TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

After the events of 2020, however, no doubt many already lean businesses are hanging on by the skin of their teeth. Atrium (2017-2020). Essential (2017-2020). HubHaus (2016-2020). Hipmunk (2010-2020). Goldstein and Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman, was one of the first travel aggregation platforms on the market.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I wrote yesterday , about the quarterly numbers for VC investing activity: If this was a student coming home with a report card, it would be straight As. Firms invested a total of $434 million in Q3—the lowest figure since the second quarter of 2017, according to PitchBook data. It feels like positive change is happening.

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Dream It

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In addition to bringing on new investors, the company has decided to appoint co-founder Subha Airan-Javia, MD, as the new Chief Executive Officer. With that momentum, TrekIT Health was able to secure foundational investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners last year.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2022

Between February 2020 and February 2022 in the US alone, the unemployment rate barely shifted from 5.7 They should always be balanced with as much effort, resources, and financial investment on internal talent retention and growth. The post 5 ways founders and CEOs can diversify their leadership teams appeared first on THE BLOG.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

While they can withdraw those funds from the business the next day, local founders must still secure decent backing to even begin the work. The country’s Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (KTI) supports CTI-Startup and CTI-Invest, providing startups with investment and support. Ten years ago startups were unusual.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Scott Kirsner is CEO and co-founder of Innovation Leader , a research and events firm that focuses on innovation in Global 1000 companies, and a longtime business columnist for The Boston Globe. We conducted the survey at the tail end of Q3 2020. Scott Kirsner. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Startups need to live in the future.

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500

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Going into 2020, 500 will be entering it’s tenth year of operation. It’s been a crazy journey for us from a small first batch of startups in our Silicon Valley Accelerator to running accelerators across the globe and investing in founders from over 76 countries. We’ve also seen an ever-expanding set of options for.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 During a downturn, the pitch seems more risky.

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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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 8, 2020

The second quarter of 2020 is now behind us and we will see the data on it soon. If we see interesting opportunities, it is our job to invest in them. And finally, there are so many great founders out there coming up with excellent business ideas. And that is good news for founders and innovation.

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

By Revolution Ventures Managing Partner David Golden and VP Alex Shtarkman As voracious consumers of podcasting content, we could not be more excited to announce our investment in Indianapolis-based Casted , a company reinventing the traditional digital content marketing playbook. Stay tuned! [1]

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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. 2020: “Hold my beer.” I’m just sharing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures Focus on Cash While the headlines in 2020 & 2021 touted many massive fundraising events and heady valuations, we believed that for savvy investors it also represented an opportunity for real financial gains. The answer is: not much.

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Revolution

JULY 22, 2021

Today, we are pleased to announce our seed investment in Anduin , a software company improving invoicing, accelerating collections, and modernizing payments for owners and executives in professional services, such as accounting. The situation was only amplified during the economic downturn of 2020.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Sesie Bonsi is the founder and CEO of Bleu , a financial technology platform focused on enabling touchless payment experiences. As a Black fintech founder, I believe that venture investors are making safe bets and investing in late-stage founders instead of early or even pre-seed stages. Sesie Bonsi. Contributor.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Most of USV’s big wins have been in companies where we were the first institutional VC to talk to the company or where we had way more conviction about the opportunity than other investors at the time of our investment. You can call it negative social proof. ” That’s negative social proof. That’s how you win big.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I have been investing in developer tools since the earliest days of my VC career. The first investment I led in the late 80s was a financing that provided the funds to acquire a programming editor called Brief. That investment worked out but we didn’t make a lot of money on it. It was a text-based editor for PCs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

The pandemic of 2020 has tested most sectors of the economy. At the same time, many investors are being more cautious with making new investments, preferring to focus on their existing portfolio before investing in new companies. It’s important to enlist the ideas of others that are invested in your venture.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2025

billion, achieved in under five years since its founding in 2020. The Enterprise Browser upgrades web browsers from a dedicated consumer software package to an enterprise-ready solution, said Mike Fey, Islands CEO and Co-founder. This latest raise propels the companys valuation to an impressive $4.8

