Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Each quarter, a group of analysts, including me, publish analysis on the trends in the venture capital market. The later rounds were much closer except for Q3 2019 in Series As. There’s a risk to those assessments: the data is incomplete since not all rounds founders close within a quarter are reported in that quarter.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

Venture capitalists are chatting this week about a recent piece from The Information titled “ The End of Venture Capital as We Know It.” A capital explosion. Lessin notes that venture capitalists once made risky wagers on companies that often withered away. Its author, Sam Lessin , makes some pretty good points.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We believe this consistency in leadership and intuition for where the markets were going in the heady days of 2019–2021 helped us to stay sane in a world that momentarily seemed to have lost its mind and since we have new capital to deploy in the years ahead perhaps I can offer some insights into where we think value will be derived.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Public stocks, bonds, private equity, real estate, venture capital, etc. In venture capital, there were something like 30,000 companies that raised venture capital in 2019. We can say that we are looking to back trusted brands that increase access to capital, wellness, and knowledge , and we do.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 29, 2020

Finding a female mentor with the same background was difficult, as was procuring venture capital funds in a male-dominated field. In Forbes Magazine’s 2019 list of the world’s 100 most innovative leaders, 99 were men and only 1 was a woman (Washington Post).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. These predictions weren’t entirely off the mark. billion and $1.5

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened? It’s just a market.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. More and more angels will be minted as the 2019 IPO class emerges. Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I have had the great pleasure of working with Matt Blumberg and the senior leadership team of USV’s former portfolio company Return Path (which was sold in 2019) for much of the last twenty years. Bolster also will allow venture capital firms and startup investors to participate in its platform as super users.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. I wish more people understood that venture is a people business first and foremost. A common misconception is that building a tech company automatically warrants venture capital, and vice versa.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The Dreamit Fall 2019 cohort at Kickoff Week in Philadelphia. Our team at Dreamit is thrilled to announce the new cohort of startups for our Fall 2019 Securetech , Healthtech , and Urbantech programs. Photo credit: Bob Stasio, Dreamit (@BobStasio). Securetech Startups Healthtech Startups Urbantech Startups.

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Dream It

DECEMBER 19, 2019

NeuroFlow ( Healthtech - Fall 2019 ) is a platform for getting patients with behavioral health issues better by supporting clinical teams with collaborative and measurement-based tools in all care settings. Also participating in the round are Dreamit Ventures , Spring Point Partners, Red & Blue Ventures, and AWT Private Investments.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 15, 2020

I suspect what we will see is a very active venture capital market, quite the opposite of what was initially expected. Venture deal activity slowed in the second quarter, with $34.3 Venture deal activity slowed in the second quarter, with $34.3 So Q2 was down from Q2 2019 but almost flat with Q1 2020.

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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. According to data shared by PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association, investors poured $156.2 venture capital market in 2020 was hot, it was not newly so.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 18, 2025

a pioneering company in quantum computing hardware, has secured a significant investment from Applied Ventures, LLC, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc. Qolab, Inc., Martinis is a renowned physicist and one of the worlds foremost experts in superconducting qubits.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Global venture capital firms are pouring money into the semiconductor startups developing the next generation of chips. Its existing backers Kakao Ventures, GU Equity Partners and Seoul Techno Holdings also participated in the round, Park told TechCrunch. . by the end of this year, Park continued. . billion in early 2021.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

seed and they are writing $1.25m of it you can expect them to require a board seat) The competitive landscape (If you have several sources of capital you can likely politely decline the board request or can grant them a seat but ask for it to be “common appointed” and those revokable if you need in the future). But it’s quite rare.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

When the company filed initial public offering paperwork back in February, it was coming off of an expensive year of growth in 2019. More from Alex Wilhelm : DoorDash has grown incredibly rapidly, scaling its revenues from $291 million in 2018 to $885 million in 2019. Human Capital: The gig economy in a post-Prop 22 world.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

