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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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It’s no coincidence that Enron happened in the late 2000s and that FTX occurred in 2022. As the bull market raged on from 2015 to 2022, it became quite trendy for venture capitalists to wave the requirement for an annual audit which is embedded in almost every standard Series A term sheet. Letting the Good Times Roll” .

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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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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

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. As Southeast Asia starts to boom, an accelerator backed by Silicon Valley execs jumps in.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

The way people fund their business has also been evolving and, in 2022, the traditional ways like angel investment and VCs will walk hand in hand with new and emerging blockchain-based options that offer loans outside the traditional banking system. Venture capital or VC. Venture capital is always an option.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2021

My question heading into 2022 is: How can the tech community sneak activation energy into startups, especially those built by historically overlooked founders, beyond capital? Honorable mentions: For Course Hero, venture capital was once an unobvious solution.

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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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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. Between Q1 and Q3 2021, healthcare startups landed $21.3

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The acceleration of venture capital and the burgeoning check sizes in the last few years has led to a decline in traditional due diligence. The pace at which deals were done increased, and the time to reach what VCs love to call “conviction” fell sharply. This compressed diligence cycles, leading to less intrusive vetting.

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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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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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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. These startups will struggle to raise capital at any price and most of them will fail.

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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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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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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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 31, 2022

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. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — May 30, 2022 Joseph Tainter: The Collapse of Complex Societies (Book Review).

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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 also have a very wide top funnel such that in 2022, we made initial contact with over 2,500 startups and ideas, and eventually only partnered with less than 1% of that top of the funnel.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2024

Women still only get about 2% of venture capital investment money, and we want to see that change,” said Cindy Boyd, EO Houston. “By Raising funds through a Special Purpose Vehicle and giving other women a chance to be on your cap table is one way to activate community and help other women see the power of their capital,” Syama said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

If you thought the fourth quarter of 2022 felt slow when it came to investment activity in the fintech space, that’s because it was. fintech funding since 2018, according to CB Insights’ State of Fintech 2022 Report. billion in 2022, down 46% compared with 2021, but up 52% compared to 2020. In the U.S.,

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

This unified platform approach is especially valuable for Mercurys core users: fast-moving startups, e-commerce brands, venture capital firms, and small businesses that need scalable financial infrastructure without enterprise-level complexity. Since its last funding round, Mercury has expanded its capabilities in notable ways.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We dive deeper into the definition in our 2022 Annual Report. For investors, expanding horizons beyond traditional tech hubs can uncover promising opportunities that capitalize on regional strengths. Tentpole companies often have a connection to the legacy industry or some other unique advantage their HQ location offers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

No startup sector was entirely immune from 2022’s market uncertainty — except maybe AI — but some proved more resilient than others. based deals in 2022, worth a collective $30.7 biotech deals also set new records in 2022 for both median deal size, $33.5 Biotech was one of the most fortunate. The sector recorded 1,054 U.S.-based

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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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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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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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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2024

years, and their companies have a lower burn rate, using 25% less capital per month vs. the overall market, according to 2022 Review of Funding for Female Founders by Female Founders Fund. Pitchbook reports that in 2022 U.S.-based The Fund will join a growing list of top women-led and women-focused venture capital firms.

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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. .”

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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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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. So much has been written about venture-backed startups and particularly about the most successful outliers. Reporting out in batches of five. Growth drives everything in this world.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2022

Seven venture capital firms participated in the latest round: DS Asset Management, Industrial Bank of Korea, Hanwha Investment & Securities, S&S Investment, Toss investment, Korea Asset Investment & Securities and Venture Field. Chung said it also plans to open offices in Germany and Canada in 2022.

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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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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In Australia, we’ve seen similar growth, with the number of businesses owned by women increasing to over 35 percent in 2022. As an example, only 3 percent of venture capital funding went to all-female-founded startups in 2022.

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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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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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

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. And so what I like to think about is what a reasonable return is for a very long-term hold.

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