Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. if you want to download the deck it’s here on SlideShare ) Why Did The Seed Market Emerge in the First Place? Why Has Seed Investing Declined?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

“Why do founders want to take the VCs’ money? ” This is a frequent theme of mine when asked to speak to audience about the VC industry. Founders will continue to take the “growth at all options” path that leads to privacy & trust creep at places like Quora. Growth, again. Grow or die.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Aytekin Tank is the founder of JotForm , an online form builder. Founders from around the world arrive in Silicon Valley with visions of record-setting A rounds and billion-dollar valuations. But what if you don’t have unicorn dreams – or you don’t want to pursue VC money? startups are backed by VCs. Share on Twitter.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Gogii is the creator of the 36th most downloaded application in the history of the iPhone app store – a product called textPlus. If you download the app on your iPhone or Android phone you can save more than $200 / year on text messaging. Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The main points I’m going to cover today are to demystify a lot of misperceptions people have about startup exists, notably: Acqui-hires are not that frequent, are hard to come by and people make much less money than you think (investors & founders). The median VC exit price for deals is $70 million (FLAG Capital via Bryce.VC).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. total funding $1.7 My-Wardrobe.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

It’s that time of year, time to look back and reflect on the most significant storylines in the tech, startup, and VC world. Telegram announced their ICO and raised over $1B from some of the best VC firms. VC funds invested directly in MakerDao’s Dai stable coin. 5/ Early Effects Of The Softbank Effect.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Quick summary: Be careful not to have too many co-founders. And you need to be careful about giving up control to cofounders as much as VCs. I don’t think VCs care as much about co-founders & economics as people think. Hire admin / office management after you raise a reasonable size VC round.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

I’d love it if you’d take a moment to download the app and tell us what you think. As a VC (especially based in LA), I see hundreds of video apps. I first met the Ferris founders ( Paul Boukadakis & Chris Shaheen ) more than a year ago. Yes, we’ve only launched on iOS for now. So Why Did We Invest?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

As many of you know I run a weekly webcast called This Week in VC that’s getting between 25-35,000 weekly views across ThisWeekIn.com, YouTube & mostly iTunes. What is the mix of revenue between ads, subscriptions, digital downloads & ecommerce. Why did you raise VC from Polaris & how have they been to work with?

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 15, 2013

Joining me in the investment is fellow Brooklyn native, Mitch Kapor , as well as KEC Holdings and Stickerbrush—but this wasn’t an easy round for Founder Raul Gutierrez to close. Most VC funds wouldn''t touch a pre-product app company. When he pitched, he was the proverbial "guy with an idea."

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Download the a16z Guide to Raising Debt Thank You Your download will begin shortly. Or click here to download manually. OUR PRIVACY POLICY By clicking the Download button, you agree to the Privacy Policy. A founder/CEO’s presence may also be necessary in helping lay out the full story. Let’s get started.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

There’s also a neat DeFi event coming up , and TC Sessions: Mobility will feature Nuro co-founder Jiajun Zhu , which is fun as the company is worth $8.6 Soon every company will also be a VC : The boom in venture capital activity that the world saw in 2021 did not fail to impact large companies. Startups and VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. So what does a VC do when he or she isn’t ready to say “no” or perhaps might like to talk with you in a year but not now?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

This was the first episode where Jason wasn’t on the show, which gave me the chance to have another VC on the show to discuss deals. Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. VC Financings: 1. I keep meaning to get him drunk to spill the stories.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 17, 2011

In my own case, of the 7 deals I’ve sourced and/or led at First Round , the profiles of the founders look like this: Married, non-technical female, mid-30s, mom, white. Early 20’s technical + non technical single founders, white. Two technical mid 30s guys, one is a dad, white. Non-technical, mid 30’s dad, white.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re fortunate to interview William Stringer, Founder of Chisos Capital , a structured finance company. Q: What is CISA and how does it compare to other alternative VC models? A CISA allows a founder to utilize their future earnings as a type of collateral to receive funding today. Q: Please give us an overview of Chisos.

