Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

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. The industry has obviously changed enormously in 2022 but in many ways it feels like a “return to normal” that we have seen many times in our industry.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

However, by 2022 (with most pandemic restrictions in the rear view mirror and financial markets facing challenges), investors began gravitating towards perceived safe havens, as reflected in the data. Consequently, the Bay Area experienced a surge, capturing over one-third of all early-stage venture funding in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In addition to his venture investing knowledge, Bill has decades of management operations experience. The virtual state of corporate venture capital today. The digital healthcare revolution has already begun, and it will gain further momentum in 2022 as providers and patients look for new and better ways to improve care.

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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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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 2022, compared to $3.35 billion) for VC by the end of 2022. billion) for VC by the end of 2022. billion (MYR16.08

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It now offers more capital to chosen companies than ever and is in the process of working out how its program will operate in a post-COVID world. Like much of the venture capital landscape, Y Combinator has shrunk slightly this year. Where is Y Combinator startup-hunting in 2022? The current cohort of startups in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Backed by international LPs, Southeast Asia-focused venture firms like Alpha JWC , AC Ventures and Jungle Ventures raised their largest funds yet. Indonesian venture capital firm Alpha JWC closes $433M third fund. Nium crosses $1B valuation with $200M Riverwood Capital-led round.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 31, 2022

A public charity allows us to raise capital from others in addition to our family’s philanthropic gifts. We use this public charity to put together syndicates of donors and raise more capital for our projects than would be possible on our own. It reminds me very much of the way early-stage venture capital works.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 4, 2024

T he Fund through venture capital investing advances America’s interests by focusing on sectors where “technology meets mission”, such as cybersecurity, AI, drones, space, advanced computing, and additive manufacturing. Its mission is to support and empower veterans across the U.S. in their journey post-service.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2021

But power has now shifted toward the founders after a long run of investors holding more than half the power thanks to the commoditization of capital. The acceleration of venture capital and the burgeoning check sizes in the last few years has led to a decline in traditional due diligence.

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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. The growing power of digital healthcare: 6 trends to watch in 2022. Capital is a commodity. Capital is a commodity.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Since the beginning of modern venture capital investing — a relatively nascent asset class — the industry has been biased toward funding what it knows best: founders with familiar demographics (white, male) in familiar geographies (Silicon Valley).

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We dive deeper into the definition in our 2022 Annual Report. Louis, Missouri stands as a major hub for the agricultural sector, shaped by its advantageous location, academic institutions, industrial presence, and capital availability. Internally, we’ve begun using the term “founder-market-geography fit” to describe this idea.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 28, 2022

Here’s what I sent him: 1/ Startup = Growth by PG: [link] 2/ Competing To Win Deals by Fred Wilson: [link] pic.twitter.com/q7GG2k7UAX — Semil (@semil) March 27, 2022. So I am reposting it below: The venture capital business is highly competitive. Not this one. So you might as well play the game that way from the start.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

The new funding round, led by Sequoia Capital, includes both primary and secondary investments, with additional participation from Spark Capital, Marathon, and existing backers such as Coatue, CRV, and Andreessen Horowitz. It introduced a corporate credit card in 2022, which has quickly become the most-used card among its users.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

It’s time to take stock of just what went down in the first three months of the year, which means a deluge of venture capital data and yet another earnings cycle. I want to start our formal Q1 2023 venture lookback with China. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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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? It’s just a market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For the first time, the sector attracted over 1,100 unique investors in 2022, which in turn resulted in a record fundraising haul of $6.5 We are slowly building a more durable capital base for African tech. The most active African investors were involved in 15-20 deals, according to a report on African VC activity in 2022.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

“The 2022 venture capital market” is nearly a misnomer, as each quarter that passes seems to bring with it a new normal for startup investment. The pace of quarterly change in how venture investors are disbursing capital is making full-year numbers almost misleading.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. Probably not and 10x (May 2022) seems more in line with the historical trend (actually 10x is still high).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

