Angel Capital Association

JULY 10, 2023

The Hans Severiens Award recognizes personal impact on the advancement of angel investing globally and highlights the special relationship that angels and entrepreneurs build to innovate, create jobs, and drive the economy. Since 2000, QCA members have directly invested over $100 million in more than 110 portfolio companies.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The last two decades have seen explosive advancement in biomedical and therapeutic innovations, like the Human Genome Project , the discovery of CRISPR , and the rapid development of Covid-19 mRNA vaccines, to name a few. This rapid innovation has been fueled by an unprecedented amount of investment.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Here are four startup myths that hold innovation back. At the same time, according to research by All Raise, only 15 percent of all venture capital funding is allocated to female founders. Baby Einstein grew revenues from $1 million in 1998 to over $10 million just a few years later in 2000.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

Nathan Heller published an article called Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk? It’s a well-researched critique of the venture industry. If you have ideas for how to improve venture capital for founders, please tweet me or send me an email with the link above. First, venture capital has become much bigger.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

What can the 2000 dot-com crash teach us about the 2022 tech downturn? Here are the industries ripe for innovation under the Inflation Reduction Act. ” Here are the industries ripe for innovation under the Inflation Reduction Act. . ” Here are the industries ripe for innovation under the Inflation Reduction Act.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Because most internet business concepts were not capable of productively employing tens of millions of dollars of venture capital does not mean they were bad ideas." Innovation continues to disrupt older industries, create opportunities, and create new streams of revenue. They''ll be around 10 years from now.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Access Optics was co-founded in 2000 by Bob and Pam Hogrefe and today employs 37 people at its 20,000 square foot headquarters in Broken Arrow. Passion for medical device innovation. OLSF Ventures (OLSF) is an early-stage health care and life science fund that has been operational since 2000. billion for 5 companies.

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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.” We see the acceleration of females building businesses, and a lot is going on in innovation, so we want to bring more capital into that.”.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. How to get a job in venture capital. How to find a job as a VC scout.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). Perhaps the biggest piece of new news is that after 17 years of operations we’ve changed our name from GRP Partners to Upfront Ventures. Well, the venture capital industry has changed a lot in the past 20 years … and we have too.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

But, still, every startup, especially those seeking angel and venture capital funding, are conditioned to project this growth curve – because investors love it. Though this stage poses the least amount of pressure on an entrepreneur, some mistakes can still upend an innovative startup idea.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

But for Ansaf Kareem, venture partner at Lightspeed, the tough times can be seen as a good thing because they often create the best companies. “If 2008 and 2000), not only have we seen outstanding companies being formed, we’ve also witnessed great venture firm performance during these windows,” he said.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Deep tech refers to scientific or engineering innovations that disrupt existing industries through years of research, patent application, and other forms of intellectual property. Because of the time and investment needed to bring deep tech solutions to market, many startups require significant and sustained capital to get up and running.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2010

RSVP: [link] Wednesday, January 20th EVENT OF THE WEEK: 7PM Kevin Ryan & Henry Blodget: NYTech -10 +10 @ 92Y Tribecca The city's enhancement-free version of the "Bash Brothers" talk NYC Tech in 2000, 2010, and 2020. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. RSVP: [link].

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In a reflection of investor confidence — or perhaps simply the demand for supply chain security solutions — Eclypsium today closed a $25 million Series B round led by Ten Eleven Ventures with participation from Global Brain’s KDDI Open Innovation Fund and J Ventures, bringing the company’s war chest to $50 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. side note: our last fund at GRP Partners is currently ranked as the 5th best performing fund of the year 2000.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Is 2012 going to be 2000 all over again? When the bubble burst in 2000, many of us felt it in our pockets. On March 20, 2000, Barron's wrote, "America's 371 publicly traded Internet companies have grown to the point that they are collectively valued at $1.3 This brings to mind a bigger question of where we're going from here.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

One of the most influential books of my career is The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clay Christensen. Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. Enter Salesforce.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Even more interesting is that at GRP Partners (the VC firm where I’m a partner) our two most successful returns from our previous fund [which is ranked as the top performing fund in the country for its 2000 vintage according to Prequin] were both run by women! But then the truth sets in.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 8, 2011

I've been very lucky over the last six years of being involved in the NYC innovation community to meet some fantastic folks. I'd say just about everyone in my LinkedIn network , all 2000 of them, are people who I've at least had the equivilant of a 1:1 lunch with.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. 406 Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It wasn’t long before venture capital firms started up and major tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Samsung had R&D centers and accelerators located in the country. This came decades ahead of most western governments. So how are they doing? And let’s not forget visual recognition company Mobileye, now worth $9.11

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

One example is that they introduced a program where their founders can pool together shares from their company and exchange them for a small portfolio of other First Round Capital companies. I'm a huge fan of this innovation. Prior to First Round Capital, Howard had invested in two of Josh’s companies Infonautics Corp.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

We believe personalization represents the future of retirement savings and will drive the next wave of innovative retirement solutions.” At the height of the dot.com boom in the first quarter of 2000, the bank had invested in a record 53 startups. In Q2 of 2000, that number dipped slightly to 46. Will Holland resign?

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

1 billion for multistage startups : Cathay Innovation launches third multistage startup fund at $1 billion by Paul. $10 Based on his time leading startups through the dot-com implosion in 2000 and the 2008 Great Recession, Alomar says it’s critical for founders to be strategic and not reactive.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 21, 2011

If there’s a jobs startup within 2000 miles of NYC, I will see it. This is where the most innovative companies are playing, and so if you’ve formed a good team around it, that has value to someone. Don’t get me wrong—there are undoubtedly ways to innovate in this space—but don’t expect to make money on them anytime soon.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Before Karl Alomar became managing partner of VC firm M13, he led one company through the dot-com bust of 2000 and helped another survive the Great Recession of 2008. Since the infrastructure spending bill included $110 billion for more than 4,300 projects, “for investors, it’s an incredible opportunity to back the next wave of innovation.”.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

No, we are not going back to the future As we ride the 2021 market roller coaster through wreckage and recovery, accompanied by a raging bull market in tech stocks, some people are wondering whether we might be re-living the dreadful dot-com boom and bust of 2000-2001. Is 2021 the new 2000? Are we heading for another bottomless crash?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

“ We do think Tor made all the right decisions when they built the software — at the time there was no interest from venture capital in privacy, there was only interest from the U.S. “One of our core innovations is we scale by adding servers. government. And the internet was too slow to do a mixnet.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. Hedge funds on average have underperformed on a net of fees basis in both US equities and bonds since 2000. The HFRI Index returned 18.3%

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The world in which our communications was controlled by the telephone and media companies of 20 years ago would have been much less innovative than what we have achieved, which is precisely why we need to protect future companies not even created yet from anti-competitive behavior. Regulation will come. It needs to come fast.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 24, 2015

The sword of innovation that you skillfully yielded in your battle to breakthrough turns out to be double-edged. In this era of endless innovation, there is only one thing you can do to stay competitive: you must learn how to disrupt yourself. To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. The increase in entrepreneurs often brings in many people not in the system to “innovate” but rather to make a quick buck.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” With improved tools and techniques, and innovative products like Optimizely and Sailthru, highly optimized sites will redefine the new fitness level required to stay afloat in online businesses. 71 Things to A/B Test.

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