Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. Taken together these “mega rounds” represent nearly half of the funding in 2018. More on that later.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A VC rebound. The pandemic’s bite was felt in the second quarter when, if one subtracted the capital raised by Reliance Jio, VC investments fell by 9% compared to Q1 2020 and 23% compared to the year-ago second quarter. As The Exchange reported, “Asia’s result was its best since at least Q4 2018, as far back as our dataset goes.

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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). 2019 saw the local VC firm invest in six companies. From the outside in, startups see Microtraction and other early-stage VC firms like Ventures Platform as a means to that end.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But dollars invested into fintech startups edged up once again to $10.631 billion, the largest result thus far in 2020 and the second-best single-quarter tally since mid-2018. As fintech deal count falls in the largest VC markets — North America, Europe, Asia — it is rising in Africa and Latin America, something to keep an eye on.

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StartupNation

JULY 28, 2021

It would be reasonable to assume that VC funding would drop in 2020, especially during the uncertainty of the pandemic. Only about 12% of decision makers at VC firms are women, and of all the partners at these firms, only 2.4% Alternatives to VC funding for female founders. at its all-time high. . However, U.S.

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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. About 30% of the neurons in the brain are dedicated to vision, compared to only 8% for touch and 2% for hearing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

Somewhat shockingly, the first quarter beat the infamous second quarter of 2018, when Ant Group raised a $14 billion round , so skewing the category’s longitudinal data that some analyst groups simply discount it for analytical purposes. 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

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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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 Senators about the potential privacy and security implications of recording passengers in-flight. billion user records that hackers compromised in 2017.

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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 funding caps off a busy 12 months for Brightly. As part of the program Snap invests $150,000 in each Yellow startup for an equity stake.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

That deal is quite different from what most VC funds will take on, but we believed it to be critical to the advancement of a better food system, and we pursued it. That $63 million sale took place in 2018.) Unlike some other funds, we do not consider ourselves an Impact or ESG fund. Why did you open an office in Austin? Louis well.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

billion, and in 2018, they raised basically zero dollars out of around $2.8 Data visualization by Miranda Halpern , created with Flourish VC funding to Black web3 founders popped last year, bucking trends by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch web3 startups received $16.5 billion that year). million and $4.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Qwick today announced that it raised $40 million in a Series B financing round led by Tritium Partners, with participation by current investors Album VC, Kickstart, Desert Angels and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. Qwick raises VC money to match gig workers with hospitality jobs by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

They have made 150,000 of those connections since 2018. Startups and VC. Daily Crunch: World’s largest Black-led VC fund leads $4M seed round for Nigerian retail automation startup by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch. million in Series A funding, Christine reports.

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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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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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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.

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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. Fintech VC keeps getting later, larger and more expensive. Nash is also riding a very big wave.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, Hambrecht spoke about Haus’s transition from buzzy VC-backed startup to a business currently up for sale, as-is or in parts. Because the company was unable to fundraise from traditional VC, it took on debt financing and began looking for private equity and strategic partners.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

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. Inside those numbers are the whole year’s ups-and-downs: the fact that the seed data is so close to 2018 and 2019 levels is almost silly.

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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. According to him, powering artists and people in the creative space should be done in a startup/VC manner. It’s going to be a gradual process.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Many feared that the bull market had pushed valuations to unsustainable heights and would result in a windfall of startup down rounds and cash burn, which would have a negative impact on VC fund performance. A recent PitchBook report looked into fund performance across VC funds at all stages regardless of maturity.

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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. My best moments over the years in this work have always been in the schools. I wrote about that visit here. Computer science is the first new subject to be taught in K12 in 50+ years.

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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. Per the Pitchbook data below, that number is consistent with the broader VC-backed company exit trends, where roughly 56% of all M&A deals are defined by exits of $100M or less. of all rounds vs. 2.6%).

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

I didn’t have that many connections when it came to the VC industry,” Jalanbo recalls. “So The strategy worked and Jalanbo ended up raising $5 million for its first fund, Valia Ventures , in 2018. So he set up an SPV (special purpose vehicle) to invest in the company. So I decided I would do something a little bit different.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Meanwhile, Microsoft invested an undisclosed amount in Grab in 2018 and has invested $100 million in Indonesian e-commerce firm Bukalapak. In Q1 2021, Southeast Asian startups raised $6 billion, according to DealStreetAsia, positioning 2021 as another record year for VC investment in the region. Regional VC investment grew 5.2

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

A music industry veteran of 10 years, Rodriguez was introduced to the tech world after he helped build an art program for the gener8tor, a startup accelerator based in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2018. 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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

In 2018, B2B marketplaces saw an estimated $680 billion in sales, but that figure is expected to reach $3.6 Caryn Marooney, right, vice president of technology communications at Facebook, poses for a picture on the red carpet for the 6th annual 2018 Breakthrough Prizes at Moffett Federal Airfield, Hangar One in Mountain View, Calif.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It was while working with the accelerator that she noticed a gap in funding between angel and seed, observing the frustration female founders felt with the lack of female VCs and with male investors who were not experienced in investing in the beauty and wellness industry. Chang formed igniteXL in 2018 and started fundraising over a year ago.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Adyen launched in 2006, and in June 2018, it was listed as one of Europe’s largest tech IPOs with a value of €7 billion. Elastic, the provider of subscription-based data search software used by Dell, Netflix, The New York Times and others, was another gangbuster IPO in 2018. Janneke Niessen, partner, CapitalT VC.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

During his one year spent with the outfit, Fubini says, he wrote seed checks into the digital care company Omada Health , the optimization platform Optimizely ( acquired this fall), and LendUp, the payday loan company that was split into two businesses back in 2018.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

Silicon Valley investor Peter Relan, who helped incubate the company in 2018 (he also helped get Discord off the ground and served on its board until 2020), likens it to a “fully autonomous” call service center.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2020

As of 2018, 81% of venture firms still lacked a single Black investor. It was tempting to dismiss it as so much hot air, given that VCs have talked about diversity for eons without doing much about it. As of 2018, 81% of venture firms still lacked a single Black investor, per an analysis by Equal Ventures partner Richard Kerby.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Starta VC led the round and was joined by Liqvest.com, Mission Gate and a group of individual investors like Bas Godska, general partner at Acrobator Ventures. Since 2018, CEO Bortnikova said that YouTravel.Me Today YouTravel.Me Olga Bortnikova, her husband Ivan Bortnikov and Ivan Mikheev founded the company in Europe three years ago.

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