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? And it changed the culture.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2022

Only a small minority of people are born into the kinds of connections and life paths to provide them instant access to capital. I’m the on-paper poster child for “who can get VC dollars”. I’m not saying there’s equal access to networks of capital. For most founders, fundraising is a struggle. Let’s not discount this.

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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. In short, In Venture Capital, Size Matters Size matters for a few reasons.

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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. However, while many startups exist in cities like Turin, Bologna, Naples and Rome, Milan is generally seen as a bigger ecosystem because of its mercantile culture and a significant share of VC funds.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns. The takeaways: It’s a hard time to raise and deploy capital, but what you can manage in today’s market will be advantageous for years to come. marking its highest level since 2017.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2023

While many have gotten their burn rates way down, most startups still are losing money and will eventually need to raise capital in 2023. Good businesses with product market fit, positive unit economics, and strong leadership teams will raise capital although it will be at the new normal in terms of valuation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Maria Lepskaya is a senior associate at Runa Capital , leading investments in different branches of quantum technologies and advanced materials. Although many VCs seem to be new to quantum technologies, some investors foresaw this movement several years ago and are now making their first quantum exits. Image Credits: Runa Capital.

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Hunter Walk

MAY 22, 2024

Darwin moves at half-speed in venture capital, allowing mediocrity and outdated ‘best practices’ to persist, much to the detriment of founders and LPs. 2021-2023 Start investing in amazing new VC firms, often anchoring the raise as one of their largest funders. What’s one possible solution?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Earlier this month, we reported that investors’ sentiments surrounding venture capital activity going into this were more reserved than upbeat. But before that, there was shared optimism that African startups would raise more VC funding last year than in 2021 when the continent, for the first time, passed the $4-5 billion threshold.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

After years of rosy projections, growth and investor enthusiasm, a new report from PitchBook shows that VC activity in the AI sector declined precipitously over the past few months. Year to date, VCs have funneled $48.2 Tighter VC capital forces AI startups to face the music by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

As the technology industry retrenches and venture capital firms tighten their standards, savvy founders should consider this counterintuitive question: Even if my vision is compelling enough to secure funding, should I take it? Would it have been better for many of them to have not taken excessive levels of venture capital in the first place?

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

Register Malaysia’s private equity and venture capital funding saw a significant increase in 2022, according to a report released by the Securities Commission Malaysia. billion) in 2021. billion) for VC by the end of 2022. billion) for VC by the end of 2022. The report showed an 8.43% increase in funding to $3.64

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 13, 2021

My partner Jerry Colonna and I met StarMedia in early 1997 and we brought it to our partners at Chase Capital Partners because we wanted to lead a Series A investment in it. In that Chase Capital Partners meeting was a woman named Susan Segal who ran Chase’s Latin American private equity investing.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

Bastian Hasslinger is an investor at Picus Capital. Post-money valuations were inflated by market expectations in 2021, but they were also inflated by the underlying mechanics of the valuation model itself. The miracle year of 2021. For founders, employees and VCs alike, 2021 must’ve seemed like a miracle year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Eric Tarczynski is managing partner and founder of Contrary Capital. To predict what 2023 will look like for venture capital, we need to start by understanding where we are now. The VC landscape has started to bifurcate, and it will continue to do so during 2023 both for fundraising and investments.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 18, 2021

In early June, I wrote this post explaining that I and we need to do more to reduce the inequality issues for Black people in tech, venture capital, and startups. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Jan 8, 2021 SilviaTerra. I think MLK day is a good time to talk about what has happened since that post.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021. Fintech tailwinds, strengthened by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, only accelerated in 2021. Despite a roughly 30% draw-down in the last months of 2021, the Matrix Fintech Index continued to beat the broader market as well as incumbent financial service companies. Matt Brown.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2023

One of the quieter conversations in venture capital has only grown louder, in my DMs and interviews, over the past few months: The known bias in venture capital has been a branding issue for some of the emerging, diverse fund managers just now splashing onto the scene. I interviewed the past and present guard over at Kapor Capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In a time when most VCs are acting more cautiously and placing focus on companies with a quick path to profitability, Countdown Capital is instead going all in on hard-to-build, capital-intensive bets. While Malik’s $3 million raise for Fund I in 2021 took four months, significantly larger Fund II took just six weeks.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 14, 2023

