Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

There is no culture, country, nor period of human history where creative expression hasn’t been central. And yet, despite its foundational nature inside all of us, being a “creative” is often also reduced to describing someone with innate skill or studied mastery in creative disciplines such as music, painting, or sculpting.

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Paul G. Silva

APRIL 1, 2025

He realized his responsibility wasn’t “keep developing the product” but “build a successful business ready for investment.” Within a few months, he secured investment that extended his runway by 18 months. ” This shift changed everything.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

And with generative AI tools lowering the barriers to entry for creation, we believe the velocity of player creativity is at an inflection point today. We’re very excited about the potential for AI-assisted UGC to transform IP into dynamic, neverending game franchises.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I have my best creative break-throughs this way. I’ve talked in the past about how I manage my own creative process. If you struggle to find moments of creativity you might read that post. I also have huge creative spurts when I run. Or I will get some good time in at a hotel just zoning out and thinking.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

It’s the first EIR that we’ve had in the years that I’ve been with the firm and I hope will be the start of our investment in this program. We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. Sam had different plans.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 27, 2023

Register The Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (headed by Minister Park Bo-gyun) conducted an investment briefing on July 24, focused on attracting investment from the UAE sovereign wealth fund for content industries, including games , dramas, and webtoons.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 9, 2024

If history is a guide, transformative breakthroughs emerge when powerful creative tools reach the masses. What sets Yellow apart is their focus on empowering human creativity through AI. We couldn’t be more excited to back Mandeep and team as they forge the bright future of 3D creativity, starting with characters.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 6, 2013

and I can't argue strenously enough for investing the time into a blog this year if you've started a company. Being able to innovate requires both intuition and creativity--combining a good sense of direction with enough spontaneity to be willing to lose your way long enough to move in a direction others haven't travelled before.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

I’ve made over 100 investments in my career and nearly half of those went into diverse teams. I’ll be the first to back up the notion that diverse founders have just as much ambition, drive, intellectual horsepower, creativity—you name it—than anyone else.

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 6, 2024

Identify and access management company Okta will award up to $500K as an investment to the winner of its inaugural SaaS startup competition. This is an incredible opportunity for startups to showcase their creativity while building for the future.” The submission period for the Competition ends August 31, 2024.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As the scientific community gained greater insight into the structure and function of the secretory translocon, Gate Bio’s founders began creatively designing Molecular Gates to bind this translocon and specifically block disease-causing proteins (but not healthy proteins) from exiting the channel.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As an industry we’re not always as good as we could be about our own “creative destruction” to create the tomorrow of venture capital. The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 14, 2014

Last week, there was a Business Insider article measuring the percent of female founded companies that NYC seed funds invest in. That means you actually have a *better* shot, statistically, of getting VC investment at these firms, statistically, once you actually pitch. In truth, that''s what''s actually driving my investments.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Our investment in Kickstarter back in 2009 is an excellent example of that. In the last thirteen years, Kickstarter has helped direct $6.2bn towards creative work that would not have been funded by the legacy institutions that support creative work. If you click on the tweet I posted above, you can learn more about that.

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JANUARY 8, 2015

How I got to this investment was another long term story. The team is hard at work improving upon the concept of a designer focused site that will inspire the creative juices in all of us. I was a huge Fab.com buyer in the early days when we backed it at First Round Capital. It''s so much more.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 14, 2025

The iSTEM program was designed to provide a platform for students who struggle in conventional learning environments yet exhibit exceptional creative and problem-solving abilities. million, the total external investment in the program is expected to reach $17.5 With anticipated matching gifts totaling $7.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

When I work with community leaders I often encourage them to “pool capital” together from many angels into a fund structure run by a small investment committee that can make more rapid funding decisions, take more risks (it is pooled capital so goes across more investments), and standardize investment terms.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2015

I’ve made 5 investments in the sector and I hope to make 5 more. At MakeSpace the uber creative VP of Brand & Creative, Rion Harmon , came up with a series of videos that explain their storage startup. Anybody who reads the blog regularly will know that I’m long video.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

