Revolution

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

At the time, restaurants and food tech were on the margins of most investors’ minds and there was skepticism around VC-backed food concepts. Greener Greens: At the root of Sweetgreen’s farm-to-table concept was a commitment to sustainability. What did we see in the then-regional salad company?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Since then, I’ve founded several startups, was employee #3 at a $65m VC firm in San Francisco, and realized that there is a similar phenomenon to what Robert Kiyosaki is talking about in Rich Dad, Poor Dad currently occurring in Silicon Valley. It was my favorite growing up. Let’s tastefully call this phenomenon: Rich Founder, Poor Founder.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

It’s that time of year, time to look back and reflect on the most significant storylines in the tech, startup, and VC world. Telegram announced their ICO and raised over $1B from some of the best VC firms. VC funds invested directly in MakerDao’s Dai stable coin. 5/ Early Effects Of The Softbank Effect.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

We have been seeing quite a few seed rounds getting done in and around $100mm post-money and that concerns me for a few reasons: Seed stage is when a company has a good team, a good idea, but has not yet proven product market fit and a go to market model, and has not yet demonstrated a sustainable business model. That makes sense.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 21, 2021

A well-known entrepreneur turned VC, who will go unnamed because I am not sure he would want me to share this conversation publicly, once told me “if you remove a founder, you must sell the company within a couple of years or it will start to decline in value.” Some founders are this rare breed of visionaries who can operate too.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The firm has an Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Tel Aviv presence, and now has a $160 million sack of funds to deploy across its focus areas: sustainability and technological innovation in the construction, real estate and manufacturing industries. Sebastian Peck and Talia Rafaeli are heading up the new sustainability fund for Kompas.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Despite the huge and sustained growth in digital advertising (or maybe because of it), there are virtually no tools where a marketer or growth leader can understand their performance and spend across channels, nor where they can share best practices and insights with their peers so the platforms are at an information advantage.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Ok, back to the VC content marketing. As a result I’ve seen hundreds of VC decks, all certain they will be among the top performers. Some force that pulls exceptional startups to you, directly or via intermediaries, in a privileged and sustainable fashion. What’s my needle magnet definition?

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Why someone did well previously is the first clue to figuring out whether or not that would be sustainable--but it isn't necessarily predictive. Can you sustain that going forward in a world that becomes more connected and more transparent? My job was to figure out why certain firms were winning and why they might continue to win.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

But what if you don’t have unicorn dreams – or you don’t want to pursue VC money? Bootstrapping a SaaS company is not only possible – I believe it’s a saner, more sustainable way to build and scale a business. If you’re a SaaS founder who’s wary of VC funding, here are my best bootstrapping tips. startups are backed by VCs.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

The next set of investors, "people with balls" according to another VC I know--Shana Fisher, Kal Vepuri. It's a way for every apartment dweller with no patch of dirt to start participating in the sustainable agriculture movement. It wasn't until the third layer of cash came in that an institutional fund "got it".

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Though some businesses may never be truly sustainable, a venture firm in Seoul argues that emerging climate-tech startups will help big manufacturers do better overall. I spoke with Sopoong chief executive Max Sang-Yeop Han , a serial entrepreneur who joined Sopoong in 2016 and acquired the firm in 2019, to learn about the VC’s plans.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I have been investing in developer tools since the earliest days of my VC career. If you build software that sits in the flow of something important (mission critical, recurring, etc) then it will increase in value over time, and sustain its value, much more significantly than something that “sits on the side.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Silicon-Valley based VC firm 500 Global and German’s economic development agency Gesellschaft fu?r r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) will train managers of leading accelerators in Africa over the next two years, to help them establish sustainable business models that commandeer greater influence in their ecosystems.

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Revolution

APRIL 24, 2023

While many think achieving that goal is unlikely, as investors with capital to put to work, we have to have a ‘challenge accepted’ mindset.” — Kristin “I look for tech opportunities that enable sustainable B2B change versus small lifestyle changes. What industries are ripe for transformation from a sustainability standpoint?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 19, 2021

I think independent control is the most sustainable solution. Investors should be more open to observer seats and founders should have more say in which investors sit on their boards. I am not arguing that founders should control their boards, but I am arguing that investors should not control the boards.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

.” It says it builds a self-sustainable “privacy-friendly alternative to very popular and widely used surveillance capitalism web analytics tools”. However, the research shows a possible interesting trend away from the VC-backed startups of the last 10 years.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

after the glory days and earned $300,000 in stead of $3 million and after taxes that $150,000 just sustained life and some amount of future savings. I often tell people in this scenario to focus on a VC “fixer upper.” Being the CEO of a fixer-upper gives you board exposure and VC relationships that will benefit you later.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Our findings confirmed a significant shift away from the traditional tech hubs of the Bay Area, New York City, and Boston, with the proportion of seed- and early-stage VC dollars funneling into the Bay Area falling below 30% for the first time in more than a decade.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Register Philippine-based circular economy startup Humble Sustainability has raised $750,000 in Seed funding to enable it to bring companies’ excess inventory back to circulation through its technology services. Bookmark( 0 ) Please login to bookmark. Username or Email Address. Remember Me. No account yet?

