TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

It is clear that Black, women, Latinx and LGBTQ+ startup founders face an uphill battle when it comes to getting a share of the VC investment pie in Silicon Valley. It’s working with another Indy based VC firm, Allos Ventures , and Paul Ehlinger from Allos will be a venture partner at Sixty8. So that is why we launched Sixty8.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” Why are all of the VC home runs from white men, or Asian men in Asia, plus a few Asian men in the U.S.?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

participated in four of Scale’s financing rounds, which is all of them unless you include the funding from YC the company secured as part of a cohort in 2016. But Levine saw the kernel of something with huge potential, and despite being a relative unknown in VC at the time, didn’t want to let the opportunity pass him, or Wang, by.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In 2016, the VC firm launched its current 12J offering with Knife Capital Fund II. The plan was to give startups access to networks , money and expansion opportunities. “We These specialized Africa VC funds are welcoming co-investors. and Europe. .

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David Teten VC

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). VCs love to talk investment theses: on Twitter, Medium, Clubhouse, at conferences. 36 theses pulled directly from US VC websites by David Teten and Sam Sabin , co-founder, Hireblue. . Technical founders .

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend. In contrast, male-only founded U.S.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). VCs love to talk investment theses: on Twitter, Medium, Clubhouse, at conferences. 36 theses pulled directly from US VC websites by David Teten and Sam Sabin , co-founder, Hireblue. . Technical founders .

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

The company, which uses a combination of computer vision and machine learning to create a system that can quickly and accurately inspect vehicles, has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round led by Hanaco VC, a venture capital firm based in New York and Tel Aviv. The CEO also sees a longer-term opportunity with robotaxi fleets.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

“My work with startups and the ecosystem began in 2016 when I founded Startupmedia to help startups and the ecosystem tell their stories and school myself in starting/scaling businesses. Consider starting as an LP in funds for diversified exposure, access to deal flow, and networking opportunities.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Register Established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, SoGal Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated to early-stage investments in diverse founding teams, operating in both the United States and Asia. Partnering with Elizabeth at Stanford, they addressed the stark gender imbalance and inequity in the VC industry.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Since 2018, he is investing with an emerging tech VC focused on web3 and managing early-stage deal flow. My journey into start-up ecosystems commenced with scouting bleeding edge technologies in the automotive industry back in 2016/2017. It is inevitable to miss out on opportunities due to time constraints.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 1, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Timothy Chen, the General Partner of Essence VC , which is an early stage developer + infrastructure focused fund. Therefore, I decided to continue investing in more startups by raising a VC fund in 2019 with a small fund size, and was able to continue to evolve from there. and Jasper.ai.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A few years ago, maybe in 2016, we held a discussion of blockchain and crypto technologies at the annual meeting of our limited partners. Then we will have the opportunity to see two identical assets trade in the traditional and emerging markets.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

But when you’re running a VC firm, especially as an emerging manager, how do you know which investors and limited partners (LPs) to target? The venture capital community has significant influence on what potential LPs see as great investment opportunities. As a result, capital can be concentrated in certain areas.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

CoinAfrique, whose team will join Autochek and help them run operations in the region, was founded in 2016 by Matthias Papet and Eric Genetre. “We New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape. over 2022-2027. The company, which in October last year raised $13.1 TLcom and 4DX drive $13.1M

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

When they were ready to scale their commercial operations in 2016, Udesh Jadanansing and his team decided to raise a seed round. Udesh understood there was an opportunity for growth, the demand is there, but the financial resources to capitalize on it are not. Over the next couple of years, they continued to scale successfully.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Honeycomb was founded in 2016 by two former Facebook engineers to create a new way of looking at application monitoring based on the internal tooling they had seen at Facebook. Today the company announced a $50 million investment, a large sum in today’s tightening VC landscape.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

The seed round follows a $620,000 angel and pre-seed round BCM raised between 2016 and 2020, bringing its total funding to over $2.9 MaC Venture Capital led the round while VC firms Luminate, Unicorn Group, Future Africa, and several angel investors participated. million in seed funding to expand its audience and build new verticals.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