You see there is a creative tension along the spectrum of time and scope. The funny thing about time constraints is that set with the appropriate balance of having enough time to deliver something meaningful you can actually use time constraints to drive creativity. Design with no constraints becomes a research project.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In the epicenter of tech, where innovation thrives, Alex Luce bridges materials science and venture capital, carving a niche as a Partner at Creative Ventures. “Finally, I wound up here at Creative Ventures, where we have a small but incredibly nimble team.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 1, 2020

My partner Rebecca wrote about our most recent education investment, Sora , on the USV blog today. We have been investing in learning for over a decade at USV and have built a terrific learning portfolio focusing on companies that are providing services direct to the learner (as opposed to selling “ed tech” to institutions).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2024

Navigating Tough Financial Times Managing finances during this period was an exercise in frugality and creativity. When you invest in your business with your own money rather than investment dollars, you pay attention to every penny. Weren’t entrepreneurs tired of the golden handcuffs of venture capitalists and bankers?

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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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APRIL 11, 2022

My company is Bread and we make ad creative super easy. Instead, ask a question specific to their approach to investing—something simple enough like what’s going on at their stage. A few years ago, I was at Techcrunch Disrupt and this guy taps me on the shoulder as I was chatting in a group. My name is Alan. Why would you do that?

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Revolution

JANUARY 27, 2025

Watching these entrepreneurs present their ideas, its impossible not to feel inspirednot just by their creativity, but by their commitment to solving meaningful problems. Chef, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and my friend Jos Andres put it well: investing in young entrepreneurs is investing in solutions. startup ecosystem.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 24, 2023

Register Mark & Company, led by CEO Kyungpyo Hong, has announced the establishment and management of a new venture investment fund in partnership with Yoonmin Creative Investment Foundation, chaired by Minseop Sung. 1, launched in July 2021.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

” Fred & I are both in agreement that there is a tension between capital constraints and creativity. My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. You need to invest in good markets and bad.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Creativity is at the heart of everything they do. I was working for the GM pension fund, an institutional LP, as an analyst, doing a research project on consumer private equity and venture capital investing. Jerry was a great guy and his love of retail investing kind of stuck with me. Just face + cup. That's Ample Hills.

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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. Background Pocket Sun’s journey in the investment industry has shaped her into the leader she is today.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Register Over the last decade, the landscape of venture investing in the U.S. Team Asia Daily spoke to one such venture capitalist Jessie Wu , an early-stage investor at Upshot Ventures, in an exclusive interview, shedding light upon her investment journey while paving the way for upcoming startup founders and venture capital investors.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2024

Turning an idea into a sellable product takes grit, but limited budgets often require entrepreneurs to develop creative solutions that rely more on resourcefulness than cash. In the rocky economic climate of 2024, creativity fuels entrepreneurial success more than deep pockets.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

We don’t always get ‘our’ way, but we are heard,” says Angie Bryan, a recruiter at Creative Alignments. “I I must have saved a nation in a former life or something heroic like that to be part of this goodness,” said Triza Codillo about the team at Creative Alignments. Ask often, listen well and respond accordingly. “We

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 1, 2020

Lean on industry peers for creative ways to support your staff and stay informed about the latest laws and resources in your area. • Consider offering gift cards toward future services or investments in upcoming projects. For EO members, MyEO Deal Exchange has waived its joining fees in order to promote EO member cross-investment.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 8, 2013

That''s kind of like what it''s like being on board with these companies after you make an early stage investment. In VC, no one''s investment gets bought on the first day, or the second day, or the third day. I got mine just a year after starting to lead investments, but even that felt like forever--and that''s not the norm.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Or, it’s just what “generative AI” does with a series of uploaded images of the two of us if given some creative prompting. It’s also interesting to think about what AI will do to the creative workforce. Now, with generative AI, creators will only be limited by their creativity and not by their directly applicable manual skillset.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” No less than Fred Wilson has credited Carlota’s work with having a major influence on his investment strategy at USV.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2016

There is a general guideline of how much investors want to own in order to invest in your company and the norm is 15–30% with the most common range 20–25% per early stage round. Because investors need to imagine making a minimum of 10x their invested capital and early-stage investors are shooting for even higher multiples.

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