Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Because of the interest in the 2010 survey, I decided to survey a larger number of North American angel groups this summer (2011). 2011 Angel Group Valuation Survey. Bill Payne October 2011. Here is a summary comparison of the 2011 results to last year’s survey of only 13 groups: The average valuation increased from $1.7

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 28, 2024

Leymah Roberta Gbowee , 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate and Liberian peace activist, trained social worker, and women’s rights advocate. Jacinda Ardern , the former prime minister of New Zealand who led with compassion and achieved impact. She is an advocate for climate action and a fierce champion for women.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic disproportionately reduced venture capital funding for female founders last year, despite a greater boom in fundraising thanks to megafunds and the advent of Zoom investing. The result was an uneven landscape in which capital flowed more toward men than was normal historically.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

In 2021, $330 billion in venture capital was deployed, and only 2% of that number went to companies founded only by women and 15.6% from 2011 to 2016 and 3.8x from 2006 to 2011, respectively.¹ For 2011 to 2016, this is 570/395 for 1.4x. For 2006-2011, this is 579/151 for 3.8x. Mimi Aboubaker. Contributor.

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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. In the dream, someone had created a new version of the game that was basically identical to the original version.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Probably a correlation here with why there was more venture funding for golf tech than women’s fertility until very recently…. Look, socialists hate venture capital, and venture capitalists hate unions. LLH: When starting Belly in 2011, yeah, we were tracking something like 15 companies in the Loyalty space.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. Wait, What About Yves?

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

4- Any startup can raise venture capital I've also seen a misconception on business types, versus their ability to raise venture capital. In 2011, he founded Pota-Toss, a Kickstarter-funded iOS game, released on the App Store on October 2012. If you can't build the best business you can create.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

President-elect Joseph Biden has plucked Ron Klain, a longtime colleague and confidant and the current executive vice president of the venture capital firm Revolution, as his White House chief of staff, reports The New York Times. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Business writer Gordon Pitts pinpoints 2011 as the game-changing year for the Atlantic startup scene. In his book “Unicorn in the Woods: How East Coast Geeks and Dreamers are Changing the Game , ” Pitts recounts how in March 2011 Salesforce purchased New Brunswick-based social media monitoring company Radian6 for approximately $300 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Medicai founder Mircea Popa’s journey in healthcare started in 2011 when, with a friend of his, he co-founded a company that is now called SkinVision, a skin cancer screening app that detects melanoma (skin cancer) through ML algorithms applied on images taken with smartphones. million), among others.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

billion in 2011. To continue developing its technology, the company announced Tuesday $71 million in Series C investment led by Accel, Insight Partners and Tiger Global, with participation from Wing Venture Capital and other existing investors. The latest round comes a year after it raised $31.5 million in Series B funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

with $15 million to Prove It The venture capital world has started firing up a few cylinders again and looking for businesses that it believes will help us all succeed in ways that resonate with new ways of working as we begin to return to work. Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner hadn’t actually seen Wonderschool’s original pitch deck before investing in the remote education startup. That was happening when I first moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2011. Before our conversation on Extra Crunch Live, Marlon Nichols dropped a bomb on me.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Apparently, venture capital is a cruddy asset class where you can't get returns over the long term. Not only that, but there's a "Series A Crunch" that we've been talking about since October of 2011 where good companies can't seem to get to their next round of funding. Venture capital works largely the same way.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

At the same time, he added, “high interest rates may also increase the demand for venture capital when bank lending is less attractive to entrepreneurs.” Since its founding in 2011, the Israeli firm has invested in dozens of companies and had 12 exits. Just how much has late-stage venture capital slowed?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 9, 2011

I am excited to announce nextNY Fellows--a program that will support four new community leaders in 2011 build on what we already have and make it better, all while building their own skills and network. Here's what they will get: - A $500 stipend for 2011 to be used on leadership development. The details of this program are below.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Union Square Ventures (USV) has been one of the most successful venture capital firms of the past 10–15 years and continues to be a leader in our industry. Lindel is no stranger to thorny venture capital issues — he was arguably amongst the most successful LPs of his generation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Those charts belie somewhat how quickly venture capital is changing. million on average, $43 million median — this year after rising consistently since 2011. Prices are going up as well, as the following chart shows: Image Credits : PitchBook. In 2021 thus far, it’s $39.4 million (120% relative velocity).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

