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JULY 30, 2015

Just about every analyst who looks at fund investing has built one. You incorporate expected company returns, mortality rates, and fee structures to try to predict how a venture capital fund works from a cash in, cash out, and NAV standpoint. Venture capital is all about finding the extraordinary.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , the pre-seed and seed stage VC fund I run in NYC, has invested in 64 companies in the last six and a half years. The diversity is the direct result of our mission—to build the most accessible venture capital fund in NY. Twenty-five of them have at least one female co-founder.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

I was working for the GM pension fund, an institutional LP, as an analyst, doing a research project on consumer private equity and venture capital investing. Jerry was a great guy and his love of retail investing kind of stuck with me. Leading an investment into an ice cream chain, however, that's another beast.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Most VCs did well academically and had enough career success that a venture firm was willing to give them an investment role or they were able to raise their own fund. Fundamentally venture capital is about human capital. In the end I know the only true differentiator in venture capital is the company you keep.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 28, 2025

Learn what investors want to hear that triggers their investment decisions. Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, a leading venture capital firm, says, “The thing that gets me most excited is the founder whos obsessed with solving a problem that matters, and is determined to keep going no matter what.”

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Since the beginning of modern venture capital investing — a relatively nascent asset class — the industry has been biased toward funding what it knows best: founders with familiar demographics (white, male) in familiar geographies (Silicon Valley).

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

After checking out The Information's "open dataset" on diversity in venture capital , I felt pretty disappointed. I went back and calculated the number of companies in the first Brooklyn Bridge Ventures portfolio who have at least one founder who is female, from an underrepresented minority group, or LGBT.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 18, 2022

Those values, on a schedule of investments we publish to our investors every quarter, flow through to our financial statements and capital accounts and establish how much an interest in our partnerships are worth at that time. If you might lose money on an investment, it is always best to signal that ahead of time.

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500

APRIL 28, 2020

Long before diversity and inclusion became buzzwords, we decided to make venture capital inclusive from day one at 500 Startups. The post Why Investing in Female Founders Matters Now More Than Ever appeared first on 500 Startups. Since 2010, we have expressed our commitment to those values in multiple ways.

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JUNE 10, 2014

Venture Capital & Technology' They launched the pre-sale of their first set of rings today--their own design. You should check it out. I''m excited to see Christina and Logan''s vision come to life and I''m excited to be on board as an investor.

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The Seraf Compass

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

One of the biggest challenges faced by early stage investors is to assemble a portfolio of investments that in aggregate return more than 2 times the original amount invested in the total portfolio. In other words, for every dollar you invest in your portfolio, you want to get two dollars back over time.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Aaron Jacobson, NEA Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I’ve heard a lot of people question whether there is too much money in venture capital chasing too few great deals. Others believe that new business models are emerging that could replace venture capital all together. We’re in a new tech bubble!” some have pronounced. More on that later. Follow the money. Still reading?

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MAY 2, 2023

The venture asset class seems to have already decided that AI is the next great investment opportunity, but I’m not so sure it’s going to disrupt business and create the across-the-board wealth that has been predicted. I got to see all of the top VCs pitching their funds.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 17, 2020

I woke up to a dream this morning where I was playing a game that was very similar to Turntable.fm , a failed effort to create a social music experience that had a moment back in 2011 and that I had invested in via USV. Investments that don’t work haunt me. And investments that don’t work are often failures of execution.

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The Seraf Compass

MAY 10, 2023

Staying on top of the early stage investing world requires a lot of reading. One of the biggest trends we witnessed over the past few years is the rapid pace of new early stage venture fund formation combined with significant growth in the amount of capital invested.

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Source Link

APRIL 14, 2021

Despite the growth in women-owned businesses, venture capital is still funneled to mostly male-owned businesses. of venture capital funds went to women-owned businesses in the U.S. That’s more than double the percentage in 1997. Since 2007, the number of businesses owned by Black women has grown by 163%.

