Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Passive venture capital investing is a relatively new idea. As later stage investors permeate venture capital, they are amassing index funds of startups. Classically, venture capital has been an active asset class. There isn’t a one-to-one mapping of growth capital and passive venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Nearly four months ago we rebranded at Upfront Ventures. We don’t lay claim to being the only VC to change or think about the future or to having the only or best strategy. We felt nothing embodied these attributes more than the name Upfront Ventures. Hamet is a 3x entrepreneur and also former EIR with True Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures (no, Evan is not standing on a box) Last year marked the 25th anniversary for Upfront Ventures and what a year it was. Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures A question I often hear is “how is Upfront changing given the current market?” What do you do with a $650 million platform?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Today we’re announcing that my partner Kara Nortman is becoming Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures and I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to welcome her to her new role. She worked for 5 years as a VC at Battery Ventures and co-headed M&A at IAC working with Barry Diller. She had all of the skills and traits we sought?

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

If you’re wondering how to design a scalable business model for your startup, this article is a guide through the process and offers strategies to ensure your company can adapt and expand efficiently over time. With the right strategies, you can build a business that thrives in good times and when faced with great challenges.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 5, 2023

To date, Forns and Wiseman have amassed an impressive pipeline of US$155 million worth of projects, securing US$735,000 in funding from angel investors, government grants, and venture capital. Access to funding, grants, and venture capital can significantly impact their ability to scale their businesses and make a broader impact.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. Venture capitalists often come from an operating background. Venture Capital. Private Equity.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

I am thrilled to announce that we have added Hamet Watt as a Partner at Upfront Ventures. This is a big news day at Upfront Ventures. Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. Hamet is an extension of this strategy. He will be a venture partner.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

They imagine it to look something like this: They think that there are some deals that are automatic yeses and some that are just bad, but there’s a whole lot that are kind of in the middle—deals that can be nudged over to one side or the other based on things like clever fundraising strategy or the presence of bias. This isn’t surprising.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 23, 2023

who is a junior investor in the Venture Capital industry. He hopes to find a fulltime position in venture capital after graduation. He currently serves as a Venture Partner at Mech Ventures where they invest in the future of pop culture. Azriel Nicdao otherwise known as (A.Z.)

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 18, 2023

30 Investments to date in the areas of AI, autonomy, cybersecurity and space Shield Capital was launched in 2021 by the Managing Partners Philip Bilden and Raj Shah, both of whom have deep experience in technology and investing, driving their passion to support founders of frontier technologies.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Delve into his story as it unfolds with lessons from filmmaking, startup ventures, and the fascinating world of technology innovations and investing. ” In 2018, Crossworks Myanmar was born, initially intended to hire talent for Jeshua’s ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. But notably you had the following changes: Horizontally scalable computing & storage systems, which meant you required less capital up front for hardware. Venture Capital. And then the world changed. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. We have invested $17.3

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 18, 2025

The two companies collaborated on a technical paper co-authored with experts from the semiconductor and quantum computing industries that lays out a strategy for achieving large-scale quantum computing. The post Qolabs Funding from Applied Ventures Advances Quantum Computing Manufacturing appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

At TechCrunch, it often seems as if every other startup story is about yet another fun company raising satchels full of venture capital. The corollary of that is that I suspect a lot of founders don’t really know how venture capital works. That’s a problem for a number of reasons.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 24, 2014

Venture capitalists play an important role in burgeoning ecosystems. In all liklihood, if you doled out a few million to first time funds that were being mentored by the best in the business, I''d venture to say your return might be pretty darn good. Venture Capital & Technology' I certainly would have signed up for it.

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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. . Linkedin : Versatile Venture Capital / David Teten personal. Tim Friedman, Founder, PEStack , and a Venture Partner with Versatile Venture Capital , said, . “We

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

In New York, for instance, there are now venture funds with a West Coast mentality and firms with an East Coast mentality; the same is true for firms in San Francisco. Will a financial crisis affect how venture funds deploy capital? Do startups need to conduct due diligence on a venture fund’s LPs?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

If you’re not taking this zone-out down time I’ll bet you’re not having enough strategic reflection on your job, your company, your strategy. Frankly, I think venture capital is that way, too. How does the world in Los Angeles intersect differently with venture capital? How can I raise the bar?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

I become a venture capitalist in September 2007 – exactly 6.5 As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. In 2010 somebody posed the question on Quora, “Is Mark Suster a Successful Venture Capitalist?” years ago. Since then?

