Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This is the task I set out to answer with the master of analysis at Upfront Ventures Glenn Poppe who deserves the bulk of the credit for our work. Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. LA By The Numbers.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2025

She is also the Operating Partner at Full Frame Growth Partners that led the recent funding round and was previously the Founder and Managing Partner of Creekside Ventures. The company plans to use the funding to expand retail distribution, accelerate product development, and strengthen its team as it scales to meet growing consumer demand.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 3, 2019

Seems like that should translate over to the venture world, too. I took the time to model out some returns using share price as a basis—to figure out if the price you’re paying when you buy up is worth the difference in the outcomes. I created a few fund mix scenarios and estimated what the overall fund return would be given that mix.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

Yesterday MiTú Networks announced that Upfront Ventures led a $10 million financing in what is now the largest producer of Latino online videos – primarily driven through YouTube. MiTú will use its $10 million to build out new production facilities in LA and Mexico. And we’re growing our sales organization.

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Founder Bounty

APRIL 4, 2023

While some business owners use personal savings or loans to get started, many others turn to investors to help finance their dreams. Your team should have a mix of skills and expertise that are relevant to your industry and business. Build a strong team Investors invest in people as much as they invest in ideas.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

Independent of the SBA, last week we announced SVB Debt Relief, a venture debt principal deferral program. Kathryn (attorney from PilieroMazza) : Most banks are opening applications today, though a few rolled out last Friday with mixed success. You have the choice if you have a venture lender that’s not your deposit bank.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital. During this time, there’s financial leverage used in the transaction to help buffer the firm’s cost of capital (e.g.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. They achieved all of this before they raised even a penny of venture capital. I use WordPress. It really started simply enough.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

New data indicates that while the group of companies raised more capital in 2022 than in 2020, a downward trend in fundraising activity throughout the last calendar year shows that no startup cohort is immune from the venture capital slowdown. The answer is mixed. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

M25 , a venture firm with a geographic focus on the Midwest, led the funding event. To create its product, Rebundle uses banana fiber as the core material in extensions that it sells in a variety of colors. Enter venture capital. This morning Rebundle , a hair-focused startup based in St. Louis, announced that it has raised $1.4

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 21, 2021

Startups used to raise once every 18 months. Venture capitalists and boards used to value a company every 18 months. We, as an industry, are marking-to-market much more frequently than we used to. At the same time, venture capital fundraising sets records each year. Just kidding.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

While countries with currently unstable currencies like the naira are seeing immense usage, other regions using the CFA franc have sparse adoption. A region of more than 200 million people using the CFA franc, Francophone Africa is one of the most crypto-friendly markets in Africa. CoinShares Ventures and Anthemis Group led the round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

A mix of new and existing investors also participated in the round, including Advent, Altimeter, DST, Silver Lake, Soros, Tarsadia, Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Caffeinated, Fifth Wall, Monashees, QED and Vulcan, among others. Loft plans to use its new capital in part to expand across Brazil and eventually in Latin America and beyond.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

Led by bp ventures, the investing arm of oil and gas giant bp , the round also includes BGF, safety equipment maker Halma, pension fund HostPlus, IP Group, Tencent, Venture Science and funds advised by Doxa Partners. If you go to mines or ports, you can see vehicles in use already,” he said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

With that venture, he aimed to challenge traditional banking yet again by bringing personalized financial tools to gamers. I think that’s a really big differentiator for us from our competitors.”. Acorns’ SPAC listing depicts a consumer fintech business with a SaaSy revenue mix. Or is it more like Robinhood?”.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

and yes, I’m intentionally not throwing DAOs or web3 in the mix here as just doesn’t yet deserve implied parity). HW: Frank is venture backed. Lot of people I’ve known for many years certainly aren’t returning emails the way they used to. Look, socialists hate venture capital, and venture capitalists hate unions.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The pre-seed round, which was completed in just three weeks via virtual meetings, was led by Indus Valley Capital, with participation from Alter Global, Fatima Gobi Ventures and several angel investors from Pakistan, the Middle East and Europe. Indonesian edtech CoLearn gets $10M Series A led by Alpha Wave Incubation and GSV Ventures.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Applications in the metaverse often feel like more of a marketing gimmick than something that a critical mass of consumers would use, let alone pay for. To meet these expectations, both technology that is easy to use and accurate as well as high-quality software and content are needed.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 6, 2024

While tech companies do use plenty of no-code tools, it turns out that it is not the industry we’ve discovered to have the highest adoption rate for our no-code platform. Now here’s the key secret: The best person to dictate the flow of the app and build it is the person who will be using the final app. What data will it handle?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Led by Greenfield Partners, the round also includes new backers GM Ventures, Acrew Capital and Vintage Investment Partners; and previous investors StageOne Ventures, Singtel Innov8, Citi Ventures, Aspect Ventures and Maor Investments. Silverfort is used alongside all of them, however many there may be.

