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NOVEMBER 4, 2018

When you get an investment from Brooklyn Bridge Ventures—you get me. My investment thesis is shaped by the sum of my personal experience and so are my values. My goal is to make Brooklyn Bridge Ventures the most accessible VC firm not just because I think it’s good business, but because I think it’s a based on good values.

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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. For anything that would be considered a normal investment for the partnership most firms try to make sure every partner has seen the deal and has a chance to weigh in.

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JUNE 22, 2021

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of talking to Samir Kaji on the Venture Unlocked podcast about a wide range of topics that we as venture capitalists think about everyday, including: How to build a generational firm?—?retaining OK, so you’ve found your target LPs who invest in funds at your stage. Let me explain. Why Buy Me?

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

Martino founded Bullpen in 2010 with a focus on post-seed, pre-Series A startups, and he led the fund’s investments in companies like FanDuel, Namely, Ipsy, SpotHero, Classy, and Airmap. This geographic distinction is now less about actual geography and more about mentality and style of investing of these types of firms.

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APRIL 14, 2014

Last week, there was a Business Insider article measuring the percent of female founded companies that NYC seed funds invest in. Brooklyn Bridge Ventures came in first, with a whopping 61%. Lerer Ventures was second, with just under 20%. Most companies don''t ever raise venture capital and they do just fine.

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JULY 23, 2014

There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. On the surface the narratives have been. Why is this?

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JUNE 8, 2014

Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. That didn’t make them bad – it just didn’t make them efficient at making rapid decisions of whether to fund a startup or not and the terms on which they would fund were typically not “market” for a startup company that would become venture backed one day.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Viewing the article through the lens of a venture capitalist there’s much to agree with under the mantra of “growth!” He also nails the reason why venture capital is still necessary to grow large businesses quickly in a world where the costs of running startups have fallen dramatically. So I like that bit, too.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

A few years back I helped start Screendoor , a fund that backs new venture firms by hopefully being one of their earliest and largest supporters. Most strategies are some combination of innovation and best practices along the classic five steps of venture investing: See, Pick, Win, Service, Exit. .’

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

There was a brief, beautiful moment for a few months in 2021 when it felt like robotic investments might be immune from broader market forces. Image Credits: Crunchbase A couple of top line points: 2022 was the second worst year for robotics investments over the past five years. Uncertainty doesn’t breed investing confidence.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Or that venture capital is a meritocracy? This doesn’t take into consideration, however, that venture capital is a financial product—a product that works for some people and doesn’t work for others. I’m going to call this the risk/wealth effect and it definitely nudges the numbers towards the funding of wealthier white men.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

If you track the venture capital industry it would be hard to miss the conversation going on this week over AngelList “Syndicates.” But Jason is one of the smartest thinkers in our industry so while style points in his eye-poking post might be low, he’s definitely scratching at something important. Bowery Capital).

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Think USV is only invested around Union Square in NYC? This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. Think again.

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Dream It

JANUARY 13, 2021

The venture capital screening call is an important step to get right in due diligence. Alana suggests that before speaking to an associate, you gain a basic understanding of the fund’s focus and stages they invest in. By Elliot Levy , Healthtech Associate at Dreamit Ventures Book Office Hours with me.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 30, 2021

have created or supported funds to invest in local VC managers. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School. . all bear the marks of government investment. Instead, they should consider investing in VC funds which invest in their diaspora, and more generally, taking other moves to support their diaspora. .

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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.

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Dream It

AUGUST 29, 2019

Investors are giving you capital to make 10x, 20x, or 100x their investment. For this reason, it would be ridiculous for a founder to ever tell a venture investor that they want to keep the company private. In other words, the exit strategy is a way of “cashing out” an investment.” To realize this, there must be an exit.

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MAY 18, 2014

In my Twitter bio is says that I’m “ looking to invest in passionate entrepreneurs ,” which almost sounds like I was just looking for a cliché soundbite to describe myself. Great programmers are artists, for sure, but rock stars is about the last definition I’d choose.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

It''s a solid exit to a company that has lots of revs, is growing, and together will form a very formidable player in the data backup space--one that can definitely be a public company in the next couple of years. Venture Capital & Technology' He took a long term view and jumped in with a check.

