Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Venture Capitalists typically have partners’ meetings on Mondays. I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. But I guess you could say the same about VC. Stock market declines would bring back dog days of VC.

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

Having spent time around and then in the world of VC in the Bay Area during the last decade, I’ve been reflecting on how different norms in the industry have changed. At the start of 2010, there was some unwritten VC industry conventions that have been tested, challenged, and upended in the last decade. That is for another post.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. Thank you. (if

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

Bay Area-based construction startup TraceAir today announced a $3.5 Led by London-based XTX Ventures, this round brings the company’s total funding up to $7 million. The raise includes existing investor Metropolis VC, along with new additions Liquid 2 Ventures, GEM Capital, GPS Ventures and Andrew Filev.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The trillion-dollar construction industry is often tarred with the inefficiency brush , accused of failing to move with the times and ignoring digitization in favor of legacy tools. But there is plenty of evidence that things are changing, with countless startups raising large sums of cash to help the construction industry modernize.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

The seed round is led by Prime Movers Lab and Alpaca VC and features a slew of additional firms, including Dolby Family Ventures, Calm Ventures, Gaingels, Towerview Ventures, GFA Venture Partners and Suffolk Construction. Bay Area-based Diamond Age this week announced that it has raised $8 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Builders VC led the round, which included participation from Celtic, Newfund and Wish co-founder Danny Zhang. Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar Jim Kim of Builders VC, said he first encountered Wu and Jung while they were at Wish. “We trillion-dollar industry.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 24, 2021

In the beginning of my venture career, I knew of a firm that was involved in a highly competitive funding round that they ultimately failed to win. They had constructed a very specific story about how that company’s features would win out over and above the deal that they missed. Sometimes it all seems like magic.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup. It's even more relevant now that I've started the first venture capital fund in Brooklyn-- Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --and invested in four Brooklyn based companies. 10 Jay Street.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Brian Walsh is the head of WIND Ventures , the venture capital arm of COPEC, a leading energy company in Central and South America and the U.S. WIND Ventures provides mobility, energy and retail startups and scaleups with access to Latin America. SPACs are the construct VCs need to fund clean tech.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2011

You can do nearly absolutely anything within one or two years time--as long as you put your mind to it and construct a plan. He was interested in venture capital and was a year away from graduation. He was interested in venture capital and was a year away from graduation. Write down all the tasks done, skills used, etc.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

But progress is being made as seen in the rising number of women-led venture funds that focus on funding women entrepreneurs. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups. billion of total venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 20, 2011

This is extra frustrating in an era in which all you read about is how frothy the VC / funding market is these days. Obviously the diagnosis can have many route causes: Sometimes it’s a question of a market that is less sexy than the current VC fad. I try to be constructive. He was price signaling without knowing it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

When it comes to construction projects, any type of delay can result in increased costs both for the contractor and their customer. It is also interesting that Tiger Global is a co-lead as it is yet another example of the investment giant backing a construction tech company — a growing area of interest for the firm.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Dayna Grayson has been in venture capital for more than a decade and was one of the first VCs to build a portfolio around the transformation of industrial sectors of our economy. That’s where Construct Capital came in. A former NEA partner and a former Uber exec just closed their $140 million debut VC fund.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2023

One of the quieter conversations in venture capital has only grown louder, in my DMs and interviews, over the past few months: The known bias in venture capital has been a branding issue for some of the emerging, diverse fund managers just now splashing onto the scene. TechCrunch is coming to Boston on April 20. Book your pass ASAP!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Understanding TAM is essential for startup success — especially in a down market when VC dollars are harder to come by. That’s why we’re thrilled that Dayna Grayson, the co-founder and general partner at Construct Capital, will join us onstage at TechCrunch Early Stage on April 20 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

There are countless posts on portfolio construction, or how many investments are ideal in a venture portfolio, and so forth. What I do is that the topic of VC fund portfolio construction is not an easy way to grasp, and is likely even harder to master in practice. I am not qualified to opine on the topic.

