TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

There’s a new VC fund in town — at least if you live in Paris. But part of the venture team at Otium left to create their own fund in 2019 — Frst. Resonance will become Otium Capital’s tech-focused VC fund going forward. Meet Resonance, a new $150 million fund (€150 million) backed 100% by Otium Capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Monique Villa is an investor at Mucker Capital , an early-stage VC fund investing in startups across the U.S. Getting a seat at the VC table. VC deals by region, as of June 2019. and Canada. More posts by this contributor. Image Credits: PitchBook/NVCA Venture Monitor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

billion such companies picked up in 2020 and 2019, respectively. In 2019 and 2020 Black web3 founders raised $2.5 Data visualization by Miranda Halpern , created with Flourish VC funding to Black web3 founders popped last year, bucking trends by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch billion and $4.2

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

2019 saw the local VC firm invest in six companies. Of the total investments raised in 2019 and 2020, 54gene contributed more than half of those numbers by raising $4.5 From the outside in, startups see Microtraction and other early-stage VC firms like Ventures Platform as a means to that end.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Women in VC have caught the entrepreneurial bug. In 2019, she noticed a growing number of solid early-stage companies trying to solve problems in the care economy. Over the past year, numerous notable women investors have left their roles at established firms to launch funds of their own.

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StartupNation

MAY 24, 2021

It didn’t dry up: Venture investors poured $150 billion into North American companies in 2020, up about 7% from 2019 levels. in the third quarter of 2019. While we’ve been strongly supported by our VC backers during the pandemic, the same can’t be said for every startup. Introduce yourself to analysts at your target VC firms.

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StartupNation

JULY 28, 2021

In 2019, venture capital investment into U.S. So, while it comes as no surprise that 2019 was also a record year for female founders securing these dollars, many would be shocked to learn this funding amounted to a mere 3.4% Only about 12% of decision makers at VC firms are women, and of all the partners at these firms, only 2.4%

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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. While a lot has happened in the world since 2019, Ahopelto says that it’s pretty much business as usual from an investment perspective. billion for a majority stake in 2016.

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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.” For funds with an overall return of 3-5x, which is what VC funds aim for, the overall return was 4.6x

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Essentially, VC is a high-stakes extreme sport in which top players can accumulate startling amounts of wealth and power. But where does all that money actually come from, and how do VCs actually make money? But where does all that money actually come from, and how do VCs actually make money? In 2019, it was 78.86

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Overall fintech deal volume dipped 24% compared to Q3 2019, totaling 451 global deals. As fintech deal count falls in the largest VC markets — North America, Europe, Asia — it is rising in Africa and Latin America, something to keep an eye on. That was up from 11 in Q2 2020, and nine in Q1. Now, into our four mega-trends.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Late-stage deals made Q3 2020 a standout VC quarter for US-based startups. The Exchange previously dug into the fintech VC market , focusing our examination on the payments, insurtech, wealth management and banking verticals. billion in 2019, consumer-facing fintechs in North America and Europe have already raised $5.9

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

million VC-backed company, Carbon was founded by Chijioke Dozie and Ngozi Dozie in 2012. When Chijioke Dozie, the CEO, spoke to TechCrunch in 2019, he cited recruitment purposes and clientele trust as reasons why the company made its financials public — an exercise it has done every second quarter for two years. .

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Founded by Harburg, MSA Novo is a global venture capital investing systematically across emerging markets since 2019. Commencing its operations in 2019, MSA Novo has raised a $200-million Venture Fund and a $150-million Growth Fund despite the disruptions caused by the global pandemic.

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Haystack

JUNE 1, 2018

Talk to any Bay Area VC in the last 24 hours, and the talk of the town among investors is universal : “ What do you think of the SV Angel news? Against a backdrop of more and more seed deals being done, the most-established VC funds who specialize in Series A and B fundings are remaining relatively consistent in the annual deal counts.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The dynamics that play into this forecast, aside from the impact of COVID, include a youthful population (the youngest globally), rising smartphone adoption and internet penetration that has led to a burgeoning tech ecosystem backed by local and international VC dollars. from 2010 to 2019. and Latin America’s 2.8%.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It was back in 2019 that we reported on Visionaries Club , a new, Berlin-based, European VC focusing on B2B, founded by Sebastian Pollok and Robert Lacher. Pollok was previously a VC at e.ventures in San Francisco and also founded Amorelie, which exited to Pro7Sat.1 1 Media Group.

