Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

-Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Competitors: Gowalla.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. They recently exited their investment in Gaikai for $380 million while their rival OnLive (who had raised > $200 million) just went through bankruptcy. I’ve laid out my policy on seed investing pretty clearly and publicly.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2012

And they invest n select VC funds. download from iTunes for free) or just skipping to the bits you like. 45 minutes in: Andrew’s process for investing in startups. 3:00 You were running corporate development for Yahoo before this? 3:00 You were running corporate development for Yahoo before this?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

You can watch him on YouTube , download in iTunes (for gym or commute) 3/31/11 edition. Matt’s commitment to re-investing in tech startups is reminiscent to this great Fred Wilson post of “recycling capital. &#. Backstopping is when banks feel they are protected by VC’s investing in the company.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Learn about business development with this free e-guide from tech business strategist Flavio Hangarter. Yet, founders bet their company’s success in finding small investment rounds in these unfavourable conditions. Building a tech startup? Capital funding for early-stage companies is drying up and becoming harder to find.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Thomas Rush is founder of Bootstrapp and Head of Investment Platform at ConsenSys Mesh. Revenue-based investing ( RBI), also known as revenue-based financing, or revenue-share investing, 1 is a natural next step for the private equity and early-stage venture investment industry. Share on Twitter.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 16, 2011

That’s why I was so interested in having “ The Gotham Gal &# come on This Week in VC ( video link on YouTube , download iTunes, episode 15) ) and dispel those myths. This is where she first developed sales skills. “The majority of businesses that I’ve been investing in lately are ‘women businesses.’

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

In this conversation, a16z General Partner David Haber talks with Marco Argenti, the chief information officer at Goldman Sachs, about bringing fintech processes into financial services, turning developers into clients, and how AI is a major inflection point in the history of technology. And then I started selling.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2022

The funding will be used on Anfin’s product development, especially its social investment features, including one that lets users host and join live audio rooms. Its fractional trading features lets users starting investing with as little as 10,000 VND (or about 40 U.S. Anfin monetizes through trading commissions.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

So if you want to be a content producer and want to make money you can develop content for global “niches” of watchers who might like: Japanese Anime, South Korean drama, Bollywood productions, reality TV on any topic – fashion, cooking, travel. I first wanted to invest in this trend by backing a company called Filmaka.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. You also need to develop an O&O (your own websites) strategy.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

million global downloads, according to app intelligence firm Sensor Tower. million downloads for Poparazzi, which is largely in line with the startup’s claims, as these estimates aren’t an exact science.). . This is on top of the company’s $2 million seed round closed in late 2018, before Poparazzi was developed.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

My partner Greg Bettinelli is an avid sports fan who throughout his career has developed an expert understanding in online ticketing (at eBay has was a champion of the StubHub acquisition) and online marketing. I mention this because Greg led our investment in a company that I have personally become addicted to called Draft.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Mage , developing an artificial intelligence tool for product developers to build and integrate AI into apps, brought in $6.3 While collaborating with product developers, Dang and Wang saw that while product developers wanted to use AI, they didn’t have the right tools in which to do it without relying on data scientists.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

That’s a reason why some are quick to portend “a new bubble” but this post sets out to show that would be a misunderstanding of the market and in fact by historic levels this may be amongst the best times to invest in seed and early-stage funds. More on that later. Still reading?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

But as a relatively young population, most of them have minimal equity market and investment exposure. The company has raised a $20 million Series A round to democratize investing in the Middle East and North Africa. In developed markets such as the U.S. In developed markets such as the U.S. One such is Egypt-based Thndr.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Simple: according to Mike Polaris has followed on nearly every seed investment that they’ve done. Developer and publisher of social mobile games.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. They were originally founded inside of Times Mirror and had a huge string of major investment success before spinning out as a fully independent fund. The investment will be used for product development initiatives.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In other words, Homa builds tools that help third-party developers build games. With Voodoo , Homa is one of the companies that have turned mobile gaming development into a methodical, data-driven process. Homa’s software development kit (SDK) helps you track various metrics thanks to built-in analytics features.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Microsoft has held conversations to invest in the Indian play-to-earn gaming platform Zupee in recent weeks and proposed to potentially lead a funding round of over $100 million, two people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, the latest in a series of bets from the cloud services giant to expand its business in the key overseas market.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 17, 2010

