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What Is Going To Happen In 2021

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Happy 2021. The Covid Pandemic will end in the developed world in 2021. The second half of 2021 will be marked by two conflicting trends. Where all of this shakes out will be the big reveal of 2021 and will impact many tech companies and many tech stocks. We will see it accelerate in 2021. Hi Everyone.

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African tech took center stage in 2021

TechCrunch

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. Entering 2021, the bullishness of African tech stakeholders returned — and why not? Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year.

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How African startups raised venture capital in 2022

TechCrunch

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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Upfront Ventures Raises > $650 Million for Startups and Returns > $600 Million to LPs

Both Sides of the Table

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures (no, Evan is not standing on a box) Last year marked the 25th anniversary for Upfront Ventures and what a year it was. 2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth.

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Should You Take Money from Investors Who Don't Share Your Values?

This is going to be BIG.

I’m a straight white dude who grew up in NYC and worked in finance. Mimi Aboubaker writes more about this in Techcrunch: In 2021, $330 billion in venture capital was deployed, and only 2% of that number went to companies founded only by women and 15.6% I’d argue that the answer is no, but that’s easy for me to say, right?

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The oh-so-biased branding risk in venture capital

TechCrunch

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. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? By 2021 we had to write a $3.5m

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