This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 29, 2011

Then I realized that it's probably not obvious what the dynamics are around how VCs tend to get introduced to companies and what works best for people, so I figured I'd blog about it. A lot of VCs ask to be introduced through someone. So, if you ping me with "I'm still working my big corporate finance job. The Cold Intro.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to find a job as a VC scout. VC recruiters list and compensation data. How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm. Syllabus for how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

When this first ran on TechCrunch I got the greatest comment in the world that I had to repeat here, “VC’s are like martinis: the first is good, the second one great, and the third is a headache.&# I understand the appeal of having many VC firms on your cap table. In my second company I had only 1 investor. I love that.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

Often when startups who have raised venture capital need another round of financing they will turn to their existing investors to give them money before raising from outsiders. a loan) that is later converted to equity at the time of the next financing. It starts as a debt instrument (e.g.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

Business models are evolving, and the future of finance has never been more promising. Venture capital or VC. Angel investors can be friends or even family members or simply wealthy individuals with experience in business and finance. Fundbox also provides small business loans to minorities, further democratizing modern finance.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. Akshat Dixit is a senior at North Carolina State University, an intern at Versatile VC , and a past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Scouts help promote diversity in VC.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Finantier , a Singapore-based open finance startup, wants to streamline that data with a single API that gives financial services access to user data, with their consent. Open finance grew out of open banking, the same framework that Plaid and Tink are built on. ” 4 takeaways from fintech VC in Q3 2020.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

Non VC Growth Rounds. The other major trend of 2012–2015 was the entrance of “non VCs” into late-stages of venture capital , which mostly consisted of hedge funds, mutual funds, corporate investors, sovereign wealth funds and even LPs doing direct deals. The fact that I still see it referred to in pitch decks is farcical.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

How to finance a new seed-stage startup? ” Ressi in particular seems to be passionate about removing the “debt” component from convertible debt seed financing transactions. .” I won’t rehash all of the customary convertible note financing deal terms and points of negotiation here. (For

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

We knew better than to start funding raising in August, when larger VC firms have a harder time assembling full decision teams – so in August we would plan and September we would commence. Many VC firms expressed interest, nearly every one took a meeting and several called Mark and the team back for meetings.

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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.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” For funds with an overall return of 3-5x, which is what VC funds aim for, the overall return was 4.6x

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2017

As a VC, burn rate is one of the most discussed topics I have with teams who are pitching me for raising capital and it is one of the most common discussions points I have with founders in companies that I’ve backed. Usually when an investor is asking you your burn rate he or she is referring to net burn — what cash are you consuming.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The team will be great and reference well. And hair can get in the way of an otherwise financeable opportunity. In a perfect world, everything about a potential investment will be confidence inducing. The market will be huge. The technology will be well developed. The price and terms will be attractive. But the world is not perfect.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

This applies to both founders and to VC’s that work with them. And Finally, a word about VC … We VCs need to be as conscious of dipping & skipping as management teams are. I spent a ton of time with the CEO and VP Finance understanding the businesses, its customers and its operational challenges.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

However , the whole process proved difficult and the fund wasn’t able to because he was stuck in Nigeria and could not visit London, New York and Washington DC, “where institutional and development finance capital sits.” “There’s a massive early-stage funding gap for African startups.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Even after the unprecedented year that we had in 2020, the VC markets picked up in 2021 and founders raised 157% more capital in the second quarter of 2021 compared to the previous year. Global VCs have invested $268.7 De Santis Breindel asked CEOs what was the top evaluation criteria when choosing a VC firm.