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Dream It

MARCH 6, 2020

Jeff Berman is General Partner at Camber Creek , one of the first venture funds dedicated to real estate technology and the built world. The team owns, operates and manages over 150 million square feet of real estate, making Camber Creek one of the biggest value-add venture partners for real estate tech startups.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

While the Sequoias and the Andreessen Horowitzes of the world continue to swell in size, their influence on venture capital may be heading in the opposite direction as micro funds increase their impact on the industry. I’ve written about the rise of micro funds in the U.S.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Our strategy for accomplishing this is to focus on new firms led primarily by underrepresented VCs, back them meaningfully, and support them via a community of peers, advisors, and institutional LPs. In today’s vast venture capital landscape, it’s ALPHA!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

The tech industry loves generalizations — and don’t worry, I enjoy my fair share too — but as the downturn continues to play out, it’s increasingly important to think about the structural changes that may be forming in the venture capital landscape. Instead, venture firms cut costs in quieter ways.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Moderne Ventures team of founder Constance Freedman and partner Liza Benson built a track record of top-tier returns with its novel approach to venture investing. Founder and Managing Partner Constance Freedman and Partner, Liza Benson , oversee the generalist venture capital and growth equity firm.

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

However, forming your new fund also typically requires making important decisions about firm strategy, culture, how you make decisions, budget, data ownership, and other issues. Brian Cohen, Chairman, Six Point Ventures, observed, Multiple partners with different primary skill sets are mandatory. How about on politics?

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 23, 2012

When people tell you how and why they raised capital or what drove their app to success, they often attribute success to planning or neat little explainable reasons when they might simply have no clue what happened. Venture capital is kind of like a knuckleball. Maybe they turned you down because they thought you were too pushy.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Consequently, the Bay Area experienced a surge, capturing over one-third of all early-stage venture funding in the U.S., Despite 2022’s heel turn, the ten-year funding trend line still points to VCs concentrating less capital in the major coastal hubs and more in the rest of the country, a collective area of focus for attendees.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Prior to joining LUUM, Lawson’s 15 year career included shaping brand strategies and product development across global brands such as Apple, PayPal and Movado. LUUM’s Beauty Experience Automation and positive engagement by beauty professionals solidified LUUM’s strategy of enhancing customer experiences in select retail environments.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Make your pitch tailored to what excites venture capital investors and avoid what does not. So make your pitch tailored to what excites venture capital investors and avoid what does not. Keep the financial model details and the warehouse system logistics information to your Appendix.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. Ryan Hoover , Weekend Fund ] [hunter: The gravitational pull of venture is to grow each fund larger than the last. Here are the first batch of responses (with some of my reactions).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. But the way we see it is that in venture right now you have 2 choices?—?super super size or super focus. At Upfront we believe clearly in “super focus.” So it’s about 20%.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 27, 2023

Register Capria Ventures , a venture capital firm specializing in investments in the Global South , has announced the first close of its $100 million fund, which will focus on investing in 20 to 25 tech startups in key entrepreneurial hotspots across India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 16, 2014

The way I choose conferences and events, and my strategy once I''m there, is based more around who I''m going to back two years from now than it is who is raising now. As for the two and a half year mark, it should say a lot to anyone looking to get into venture. Venture Capital & Technology'

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. The biggest difference from experience is that in bad markets people without venture capital experience or strategies are the first to the exit. Upfront Ventures'

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

They started their company in LA but a couple of years after raising capital from Khosla Ventures in the Bay Area they ended up relocating there. Luckily since then we elected Mayor Eric Garcetti who understands the importance of startups and of technology and venture capital on job creation. But we still need more funds.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 27, 2014

I remember back in the Union Square Ventures days when we had an internal debate over the price of the first round of Indeed. Is it really surprising to anyone when we talk about "party rounds" as financing strategies we''ve created companies with unprofessional environments and founders behaving irresponsibly? No, probably not.

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