Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

One of the least understood parts of the venture capital industry and venture capital firms is how investment decisions actually get made. The beauty of venture capital is that on any given deal I can only lose one times my money. And as a firm we try to breed that culture.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Watching the boom/bust cycle of DTC brands that were running on just the sugar high of venture dollars has given me even more appreciation for those who, yes, require investment capital along the way, but are playing the long game. who believe in our mission of bridging cultures. Here are Five Questions with Sandro.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

This morning it was announced that Matt Murphy had left his role as a partner Kleiner Perkins to join as a partner in Menlo Ventures. In this capacity I can tell any entrepreneurs raising early-stage capital that I would have Matt on my short list if I were raising. He’s knowledgable and connected. Conclusions?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2016

Kobie Fuller, Partner at Upfront Ventures We set out to build a venture capital firm that would not only be a beacon for the rapidly growing LA tech ecosystem but also one that would compete and collaborate nationally with the best firms in the country. Kobie scored highly on all fronts.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 14, 2014

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures came in first, with a whopping 61%. Lerer Ventures was second, with just under 20%. Take the most widely used number--that way fewer women are getting venture funding than guys. Most companies don''t ever raise venture capital and they do just fine. Well, it''s gotta mean something, right?

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 3, 2025

This brings Culina Healths total capital raised to an impressive $20 million, propelled by its 117% year-over-year growth, strong patient engagement, and remarkable clinical outcomes. The company, which focuses on providing personalized nutrition support has successfully raised $7.9 million in a Series A funding round.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and nationwide protests, venture capital firms are making newfound commitments to invest in, or at least evaluate, potential investments that are led by diverse founders. Hire more diverse investors and change your culture. So, what exactly do those action steps look like?

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

At Coolwater Capital , the Y Combinator for VC funds, we assess this as part of our diligence process. However, forming your new fund also typically requires making important decisions about firm strategy, culture, how you make decisions, budget, data ownership, and other issues. The firms long-term goal is [long-term aspirations].

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

The Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) team is often asked by portfolio founders how exactly cultural leaders can be a game-changing asset for their companies. The benefits of founder x cultural leader partnerships work both ways. For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In February of 2017, Susan Fowler’s description of the pervasive cultural issues at Uber, after the company’s abject failure to address her sexual harassment complaints properly, finally broke through in a way that garnered the tech community’s appropriate attention. Not in the “founder friendly” culture of tech anyway.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 23, 2023

who is a junior investor in the Venture Capital industry. He hopes to find a fulltime position in venture capital after graduation. He currently serves as a Venture Partner at Mech Ventures where they invest in the future of pop culture. Azriel Nicdao otherwise known as (A.Z.)

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

One of the points I tried to make is that as venture capital investors as an industry we seem to have a healthy disdain for public market investors. And I actually think we could learn a lot from public investors even if we don’t always feel culturally aligned. ” It goes like this: What is your net burn rate?

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Adam D''Augelli , a very smart investor over at True Ventures, mentioned to me the other day something that rang true--that the best entrepreneurs update their investors with metrics, not stories. It''s the same with culture. Culture isn''t innate to a company--it''s a series of habits and practices. I like it better that way.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Venture capital investors focused on food tech are calling 2023 the year when alternative seafood startups will make notable strides. For example, one of the biggest venture capital investments into alternative seafood in 2022 went into Wildtype , which raised $100 million in a Series B round for its cultured salmon product.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

For the last year and a half, there is only one point I’ve sought to make with my venture coverage: that the industry is not separate from sociopolitical context. But as anyone with knowledge of who the venture community backs today knows: Black women raise around 0.4% Fearless Fund’s legal team isn’t too shady, though.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. When the early teams: angels, lowercase capital & first round capital funded Uber they had no idea it would be one of the most revolutionary ideas of our time. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Far from it.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Simple Planet, a company specializing in the development of cell-cultured food ingredients, has announced that it recently secured approximately 8 billion won in investment from domestic venture capital firms. Simple Planet’s funding round saw participation from a diverse group of major venture capital firms and […]

