Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Until recently it was headquartered 2 blocks from our offices in Santa Monica so we literally saw it emerge under our feet and we proudly invested in the last 3 rounds of financing. Today the company officially announced its most recent round of capital ?—?having Bird already has an enormous lead in data collection.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. For posterity, here are some of the more recent investments… 2022 Hubly Surgical Hubly Surgical has an advanced drill, complete with auto-stop and visual feedback, to make medical drilling safe across underserved settings.

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

I began studying angel investing returns about 10 years ago as a result of a problem I couldn’t resolve: The investing world seemed certain that angel investors were rubes. Conventional wisdom dictated that they made reckless investments in very early-stage ventures mostly doomed to fail. So which is it? Only they’re not.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

For those of us who cover the venture capital industry, two narratives are ubiquitous: There’s the story of how much capital has been invested of late; you’ve seen the data — 2020 and 2021 set nearly every record around the world for private-market investment. But there’s some cause for cautious optimism.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 21, 2023

Register Tokyo-based startup FLUX has secured $32 million in a Series B funding round led by DNX Ventures, a venture capital firm. The company boasts a monthly data collection volume of over 100 terabytes through its services, which is utilized to train and enhance its models.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . But, most funds raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

According to venture capital data collected by PitchBook , prices spiked for startup equity across the maturity spectrum last year. The rising velocity of value creation may indicate that rich entry prices for early startup investments will math out as similar pricing dynamics play out in the later stage of company development.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Private market investors poured capital into promising insurtech startups, while the public markets sent the value of recently public insurtech companies down — and then further down as the year progressed. billion in capital (again, an all-time record, and a 90% gain over 2020.). The company went public at $29 per share.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Data collected from a number of sources indicates that last year set venture capital records around the world. From dollars invested to deal volume, sectors and geographies posted their strongest performance and excelled on essentially every continent. Venture capitalists went hard in 2021. A record year ‘round the world.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

The product itself is focused on data collection; from the first 50 companies ESGgo spoke to, they learned that there were no tools available. “Without that, it’s difficult to determine what is right from what is wrong, or what is a strong investment from a shortsighted one.” A screenshot of the ESGgo app dashboard.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

By now it’s common knowledge that 2021 is shaping up to be a breakout year for the startup and venture capital worlds, surpassing years of strong results in a long-term bull market for tech-focused business upstarts. African startups will set fresh venture capital records this year, for example. A venture capital run for the ages.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Due to the Great Resignation and restrictions to immigration laws, “this labor shortage affects both blue-collar and white-collar labor,” said Sungjoon Cho, partner at D20 Capital. Sungjoon Cho , general partner, D20 Capital. It’s an exciting time to investing in construction tech. Its recently enacted $1.2

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 8, 2024

The two plus year old startup founded by William Beauchamp in 2021 just announced that CoreWeave , the leading specialized GPU cloud provider, is investing in Chai. This brings total capital invested to date to $10 million, giving Chai a $450 million valuation.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 20, 2022

Register Nepalese alternative investment firm Team Ventures has invested about $250,000 in artificial intelligence (AI)-based healthtech startup WISEYAK. Investment in WISEYAK is our testament to support innovative and world-class tech-based solutions founded and led by experienced and passionate entrepreneurs.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

European startup and venture capital data company Dealroom has raised a €6 million Series A, it told TechCrunch. The company’s new capital comes nearly two years after it raised €2.75 The startup collects data on private-market companies through public scraping and partnerships. million in early 2020.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

He has more than two decades of experience in fintech, capital growth, mergers & acquisitions and strategic IPO advisory. To retain market share, these institutions will need to continue investing in fintech so they can level up with convenience and personalization provided by new competitors while preserving trust and transparency.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

From Space Rock Returns to Financial Returns: An investor panel — with Chris Boshuizen (Data Collective DCVC), Mike Collett (Promus Ventures) and Tess Hatch (Bessemer Venture Partners). Some investors spend a lot of their time looking to the stars for the next venture capital opportunity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

With another year of venture capital records in the books, it’s time to look forward. Global data was clear: The 2021 venture capital startup investment cycle was record-breaking ; around the world, startups raised more money than ever before, with individual geographies posting all-time hauls. Africa had a killer year.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 4, 2023

For Immediate Release Alexandria, VA (October 4, 2023) – The Angel Capital Association (ACA) has received an $123k award from the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIPs) designed to catalyze private investment in the Deep Tech Sector. Visit us online at angelcapitalassociation.org.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Data collection isn’t the problem: It’s what companies are doing with it. Instead of raking in user data as a general practice, companies should aggregate information to optimize product development and create a superior customer experience, writes Maxim Kharchenko, director of fintech products at Rakuten Viber.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 30, 2021

