Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

What is a principal at a VC firm and how does it work at Upfront Ventures? ” Associates have different functions at different VCs. VC firm admin. VC firm policy or fund analysis. Helping be the VC “presence” at key events. inside insight into VC decision-making. Industry reviews.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

At the time, restaurants and food tech were on the margins of most investors’ minds and there was skepticism around VC-backed food concepts. Loyal followers know to expect new menu drops and chef-driven collaborations. What did we see in the then-regional salad company? So, what’s next for Sweetgreen? As a long-standing partner?

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Dream It

DECEMBER 19, 2019

NeuroFlow ( Healthtech - Fall 2019 ) is a platform for getting patients with behavioral health issues better by supporting clinical teams with collaborative and measurement-based tools in all care settings. million Series A financing round led by San Francisco-based Builders VC. This week, the company announced a $7.5

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to find a job as a VC scout. VC recruiters list and compensation data. How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm. Syllabus for how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 20, 2023

While VC dollars still overwhelmingly funnel into places like Silicon Valley, Brookings research shows tech jobs are finally spreading out — movement spurred by the availability of hybrid and remote work, private investment, and federal initiatives. Collaboration is the hardest, but arguably the most important.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

and Global Hands-On VC (GHOVC), a collaborative venture capital entity with a track record of successful semiconductor investments that span the Japan-United States nexus. EdgeCortix has also partnered with Renesas Electronics Corporation , a prominent provider of advanced semiconductor solutions.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Register The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), in collaboration with key officials from Marikina City’s 2nd District, has introduced the pilot programs and services of the Marikina Creative and Innovation Hub at the Center for Innovation and Technology for Enterprises (CITE) in Marikina City, the Philippines.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Over the last two and a half months in the hospital, I’ve actually been fairly productive—no doubt setting the record for VC term sheets offered literally from inside the NICU (three). That also makes our senior management much more gender diverse—which tends to lead to better decision making and collaboration.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

Founded by Ece Kural and Furkan Bayraktar, Scrintal is a visual note-taking and collaboration tool. The company today told TechCrunch it closed a €1 million round (around $1 million in today’s exchange rate) led by Spintop Ventures, and joined by existing investor Icebreaker VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Upfront Ventures was created 20 years ago as one of the original VC funds in Los Angeles. 10 years ago we found ourselves trying to persuade LPs and VCs that it was worth spending more time getting to know the LA market and now the most common refrain that I hear from them is “there really is something going on in LA.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 2, 2021

Photo Credit: Fortune Adding to the lack of female representation in the industry, research also shows that only 8% of the investment professionals at the top 25 VC firms are women. As Lindquist adds, “We all have unique networks, personal relationships, market knowledge, and talents, which contribute to the fabric of a VC ecosystem.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

The D’Amelio family, including TikTok stars and digital creators Charli D’Amelio and sister Dixie , are formalizing their investments in startups with the launch of a new VC fund, 444 Capital. Renert notes the fund doesn’t conflict with his work at Tandem, however, as the VC firm chose not to raise another fund at this time.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

So today I’m excited to announce that Upfront Ventures is leading an $8 million round with some amazing co-investors including Founder’s Fund, OATV, Lowercase, High Peaks, Collaborative Fund and many great angel investors. Sam moved back to NY and we announced our seed round of capital, which we led.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me. Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). And then of course our friends at TechStars launched an accelerator in collaboration with our friends at Disney so now there was six.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

At the same time, they haven’t kept pace with recent trends like work-from-home collaboration. “I believe the only path forward is to integrate collaboration into the authoring environment as a first-class concern, much like the transition that has already occurred in design with Figma or in prose with Google Docs.”

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 15, 2013

Most VC funds wouldn''t touch a pre-product app company. The level of talent and supportive collaboration among the community at Studiomates checks both boxes and continues to ensure that everything he puts out is top notch. When he pitched, he was the proverbial "guy with an idea."

