Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Glazer has established himself as a leader who invests in his team and in the culture of his organization. . His company, Acceleration Partners, was honored with Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award , recognizing the Best Places to Work in 2019. For a deeper dive into how to invest in your team, check out EO 24/7. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

When Female Invest launched in 2019, it did so with the goal of creating a community where women who wanted to invest in the stock market, but weren’t sure where to start, could gain the knowledge and confidence to take the plunge. Now, its users will be able to do so all within the Female Invest platform.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Since its launch in 2019 over 10 million businesses and individuals have been served with access to seamless payments, banking, credit, and business management tools. We are delighted to lead this investment round in Moniepoint, one of Africa’s most exciting and fastest growing companies. Moniepoint Inc.,

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

I was talking to a group of education entrepreneurs (on Zoom naturally) last week and was advocating for the “direct to learner” approach that defines our eduction investing strategy at USV. And between that talk and today, Scratch published their 2019 Annual Report. So I read that annual report with interest.

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500

DECEMBER 16, 2019

And in 2019, 500 decided to dive into CVC behavior in an unprecedented way. From May to July 2019, we surveyed over 100 unique corporate venture capital. Fast Growing Corporate Venture Capital With headlines from Softbank, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures and more, corporate venture capital is growing faster than ever.

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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. In the U.S.,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 5, 2022

The first two MyEO DealExchange conferences in 2018 and 2019 made a significant impact on the members who attended—including a 7-figure investment in Scott Mesh (EO New York)’s company. Each person gets 90 seconds to share the details of the investment opportunity or the “deal need” they’re presenting or seeking.

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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. million at the end of 2019, 17.5 E Toro has grown impressively in recent years.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When I started leading deals at First Round Capital, I sourced investments in 8 companies. I have now been investing on my own at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures for almost eight years exactly—which is pretty much about the time people say it takes to build up a company to a big exit. I don’t really have a particular goal with this post.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Even then private market investors can paper over valuation changes by investing at the same price but with more structure so it’s hard to understand the “headline valuation.” 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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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 31, 2023

Register Vuihoc , an ed-tech platform catering to K-12 Vietnamese students, recently secured a significant US$6 million investment in a Series A funding round led by TNB Aura. Amidst the fluctuations in the world economy, Vietnam’s EdTech sector remains an attractive destination for solid investments.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

That’s why we are so proud to invest in Prepared. Since their founding in 2019, nearly 15% of all 911 centers leverage Prepared, collectively serving more than 75 million Americans. In emergency moments seconds matter, and the right data and context can be a critical determinant in the outcome of the call.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 22, 2020

First, this is what an Internet Treasure looks like by the numbers: Across Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network, we saw around 10 billion page views from 100+ million unique visitors over the course of 2019. In 2019, Stack Overflow added over 2.8 Over 40,000 jobs were posted on Stack Overflow Jobs in 2019.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. For posterity, here are some of the more recent investments… 2022 Hubly Surgical Hubly Surgical has an advanced drill, complete with auto-stop and visual feedback, to make medical drilling safe across underserved settings.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 11, 2021

Consider a survey comparing productivity of in-person vs. remote workers during the first six months of stay-at-home orders, March through August 2020, to the same six-month period in 2019. In turn, companies made large-scale investments in back-end IT facilitating remote work. Some paid for home office/equipment for employees.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

There are many ways to invest successfully. And within each category, there are so many different investment opportunities. In venture capital, there were something like 30,000 companies that raised venture capital in 2019. In venture capital, there were something like 30,000 companies that raised venture capital in 2019.

