David Teten VC

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Thanks to David Bogoslaw for covering our new partnership in today’s Venture Capital Journal. I’m pleased to announce a strategic partnership between Coolwater Capital and Versatile VC. As part of the partnership, I am joining Coolwater as a part-time Venture Partner. Accelerate Coolwater community funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them. Technology riches yield bumper crops in venture capital with new firms and new largesses – the rewards of LPs rediscovering our asset class. Are LPs to blame?

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than we’ve seen for some time. As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , it’s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach.

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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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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

The first time, back in 2012, I joined as part of a mobile gaming company. The product should be live if we hope to raise capital. A program to get your company 'accelerated'- selling faster, moving faster, which does not necessarily translate to capital. I've been an alum of Dreamit twice. The plan-sort of worked.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

LiveOak Venture Partners raised its largest fund to date, $210 million for Fund III, which will enable the Austin-based, early-stage venture capital firm to double down on Texas founders. Srinivasan and Venu Shamapant started the firm in 2012, and its first two funds both raised $105 million. In 2021, $14.2

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Every year Upfront Ventures surveys Limited Partners (LPs) who are the main source of capital that invests in VC funds and thus the main source of capital that goes to startups to get an early-warning sense of the year ahead, leaving aside any Black Swans. Note that all of these names were not started in Silicon Valley.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Conductive Ventures raised a $200 million Fund III to continue its focus on investing in founders where other venture capital firms did not see the potential. Therefore, these entrepreneurs were forced to be capital efficient because they didn’t have the networks or access for whatever reason. Then he met Lai.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Coral Capital , a Tokyo-based venture capital firm, announced today that it has closed its third fund, Coral Capital III, raising $128 million (14 billion yen). Coral Capital’s total assets under management (AUM) is now $275 million. LINE Ventures merges with YJ Capital, launches $271M fund.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

Register Kickstart Ventures , one of the most active venture capital firms in the Philippines, celebrates its 10th anniversary with a renewed commitment to invest in startups across the Philippines, and in major innovation hubs in Southeast Asia and beyond.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Ribbit Capital, a venture firm best known for its fintech investments, has raised $1.15 billion in new capital in what appears to be a close of its seventh fund, according to a filing with the U.S. The new fund, dubbed Ribbit Capital VII LP, is believed to be the final close of the fund. billion as well.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Venture capital (VC) firm Lifeline Ventures today announced a fresh €150 million ($163 million) fund aimed at early-stage startups across Finland. Lifeline Ventures has also backed unicorns such as open source enterprise infrastructure company Aiven , which hit a valuation of $3 billion last year. when invited to do so.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Munich-based AM Ventures just closed a $100 million fund focusing specifically on the early growth stages of industrial and commercial 3D printing applications. AM Ventures’ co-founders and managing partners, Arno Held (left) and Johann Oberhofer (right) Image Credits: AM Ventures. Somehow we just ended up in VC.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

I am not very familiar with the portfolio but this fund was formed in 2012. This is more or less the pattern of every early-stage venture capital fund I have helped to manage and every early-stage venture capital fund I have invested in over the last thirty years.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Sarah Guo is the latest woman to depart their position at a venture capital firm with plans to launch one of their own. Guo becomes the latest woman to leave a position at an established venture firm to become an emerging manager amid a wave of women spinning out to launch their own funds.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

How can influencers raise capital for companies or funds, without running afoul of restrictions on “general solicitation”? The 2012 bipartisan JOBS Act was supposed to empower funds and individuals to raise capital more openly: to publicly advertise their track record and what they’re selling, just like almost every other industry.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Originally backed by venture capital, in 2021 Daniel worked with TPG , a large private equity firm, to make them the majority investor. There’s a ton of writing out there about getting *on* the venture curve, but not a lot about getting *off,* so Daniel’s advice below is especially important.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2015

Crosscut Ventures has just announced their 3rd fund and clocking in at $75 million , which will be focused heavily on Los Angeles – FTW. And some of the people in venture who have had the longest ringside seat to our ecosystem are the founders of Crosscut Capital. LA has grown up a lot over the past 5 years.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Singapore-based venture firm Jungle Ventures is digging deeper into Southeast Asia and India with the close of its fourth fund. Jungle Ventures was founded in 2012 by Amit Anand and Anurag Srivastava, launching with a $10 million debut fund. We’ve been investing with that philosophy since our inception in 2012.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 This isn’t the first venture for Cora co-founders Igor Senra and Leo Mendes. million since its 2019 inception.