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

At night I had a group dinner where I met 6 new entrepreneurs and hung out with some old friends from law firms, banks and other VC funds. And there is no short-cut, no collaboration tool, no spreadsheet, no web conference tool that can build trust even remotely as effectively as being in person.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

It seems the days are gone when VC firms approach promising startups about funding instead of the other way around, but Hex , a data collaboration startup, has defied the odds. Our product uniquely allows collaboration across different data personas. And I think that obviously caught the eye of new investors,” he said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The tool, not yet generally available, can “communicate” in natural language and collaborate with users on code changes, Steinberger claims — operating like a pair programmer that’s able to understand and continuously learn more about the context of both coding projects and developers. The short-term goal (i.e.,

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In addition, GBSA plans to help Korean startups enter the global market by collaborating with global VC firms.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Here’s how my long-time friend and former collaborator Gené Teare described the nuance in the first-quarter numbers, writing that the small gain in first-quarter dollar totals includes: “a reported $10 billion investment into OpenAI — largely from Microsoft — and a $6.5 Up is good, right? billion round for payments giant Stripe.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

As a VC (especially based in LA), I see hundreds of video apps. Fourth: Where Ferris really shines is collaboration. That was just a question of limited resources and wanting to get V1 right. We will port it to Android ASAP after our first rev of proper user feedback. So Why Did We Invest? That’s where Shaheen did his magic.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2012

I was here to see one of our LPs (limited partners are the people who invest money in VC funds) called Fort Washington. In the age of Skype, email, cheap telephony and collaboration tools it’s all too easy to sit in your office and connect with people remotely. I mention this for a reason.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

million in funding led by Freestyle VC, with participation from Precursor Ventures, Wireframe Ventures, Transmedia Capital, Uphonest Capital, Rembrandt Venture Partners, Kayvon Beykpour, Kevin Weil, Elizabeth Weil, Russ Fradin, Ross Walker, Joe Bernstein, Keith Coleman, David Pidwell, Ryan Peirce and Don Ryan. Tensil has raised $3.89

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

based Amadeus Capital Partners and Austria’s Apex Ventures are pooling their collective venture capital (VC) resources for a new fund specifically targeted at early-stage deep tech startups. ” And for Apex, a relative newcomer to the VC scene compared to Amadeus, it taps a quarter-century of investment experience.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school.

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Dream It

APRIL 24, 2019

Over the past week, Zillow announced the rollout of their 3D Home tool, which lets real estate agents show immersive VC views of homes for sale. The company has a unique advantage in entering the VR space, since so many AEC firms are already using the Revit product to build 3D models and to collaborate with stakeholders on projects.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

There’s nothing wrong with these businesses but as a VC you tend to see 5 similar ideas all at the same time and knowing that it’s going to just come down to who executes the best it’s hard to pull the trigger on a A-round until you have more data on who’s winning. We need leaders who can rigorously prioritize.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 27, 2021

And our decision making is collaborative" [link] — Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) January 26, 2021. Our focus is thesis-driven. … We publish our investment memos as blog posts. We are active partners to all the companies we invest in at all times. So it is more of the same and also something new at USV. We are excited about both.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 2, 2023

It’s not a groupthink exercise and there’s no collusion, although hopefully maybe some collaboration as I’ve personally co-invested with many of the folks in the group. Everyone looks at your information separately and follows-up if there’s potential for mutual fit.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

I’ve learnt how to slice the equity pie for VC investors, and gained so much insight about the still male-dominated tech world from this successful tech business veteran. Women need to raise each other up, collaborate and support each other to make a difference.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 13, 2023

Being a VC means not only honing your skills as a judge of character, assessor of business models, and calculator of risk, but it’s also a lot of difficult interpersonal communications, narrative creation, and long-term goal setting and positioning. Also, maybe you don’t have the same definition of VC success.

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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.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Tech VC is a pretty mature marketplace--the players are known, the process is established, and so while relationship building might take time, usually you can estimate how long a deal will take with some accuracy (besides, of course, that it takes longer than the founder wants). 3) Find a flexible lead.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

At the centure of this quirky building that houses an advertising school , a yoga studio , and video production companies is Studiomates --"a collaborative workspace of designers, illustrators, bloggers, writers, and developers" run by Tina Eisenberg --perhaps better known as Swiss Miss. via DumboNYC. via Brownstoner.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I fully believe that my daughter Mirren’s crayons and Fisher Price keyboard is very quickly going to make way to her using AI assistance to create music and video in collaborative communities, expanding the notion who we define as a “creator”. That’s why I’m bullish on creator tools like Highnote.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register Indonesian digital bank Superbank , supported by Grab, Singtel, and Emtek Group, is collaborating with Singapore’s Genesis Alternative Ventures to offer a financing package of $40 million for startups in Indonesia. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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