Both Sides of the Table

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. I speak a lot on college campuses and entrepreneur events and amongst the most common things I’m asked to talk about are: What do VCs fund?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

I run Revolution’s VC investments. We look at huge markets where there are large incumbents that might not be incented to innovate or react to what they perceive as an insurgent. Both AOL and Time Warner had existing VC operations. Startup America , an Obama administration initiative headed up by Steve Case. -

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to spend time getting to know their future VCs early because getting a feel for your chemistry is far more important than how the VC is ranked in some survey. Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to thoroughly reference check their VCs – you’ll learn much more from this than anything else.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Incumbents became increasingly annoyed with our successes in the country’s largest market – NYC – that they started even taking out ads against us. It’s no wonder incumbents don’t want us to exist. They had instilled in me a discipline that few well-funded but inexperienced startups have.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. Startup Lessons' Almost nobody believed and now look at it. Online education.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2019

Using the proliferation of newly GPS-enabled mobile devices to enable taxi hailing and beat out stagnant incumbent providers was always going to be a big win for consumers. There’s no reason why a culture needs to fall apart at the seams in a hypergrowth startup. Not only that, we have other portfolio companies to worry about.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Haris Khurshid, general partner at Chalo Ventures , launched a $50 million second fund focused on investing in Pakistani startups and a smaller percentage in Latin American startups. This allows Pakistani startups to scale faster throughout the country and expand into other markets.”. billion in capital commitments.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2017

I’ve been involved with several startups where a giant incumbent attacks you and tries to sue you out of existence. ADT invested in a startup called Zonoff, which was to be acquired by Honeywell for a modest sum. Ring will be one of LA’s greatest startup success stories of this decade. But what I really love about Jamie?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

“Challenger” startups in banking and insurance have upended their industries, and picked up significant business, by building more customer-friendly tools and services — more personalized, easier to access and usually competitively priced — than those typically provided by their bigger, incumbent rivals.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Subscribe to access all of our investor surveys, company profiles and other inside tech coverage for startups everywhere. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? More than 50%?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2023

startup ecosystem lost an important business partner. Although SVB’s failure can’t be blamed on the venture ecosystem, some policymakers have joined the general public in maligning the bank’s depositors — in large part venture-backed startups. With the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, the U.S. This is an inflection point.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

produces more new startups and unicorns each year than any other country in the world, but 90% of startups fail , with cash flow often being a major challenge. We mainly see two kinds of startups today: Those that want to try something new, and the ones that focus on making things faster, cheaper or simpler.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

It seems like it’s the best of times for founders thinking about launching an AI startup, especially with OpenAI releasing ChatGPT to the masses, as it has the potential to really put AI front and center in business and perhaps everything we do technologically.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2023

Register Equatorial Space Systems, a Singapore-based rocket propulsion and space launch startup, has raised US$1.5 The company’s aim is to enable space access at greatly reduced risk, cost, and environmental impact compared to incumbent solutions. million in seed funding led by Elev8.VC. The post SG’s Equatorial Space bags $1.5m

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

We don’t want to be elitist, we don’t want to do this for a very small category of people because we really want to become the incumbent bank in the U.S.,” The round, led by Tiger Global with participation from Sequoia, Lux Capital, Emerson Collective, Plural VC and more, came together in less than 24 hours, Yahyaoui noted.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

It’s rarer still that companies built on a feature make for VC-investable companies with the potential for VC-scale returns. Let’s explore the red flags investors will look for to determine which bucket your startup falls into. As a startup founder, you really need to understand how venture capital works.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Namely, the business of VC and startups. That should be good news for payments processors incumbent and startup, as well as other ecommerce businesses, again large, small, and even platform-focused. Right, now through the first of America’s national Q4 feast days, it’s time to get back to business.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

During that time, they also helped engineer over 100 partnerships between startups and financial services institutions. In other words, it wants to invest in early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies “where opportunities for early partnerships with financial incumbents exist.” It plans to invest $1.5

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Hundreds of startups dot the landscape, and the amount of money being raised and spent on innovating around the country’s industrial heft is mind-boggling. Genki Forest, a Chinese direct-to-consumer (D2C) bottled beverage startup, is one such contender. China is also home to one of the world’s largest e-commerce and tech ecosystems.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