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500

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Under no circumstances should any of the below content be construed as legal, tax or investment advice from 500 Startups or any of its affiliates. Alluva at 500 Startups: What it was really like being a part of Batch 25 In March of 2019, Alluva was accepted into Batch 25 of 500 Startups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 15, 2020

Do whatever legwork is possible to validate your product-market fit before investing everything in your concept. Then take chances on the ideas that make sense, so that they will feel more invested,” says Tina Hamilton , EO Philadelphia member and CEO of myHR Partner. Validate product-market fit. “Do You can’t do it alone.”. “I

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

The company, which has built a payment platform intended for gaming platforms, virtual world publishers, mobile application developers and NFT providers, said Tuesday it has secured another strategic investment from its returning backer, J.P Morgan Payments, and new investor Dunamu , a Seoul-based operator of crypto exchange Upbit.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Register Singapore’s Jungle Ventures has announced the launch of First Cheque@Jungle , a new program aimed at investing in startups during their pre-seed and seed stages. Second, the program offers an initial investment without imposing minimum ownership criteria. Over the years, it has consistently grown in size and impact.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

AMP Robotics , a Denver, Colorado-based startup creating robotic systems that can automatically sort recyclable material, today announced that it extended its Series C round to $99 million, thanks to an investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. billion in 2019, per the Department of Energy (DoE). The recovery of U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. But two months into 2020, the pandemic did an excellent job of lowering expectations as investment activities from local and international investors slowed down. AfricArena, a tech ecosystem accelerator, pegged deals to close between $2.25

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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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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

With this in mind, ThrivingDollars has been addressing the need for financial literacy in Jamaica by simplifying and disseminating quality financial education that covers key topics such as budgeting, saving, debt management, and elimination, investing, insurance, and retirement and estate planning.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Jake Jolis is a partner at Matrix Partners and invests in seed and Series A technology companies including marketplaces and software. 2019 saw a stampede of fintech unicorns. Dana Stalder is a partner at Matrix Partners, where he invests predominantly in fintech, consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. Dana Stalder.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 13, 2021

I’ve been working exclusively from home since the end of November 2019 when we left NYC to go to LA. We have been seeing many of them crop up over the last year and have invested in a few of them. So the Gotham Gal and I took an hour-long walk with our dog Ollie. It has been a stretch of incredible productivity for me.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 23, 2020

The live reads ad market for podcasts was in excess of $700mm in 2019 and seems headed to a multi billion dollar ad market in the coming years. USV has been looking for an opportunity to invest in podcasting that fits with our thesis and we found it with Headgum and Gumball. Live reads are powerful and a form of influencer marketing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 21, 2020

5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the US, most recently as #2,118 on the 2019 list. According to Accenture, 80 percent of B2B companies try to innovate around CX , but fail to generate a satisfactory return on investment. What does it take to design innovative digital customer experiences that predictably win?

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

Mangrove Capital Partners led a $6 million investment in security operations center services provider CyberHat. Speakers include Rich Baich (CISO, Wells Fargo), Katie Gray (Partner, In-Q-Tel), and other leaders.

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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. I love the idea of USV investing in a company that can help our portfolio companies do things better.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

It was unfortunate because about a year earlier, I had invested US$10,000 on a new front desk for our flagship location, and so I wasn’t going to tear it down anytime soon. I learned the phrase “celebrate all mistakes” in 2019, and I have made that my motto! Growth naturally comes with obstacles and opportunities.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2024

Keep making bigger investments into smaller rooms, where the people in those rooms are making bigger impacts. That allows me to make the biggest investment in the smallest room – my family – where I can make the most impact. They look at opportunities only as “investments” and never, ever as “costs.” They live in full abundance.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

HSBC Asset Management, the investment arm of Britain’s HSBC Group, has led a seed round of $4 million in Singapore’s customer intelligence and risk assessment startup Bizbaz , the two said Friday. The investment from HSBC, which doesn’t typically back early-stage startups, is noteworthy for Bizbaz.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

PayPal Ventures, the global corporate venture arm of PayPal, is one of the participating investors (this marks its first investment in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) but second in the MENA region after Egyptian fintech Paymob ). The fintech has raised more than $410 million in equity and debt since its 2019 launch. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 4, 2021

In 2019, he became the director of Frontier Lifeline Hospital in Chennai, India. In 2019, I was sent to Chennai, India, as part of the team assigned to turn around a once prominent, now ailing, hospital brand in South India. Contributed by Saravanakumar Periyasamy of EO Oman, director of Zawawi Powertech Engineering. My journey begins.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 1, 2022

However, we were not able to do that in 2020 and 2021 so this was our first Portfolio Summit since 2019. In the three years that have passed since our last summit, we roughly doubled the size of our portfolio, adding 65 new investments.

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