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500

MARCH 26, 2020

No one would’ve envisioned me as a venture capitalist. When I moved to San Francisco in 2012, I was working on my fourth startup and looking to join an accelerator. I was raised in rural Wyoming, far from the high stakes and deep pockets of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. But from a young age, going against the grain was in my DNA.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Today is amongst the proudest days I’ve had at Upfront Ventures — getting the chance to announce that Kevin Zhang has been promoted to Partner. years at Upfront has been both a pleasure and also has taught me a lot about venture capital. Kevin joined Upfront in 2012 as an Associate. Watching him develop over the past 4.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

One of the ways that those pots of cash are being invested is through venture capital, which means the money flows to the coasts — New York, Boston, Silicon Valley. ” “Where we invest, there was not a lot of capital yesterday. Midwest generates a lot of wealth and is home to myriad huge corporations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Early-stage fintech-focused venture firm Better Tomorrow Ventures has raised $225 million for its second fund — triple the amount it raised for its debut fund that closed in September of 2020. BTV is a venture firm that boasts two successful fintech founders as its partners. It’s committed to three so far.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Rebecca Mitchem is a partner at Neotribe Ventures , which invests in early- to growth-stage companies developing breakthrough technologies. In fact, the question, “How long do you expect the capital raised to last you?” Image Credits: Neotribe Ventures. Source: PitchBook data from 2012-2022. Rebecca Mitchem.

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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. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. He will be a venture partner. I stayed close. What does that mean?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

It won’t be the last venture group to pull back from an expansion of its traditional investing remit. During the COVID-19 pandemic’s first years, the pace at which venture capital firms could raise money expanded. venture capitalists saw their capital inflows more than double from $23.5 billion in 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Mayor Eric Garcetti at Upfront Summit, February 2017 I first sat down with then councilman Eric Garcetti on the Ides of March 2012 — almost 5 years ago exactly. They always ask whether I see this as threatening as Upfront Ventures. But this post is about the broader context of LA. Are you kidding me? And this is true.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Register Singapore’s Jungle Ventures has announced the launch of First Cheque@Jungle , a new program aimed at investing in startups during their pre-seed and seed stages. The First Cheque program plans to leverage the expertise of experienced founders from Jungle Ventures’ current and former portfolio startups.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

In the last couple of years, a large group of “Gen Z VCs” have come to the forefront of what one might consider “hip” venture capital investing. There’s a drastic difference in views and experiences between someone born in 1997 and someone born in 2012. ” Web3 received $27 billion last year alone.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Despite shrinking investment into startups in 2022, venture capital funds of all sizes are still being raised. However, not many of these are led by solo general partners (GPs), and although that trend is on the rise, even fewer are led by women or people who don’t come from venture capital, Anna writes.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe. The CMU Venture Challenge is an international startup competition open to undergraduates from across the United States. Alumni Ventures Group runs a network of VC funds focused on specific universities. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Many, like Calendly, passed through Atlanta Tech Village, which has served as an incubator for the city’s talent ecosystem since it was founded in 2012 by David Cummings. The venture capital opportunity in the South is better than it’s ever been,” Lisa Calhoun, a general partner at Valor Ventures, told TechCrunch+ last year. “A

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Hunter Walk

JUNE 26, 2023

Chris Neumann (of Canada’s Panache Ventures ) checks these boxes so I asked him to come on my blog (currently less consistent, hopefully still the other two) for Five Questions. Hunter Walk: So why venture capital, why early stage, and why Canada? For example, we had a hybrid work schedule starting in 2012.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

In fact, a new report from investment firm Golden Gate Ventures predicts a record number of exits will happen in the region over the next couple of years, thanks to factors like a maturing ecosystem, more secondary buyers and the emergence of SPACs. billion invested in 2020, according to a report by Cento Ventures and Tech In Asia.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Regardless of where one sits in the broader tech and venture world, Coinbase storming north of a $100 billion valuation during its first day of trading was the biggest startup happening of the year. We’ll wrap by considering what impact Coinbase’s direct listing will have, if any, on non-crypto fintech venture capital investing.

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