Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

TABLE OF CONTENTS Bits v atoms It’s important to recognize that while the impact that generative AI can have on “bits” is substantial—since generative AI can “manipulate” those bits very easily—we’re probably too early to see a massive opportunity in “atoms” businesses. As technology continues to improve, the answer is an unequivocal “yes.”

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Paul G. Silva

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

I spent the last 3 months of 2019 conducting intensive customer discovery, interviewing RVI’s top members, past and present. We’re investing in more deals than we’ve ever invested in before. If RVI failed then our region would have lots its only active angel group – a huge potential blow to local startups.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Incredibly, prior to the investment, ProsperOps had only raised around $800,000. to “scale given the market opportunity.” “This investment allows us to expand the scope of the work we perform for our customers and continue growing our engineering and sales teams.” ” “H.I.G. a few months).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

“Investors are pouring money into Latin America’s logistics and shipping businesses,” our former colleague Jon Shieber wrote in 2019. In February 2019, the Mexican startup was just graduating from Y Combinator, and in Shieber’s words, “sett[ing] itself up to be the Flexport of Latin America.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 12, 2019

In fact, the work he does outside of his original business helped him earn the 2019 EO Global Citizen of the Year. With its innovative model for empowering rural women and youth, IndiVillage introduces balance to India’s ecosystem—where cities tend to grow exponentially while rural villages have few economic opportunities. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

This is one of Salesforce Ventures’ rare investments in Asia. Peddi said the startup has always looked up to Salesforce for inspiration, and investment from the enterprise giant is “nothing sort of a child receiving validation from their father,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

It highlights important events in the continent’s tech ecosystem until this point, compares its journey with other emerging markets and provides guidance into the opportunities within various sectors. And though they are inclined to follow the money, Endeavor wants them to look beyond usual market opportunities and map out exit pathways.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 31, 2023

Register Vuihoc , an ed-tech platform catering to K-12 Vietnamese students, recently secured a significant US$6 million investment in a Series A funding round led by TNB Aura. Amidst the fluctuations in the world economy, Vietnam’s EdTech sector remains an attractive destination for solid investments.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

“While this is a tough environment for companies, we see it as an opportunity to pause, take stock and consolidate,” said GV Ravishankar, managing director of Sequoia India. For Ashutosh Sharma, head of India investments at Prosus Ventures, it is paramount for startups to ensure their existence at this time.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 1, 2023

Essence started in 2019 and backed amazing companies like Motherduck, Modal, Warp.dev, Sardine.ai How did you break into tech investing? After exiting Hyperpilot to Cloudera, like many other exited founders I started to angel invest into other founders I already know or met during my own founder journey. and Jasper.ai.

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

At the end of each tour day, we hosted a pitch competition where a local startup received a $100,000 investment from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. I chose to come back to Orlando because I found it most rewarding in terms of personality fit, diversity, and growth opportunities. Yes, absolutely.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 13, 2019

My answer was: it’s become incredibly sophisticated along three dimensions: diversity of product offering, pricing sophistication, and efficiency of investment processes. Would you like that Series B from an opportunity fund, an SPV funded by direct LP investment or from a third part? Founders can crowdfund.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

The company, which has built a payment platform intended for gaming platforms, virtual world publishers, mobile application developers and NFT providers, said Tuesday it has secured another strategic investment from its returning backer, J.P Morgan Payments, and new investor Dunamu , a Seoul-based operator of crypto exchange Upbit.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

GCVF will deploy the initial investments from Fund II over the next five years. in 2018 and has since made 29 investments and has realized five exits. Greater Colorado Venture Funds’ core investment thesis is to identify, invest and support founders in the overlooked rural market across rural Colorado.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

GCVF will deploy the initial investments from Fund II over the next five years. in 2018 and has since made 29 investments and has realized five exits. Greater Colorado Venture Funds’ core investment thesis is to identify, invest and support founders in the overlooked rural market across rural Colorado.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

Notably, the 38-year-old Silicon Valley-based venture firm is doubling down on global investing. billion global “Leaders” fund that is focused on later-stage investing that Accel closed in December. Accel expects to invest in about 20 to 30 companies per fund on average, according to Partner Rich Wong.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

There are many reasons for that, such as private equity and crossover investors investing earlier, or the fact that LPs in VC funds are affected by public market swings and could, theoretically, hit some VC firms to feel the pinch. Maybe it will be 2019, or 2020 — or even 2021. I am expecting a downturn at some point.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Today, the Japanese investment conglomerate is announcing the launch of the SoftBank Latin America Fund II, its second dedicated private investment fund focused on tech companies located in LatAm. According to the firm, that fund has generated a net IRR of 85% — with SoftBank having invested $3.5 SoftBank Group Corp.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