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500

JUNE 9, 2020

The post Our Investment Framework Post-COVID-19 appeared first on 500 Startups. From taking all aspects of our accelerators digital (including our Demo Day) to rethinking the opportunities of the future, we’ve taken this moment to analyze what innovations can come from this time and new opportunities that arise from our changing environment.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 14, 2022

There is a lot of criticism of venture capital in web3. Bitcoin did not have or need venture capital. Ethereum did not have or need venture capital. So why would any web3 project need venture capital? That’s why you might want to take venture capital for your web3 project.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? That used to be called A-round investing. Of course we can’t.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Revolution Growth’s Latest Investment in Healthcare and AI: Pathos, the Company Re-Engineering the Drug Development Process The oversubscribed $62M Series C will be used to expand the team, accelerate platform development, and advance its clinical-stage pipeline of precision oncology therapeutics.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

We backed four of the female founders in the Inc Female Founders 100 list—another five we passed on and two had rounds oversubscribed before we got a chance to invest. I didn’t say venture investing was easy—but at least we got a look.) Contact me here to find out more about this.)

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JUNE 15, 2020

It would be a directive to literally invest in the talent base—to create a path for influence and economic mobility within a firm. There are lots of problems with access to venture connections that account for some of this, but how you invest and pay your own team is the one indisputable thing that is in a VC firm’s control.

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500

APRIL 6, 2020

The challenge remains, however, of navigating the current investment climate, and we want to help our founders as much as possible in this unknown landscape. The post How Startups Can Navigate the Change in Investment Climate Due to COVID-19 appeared first on 500 Startups. If you missed the event, watch it here. To do so, we.

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The Seraf Compass

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Those same dynamics apply to fund investing. However, if you start an investment fund and collect and lose other people’s money, that’s a very different story. But if you borrow your friend’s car and do the same thing, sorting out the legalities can be significantly more complicated.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Revolution Growth Invests in Hidden Level, the Company Building the Worlds Most Advanced Drone Detection Technology The $65M Series C will be used to expand production of its airspace monitoring technology, grow its Syracuse-based team, and scale internationally.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

That was a question posed to me by a new analyst at a venture capital fund. While there are lots and lots of really kind, generous people working in venture capital--the recently retired Howard Morgan, Hunter Walk, Brad Feld, and Karin Klein for example--it's really tough to argue that there isn't widespread jerkery.

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JULY 16, 2014

There''s been some writing about how VCs and founders interact with each other and it inspired me to take a step back and reflect on what my role is supposed to be with regards to the investments I make and the founders I deal with. Venture Capital & Technology' Here''s what I came up with. I am not an expert.

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MARCH 30, 2015

Those companies would have not only returned any fund that invested in them, but would likely return an entire career''s worth of investing over the course of several funds. Why invest at top dollar in the last round, when you can offer liquidity to early investors at a huge discount to the last round?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Our last fund we raised was in 2012 and we began investing it in April of 2012.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Venture capital is about backing the leaders of tomorrow who imagine the world as it should be and aren’t constrained by what it is today. As an industry we’re not always as good as we could be about our own “creative destruction” to create the tomorrow of venture capital. So What Does All This Mean?

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JULY 26, 2022

And while over the past few years we have been laser-focused on cash returns, we are equally planting seeds for our next 10–15 years of returns by actively investing in today’s market. We are excited to share the news that we have raised $650 million across three vehicles to allow us to continue making investments for many years ahead.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Investment experience (5 years a VC at Battery Ventures). For starters we’re an LA-based venture fund who invests nationally (and sometimes internationally, but less so). But some of our largest investments have come from all across the country: BillMeLater (Baltimore, $1 billion eBay), DealerTrack (NYC, $1.3

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OCTOBER 10, 2014

Since January of 2010, when I led my first seed investment in Backupify , I have led or committed to 27 investments. That also includes 16 Brooklyn Bridge Ventures deals done and five agreed to term sheets. Venture Capital & Technology' It would have lots of philosophy, religion, theory, fiction, and pontification.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 22, 2024

A ni.VC , a recently announced pet venture fund, sees great investment opportunities, investing $35 million in U.S. For the past four years Liu invested at the intersection of software, science, and healthcare. The Miami and New York City-based fund’s first investment was made into DOG PPL, a canine social club.

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Revolution

MAY 23, 2023

Capital Sources Matter In my experience, there has been persistent overcapitalization, mispricing, and loose governance in the proptech space. This is largely driven by large investment flows from strategic and tourist investors. VC firms are not blameless — over 1.8K

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JANUARY 8, 2015

How I got to this investment was another long term story. I was a huge Fab.com buyer in the early days when we backed it at First Round Capital. Venture Capital & Technology' It was the only marketing e-mail I opened up everyday--because it always had the coolest stuff.

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