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Dream It

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

MPOWER students hail from 120 countries and are considerably more geographically diverse than the general international student mix in the U.S. No-Cosigner Loans Drive Campus Diversity and Gender Equity The report demonstrates that MPOWER’s unique fixed-rate, no-cosigner loans: Build a more geographically diverse student body. and Canada.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Each VC has their own take on which services to provide and mostly they’re free but some smaller VCs charge portfolio companies for use of these services but usually at a cheap cost. Perhaps the best known new VC platforms of the last 10 years that are done on more modest scales are First Round Capital and True Ventures.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

Over time, the co-working space developed and there was a natural progression towards a lot of individuals starting new ventures coming out of that space. For us, it was not a good use of money. We had this event called Coffee and Jam that was intended to let people think and share their ideas and big dreams for the city.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

The funding — which closed in May — is being co-led by AirTree Ventures and Five Sigma, with SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Salesforce Ventures, Blue Cloud Ventures, Larsen Ventures, Scott Shleifer and John Curtius from Tiger Global, TEN13, M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund), Madrona Venture Group, SEEK and Y Combinator also participating.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 10, 2023

Register Stylework , an Indian co-working space aggregator , has secured a successful Series A1 funding round, raising $2 million at a $20 million valuation from institutional investors, including Capriglobal Holdings , QI Ventures, and undisclosed family offices.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. ” Ian Chiu, Owl Ventures.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. Use their software for interactive data visualization and modern business intelligence. The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Vickers Venture Partners led the round with participation from 212, Streamlined Ventures, Alumni Ventures Group, Waterman Ventures and several other unnamed investors. Gultekin says that the company’s unusual name comes from a mix of the words choose and search. million, according to the company.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Developers can use Column to build apps that pull and push money to any bank account, for example, or maintain FDIC-insured checking and savings accounts. .” By contrast, Column, a nationally chartered bank with a direct connection to the Fed, has an in-house ledger and data model to power various fintech services. While some $18.2

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Jonathan Metrick is the chief growth officer at Sagard & Portage Ventures , where he helps build some of the world's leading fintech companies. Use cohort analysis to drive smarter startup growth. The change severely limits advertising algorithms and how much data can be used to optimize marketing campaigns. Contributor.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. Also, because the feedback loop is very long, the advice we give founders – to move fast and iterate – is hard to put into practice as a venture investor. Reporting out in batches of five.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

This is in contrast to better-known platforms like Western Union and Wise that use traditional banking systems. Last year while the startup graduated from YC, it claimed to be processing about $500,000 per month in transaction fees and is used in more than 30 countries. Remittance is the best and most important use case for crypto.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Augmented reality/mixed reality. At this stage, the corporate customer has already discovered some internal problem or use case that the technology might address. There’s already a clear understanding of at least some of the use cases or problems that need solving, and return-on-investment metrics have been established.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The report , by the not-for-profit community interest company Extend Ventures , looked at how VC has been invested in the U.K. of the venture capital investments made at seed, early and late-stage over this decade. . between 2009 and 2019 — providing data on 3,784 entrepreneurs who started 2,002 companies over this period.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Plume’s CEO and founder Fahri Diner said the startup will be using the money to continue building out its software platform, inking and servicing more deals with carriers and generally expanding its horizons. Now it has closed a huge funding round to ride the wave. billion valuation in the startup.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Might come as a surprise, but the audio world, in large part, uses general-purpose tools to discuss and iterate their files, which is extremely inefficient,” Bradley said. Highnote is free to use, and no download is required. We think that moving forward, current and future partners can really help us make waves,” he told us.

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TechCrunch

JULY 3, 2022

Regulations governing the process continue to evolve in the market’s favor, and 2022’s venture funding pullback may be the final piece needed to quiet the fundraising strategy’s naysayers for good. Securities and Exchange Commission, including Reg CF and Reg A , from a mix of investors that don’t have to be accredited.

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