Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 18, 2022

In 2018 at Saastr, Jason Lemkin & I talked about private equity becoming an increasingly aggressive buyer of venture-backed software companies. Record amounts of PE raised and sitting as dry powder ready to be invested, just like VC. Market multiples have compressed by 50-70%. Harvest season for a private equity investor.

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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. Image Credits: Spleet.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. female entrepreneurs face in accessing VC funding versus male counterparts.

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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. As of late, I’m receiving more and more outreach from VCs based in San Francisco, New York and beyond interested in deal flow here in Nashville and the Southeast. and Canada.

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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. A VC rebound. In the third quarter, things turned around.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

This represents nearly four-fold growth over a year ago when its portfolio raised $6 million (and just $3 million in 2018). Other investors include Pave Investments and US-based angel investor, Chris Schultz. But as a sign of how the market is firming up, that changed last year and now the firm invests $25,000 for 7% equity.

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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? ” Depending on your point of view, it is the perfect trigger for a conversation about the state of the Bay Area’s investment market.

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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. . So what is Revenue Based Investing? Absolutely not.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

Despite a pandemic that sparked a global recession, 2020 was still a record year for venture capital investments into American startups. In 2018 and 2019, VCs invested around $140 billion into domestic startups, making last year’s $156 billion result a record, but not a shocking departure from previous years.

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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. Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures A question I often hear is “how is Upfront changing given the current market?”

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

According to a new report from Risk Based Security, 6,500 publicly known data breaches from 2018 exposed more than 5 billion user records, a decrease from the 7.9 Mangrove Capital Partners led a $6 million investment in security operations center services provider CyberHat. billion user records that hackers compromised in 2017.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Continuing our global look into the torrid pace of venture capital investment in the second quarter, today we turn to Canada. While many markets have posted impressive results, like the United States setting the pace for new all-time records in dollars invested into startups, Canada’s numbers stand out.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Consider companies like Robinhood, and its epic capital run this year on the back of huge revenue growth , or Chime, which also raised huge sums while riding a tailwind provided by the savings and investing boom. The data is fascinating, so let’s get into the state of fintech investing today. Big trends, bigger dollars.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

A new foreign investment bill will impact venture capital and the US startup ecosystem. In 2016, we set out to develop a rigorous methodology for tracking progress on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in venture capital, and to measure and benchmark those data through our biennial VC Human Capital Survey.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

Then these firms raised larger funds to invest in LBOs, but they diversified, too. The competitive dynamics in the market where access to invest is more valuable than capital. 2018 and 2019 exceeded the heady days of 2000 in terms of dollars deployed. 2018 and 2019 exceeded the heady days of 2000 in terms of dollars deployed.

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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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StartupNation

JULY 28, 2021

In 2019, venture capital investment into U.S. It would be reasonable to assume that VC funding would drop in 2020, especially during the uncertainty of the pandemic. 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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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. We invested at Seed, Series B, and Series D. We invested at Seed. We invested at Seed. We invested at Seed and Series A. We invested at Seed and Series A.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

The Exchange previously explored the pace at which huge venture rounds were invested into the startup niche, noting that by mid-March the fintech market had already recorded a record number of $100 million rounds. It wasn’t necessary this time: The 614 tracked fintech deals in Q1 were worth a total of $22.8

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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. 15 steps to fundraising a new VC or private equity fund. What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? David Teten. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Investments began flooding into robotics around this time. Robotics was in a nice little bubble when the VC slowdown began, as well, though not even it was immune. Robotics was in a nice little bubble when the VC slowdown began, as well, though not even it was immune. Basically everything around you will become a robot.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Founded in Estonia and now headquartered in New York, the company has taken a majority investment from U.S. The VC has seen three of its portfolio companies achieve unicorn status this year (being valued by investors at 1 billion dollars or more): Pipedrive, Lilium and MessageBird. It hasn’t always been an easy sell, however.

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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? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Titan , a startup that is building a retail investment management platform aimed at millennials, has closed on $12.5 million in a Series A round led by VC heavyweight General Catalyst. We came from two different backgrounds with respect to investing,” Percoco recalled. “He Titan algorithmically invests for you.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The two continents enjoyed more venture capital investment into their local startups than in some time, underscoring that strong VC results the United States saw in the third quarter were not a fluke, but part of a broader trend. Asia’s result was its best since at least Q4 2018, as far back as our dataset goes.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

To get those products out by the holiday season, Brightly tells TechCrunch that it has raised $1 million in venture funding from investors, including Tacoma Venture Fund, Keeler Investments, Odile Roujol (a FAB Ventures backer and former L’Oréal CEO) and Female Founder’s Alliance. The funding caps off a busy 12 months for Brightly.

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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. Over the last several years, VC money has been abundant and relatively cheap. Between 2012 and 2018, the median valuation of a Series C company was $120 million. Rebecca Mitchem.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

The concept made sense; who wouldn’t want to be invested in ‘Google’ in the early days, but the idea of an industry that did precisely that was foreign to me until about 16 years old. What is your firm’s investment thesis? In 2021, we invested more than we did in 2017-2020 combined. Louis well.

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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

JULY 13, 2022

Over the past couple of years, there’s been an overlap between tech and art, fueling a growing interest of movie, music and sports stars investing in tech startups. What’s pulling African music artists to tech investment? According to him, powering artists and people in the creative space should be done in a startup/VC manner.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The world’s 10 leading venture capital firms have, together, invested over $150 billion in technology startups. Unsurprisingly, they all too often ignore the broader societal and human rights implications of these investment decisions. Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020.

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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. We invested at Seed, Pre-Series A, and Series B. We invested at Seed, Series A, and Series B. We invested at Seed and Series A. Scentbird announced its $18.6M

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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. We invested at Seed, Series A, Series D, and Series E. Coinbase is a category-leading blockchain company.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

Black people who invested in crypto were hit disproportionately hard during the winter, though many Black founders and investors who spoke to TechCrunch remain optimistic about the sector’s potential for the community and society overall. billion, and in 2018, they raised basically zero dollars out of around $2.8 billion and $4.2

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 10, 2021

This photo of incoming mayor Eric Adams and former Chancellor Richard Carranza was taken by me at PS24 in Sunset Park Brooklyn during CS Education Week in 2018. Getting it broadly available in schools is hard work and requires commitment and persistence and a massive investment of time and money. I wrote about that visit here.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This begs the question: Who exactly is investing in Southeast Asia? China’s tech giants Tencent and Alibaba were among the first to support early e-commerce growth in Southeast Asia with investments in Sea Limited and Lazada, and have since expanded their footprint into other internet verticals. Regional VC investment grew 5.2

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

They have made 150,000 of those connections since 2018. Startups and VC. Mary Ann covered Serena Ventures’ panel this morning and wrote about how Serena Williams brings her killer instinct to the world of investing. Delivery system : Tage is back with another top story today, this time on MaxAB’s $40 million raise.

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