As venture capital investments slowed down in 2022 , some startups turned to private credit, including debt capital, as a way to supplement their operations in the meantime. He said interest in debt capital has grown, even among non-technology companies. Finley’s debt capital management dashboard.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 20, 2023

Register Investment firm Heritas Capital has announced the successful first close of Asia Impact First Fund (AIFF) with $20 million in total commitment. It also marks the latest in the bank’s longstanding efforts to galvanise capital towards supporting the growth of this space.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

million in seed capital. The round was led by Bling Capital, with participation from investors, including AXIS Digital Ventures, Tokio Marine Future Fund (in affiliation with World Innovation Lab), Expansion VC and Cameron Ventures. Coverdash’s insurance policy dashboard.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Series A+ was led by Oriza Greenwillow Technology Fund, a venture capital fund set up jointly by Greenwillow Capital Management Pte Ltd, which is an MAS-licensed fund management company that is based in Singapore, and Oriza Holdings, an investment firm from China, Willowmore said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2022

As venture capital grew around the world , tracking the fintech market was a fine way to understand the general health of the VC world; when venture was getting bigger, so too was fintech fundraising. So it is not a huge surprise that fintech had a big part to play in the venture boom that is now behind us.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced. of total venture capital invested, according to Crunchbase. The current system capitalizes women and minority founders at 80% less than businesses overall. One report found that minority tech startups in the U.S.

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Revolution

MARCH 7, 2024

Despite this, venture capital funding continues to miss the gender parity mark, with the gap between all-women and all-men-founded teams becoming even more pronounced amid a broader investment slowdown. of allocated capital in 2023 (compared to 18.2%

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. When people want to better understand it to raise capital from folks who can help, they are best served accepting the annoying bespoke/boutique nature of it and handling it accordingly.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

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. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year. Nigeria became the unicorn capital; Egypt, a powerhouse.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on October 3, 2022. The silver lining to the horrors wrought by Covid is that the pandemic opened the venture capital community’s eyes to the world of opportunity beyond the traditional tech startup hubs of California, New York, and Massachusetts.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Register Malaysia-based marketing technology startup Involve Asia has announced raising $10 million in an investment round led by Bintang Capital Partners. Orbit Capital Malaysia, 500 Global, and Monumental Productions also participated in the funding round.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Register Indonesia-based venture capital firm East Ventures and Seoul-based venture capital firm SV Investment have joined forces to establish a new fund targeted at $100 million. Earlier this year, East Ventures invested in tech ventures through its $250 million for Growth Fund.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2024

Now reaching its tenth anniversary, the venture firm has a community of 625,000+ members, many from top universities such as Harvard Business School, Cornell, and others. They are sources of new capital, deal flow, and value-added services for portfolio companies. Pitchbook reports that in 2022 U.S.-based

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

When rates go up, like they have been for the last year, the value of capital assets goes down. Riskier assets, like venture capital investments, would require a much higher return than 5 to 10% a year. In the quarter that ended in September 2022, it generated $2.9bn of revenue and $1.2bn of EBITDA and Net Income.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Register The Merah Putih Fund , an Indonesian government-backed venture capital firm, has successfully secured $300 million in the first phase of its inaugural fund. The initiative brings together five state-owned venture capital companies, each with a corporate focus.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Through a joint announcement, the entities unveiled their intention to combine conventional bank credit with venture capital investment, all while ensuring minimal equity dilution for shareholders. He stated that VC funding experienced a substantial decline of 60% in Q3 2022 compared to the previous year’s corresponding period.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Even as Y Combinator reveals the latest startups in its cohort for this winter , we have poor news for founders: the global venture capital market shrank in Q1 2023, and it would have been even worse if it were not for a few mega deals, according to Crunchbase (disclosure: my former employer) and PitchBook reports. Up is good, right?

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