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

There's nothing personal about this particular area for them and it's unclear what motivates them to keep going--other than the prospect of having a VC validate them. Stories create a construct-a framework to make sure we've accounted for all the parts. I wasn't just watching game and a psychologically satisfying stat being reached.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

Stuart Lander has joined Upfront Ventures to help us run operations. Stuart is well worth following on Twitter & now that’s he’s a VC he is likely to share his wisdom more freely. We all trust each other and play to our respective strengths and weaknesses. The stories still to be told?: Writing a book will be fun.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The firm has an Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Tel Aviv presence, and now has a $160 million sack of funds to deploy across its focus areas: sustainability and technological innovation in the construction, real estate and manufacturing industries. It especially wants to reduce waste and CO2 emissions. ”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

The perverse nature of raising capital is that “no’s” almost always precede “yeses” because it’s very easy for a VC to tell you that you’re not a good fit without doing any real work to evaluate your company so you hear “no” far before others start doing more work. The best VCs follow up but then so, too, to the best entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Cloud is the big buzzword these days, with people talking about why it’s a smart move for companies , and lots of venture-backed startups developing easy ways for companies to make the shift. Van Nest was previously a venture investor at Blumberg Capital. So far that strategy has worked in Artisanal Ventures’ favor.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

” Ian Chiu, Owl Ventures. Jomayra Hererra, Cowboy Ventures. In a guest post for Extra Crunch, seed-stage VC Ann Miura-Ko shared some of what she’s learned about “the magic of product-market fit,” which she termed “ the defining quality of an early-stage startup.” David Eichler, TCV.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Within this period, the impact investor backed several firms in various sectors like banking, trade, private equity, and venture capital. Progress so far: banks, VC firms and startups. BII has also provided investment to TLcom Capital, one of the largest pan-African venture capital firms.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

Early-stage venture fund New Stack Ventures just raised $42.6 When Moran began angel investing, he found the whole process of startup fundraising to be confusing, so he started a venture podcast back in May 2014 called “ The Full Ratchet ,” to interview other VCs and provide funding transparency.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

British venture capital firm Draper Esprit recently moved its listing from the AIM to the main board in London, the LSE. Draper has always felt like something of an anomaly from our perspective, a generalist venture capital firm that was itself public. It’s a reasonable point. But the model is not perfect. and not in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Maryam Haque is the executive director of Venture Forward. Bobby Franklin is the president and CEO of the National Venture Capital Association and previously served as an executive vice president for the CTIA – The Wireless Association. A new foreign investment bill will impact venture capital and the US startup ecosystem.

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Red Rocket

MAY 22, 2024

CB Insights, a leading research organization that tracks venture capital financings, recently released its report on t he state of the venture capital market in 2023. This could be friends and family, angel investors, crowdfunding, venture debt, credit cards, asset backed loans (e.g.,

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Early stage climate tech VC firm Anthropocene Ventures also joins Kind Designs’ seed round. Rapidly growing climate and construction tech startup Kind Designs gained the support of entrepreneur Mark Cuban and VC firm Anthropocene Ventures for its $5 million seed round.

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Revolution

APRIL 24, 2023

So we asked Revolution Growth Partner, Kristin Gunther , Revolution Ventures Partner, Clara Sieg , and Rise of the Rest Principal, Mahati Sridhar , for their thoughts on the current and future state of climate innovation. Here’s what they had to say. “As As investors with capital to put to work, we have to have a ‘challenge accepted’ mindset.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. I had very little cash in the bank yet the stories were still coming out about how we were going to change the world of online engineering and construction. We were based in London. We were weeks from bankruptcy.

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Haystack

JANUARY 2, 2020

A topic that’s been on my mind a lot in 2019 is “time diversity” in venture capital funds. From what I’ve gathered from LPs and VC mentors, in previous eras, the initial deployment period of a VC fund (not including reserves for follow-ons, etc.) used to be around 5 years. I know of one.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

Seed investors Alpaca VC, Dolby Family Ventures, Timber Grove Ventures and Gaingels all invested above their pro-rata and are joined by Signia Venture Partners. housing market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Shawn Carolan, partner, Menlo Ventures. Abhijit Ganguly, senior manager, Goodyear Ventures. Rachel Holt, co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital. Sebastian Peck, managing director, InMotion Ventures. and Khosla Ventures Acquisition Co. Dharmesh Thakker, general partner, Battery Ventures.

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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. Brian Cohen, Chairman, Six Point Ventures, observed, Multiple partners with different primary skill sets are mandatory. Ideally, the fund will have a public statement of culture (see, e.g., Antler , Interlace Ventures ).

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