That’s the vibe one gets from Y Combinator’s Winter 2023 batch, which features no fewer than four startups that claim to be building a “ChatGPT for X.” The first ChatGPT-inflected startup that caught our eye was Yuma , whose customer demographic is primarily — but not exclusively — Shopify merchants.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

million Series A investment in June from a group of investors that includes Archer-Daniels-Midland Company’s venture arm ADM Ventures, Cavallo Ventures, Genoa Ventures, Lever VC, Thia Ventures, iSelect Fund, Stage 1 Fund, Lifely VC and Satori Capital. The move is buoyed by a $17.5 Prior to the Series A round, the company raised $2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

You can’t simply drop a bunch of electric scooters in a market and hope to compete with the data and software advantages of the incumbents. But perhaps one of the biggest overlooked advantage of the incumbents is just how massively complicated it is to run a global or even national or even city version of a transportation company.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Back in 2021 and early 2022, there was a flurry of VC interest in Southeast Asian investment apps. Now two years later, despite a much different funding environment, especially for fintech startups , Endowus is announcing another round. million in follow-on funding.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2013

When I’m meeting a startup for the first time, my goal is to understand as much about the business and team as I can. Is the problem worth solving and if the startup succeeds, how valuable would it be? After a startup has left and I’m “doing diligence,” I want to test some of the assertions made by the company. First meeting.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. There are many reasons for that, such as private equity and crossover investors investing earlier, or the fact that LPs in VC funds are affected by public market swings and could, theoretically, hit some VC firms to feel the pinch. I am expecting a downturn at some point.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

So it also didn’t surprise anyone that this reduction would trickle down into other regions; for instance, eight startups in Africa got into the accelerator this summer compared to 24 from the previous batch , representing a 60% reduction. Therefore, it is plausible that being an in-person event has led to fewer African startups.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Also participating in the round were Tribe Capital, Altos Ventures, Blank Ventures, Gaingels, Maple VC and Knollwood Advisory. Maple VC’s Andre Charoo told TechCrunch that the startup has returned (unrealized) one-third of the firm’s second fund so far. It’s hard to make reactive, intelligent products with that.” .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

It used to be that if you were a fintech startup or, for lack of a better term, a digitally native financial services business, you might be eyeing an acquisition from an incumbent in the industry.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

But that’s not to say the path to commercialization and wider adoption is closed to psychedelic startups and investors at the moment. In the meantime, pharma and big biotech VC firms are more interested in exploring the non-hallucinogenic psychedelic pathways. Big pharma awaits more data on this front before an M&A move.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The insurtech market has been through a rough time this past year, so we reached out to eight active investors in the space to get a read of what’s been cooking as the markets aggressively recalibrated what an insurtech startup is worth. 8 investors weigh in on the state of insurtech in Q3 2022. .”

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

When Daniel Simon sold Bread , a consumer purchase finance and payments startup he’d co-founded, to Alliance Data Systems for over $500 million late last year, he quickly set his sights on building another startup. Coast co-founders Daniel Simon and Andrew Woolf.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Despite a roughly 30% draw-down in the last months of 2021, the Matrix Fintech Index continued to beat the broader market as well as incumbent financial service companies. VC funding into private fintech companies crossed $134 billion in 2021, rising by 177% from a year earlier, according to Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2020

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

I started off with several introductions that one of my friends from college and a former VC made for me to several of his previous colleagues. But when going to pitch meetings and VC events, I got the same feeling that I would get when you go to a high-end country club or a luxury store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

This is a large Series B by any standards, but particularly so for a Latin American startup. million Series A round — led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital — in early April. The startup has now raised a total of $152.7 Today, the startup has more than 120,000 customers. million since its 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

The venture potential of a startup that caters to individual students — instead of a slow-moving, small-pocketed institution — has a bullish aura that attracts investors. PitchBook data shows that edtech startups around the world raised $10.76 In the United States, edtech startups raised $1.78 billion last year, compared to $4.7

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

What does it say when we tell them their ideas and dreams are unworthy because they don’t fit into some narrow model of a startup founder? It is incumbent upon those of us working to build vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems to put inclusion front and center, at the heart of everything we do. It’s not an afterthought.

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