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2021

Contributed by Julia L F Goldstein, the founder of JLFG Communications , which helps businesses share their world-changing ideas through clear and concise content. During an online business workshop in December 2020, the presenter asked me whether our venture was a hobby or a business. But I could change my perspective and my goals.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a new program, AWS Impact Accelerator , that will give up to $30 million to early-stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+ and women founders. Since 2015, Black and Latinx founders — who have fewer funding routes available to them to begin with — have raised just 2.4%

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

— samir kaji (@Samirkaji) April 7, 2020 To guide startups through the confusion, Dreamit interviewed three leaders helping startups secure emergency funding from different perspectives as bankers, attorneys, and investors. The information on this page was updated on April 6th, 2020. Last Friday was anything but orderly.

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Revolution

MARCH 1, 2023

We looked at the analysis in two parts: the 1997–2010 time period and the 2011–2020 time period. This post highlights what has happened and what might be coming for investors and founders. 2010–2020 We then looked at the top quartile fund performers for fund vintages since 2010. And what does this mean for founders?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A total of 233 EO-member companies were named to the 2020 Inc. Here’s what Tracy Call of EO Minnesota, founder of Media Bridge Advertising , which ranked No. 4,672 on the 2020 Inc. I aggressively invest in people. Tracy Call is the founder of Media Bridge Advertising. People appreciate the honesty. And we are!

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

During our recent Dreamit Kickoff week, Bullpen Capital Founder and General Partner Paul Martino ( @ahpah ) spoke with our Spring 2020 cohort about the state of the VC ecosystem in the current economic crisis. Here are the highlights: Will East Coast and West Coast Investors react differently in this crisis? startup) per month.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

If nothing else, the 2020 pandemic has shown everybody—particularly business owners and entrepreneurs—the value of being prepared and ready to pivot. Andrea Grisdale, founder and CEO at IC Bellagio. David Fastuca, founder at Ambisie and Locomote. Keith Roberts, founder and creative director at Zenman.

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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. Its app launched into iOS and Android in early 2020. Scaling our U.S.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Contributed by Amanda Ma, founder and CEO of Innovate Marketing Group and EO Los Angeles member. These ups and downs impact us deeply because we are so close to and personally invested in our businesses. In March 2020 when the pandemic hit and the US shut down, the events industry was completely disrupted. Going from 0 to 130.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It needs a couple of successful exits, which in turn drives angel investing as entrepreneurs growing increasingly wealthy look to help new founders building companies reach their own goals. It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Our very best portfolio companies would be offered an opportunity to go public by the top investment banks on wall street. I have viewed it as a mutually beneficial relationship between the top banks, VC firms, and the founders and CEOs who lead our portfolio companies. For most of my career as a VC, the IPO has been the holy grail.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

In March 2020, companies like Locus, 6 River Systems and Fetch were happy to jump in and help warehouses automate. Investments began flooding into robotics around this time. Slowed investments have been compounded by continued economic woes and the recent bank collapses have further shaken confidence.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 5, 2020

This year’s IWD falls on 8 March, 2020, and its focus is #eachforequality, which recognizes that equality is not a women’s issue—rather, it’s an economic issue. Venture funds would be crazy not to examine this possibility and in turn, invest heavily in women-led businesses.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

Since Wiz’s founding in 2020, their approach has enabled them to deploy rapidly and deliver value to their customers nearly immediately. To put that in perspective, as we were closing this round, in just one of the weeks I spoke to Assaf while he was in three cities across two countries supporting customers.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

JUNE 22, 2023

As an investor, one of the most rewarding aspects of my job is believing in and standing alongside great founders. Lucky for me, Gaurav Misra and Dwight Churchill were the first cofounders I invested in after joining a16z in 2020. … The post Investing in Captions appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Contributed by Madhavan Sivashankar , chief executive officer and founder, Gulf International Finance Limited. Sivashankar has been a member of EO UAE since October 2020. . When my business plans took a significant turn in March 2020, owing to lockdowns implemented to prevent the spread of Covid 19, my initial feeling was remorse.

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