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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.

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FundersClub

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners. Selected recent FundersClub portfolio company follow-on rounds: Gecko Robotics announced its $40M Series B led by Drive Capital for its industrial inspections robotics and software company.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2021

Meet Singular , a new VC firm based in Paris that just finished raising its initial fund. While Singular is based in Paris, the firm plans to build a true European VC firm with its headquarters in Paris. Singular started fundraising in late 2019 and early 2020. These are historic VC investors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In 2019, the company embarked on one such project as it developed Nigeria’s first real-time election database. Bloomberg, at its core, is a data company; we love how they approach elections and our approach in 2019 was driven by them,” said Ideh, who has always been vocal about Stears building the Bloomberg of Africa.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

But the company has since bounced back on the back of resurging demand for hospitality and tourism, and a number of favorable changes to its host policies, to the point where it is “hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Q4 revenue larger than in 2019, when it posted $1.11 How to find a job as a scout for a VC firm.

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Haystack

JANUARY 2, 2020

A topic that’s been on my mind a lot in 2019 is “time diversity” in venture capital funds. From what I’ve gathered from LPs and VC mentors, in previous eras, the initial deployment period of a VC fund (not including reserves for follow-ons, etc.) used to be around 5 years. I know of one.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 1, 2022

However, we were not able to do that in 2020 and 2021 so this was our first Portfolio Summit since 2019. Those of us who work in VC and startups can work remotely and get most everything we need done. Every year we invite the leaders of our portfolio companies to come to NYC and spend a couple of days with us and each other.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2021

“Comparing aggregate 2020 figures to 2019 results, it appears that last year was a somewhat robust year for African startups, albeit one with fewer large rounds,” he found. Some readers say they use our surveys to study up on an individual VC before pitching them, so let us know which format you prefer.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Do not pass go — VCs insist pitch decks meet 3 key criteria. According to the data, overall founder and VC activity took a nosedive in early 2020 once the serious nature of the pandemic became apparent.

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OurCrowd

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

São Paulo / Jerusalem – September 3, 2019 – São Paulo / Jerusalem – September 3, 2019 – OurCrowd, a leading global investment platform and Israel’s most active venture investor, has announced the agenda for its first major event in the LATAM region – OurCrowd Sync: Sao Paulo 2019. Read more here.

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FundersClub

AUGUST 14, 2019

We'd like to congratulate FundersClub portfolio companies on their ongoing progress, as well as to welcome aboard their new VC investor partners.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The two continents enjoyed more venture capital investment into their local startups than in some time, underscoring that strong VC results the United States saw in the third quarter were not a fluke, but part of a broader trend. Europe’s total tied its high-water mark set in Q2 2019. Asia: $24 billion. Europe: $9 billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). THE VC VALUATION GOD Valuation obsession wasn’t restricted to startups.

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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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OurCrowd

AUGUST 7, 2019

São Paulo / Jerusalem – August 7, 2019 – OurCrowd, a global venture investing platform and Israel’s most active venture investor, has announced its first major event in a key region, OurCrowd Sync: Sao Paulo 2019, an invite-only gathering bringing top speakers, cutting-edge content, and high-impact networking to the LATAM region.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Haus launched in 2019 as an answer to a generation’s craving for a more transparent alcohol brand, raising millions in venture funding from angels such as Casey Neistat, Away co-founder Jen Rubio and funds including Homebrew, Haystack Ventures, Coatue, Shrug Capital and Worklife Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

This morning , Alex Wilhelm examined Q4 VC totals for Europe, which had its lowest deal count since Q1 2019, despite a record $14.3 Asia’s VC industry, which saw $25.2 That’s 2020 VC around the world in a nutshell.” ” How VCs invested in Asia and Europe in 2020. billion in investments.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

2018 and 2019 exceeded the heady days of 2000 in terms of dollars deployed. Second, as competition has intensified, VC funds have invested in platforms (we call it founder experience at Redpoint). This supply/demand shift that provides founders more leverage in conversations has catalyzed some innovation in venture.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? How do you leverage your VC expertise in politics? I think the most common ethical issue in VC is when I’m talking with another possible investor in a portfolio company. Are you politically active? Why is that?

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