Imagine trying to build a single phone that encompasses all of the potential features of the iPhone if you had to develop all of those features on your own. On top of that, once you get a critical mass of developers creating for your platform—if you have the most volume—it’s tougher to unseat you as the application destination of choice.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

GDevelop is a game engine that lets you develop a video game without any specific development experience. With GDevelop, he wanted to make game development as accessible as possible. GDevelop focuses specifically on 2D games as it’s more accessible for both players and developers. The startup has recently raised a $1.4

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TechCrunch

JUNE 14, 2021

With that money, she hired a developer to build a chatbot for her app, which was mostly being used via Facebook Messenger. Then an earthquake hit Mexico City and that developer lost everything — including his home and computer — and had to relocate. “I When you download it, it’s almost like you can see a soul in there.”.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 2, 2010

I’m not even going to bother downloading Venture Economics data because I know it’s going to be garbage—most angel rounds aren’t tracked very well. And yes, this post may seem self-serving, since I work at a seed-stage investment fund. Feel free to take this free content with a grain of salt.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

And the broader question of whether VC’s will continue to invest in the Twitter ecosystem. Estimated 15mm downloads to date. Current round: $3.35mm in Series A by TomorrowVentures (Eric Schmidt’s personal investment vehicle), Saban Ventures, Founder Collective, SK Telecom Ventures. Competes with Seesmic , HootSuite , Brizzly.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

And given your stage of development you sure better at least know what your goal is. For example, if you have developers, content people or SEO folks working on SEO programs you’ll need to allocate their time / costs to this effort. In the mobile world many apps are downloaded but never used or perhaps only used for one day.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Lux Capital is leading the round, with Sequoia and Coatue investing in the company for the first time. On the company’s website , you can browse thousands of pre-trained machine-learning models, participate in the developer community with your own model, download datasets and more.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Latin Americans seeking the ability to invest in companies trading on the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange now have a new option in Vest, a startup that has launched a mobile-first brokerage app with zero-commission trading in the Americas. Financial services for investing and cash management in the U.S. Image Credits: Vest.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

leading the investment. This funding round is said to be a prominent investment in the Chinese AI industry, as startups like Baichuan plan to capitalize on the growing demand for ChatGPT-like services. The success of their open-source models is evident in the download count, with two of them amassing over 6 million downloads.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

One founder set eyes on getting the most downloads in the mobile gaming category. Sequoia doesn’t have to put in this amount of effort to win early-stage deals: It began investing in India over a decade ago and has minted 38 unicorns (of 102 in total) in the nation and 11 in Southeast Asia. So what’s with the change of heart?

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OurCrowd

JUNE 28, 2020

In this publication we theorize that these recent developments are not only designed to help adapt to life during the pandemic, but are the beginning of a new reality. Download now or get a preview below. Read more about these topics by downloading the latest issue of Innovation Insider.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Today the company announced a $5 million seed investment led by 468 Capital and CM Ventures with participation from Tribe Capital, Shasta Ventures and various tech industry angels. The program has been downloaded 300,000 times so far. Activeloop image database. Image Credits: Activeloop.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

. “For three years, we have created a product that brings a lot of value to developers, which has allowed us to form a strong community,” De Quelen said via email. “The new money is to focus on the development of Meilisearch Cloud, our fully managed offering of Meilisearch instances. Image Credits: Meilisearch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

is a former college basketball player who was pre-med until he discovered investing once finishing undergrad. After being exposed to it, Haddix says he got “really excited” about investing and went on to get an M.B.A. And so the idea for Scout – a different kind of investing app – was born. Michael Haddix Jr.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

million Series A to help companies build apps on top of Airtable databases; Appsmith secure a $41 million Series B to power customized internal business apps; Retool attract a $45 million cash injection for a similar proposition; and Thunkable lock down a $30 million investment for a no-code mobile app development platform.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 12, 2023

The founding team of the user-generated gaming platform Overplay, gained timely and sizeable backing through its Wefunder campaign , a Regulation CF community investment round. In a matter of hours, the gaming startup raised $1 million from retail investors with a minimum investment of $100.

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