New Zealand, a country of just under 5 million people, has historically flown under the radar of venture capitalism. That’s changed so much the last couple of years partly because the government’s been putting more initiatives into attracting international capital. A geographically isolated country with a “no worries!”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. In 2019, Italian startups attracted $850 million, compared to just €140 million in 2017, as the VC ecosystem became less insular and more international investors arrived.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Latch, an enterprise SaaS company that makes keyless-entry systems, has raised $152 million in private capital, according to Crunchbase. Sunlight Financial, which offers point-of-sale financing for residential solar systems, has raised north of $700 million in venture capital, private equity and debt. from 2019 to 2020.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Acadian Ventures , an early-stage venture capital firm, announced its 2024 Future of Work 100, an annual list of venture-backed startups impacting how work gets done in the future. Easy access to capital over the preceding decade let startups pursue growth over profitability. billion in total capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Register Singapore-based venture capital firm Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India (VVSEAI) has successfully concluded its fifth funding round, raising $541 million. The figure represents an 80% increase compared to the amount raised for its previous fund, VVSEAI Fund IV, in 2019.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Through a joint announcement, the entities unveiled their intention to combine conventional bank credit with venture capital investment, all while ensuring minimal equity dilution for shareholders. Genesis recently closed an $80 million fund, heralding it as the region’s pioneering venture debt fund.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The venture capital market appears to be getting later, larger and more expensive. But for smaller players, is the shift toward bigger, more mature rounds undercutting their ability to attract capital and reach scale? billion in total capital raised, +$1.3 ” More capital then, into fewer rounds. billion haul.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Earth Venture Capital (Earth VC), a global climate tech venture fund with Southeast Asia focus, led the recently concluded funding round that was also participated by KSL Maritime Ventures, the venture capital arm of The Kuok Maritime Group, and existing Ampotech investors like Silicon Solution Ventures and SEEDS Capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 4, 2023

The funding round was led by Plug and Play APAC and SEEDS Capital and was also participated by Earth Venture Capital and angel investor Alice Foo, the company said in a statement. Founded in 2019, Alterpacks aims to address single use plastics, which is one of the most challenging problems of today.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Data shows that India’s venture capital scene has grown sharply in recent years. 2019 was the country’s biggest ever in terms of venture dollars invested, with Bain counting $10 billion during the year. In 2020, the third quarter brought the country’s venture capital scene back to form. Market Notes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

For those who wielded that role or the coveted CEO position, you were likely to be placed on a pedestal or be viewed as a visionary, aided by a venture capital market that experienced an overextended bull run in the background. Upadhyay is a venture partner at the firm. There are other subtler impacts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Last year brought a flurry of record-breaking venture capital to the sector. billion in 2019. billion in venture capital across 265 deals during 2020, compared to $1.32 Ashley Bittner, founding partner of Firework Ventures (a future of work fund with portfolio companies LearnIn and TransfrVR).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Microtraction , an early-stage venture capital firm based in Lagos, Nigeria, saw funding nearly quadruple for its portfolio. 2019 saw the local VC firm invest in six companies. Of the total investments raised in 2019 and 2020, 54gene contributed more than half of those numbers by raising $4.5

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

In June of 2019, I got a cold e-mail with a single link: “My name is Braeden Kelekona and I’m the founder of Kelekona, a drone service for passengers and cargo. This company is going to need far more capital than I’m able to shell out. Below is a link to the pitch video. Am I seriously going to fund this? Ok, let’s be clear.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. 2019 looks to continue another lights-out year for fintech startups. As a category, retail e-commerce grew 35% YoY as of Q3, propelling PayPal and Shopify to add over $160 billion of market capitalization over the year. Dana Stalder.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The founders quickly realized that introducing electric vehicles would be the natural next step, and in 2019 MAX kickstarted their electric mobility journey. The company currently provides two, three and four-wheeler EVs to drivers through various leasing and financing options. “It’s

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

Zooming in somewhat, here’s Airbnb spend data from July 2020 through the end of October, the first month of Q4, compared to the same period of 2019: Declines, then, but still an encouraging set of data for the company regardless. Here we go: Chatted with Cambridge Innovation Capital , a neat venture capital firm from Cambridge in the U.K.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 24, 2023

Shedding light on Vietnam’s growing startup allure, Thomas Lin, Startup Ecosystem Manager at IT services provider Systex Corporation, emphasized that global capital flows increasingly shift from China to dynamic markets like Vietnam, making it an attractive destination for investment and growth.

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