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JUNE 11, 2018

Yeah, I definitely wasn't putting in that kind of volume. When deadlines are fast approaching, their instinct is most likely to double down on their own hours worked rather than pull back and invest the time into recruiting. At Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, we run a series of events called Stackup Talks.

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APRIL 25, 2016

I led the $1.8mm seed investment in goTenna with $250k. There's no official definition of a lead other than someone who puts down a term sheet, helps gather the round, and who is most active with the company. Do you really want that person invested in your company? They told me their fund wasn't big enough. That is the job.*

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. In the last decade, we’ve socialized several Rise of the Rest-isms to describe investments that check those boxes.

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MARCH 23, 2015

If you can''t go to "seed" investors for your very first investment because you''re too early, that just seems weird to me. At Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , I want to be part of the first money to go into a company, no matter what you call it. New venture funds get raised all the time--and big ones, too.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2021

During an online business workshop in December 2020, the presenter asked me whether our venture was a hobby or a business. Here’s the difference: A hobby or side hustle involves a discretionary investment of time and money. Being a solopreneur, by definition, means going it alone. You don’t hire employees.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. Venture capitalists often come from an operating background. Venture Capital. Asian Venture Capital Journal (free trial).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Intudo Ventures , the “Indonesia-only” investment firm, announced today it has closed its third fund, totaling $115 million. Called Intudo Ventures Fund III, it was raised in less than three months and oversubscribed. Chan pointed to crypto-exchange Pintu as a good example of Intudo’s investment thesis.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

When I started leading deals at First Round Capital, I sourced investments in 8 companies. We started talking about cycling and electronic shifters (which I definitely couldn’t afford) when he mentioned this new company. My first set of important meetings was with an endowment that had invested in my second fund.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Today Upfront Ventures is announcing that we’ve backed Rebecca Kantar ’s startup Imbellus , a company designed to assess human potential and ultimately change the way we teach children. We led a $4 million investment along with Thrive Capital, GLG and Sound Ventures. But really it’s something I look for.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Register Startup founders need to be authentic and prepared when they get the chance to meet prospective investors, according to Rex Fong, founding partner at investment and advisory group Capitale Ventures. Fong’s Capitale Ventures is an investment and advisory group with expertise in complex, cross-border transactions.

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JUNE 27, 2021

I’ve definitely been wrong on market value. In short: Access to great deals, ability to be invited to invest in these deals, ability to see where value in a market will be created and the luck to back the right team with the right market at the right time all matter. Early-stage venture capital is about extreme winners.

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OCTOBER 22, 2017

There are a lot of ways the startup world describes venture capitalists that portrays a certain power dynamic, real or perceived, that I believe is at the heart of so many of the industry's problems. We can debate whether they're sociopaths, but we definitely shouldn't assume that every "great investor" is "great" at being human.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

This is the New York-headquartered firm’s first investment in Pakistan. A number of other investors, including Better Tomorrow Ventures, Firstminute Capital, Banana Capital, VentureSouq, Ratio Ventures and i2i Ventures, as well as angel investors Sriram Krishnan and Julian Shapiro also participated in the $11 million pre-Series A round.

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Hunter Walk

JULY 18, 2022

As a result, there’s a lot of incentive to remain a ‘great’ company, which is still venture investable, versus falling into a trough of uncertainty. But you need to remain great and investable while also managing your costs, extending your runway, tightening your operating plan, and so on. Not buying low quality growth.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Multi-asset social investment network and Robinhood competitor eToro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Gatsby — a fintech startup which also aimed to go head to head against Robinhood — for $50 million in a cash and common stock deal. It previously acquired investment tracking app Delta ; Marq Millions Ltd. ,

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

The corporate venture comeback: What startups considering CVC need to know. As venture capital flows continue to fluctuate, founders have to double down on the terms they agree on. CVCs also shouldn’t go against the grain of the wider investment world; their size doesn’t allow them to operate outside of standard processes.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 1, 2024

Andile’s company, KhumaloCo, is a private equity investment firm that is invested in eight businesses that operate in industries such as technology, media, marketing and communications, hospitality and education. was born out of my desire for autonomy and to create an investment group founded on family values,” Andile says.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Customers include investment company Ares Management, food distribution company Sysco and Choice Hotels — in a statement, Sysco’s senior manager of market, customer and competitive intelligence Ben Anderson described SafeGraph as “the most comprehensive and actionable POI dataset.”. ” 4 essential truths about venture investing.

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