PayPal Ventures, the global corporate venture arm of PayPal, is one of the participating investors (this marks its first investment in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) but second in the MENA region after Egyptian fintech Paymob ). The fintech has raised more than $410 million in equity and debt since its 2019 launch. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

This undisclosed investment is Google’s third from the $50 million Africa Investment Fund targeted at the continent’s early- and growth-stage startups, which the company CEO Sundar Pichai announced last October. The fund is part of Google’s plan to invest $1 billion in “tech-led initiatives” over the next five years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ajaib Group , an online investment platform that says it now runs the fifth-largest stock brokerage in Indonesia by number of trades, announced it has raised a $25 million Series A led by Horizons Ventures, the venture capital firm founded by Li Ka-Shing, and Alpha JWC.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

This is the New York-headquartered firm’s first investment in Pakistan. This is also Firstminute Capital’s first investment in the South Asian market. This is also Firstminute Capital’s first investment in the South Asian market. “We It’s a massive opportunity.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 5, 2022

The first two MyEO DealExchange conferences in 2018 and 2019 made a significant impact on the members who attended—including a 7-figure investment in Scott Mesh (EO New York)’s company. Each person gets 90 seconds to share the details of the investment opportunity or the “deal need” they’re presenting or seeking.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Peanut , the maker of a social networking app for women, is entering into the investing space with today’s launch of a microfund called StartHER. “The assumption that founders should have networks able to invest in their businesses creates an unfair starting line for most groups.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Launched in Boston in 2019 the program serves over 300 students with many more on the horizon due to Third Rock’s support. Third Rock’s partnership with LSC will narrow the opportunity gap young people face by giving them real world experience at a time when they are choosing their career paths.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2021

The company offers proprietary savings and investment products that allow users to make contributions starting from 50 cents USD. Go Ventures, the investment arm of Gojek, also participated in Pluang’s $3 million Series A, which closed in March 2019. ” Indonesian investment platform FUNDtastic lands $7.7

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

African payments company Interswitch has secured a $110 million joint investment from LeapFrog Investments and Tana Africa Capital to scale its digital payment services across the continent , the two private investment firms said in a statement Wednesday. Nigeria’s Interswitch confirms $1B valuation after Visa investment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. New research looking into how U.K. population. In the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital led the round, marking the first time the New York-based venture firm has led an investment in a Brazilian startup. It plans to use the new funds to continue investing heavily in technology and data with the goal of launching its first digital product that will be “100% focused” on its members.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Today, one of the more promising hopefuls building an investing service in the UK is announcing a significant growth round after seeing a surge of attention this year in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The startup is not disclosing its valuation with this round, which follows a Series A in September 2019 of $8.6

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 30, 2022

Register Asian investment specialist Fullerton has successfully closed its first round of fundraising for a Thai direct private equity strategy at $100 million. The strategy seeks to invest in eight to 12 mid-sized companies in Thailand. Eventually, the strategy seeks to secure returns through a sale of the portfolio company or an IPO.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Accredited investors are invited to nation’s largest angel conference, which has invested $4.8M in 17 startups since 2019. By providing a low initial investment and robust deal flow, SDAC enables accredited investors from across the U.S. To learn more, visit www.thesdangels.com.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

And we’re leaning into a really big opportunity,” Darrow told me. And with Salesforce’s focus on sales, the investment from its venture arm makes a lot of sense. He says that unlike in 2019 when he was launching the company, today the company has a people/HR team in place to help drive the company’s DEI initiatives.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Owl Ventures, Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital India, Maverick Ventures and GSV Ventures also participated in the new round, which is the third investment secured by Apna this year. The startup, whose name is inspired from a cheerful 2019 Bollywood song, has facilitated over 18 million job interviews in the past 30 days, he said.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

There are many ways to invest successfully. And within each category, there are so many different investment opportunities. In venture capital, there were something like 30,000 companies that raised venture capital in 2019. How do you make sense out of all of that opportunity? USV TEAM POSTS:

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

fintech-focused venture capital firm, has led a new investment in TeamApt , a Nigerian fintech that provides business payments and banking platforms. The investment was over $50 million, according to sources familiar with the matter, though neither QED nor TeamApt would confirm the figure. QED Investors , a U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Investment apps in Southeast Asia are attracting a lot of funding, and now some are raising fast follow-on rounds, too. The latest round’s lead investor is Valar Ventures, which also led Syfe’s Series A, marking the fintech-focused venture capital firm’s first investment in an Asian startup. million since it was founded in 2019.

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