Register The Philippine venture capital firm Kaya Founders has successfully raised $12 million in funding for two new funds. With this funding, Kaya Founders now manages a total committed capital of $16.5 Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Akin to many startup markets around the world, Europe has seen its venture capital totals rise, its unicorn ranks swell, and even a few major public exits. The Atomico/Dealroom report details that the total value of tech M&A in Europe through the third quarter of 2021 has crossed the $100 billion mark.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

The Exchange is on a trip around the world, poking our heads into various startup markets to better understand how different geographies are faring during a historic boom in venture capital activity. Globally, the venture capital world is afire , pushing record sums into upstart technology companies. A 2021 comeback. ”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

After a blockbuster year for venture capital funding in 2021, the flow of capital to Indian startups seemed like it would buck global trends in early 2022, but dried up in the second half of 2022. This has resulted in a difficult environment from a capital availability perspective in India and other emerging markets.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

In addition to his rich experiences working in the venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) sectors, Joseph has also sharpened his investment acumen through his multiple years in the audit and stock-broking industry before deciding to finally launch his cross-border investment firm, Kairous Capital , in 2015.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

The Tory Burch Foundation announced Tuesday the launch of its Funding Finder tool, an interactive guide that breaks down capital options and resources for women-owned businesses. It also has a long-running partnership with the Bank of America Capital Program to help provide affordable loans to women founders. of the approximate $238.8

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

That’s the top-level finding of a new PitchBook report that looked at VC trends toward the end of 2022, specifically Q4, including investments made at the seed, late-stage and nearing-the-exit levels. Last year set an annual record for capital raised, in fact, with $162.6 But the year was ultimately mixed.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2022

What happened in 2022 is the bottom fell out of the capital markets and the startup and tech sector more broadly. Back in February 2021, I wrote a post called How This Ends. I like to bookend the New Year holiday with two posts, one looking back at the year that is ending and one looking forward to the year ahead.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 11, 2021

For certain things, like raising capital and investing capital, on-screen works pretty well. Founders have figured out that they can raise capital from their kitchens, bedrooms, and offices in weeks vs roadshows that lasted months. And founders in Singapore can access capital markets in NYC with ease.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

As we de-risk the investments of time and money that everyone is making in these startups, I believe that will draw more talent and more capital to the startup sector. USV TEAM POSTS: Rebecca Kaden — Feb 10, 2021 SmartHop’s Series A. And that is a good thing.

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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. million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 29, 2021

At USV, we believe that fixing fission and making fusion work are technological and engineering problems that can be solved with sufficient creativity and capital. The progress on that dimension is promising but we are nowhere near where we need to be and more creativity and capital will be needed to solve the fusion puzzle.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Register Asia Pacific-based early-stage VC Investible has announced the appointment of Charlie Ill to the newly-created role of group Chief Investment Officer, as well as the promotions of Jayden Basha to Principal and Ben Lindsay to Investment Manager. in capital, including A$3.4m directly through Club Investible.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

Marketing in 2021 is emotional and not just transactional (2,200 words/9 minutes). 64% of VC firms still don’t have a single female partner. Black + Latinx female founders receive only 0.64% of VC funding, a slight uptick from the year prior. Banana Capital’s debut fund is for internet-first founders.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Felix Williams is the founder and managing director of Lagomaj Capital. TechCrunch sat down with Williams to learn more about how he got into venture capital, and his plans for the future. When did you first become interested in venture capital? While growing up, I had no idea what venture capital was. Louis well.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

This week, Bill Taranto, president of Merck’s Global Health Innovation Fund, wrote a TechCrunch+ article that explored six digital health trends his corporate VC fund is tracking as we enter 2022. Between Q1 and Q3 2021, healthcare startups landed $21.3 billion in VC, “dwarfing the previous record of $14.6 Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Adetola Onayemi was part of the negotiation team that saw the agreement take effect in January 2021. Trade has the least startup activity in a market that received $5 billion in VC funding last year. ” Onayemi launched Norebase with Tope Obanla in September 2021.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

billion in the first half of 2021 — a fourfold increase from the previous year. But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Funding for Black entrepreneurs in the U.S. hit nearly $1.8

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