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Gust

OCTOBER 3, 2011

For a first time entrepreneur trying to figure out the arcane world of startup financing, it can be very confusing to understand the roles that different types of investors play in funding promising companies, as well as the point in a company’s life at which they enter the stage.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it. One of the primary ones is the referral source.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Soh said in an email that STACS received many requests from financial institutions that needed to perform impact monitoring on ESG projects, but were not able to do so effectively because “information sources are asymmetric, there is no common data infrastructure and serving of ESG financing is typically too inefficient.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. With small amounts of money invested (sub $3 million) the risks are reasonably low for most VCs and the consequences of bad decisions or decisions a VC has limited say in is tolerable. Experience. Relationships.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

He is an adviser and investor focusing on high-impact entrepreneurship in emerging markets and has worked with the World Bank, International Finance Corporation, as well as numerous funds and startups focusing on developing countries. A glimpse into Singapore’s current startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In a classic TC+ how-to, she explains how to create earned media that organically boosts ranking keywords, referring domains, clicks, and other key SEO metrics. How to find a job as a scout for a VC firm. Many are former founders, but even so: becoming a VC isn’t easy without the right connections and experience.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This works for some, but too often founders find themselves diluting their equity to unrecoverable portions rather than considering other financing options that allow them to hold on to their company — options like debt capital. Even if you’re growing quickly, not all founders want to set a valuation for their company.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Leading this financing endeavor were Japan’s venture capital firm, SBI Investment Co. and Global Hands-On VC (GHOVC), a collaborative venture capital entity with a track record of successful semiconductor investments that span the Japan-United States nexus.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

million of convertible notes (which we also refer to as a Simple Agreement for Future Equity agreement (SAFE)) in a private financing round in August 2021, we had raised less than $3.0 The company confirmed that in its filing, stating that: Our operations have historically been efficient with limited outside investment.

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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.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” Why are all of the VC home runs from white men, or Asian men in Asia, plus a few Asian men in the U.S.?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Investors in the crowdfund include part-time creators on Gumroad, Lavingia’s Twitter followers, YouTubers, as well as Figma founder Dylan Field and partners from VC firms. The startup is giving up 6% of ownership as part of the financing event, and the investors will only receive equity stakes once the SAFE note turns into a round.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

As a former projects editor at Wired before leaping into venture capital, she half-kiddingly refers to the “mystique” of XYZ Ventures, but she also wondered if it might be easier for founders to discuss their lead investor if they could point to more than Fubini’s LinkedIn page.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

“The Central Bank has been doing a tremendous job and Pix is one of the most relevant structural changes,” Brazilian VC Bruno Yoshimura told TechCrunch when we wrote about Latin America’s fintech boom. But now, VCs and founders are actually praising the Central Bank for its initiatives and the opportunities it has created.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

When I started emPawa Africa, I wanted to experiment with the VC model by investing in many artists,” said the artist who recently completed a program at Harvard Business School. . According to him, powering artists and people in the creative space should be done in a startup/VC manner. Go team @Yoco_ZA go [link].

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I was mainly educated in accounting and finance. As the team is not from a VC background, the typical investment strategy for seed or early-stage fund on diversifying into a portfolio of companies and then follow-on investments into potential winners is simply not in our DNA who came from corporate finance and business advisory background.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It is also coming a year after raising $55 million in a similar unnamed financing round. The fintech, which refers to itself as a banking-as-a-service platform, says it uses AI to power financial services, particularly lending in emerging markets where over 1.7 South African fintech startup Jumo raises second $50M+ VC round.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

In particular, StartHER aims to tackle the difficulties specific groups have in raising their first capital — something typically referred to as the “friends and family round.” Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2013

I look up the founders on LinkedIn, send a few emails for references and then wait to hear back on some initial reference calls. Financing plan : What are the major buckets of expenditures? If I don’t have the material to answer the questions, I diligence some more: data, reference calls, and more meetings.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Pngme also received checks from angel investors; some include Hayden Simmons of RallyCap, Plaid’s Dan Kahn, Richard Talbot of RBC Capital and Kyle Ellicott of Intersect VC. Pngme’s platform caters to fintechs and other financial institutions across sub-Saharan Africa. “It’s a highly data-driven user experience.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap. There’s latent demand for life insurance currently unaddressed by much of the financial services industry, and embedded finance can be the solution. Embedded finance will help fill the life insurance coverage gap. Deep Science: Robots, meet world.

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