the most-established VC funds who specialize in Series A and B fundings are remaining relatively consistent in the annual deal counts.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? VC Josh Kopelman makes the analogy of jet fuel vs. motorcycle fuel. VCs sell jet fuel which works well for jets; motorcycles are more common but need a different type of fuel. . 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Over the last several years, VC money has been abundant and relatively cheap. 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. More posts by this contributor.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

If you have ideas for how to improve venture capital for founders, please tweet me or send me an email with the link above. This supply/demand shift that provides founders more leverage in conversations has catalyzed some innovation in venture. 2018 and 2019 exceeded the heady days of 2000 in terms of dollars deployed.

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Dream It

APRIL 24, 2019

Over the past week, Zillow announced the rollout of their 3D Home tool, which lets real estate agents show immersive VC views of homes for sale. According to the founders, properties using the VirtualAPT content have seen over 300 percent increase for new building lease-ups.

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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. Champ Suthipongchai. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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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. Gecko Robotics announced its $20M Series A led by Founders Fund. GitLab provides open source code collaboration software. Rappi is the leader in on-demand retail in LatAm.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth. Since 2021, Upfront returned more than $600 million to LPs and returned more than $1 billion since 2018. What do you do with a $650 million platform? Thank you to everybody in the community who has supported us all these years.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The dynamics that play into this forecast, aside from the impact of COVID, include a youthful population (the youngest globally), rising smartphone adoption and internet penetration that has led to a burgeoning tech ecosystem backed by local and international VC dollars. from 2010 to 2019. and Latin America’s 2.8%. “By

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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.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 43 U.S. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Former investment banker Khaled Jalanbo was working with emerging artists when he encountered an entrepreneur who pointed out the similarities between working with artists and startup founders. I didn’t have that many connections when it came to the VC industry,” Jalanbo recalls. “So He describes Valia as a generalist firm. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

YW: I left Microsoft in 2018 and started Pulley a year later. Many founders are increasingly thinking about choosing with companies, like Pulley, that better align with their values. YW: We’re a team of seven and have four people on the team who are former Y Combinator founders. We have not pulled anyone out of Carta yet.

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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. In many respects, we are playing a different game.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Felix Williams is the founder and managing director of Lagomaj Capital. It wasn’t unusual for founders to take calls mid-pitch or check their messages when it was my turn to ask questions. That $63 million sale took place in 2018.) Since starting the St. At the time, our path forward wasn’t always clear. Louis well.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Image Credits: Co-founders Gloria Lin and Joel Poloney / Bonnie Rae Mills Photography. Last week I wrote about two startups that had female co-founders and CEOs and I was so impressed with them both. This is also at least the fourth construction tech company I’ve written about in the past year with a female co-founder.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

After moving on to a bubble-era company that no longer exists, Nash tried his hand at VC for the first time, joining Atlas Venture as an associate. A little more than four years later, in 2016, Wealthfront’s original CEO and founder, Andy Rachleff, reclaimed the role. Fintech VC keeps getting later, larger and more expensive.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Before Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) co-founded Marcy Ventures in 2018, he was involved with other businesses such as the legacy entertainment company Roc Nation and champagne brand Armand de Brignac. Mr. Eazi (founder of Empawa Africa and investor in PawaPay). What’s pulling African music artists to tech investment?

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Revolution

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Diving into the Data According to Pitchbook, there have been 390 exits in proptech between 2018 and 2022. However, some of the insights below can help proptech founders think strategically through their fundraising and exit strategies. That brings us to one of the most exciting topics — exits. What does this buyer concentration imply?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Ben Doherty and Zachary Maurais, former founders of the delivery app Favor, launched Sunroom in May 2018 with the mission of “boosting the profitability” of mid-size property managers and apartment owners by giving them a way to outsource their leasing operations.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

They have made 150,000 of those connections since 2018. Startups and VC. Meanwhile, you don’t want to miss Ron ’s article on Chief’s co-founders, who discussed the members-only club and why they hate the term “girl boss.” TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

The VCs who founders love the most. Managing Editor Danny Crichton spearheaded the development of The TechCrunch List earlier this year to help seed-stage founders connect with VCs who write first checks. ” The VCs who founders love the most. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch. trillion by 2024.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

The London-based VC aims to raise as much as $130 million more; that would mark quite a step up for the firm, which says it has funneled $30 million into 19 startups since 2018. Systemiq Capital , a backer of early-stage climate tech startups, says it has secured $70 million to kick off its second fund.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

.” Here’s who she interviewed: Clara Brenner, co-founder and managing partner, Urban Innovation Fund. Rachel Holt, co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital. David Lawee, founder and general partner, CapitalG. In October 2018, private-market money valued Coinbase at around $8 billion. I, II and III.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Overall, of the 50 VC firms and three startup accelerators analyzed by Amnesty International, we found that almost all of them lacked adequate human rights due diligence policies and processes. Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020. In 2018, all-female founding teams received just 2.2% of all U.S.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Austin-based firm recently secured $145 million in its own debt and equity financing to help B2B SaaS founders grow their businesses without diluting ownership. The firm has deployed over $60 million in capital to 130 SaaS founders since launching in January 2020, according to Latka. Enter Founderpath. So, how does it work?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Haus launched in 2019 as an answer to a generation’s craving for a more transparent alcohol brand, raising millions in venture funding from angels such as Casey Neistat, Away co-founder Jen Rubio and funds including Homebrew, Haystack Ventures, Coatue, Shrug Capital and Worklife Ventures. When Haus announced its $4.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

The company’s CEO and founder, Mag Rodriguez, says he started building the platform last February as a way to help Black and brown artists retain equity in their creative work. He’s now part of a rarified club: In any given year, less than 5% of all venture capital funding goes to Latino founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As an early-stage VC I love this phase. As the idea went from innovating on software & systems to launching a company to rolling it out in the field brought on Rahul Gandhi as his co-founder to physically launch the company. No prizes for guessing what some of MakeSpace’s innovations will be in 2018 and 2019.

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