I had been trading emails & Tweets with venture capitalist John Frankel and we were to meet in person in March 2011 at SxSW to talk about Klout and other investments he had made. We met at a private party hosted by his venture partner Mike Yavonditte and I outlined my concerns for the lack of precision of the algorithm.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Initialized Capital founder Garry Tan will become president and CEO of Y Combinator next year, the two organizations announced today. Tan will be taking over the role from Geoff Ralston, who has been with YC since 2011. YC itself says it was founded in 2005 as “an antidote to the classic venture capital firm.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

billion ), Alteryx ( now public ), Square ( also public ), Sumo Logic ( yep, public ) while at Sapphire, having previously worked corporate venture jobs at Intel Capital and Agilent Ventures. Das as invested in companies like MuleSoft ( sold for $6.5 It’s going to be fun as there’s so much to talk about.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Golden Gate Ventures, a venture capital firm established in 2011, has carved an indelible mark on Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem. With its headquarters in Singapore and offices in Indonesia and Vietnam, Golden Gate Ventures […]

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Revolution

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Howard Marks — the co-chairman of Oaktree — released a book in 2011 called The Most Important Thing. The below analysis outlines an approach to quantify the attractiveness of investing in commercial real estate at a given point. The framework could be further altered for other asset classes.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. We formed a partnership with some of our favorite early stage investors and friends including Jim Andelman at Rincon Ventures and Peter Lee at Baroda. We announced Fund I in 2011. And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs.

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Here are the trends in venture capital financings from 2006 through 2010 – the number of seed stage deals funded and total investment by region in millions of dollars. . And, according to MoneyTree© for the first three quarters of 2011, the average invested in NYC Metro seed stage VC deals was even less. All Seed-VC.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Howard Marks — the co-chairman of Oaktree — released a book in 2011 called The Most Important Thing. The below analysis outlines an approach to quantify the attractiveness of investing in commercial real estate at a given point. The framework could be further altered for other asset classes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The new capital infusion gives Miro $476 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2011 by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin. And now today, the company announced its largest round to date, $400 million in a Series C that propels its valuation to $17.5 Miro lands $50M Series B for digital whiteboard as demand surges.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The company, founded in 2011, went public in late 2021 in an IPO that valued it at around $18 billion. Toast, a financial software company focused on restaurants, has remained one of the leaders in the space.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 1, 2020

Plains is committed to deploying capital across the central United States in teams that are capable, efficient and poised for growth. The Accelerate Oklahoma Fund was created in 2011 by i2E to invest in Oklahoma-based startups and is managed by iMCI. iMCI currently manages $81 million across five venture funds. i2E.org.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The wave of venture capital interest in geographies other than Silicon Valley has been building momentum over the past 5+ years. If you measure capital flow by Twitter chatter alone, you may assume the tidal wave is about to break and checks are being doled out via T-shirt launchers repurposed from hockey games.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 30, 2019

What am I preparing for in my little world of technology, startups, and venture capital? The Venture Capital Ecosystem: The public markets are soaring. It’s been a nearly 10-year slog since I moved back to the Bay Area in 2011 and meandered my way into the world of venture capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

” Matthews, an embedded operating systems engineer by training, started Apkudo in 2011 with Ben Leslie, who he met while a student at the University of New South Wales in Australia.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Despite venture capital growing as an asset class, alternative ways to raise are becoming increasingly popular to help founders maintain ownership and to access capital. But today marks what Lavingia views as a long-term shift in how Gumroad raises capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Long before SoftBank launched its $2 billion Innovation Fund in Latin America, and before Andreessen Horowitz began actively investing in the region , Sao Paulo-based Kaszek has been putting money into promising startups since 2011, helping spawn nine unicorns along the way.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You might not know yet of XYZ Venture Capital , a four-year-old, San Francisco-based seed-stage venture firm, but many veterans of Palantir are surely aware of it. First, Fubini linked up with Mitch Kapor, another software mogul turned investor and a friend of Fubini who bought him into his venture firm and taught him the ropes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Tech City UK, its predecessor, was launched in 2011 by former prime minister David Cameron and concentrated largely on the London ecosystem until 2018 when it merged with Tech North (based in Manchester). Tech Nation has long been embedded in the U.K. tech startup scene. and abroad.

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