With that backdrop, the first quant funds formed to forecast price swings in commodities and capitalize on correct calculations. Using large volumes of data collected by hand in the cocoa markets of Africa for example, econometricians developed models and reshaped investing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Allison Xu is an investor at Bain Capital Ventures, where she focuses on investments in the fintech and property tech sectors. Miscommunication and poor project data accounts for 48% of all rework on U.S. Lack of data transparency : Manual data collection and data entry are still common on construction sites.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Data shows that India’s venture capital scene has grown sharply in recent years. 2019 was the country’s biggest ever in terms of venture dollars invested, with Bain counting $10 billion during the year. In 2020, the third quarter brought the country’s venture capital scene back to form. Bikayi is one such startup.

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Ian Hathaway

JULY 10, 2020

It reminds me that what gets valued in entrepreneurial ecosystems tends to be the tangible factors that can easily be counted, like the amount of investment capital or the number of startups, instead of the intangible factors that more fundamentally drive system value, such as social capital or tacit knowledge.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

According to Sungjoon Cho , general partner at D20 Capital , the usage of technology will be critical to counterbalance labor shortages. All the investors, however, did agree that the sector’s biggest developments lie in automation, data collection and data analysis. Governments, not only in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

It’s the perfect time to double down and invest in an area that has been largely ignored but is poised for major upside in the next few years: Digital creative ad technology. But the digital ad ecosystem can’t get by only using broader data-crunching techniques to replace “retargeting.” Think about it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Sure, plenty of money is spent on ocean-based industries, but most of today’s marine investments are into either extractive industries like fishing or oil and gas, or activities like shipping, which aren’t extractive but don’t exactly benefit marine ecosystems. “Our That doesn’t mean that investors aren’t bullish, though.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Each had different yet complementary skills — Michael Famoroti , an economist; Bode Ogunlana , a software engineer; Abdul Abdulrahim , a data scientist; and Preston Ideh , a corporate lawyer — and in 2017, they launched a media startup to address the dearth of information and data-driven insights in the West African country. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

The new round of funding was led by new investor Drive Capital, and included participation from existing investors including Bullpen Capital, Space Capital, Golden Ventures and BDC Ventures. SkyWatch CEO and co-founder James Slifierz told me that bringing Drive on was a major win for the Series B.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Singh Cassidy, founder of premium talent marketplace theBoardlist, will discuss making the leap into entrepreneurship after leaving Google, her time as CEO-in-Residence at venture capital firm Accel Partners and the framework she’s developed for taking career risks. Regulations can define the best places to build and invest.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The market for crypto-focused investing is growing rapidly. The result of the run-up in capital availability has led to, as in many other venture markets, larger and more rapid-fire rounds — and more unicorns. The data set also details where unicorns are being formed, in both focus terms — exchanges, NFT platforms, etc.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

.” As I look back on what these businesses have done to succeed, my best tips for company leaders encountering VUCA now are to empower their operations, invest in digital transformation and seek M&A opportunities. Empower operations to capitalize on better market conditions in the future.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The capital brings the startup’s total raised to about $54 million. “But most of the time, companies don’t know how to capture this value and don’t invest in partnerships. “Organizations create 2x more value when selling to a partner customer,” Bouchez told TechCrunch via email. ”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

From Space Rock Returns to Financial Returns – An Investor Panel: Some investors spend a lot of their time looking to the stars for the next venture capital opportunity. It’s a market unlike any other, but does that change the math on equity-based investment? Don’t forget to submit your questions for the panel.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

This January, Germany’s largest vaccine maker BioNTech announced that it had agreed to acquire Tunisian-born and London-headquartered AI startup InstaDeep for up to £562 million, including a performance-tied £200 million tranche investment. First, when completed (at $682 million, adjusted in U.S. In 2019, InstaDeep raised an $8.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The latest funding was led by Counterpart Ventures, in addition to returning investors Tidal, Global Founders Capital, Black Nova and Antler. The startup will use a good part of the new capital to enhance its platform capabilities by leveraging data science areas like predictive personalization and developing additional features.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

One such company is SentinelOne, a cybersecurity startup backed by Insight Venture Partners, Redpoint, Tiger Global Management, Data Collective and Anchorage Capital, among others. SentinelOne raised an ocean of capital while private, including nearly $500 million across two rounds in 2020. It will be!

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