I first got introduced to them by my friend Kevin Marshall back in March of 2016 when they were Creditbridge (Petal is to Creditbridge what Frogger is to Highway Crossing Frog, I suppose). That's important for a VC. What card do you know tells you how much you'll pay in interest *next month* based on what you pay now?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

venture capital (VC) firms, including David Sacks’ Craft Ventures, Sky Dayton and Up Ventures. Founded out of Zurich in 2016, Loft Dynamics has developed a slew of simulators for some of the most common helicopters, including the single turbine Airbus H125.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

We knew better than to start funding raising in August, when larger VC firms have a harder time assembling full decision teams – so in August we would plan and September we would commence. Many VC firms expressed interest, nearly every one took a meeting and several called Mark and the team back for meetings.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. 15 steps to fundraising a new VC or private equity fund. Katherine Boe Heuck is a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022), a past intern at Versatile VC and a current intern at Metaprop NYC. David Teten. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Or will we have to repeat the same conversations about representation failings within VC funds? Make serious headway with accelerators.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 19, 2022

We called it Tech:NYC and I first wrote about it here at AVC in March of 2016. I welcome Jason to Tech:NYC and look forward to working closely with him and the city and state leaders to step up to the opportunity that is in front of us. I agreed to co-chair the organization and have been in the chair role since then.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sun King raises $260M to widen clean energy access in Africa, Asia Founded in 2016, Qotto designs and distributes stand-alone solar kits and lanterns to individuals residing in the least electrified regions of Africa.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2018

Why are more US VCs investing in international startups? Take a look at The Fortune Unicorn List : of the top 100 most valuable unicorns in 2016, 39 are currently based outside of the United States. This implies that the US is still the center of the VC industry, even while there is more opportunity for US VCs to invest abroad. .

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In late 2018, the company raised $75 million Series C from Sequoia, arguably the top VC firm in the world. After being largely ignored by Valley investors (the biggest checks in her seed, Series A, and Series B came from men on the East Coast), she finally found support from the VC elite. VC David Sacks tweeted “??

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Matias Lonardi, co-founder and CEO of Treggo, started the company with Nicolas Torchio and Joaquin Wagner in 2016. Mexico is just getting started, and it is the fastest-growing in all the world, so there is a huge opportunity. Speaking on the competition, Lonardi told TechCrunch that “e-commerce has been so aggressive here.”

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

On one hand, it benefited tremendously from the Trump backlash after the 2016 election and society’s focus on women. In some ways, it’s a bit like VC funds that are setup to empower certain groups through investing that don’t actually acknowledge the structures and impact of venture capital itself on different populations.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2022

The funding comes just a few months after Bucketplace acquired Singapore-based online furniture platform HipVan , and Lee said that the company will continue to seek acquisition opportunities and strategic partnerships both in Korea and overseas markets. Image Credits: OHouse app.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

That firm, founded in 2016, announced on March 29, 2022 that it closed $310 million in capital across three funds. At that time, most VC activity was dominated by the now-defunct Austin Ventures and Sevin Rosen Funds. ATX will be the first midcontinent VC to have top decile performance two funds in a row,” he told TechCrunch. “It

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Startups and VC. to turn streaming experiences into e-commerce opportunities, Christine reports. No Bae-cations for China : Airbnb said it will close down its domestic business in China, a place it had been since 2016, but alas it accounted for just 1% of the company’s overall business.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

They saw me as an American that could bring them business opportunities and that was it, I felt that I was judged more on the merits of the value that I could bring than I would in the U.S. — Spurred by opportunities, I started a successful import and export business in China, and after a few years I had over 30 employees.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

But there are also reasons why being a public venture capitalist can make the VC game a rather different, longer-term effort. Following its move, Draper Esprit is now the largest “purely tech VC” listed on London’s Main Market. Why Draper Esprit doubled down on its status as a publicly listed VC. The future?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

Non VC Growth Rounds. The other major trend of 2012–2015 was the entrance of “non VCs” into late-stages of venture capital , which mostly consisted of hedge funds, mutual funds, corporate investors, sovereign wealth funds and even LPs doing direct deals. VC Infighting. Some called this “buying logos.” Expect more of this.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

But turn to the enterprise and there appears to be a very lucrative opportunity that’s well into finding traction. Today, one of the early movers in building solutions for that market is announcing a round of funding to double down on the opportunity. “We are very fond of what we do at this size,” he said.

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