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Founders Coop

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The GFC kicked off the most sustained period of fiscal and monetary stimulus in modern times. But VC bubbles deflate slowly. For years after the dotcom bubble burst, being a founder was weird and hard. Things were just starting to pick up again when the bottom fell out of the global economy.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

When you do that in combination with electrification of your heating and cooling (using electric heat pumps vs gas or oil), you can save money and live a more sustainable life. Our family has invested in rooftop solar over the last five years in an attempt to reduce our carbon footprint and reduce our electric bills.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2023

However, the VC market correction caught up with the continent in the back half of last year, when ticket sizes fell and fewer deals closed as investors tightened the purse strings. Overall, six mega-rounds were closed last year (all in the first six months), half of the number of such deals closed in 2021, when VCs invested record amounts.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

The firm is not always right in its prognostications — maybe why it stuck to internal musings instead of a Medium post this time — but it does do a service in providing a snapshot of how one of the most weathered, and successful, VC firms of all time thinks about a looming downturn. TechCrunch+ is having a Memorial Day sale.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 19, 2022

4 key reasons my sustainability VC fund hit a dead end Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

She worked for 5 years as a VC at Battery Ventures and co-headed M&A at IAC working with Barry Diller. Instead he championed our investment themes into sustainability and food technologies having invested in companies like Apeel Sciences and Ynsect. I promise you, he really said this out loud.)

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2019

2/ The massive experiment in using capital as a moat to build startups into sustainable businesses has now played out and we can call it a failure for the most part. What society does about this situation stands as the most important issue in tech at the start of the 2020s.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Elect 1-2 representatives and even invite a local VC to invest personally and sit on the investment committee or be an advisor. ” And if aspiring investment teams are looking to get together the SBIC has come back with a new VC focused program to help non-Silicon Valley communities fund companies beyond their initial angel money.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Luis Daniel Arbulú, partner at Salkantay, told TechCrunch via email that the fund is “the country’s largest VC fund” as per PitchBook and Crunchbase data. The firm invests across Latin America, with a focus on the Andean region, in the areas of maximizing human potential, economic inclusion and sustainability.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In that post, I argued that the venture capital business could not sustain more than $20bn a year of new capital coming into it and continue to produce good returns to the investors in VC funds. That has not been my nature but I have learned that it works better, particularly in the VC business. All public.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Being profitable certainly makes your company more sustainable in difficult times. Do you imagine eventually raising VC and trying to build a faster growing company?” The likely response of a VC to your company that raised $3 million and now is profitably doing $1.5 ” But they want to do it with leverage.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

In the last 15 years, VC has become an institutional asset class with the permanence and stature that brings seemingly endless amounts of capital to it. over ten years number, which produces high teens/low 20s IRRs, which is enough to sustain the sector. Before 2000, the venture capital business was a bit of a cottage industry.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

The winters are the time when a lot of those applications fall away and you can see which projects are actually long-term sustainable, like both in their models and in their teams and their people. Business models need to be sustainable. Teams need to stick together and ship things.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The key priorities of the CTOs and CIOs of the Lab’s partner organizations include: cloud, cyber-tech, data, digital engagement, enterprise IT and sustainability. If you are building a fintech company and are focused on one or more of these areas, you should consider applying. Applications are due on December 1st. You can apply here.

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

Our firm’s original premise was – and remains – dead simple: Seattle is a global gravity well for engineering talent, thanks to the sustained excellence and corresponding human capital needs of Amazon and Microsoft. First, the increment of learning in VC is investment decisions managed to maturity. The implications of this are many.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How can venture capitalists promote human sustainability in entrepreneurship? We know startups are bad for mental health. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

I am a VC so this will be seen as self serving. But given that I’m not likely to back 99.999% of the people reading this (I do 2-3 deals maximum per year as a VC) I’m really just trying to offer honest advice. The days of easy money may be slowing down. It applies to all startups – not just SaaS.

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