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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. Culture Miles Lasater, CEO and Founder, Purpose Built, said, As VCs, we know the importance of evaluating team dynamics before we make an investment. And at Orrick , we assist fund sponsors with preparing their constitution.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

A typical VC might see 500 opportunities cross his or her desk every year; for larger, more prominent ones it could be 2,000. VCs therefore use whatever heuristics they can in order to triage the deal flow. A download link is sent to you automatically by Gust once you create your profile, and the book is exactly what it says.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Austin-based firm recently secured $145 million in its own debt and equity financing to help B2B SaaS founders grow their businesses without diluting ownership. The firm has deployed over $60 million in capital to 130 SaaS founders since launching in January 2020, according to Latka. Enter Founderpath. So, how does it work?

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A good beginning would be Bill Payne’s The Definitive Guide to Raising Money from Angels, available as a free download from [link]. Keep in mind that any cash you put in will remain in the company as Founders’ Equity, and will only come back to you on a successful exit in which your investors make money. [3a.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and nationwide protests, venture capital firms are making newfound commitments to invest in, or at least evaluate, potential investments that are led by diverse founders. million donation-based fund intended to grow to $15 million to invest in “underserved” founders.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

based co-founders of another music-licensing company, Music Vine , which has been operating for about six years. Last year, the co-founders realized there was a growing opportunity to address the creator space with a slightly different product. The paid plan offers full catalog access and no download limit.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . I’m very interested in the tech stack of private equity/VC firms , both to improve the efficiency of Versatile VC and also as a focus area for our investing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Startups and VC Gotta love some solid startup drama, and Brian covers it in his summary of Turntable and all its iterations over the years: Turntable LIVE raises $7 million ahead of public launch , after years of co-founder disagreements and music licensing challenges. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

We talked with kids attending 30 or 35 different high schools,” co-founder Florent Sciberras told me. “We In just a few weeks, Revyze managed to attract 35,000 downloads. firstminute Capital, Kima Ventures, AirAngels, Nomad Capital and Ligature VC also invested. within 6 to 12 months,” co-founder Guillaume Perrot told me.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Both of his co-founders worked with him previously and both worked on ad management platforms.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Medicai founder Mircea Popa’s journey in healthcare started in 2011 when, with a friend of his, he co-founded a company that is now called SkinVision, a skin cancer screening app that detects melanoma (skin cancer) through ML algorithms applied on images taken with smartphones. million), among others. SkinVision reached 1.2

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Today it’s announcing a $12 million seed raise, led by Outsiders Fund and featuring additional investments from Bain Capital Ventures, 8VC and Liquid2 VC. Today’s chip shortage is just the latest sign of that,” co-founder and CEO Matthias Wagner said in a release tied to the news. Image Credits: Flux.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Few people are more knowledgable on the topic of how founders should manage their finances than Alexa von Tobel. At Early Stage 2021, she gave a presentation on how founders should think about managing their own wealth. At Early Stage 2021, she gave a presentation on how founders should think about managing their own wealth.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). Deal evaluations the Foundry way, which continues into a great discussion about VC decision-making processes. “So and one of the founders of Oblong, John Underkoffler, was an MIT Medialab PHd.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Investors in the round include Caruso Ventures, Vision VC Fund, e& capital, investment pillar of e& (formerly known as Etisalat Group), DFDF (Dubai Future District Fund), WIN (Webit Investment Network), SRMG, Elbert Capital, and Yasta Partners, Faith Capital, Panthera Capital. Seven existing investors participated as well.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

And the evidence comes today with the news that Xayn has now raised almost $12 million in Series A funding led by the Japanese investors Global Brain and KDDI (a Japanese telecommunications operator), with participation from previous backers, including the Earlybird VC in Berlin. Xayn’s total financing now comes to more than $23 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

This week on Equity, I interviewed T2 co-founder Sarah Oh , who is building a Twitter rival after working at Twitter as a human rights adviser. By joining the consumer social wave today versus before anyone even thought in characters and retweets, the co-founder thinks they get to factor in more of the nuance. Smart, and common.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Your Guide to the Season’s Hottest Gifts from Dell: Download Now and Save up to 39% Off. Silicon Valley narrative is often damaging to budding founders. Former Theranos CEO and founder Elizabeth Holmes is now facing criminal charges.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We want to make credit unions as efficient as they can be by giving their members the kind of neobank experiences they wish to have,” Kwara co-founder and CEO, Cynthia Wandia told TechCrunch. The beta version of the app has been tested for feasibility, with an uptake of between 60% and 90%, Kwara co-founder and COO, David Hwan said.

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