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. But looking back on the second quarter of 2020, what I see is a hyperactive venture capital market firing on all cylinders. We are not paid to hoard the cash.

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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.

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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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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. million for the debut investment vehicle — waitlist not included. million seed funding round led by Initialized Capital, with investments from GSR, NEA and Canaan.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Regions once overlooked by the venture capital industry are racking up impressive investment totals in recent quarters. But in recent years, investment into African tech companies has surged, and just today, investment company Juven announced plans to boost its investments in the continent , while Google set aside $50 million to do the same.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 23, 2020

Ad-buying opportunities within podcasts have historically been manual and limited, not unlike the process of purchasing web ads pre-2000. As podcasts continue to gain market share, Gumball’s self-serve ad marketplace has the opportunity to be as transformative to the podcast industry as Google Adwords was for web ads. .

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

We have investments where we have bought shares seven or eight times over a ten to twelve year period. There is a special place in the venture capital landscape where this sort of investing is possible and practiced, and that is the traditional early-stage venture capital fund. It is about the right to execute a long buy.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2024

My two favorite patterns are: The right mindset attracts the right network, and creates the right opportunities. 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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Addepar , which makes software to track investment performance, is also actively hiring with roughly 50 open roles across the U.S., 401(k) provider Human Interest , which recently increased total funding to $500 million, including an investment from BlackRock, has 23 open roles, including in engineering, product and revenue.

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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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 22, 2020

And this is how Prashanth is thinking about the future of Stack: 1/ Continue to invest in the community, insure that the Code Of Conduct evolves to mantain the trust and safety of the community, and broaden the number of developers who fully engage in a the community.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 14, 2021

One day in November 2020, I was scrolling through Facebook, and a wild ad appeared, announcing GSEA Bogota. I have no opportunity to win even the local competition.” But at the same time, I miss the opportunity of getting to know them in the real world. For me, it was totally different. I thought, “Meh. So, I skipped it.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 18, 2021

I strongly identify with EO’s core value of Thirst for Learning and take advantage of every educational opportunity that comes my way. We ended up doing over 200 virtual events in 2020 and finished the year with US$1M in profit?which The 2021 GLC programming and virtual conference experience were top-notch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

It highlights important events in the continent’s tech ecosystem until this point, compares its journey with other emerging markets and provides guidance into the opportunities within various sectors. And though they are inclined to follow the money, Endeavor wants them to look beyond usual market opportunities and map out exit pathways.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

What the report reveals is that NYC has a rich and expanding ecosystem of tech skills training opportunities, including K-12 and adult education. Make a significant new public investment in expanding and improving New York City’s tech education and training ecosystem. . Prioritize long-term investments in K–12 computing education. .

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

As cloud adoption continues its incredible march from a $350B+ market today toward $1T in the next five years, and $3T over the next decade, 1 the opportunity to build the next iconic cybersecurity platform has arrived: Wiz , one of the global leaders in Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Incredibly, prior to the investment, ProsperOps had only raised around $800,000. to “scale given the market opportunity.” “This investment allows us to expand the scope of the work we perform for our customers and continue growing our engineering and sales teams.” ” “H.I.G. a few months).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

At the start of 2020, Chelle Neff is wrapping up a decade of considerable success, growth and innovation. We have five cities so far and are bringing in the Bay Area in 2020. But, I knew I’d be opening a second location the following year, so I used this opportunity to build the desk-less front desk! 5000 list twice! .

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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. That too reflects the changing dynamics of the investment business and how fund managers like USV access capital and deploy it. USV TEAM POSTS: Hanel Baveja — Sep 1, 2020 Mental Healthcare 3.0.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

As a firm that has been investing in the space for a while, what differences in the landscape have you seen since this time last year? How has your investment thesis changed in the last several months, and are you still closing deals at the same velocity? Globally, fintech startups raised $131.5 billion in venture funding in 2021.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Sources say the company raised at a slightly higher valuation than its last $110 million valuation in 2020. . This undisclosed investment is Google’s third from the $50 million Africa Investment Fund targeted at the continent’s early- and growth-stage startups, which the company CEO Sundar Pichai announced last October.