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Private equity firm Rotunda Capital Partners focuses on transforming family-founder-owned companies into data-driven platforms that lead to accelerated growth. Rotunda truly understands our capital needs, our culture, and our commitment to supporting our team, brands and customers,” commented the two co-founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 24, 2015

I recently interviewed Matt Mazzeo of Lowercase Capital. In many ways I wanted to focus on Matt because to those of us in the LA Venture community Matt really has become the public face of Lowercase Capital over the past several years. million fund in: Uber, Instagram, Docker and Twitter, amongst others.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

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. Venture funding does remain elusive , but here are some tricks for startup founders to hack the system. Funding for Black entrepreneurs in the U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab. Morgan Stanley’s tenth Lab cohort of 25 disruptive tech and technology-enabled startups joins 117 companies that have participated in the Lab’s culture of innovation to date, tackling the world’s toughest challenges.

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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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StartupNation

JULY 27, 2021

StartupNation founder and CEO, Jeff Sloan, shares a conversation with Ara Topouzian, e xecutive director of the Michigan Venture Capital Association and RJ King, editor of DBusiness Magazine , on the status of venture capital in Michigan today. The post What Does Michigan Venture Capital Look Like Today?

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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. billionmore than double its 2021 Series B figure of $1.6

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Like most entrepreneurs, I started as an underdog, and it remained a key part of company culture as we grew. We had no venture capital and weren’t part of a global agency network. I traveled, collected experiences and explored new cultures, places and people. Nomads are not bogged down by traditional limitations.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Register Established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, SoGal Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated to early-stage investments in diverse founding teams, operating in both the United States and Asia. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

He’s also a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, sits on the boards of several startups, is a many-time entrepreneur himself, and was previously an exec at GE and Intel. A cultural gulf has opened up between the realms I call brains and brawn. Whatever terms you prefer, it’s time to bridge the gulf and reframe the dichotomy.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 1, 2022

I see these most often when entrepreneurs come from regions/cultures where tech startups are still new, or the investors they’ve been pitching are more traditional non-venture groups. But as a venture investor, I hate it. They get more capital because they’re learning, growing, achieving. faces of venture capital.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Louis, Missouri stands as a major hub for the agricultural sector, shaped by its advantageous location, academic institutions, industrial presence, and capital availability. Steve Lekas, CEO of Branch , and former Allstate/Esurance veteran, chose Columbus as the home base for his company to capitalize on this robust insurance ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works One caveat: That doesn’t mean founders should pay themselves way above market rates. If you’ve raised venture capital, you have to pay yourself by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

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HPA

APRIL 6, 2023

We’re excited to share that Aqua Cultured Foods , a food tech startup, is bringing its ultra-realistic seafood alternative s to market thanks to its $5.5M HPA participated in the round , which was led by Stray Dog Capital, a VC fund specializing in alternative protein investments. The post Aqua Cultured Foods raises $5.5M

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 31, 2023

I like to think of what we’ve been going through in the tech sector/startup land/venture capital over the last year as a cleanse. Company cultures got out of whack. Venture capital firms got out of whack. Things had gotten so nutty, frothy, and out of control that we needed a reset.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

A writer who wants to blog about culture. But all of these moments were based on artificial scarcity and cultural gatekeeping. Too Much Capital Too Fast. Velocity of venture dollars deployed increased because of ZIRP iii. A singer who wants to sing. An animator who wants to draw.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 5, 2020

Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is proud to support International Women’s Day (IWD), which celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political contributions of women. For starters, I think we’re going to see a major shift in the way that women-owned start-ups raise capital.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

To design a scalable business model, think about how you can create a customer-centric culture within your company. Your leadership team should be aligned with the companys mission and committed to fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 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. Today, cities around the country are entering a period not unlike early-stage Detroit.

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