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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 ” This strategy will, in addition, provide a big draw to ambitious talent who will take note of the opportunities for growth within the company. million to 6.3 million, respectively. Set internal succession plans in place.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 7, 2021

We were in a growth year in 2020, with the most trips we had ever sold, excited about the new travelers we would meet. But in early March 2020, they were not yet common. On March 18, 2020 we launched our first virtual, interactive cooking class with my friend, Alain, who lives in Pistoia, Italy. Our revenue stopped.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I am at once proud of and awed by Jonathan, whose dual-track passion for the future of food and the future of Appalachia has brought him to tears more than once since we first invested in early 2018. Having the opportunity to learn from the founders you back is by far one of the most rewarding parts of being a venture capital investor.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 23, 2021

Every business owner wants it, especially after the economic roller coaster and reset of 2020. Chances are strong that you used the pandemic as an opportunity to reset your business and redefine success. Calculating your business ratio will show you how much money you can put into strategic investments.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

” During the height of the lockdowns in South Africa, sentiment across SMEs owners on a scale of -100 to 100 dropped to an all-time low of -12 in Q2 2020, according to Yoco’s small business pulse monitor. This presents a huge opportunity, and it is our mission to support that transition,” he added. Image Credits: Yoco.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

It makes sense for the startup building the product and users, but for game-makers, leaving that slice of the platform opportunity on the table was a waste. In 2020, Roblox bought Loom.ai ” It’s a particularly interesting investment for Twitter, which is an infrequent corporate investor.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 20, 2022

In 2020, we paid US$6,500 for a container to be shipped and delivered. Our margins dropped from 45% in 2020 to 25% in 2021. . That created an opportunity for our customers to add color and flavor to create any edible flavor they could imagine. Taken on inventory financing (Ampla) to help spread the investments over time.

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Dream It

MAY 18, 2020

With 85% quarter-on-quarter and 403% year-on-year enrollment growth in Q1 2020, Wellth plans to use this new capital to support rapid scaling to address larger and broader populations of patients. link] — Wellth (@wellthapp) May 6, 2020 ?Market Wellth graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2016.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

In January 2020, the pair made the fund official, with Aboyeji as general partner and Enegesi as limited partner. Simultaneously , they announced that the fund had invested $1.5 The idea for a syndicate fund would come in the following months as the pandemic disrupted investment activities worldwide.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

iSTOX , a digital securities platform that wants to make private equity investment more accessible, has added new investors from Japan to its Series A round, bringing its total to $50 million. iSTOX completed the sandbox program in February 2020, and was approved by the MAS for the issuance, custody and trading of digitized securities.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

But inside the big numbers is a surprising picture of a startup market in the process of maturing while outside money hunts for breakout opportunities. Echoing the point in a recent piece about “the Latin American startup opportunity,” U.S. The same data set indicates that in all of 2020, startups in the region raised $5.3

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StartupNation

APRIL 5, 2021

A total of nearly $63,000 in grants were made during 2020. The program also includes mentorship, access to online resources and the opportunity to be considered for even larger grants. Leading the global shift toward inclusive innovation, digitalundivided invested in over 1,500 Black and Latinx women entrepreneurs in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2021

And we won’t know the pandemic’s true impact on our psyches until the dust settles and we have an opportunity to reflect. In 2020, innovators and investors were forced to stand still, and witness cracks, fractures and rubble in society in a way like never before. On the diversity front, 2020 may prove a tipping point.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The total investment includes pre-seeding capital raised in 2020. Vicente Zavarce, Yummy’s founder and CEO, launched the company in 2020 and is currently part of Y Combinator’s summer 2021 cohort. It’s there that Yummy has an opportunity to connect multiple vertices into a super app with little to no competition.

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