Paul G. Silva

JUNE 28, 2022

Originally a computational physicist who spent many long nights at a particle accelerator, since 2000 Paul inspired thousands of people to innovate, help hundreds of startups launch, overseen investments in 50+ startups and held leadership positions in the national angel investor community. Your Instructor.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Below, we analyzed data from 77 US-based or -centric companies founded after 2000 that have a $5B+ market cap and highlighted what it takes to be Great by the numbers—and why growth is especially important on that journey. 7 (Please note that this isn’t investment advice from me or a16z!) What’s next Here’s the best part.

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Gust

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Assume you have the right factors to get angel investment: experienced team, good product-market fit, growth potential, defensibility, and a reasonable shot at a successful exit. This might seem awkward on this site, suggesting that you don’t want angel investment. But angel investment isn’t for everybody.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2022

Instead, ask a question specific to their approach to investing—something simple enough like what’s going on at their stage. 4) Don’t push for me to say yes or no right then—because I see 2000 things in a year and do 8-10 of them. or asking a generalist, “What areas are you interested in?” Why would you do that?

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Its 2,000+ members have invested over $1 billion in 2.400+ companies since its founding in 2000. Investment stats in late 2022 indicated that investors were becoming more cautious about their allocations and favoring capital deployment in proven, existing portfolio companies. Keiretsu Forum was founded in 2000 by Randy Williams.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

So far this year, 29 venture-backed companies have tried initial offerings, compared with 252 in 2000. Most vulnerable are funds that were raised and invested at the height of the bubble, in 1999 and 2000, when 70 percent of all high-technology venture capital for the last two decades was invested.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

In the Correlation post, they define “hit rate” as: the percent of invested dollars generating a 10X or greater return. It could be the number of investments in your portfolio that return the fund. It could be the number of seed investments you make that turn into billion-dollar valued businesses.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 8, 2015

In the last six months, VCs have invested more than $57B according to Mattermark data , which puts 2015 on pace to exceed 2000 as the year the most venture capital will be deployed, ever. The chart above contrasts the top 12 sectors receiving venture funding in the US, and plots the relative share of dollars invested by month.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 23, 2020

Ad-buying opportunities within podcasts have historically been manual and limited, not unlike the process of purchasing web ads pre-2000. USV has been looking for an opportunity to invest in podcasting that fits with our thesis and we found it with Headgum and Gumball.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 6, 2019

I get 2000 things passing through my inbox in any given year, and I make about ten investments per year. How excited do you think I am if I’m only picking the top 10 out of 2000? That’s because of the simple math of competition. Do you think any of those handful of deals are seven out of ten?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

Lux Capital, known for investing in life science and frontier tech startups, is back in the market to fundraise for its latest vehicle — but this time without a dedicated late-stage entity. The fund will combine the firm’s early and late-stage investing strategies into one pool. million to the fund.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 10, 2023

In fact, winning the Hans Severiens Award at the 2023 ACA Summit of Angel Investing is a validation of his profound efforts to grow and support angel investing nationally through the Angel Capital Association as well as the community in which he works. Visit angelcapitalassociation.org.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 15, 2015

In Q2 2015, VC investment totaled $16.7B, about a 66% of the $28B deployed in Q2 2000 according to a new report. A big contributor to this growth are nontraditional investors including mutual funds and hedge funds, which now account for approximately 40% of dollars invested. And the trends shows no sign of stopping.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Andrew Chan is a senior associate at Builders VC , investing in early-stage companies that are transforming pen and paper industries. 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. Andrew Chan. Contributor.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This rapid innovation has been fueled by an unprecedented amount of investment. Despite the recent slowdown, venture capital investment in the biotech sector in the US ballooned to nearly $25 billion in 2022 from just under $4 billion in 2000.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

I have experienced two major financial disruptions in my career: the bubble burst in 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008. Growth investors have become far more reserved when making new investments, and many are redefining how they approach valuations. Founders must consider a new timeline for the investment process.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Without an understanding of how to protect their R&D investment and claim technology as proprietary, startup companies are leaving a tool behind, possibly forfeiting market share and investments as a result. In 2000, the U.S. Artificial intelligence innovations are patentable.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

The team behind HealthXCapital , which invested in and helped health tech startups scale up, has joined Singapore-based Jungle Ventures. Seemant Jauhari, who led HealthXCapital since it was founded eight years ago, is now a partner at Jungle, where he will invest in healthcare startups in Southeast Asia and India.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Register Centbee, a blockchain payments company based in London, has closed its pre-Series A round with $1 million in investments from Ayre Ventures. The additional investment from Ayre Group will enable the company to scale and grow as well as strengthen its technical and operating capacities.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 20, 2014

In fact, I found only two books: a textbook on private equity and venture capital by HBS professor Joshua Lerner, and an out-of-print collection of 32 VC interviews called “ Done Deals ,” published in September 2000. By mid-1999, $300M was being invested in Internet companies each week. Mitch Kapor, Accel. John Doerr.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 5, 2021

Let’s examine the relationship between total venture capital investment and the 10 year Treasury in some detail. The y-axis tracks enture capital investment by year and the year of the data point resides in the reddish circle. Our story starts in the bottom right of corner in the year 2000 with 6% interest rates and $18.2b

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Its 2,000+ members have invested over $1 billion in 2.400+ companies since its founding in 2000. Investment stats in late 2022 indicated that investors were becoming more cautious about their allocations and favoring capital deployment in proven, existing portfolio companies. Keiretsu Forum was founded in 2000 by Randy Williams.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

For a little bit of context, Murphy has invested in DocuSign, Egnyte, AppDynamics and Carta, among others. But most relevant today is his experience investing during downturns, including both the 2000-era startup contraction and the 2008 financial crisis. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, to weigh in on what we are seeing, and while they’re trying to make sense of things, too, they noted a couple of things that could impact the velocity of deal-making that we’ve been seeing. We have come back and invested with founders we originally declined.”.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Those companies would have not only returned any fund that invested in them, but would likely return an entire career''s worth of investing over the course of several funds. Why invest at top dollar in the last round, when you can offer liquidity to early investors at a huge discount to the last round? But at what valuation?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. In both cases, about 25% of their overall investments went into fintech startups. Gone are the days of investing on a whim. And, while global fintech funding slid by 46% to $75.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Navin Chaddha is managing partner at Mayfield , an inception and early-stage investor with more than 50 years of a people-first investing philosophy. Navin Chaddha. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. What is happening to risk-taking in venture capital? Biology as technology will reinvent trillion-dollar industries.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 3, 2022

to $360b invested per year. More financings occur outside San Francisco, but Bay Area companies now raise 2000 to 2500 rounds per year, up from 404. In 2019, US startups raised $126.4b. In the span of two years, a region’s startups raised as much capital as all of the US. per year to $30b-$36b per year.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Companies in developed markets have churned out profits at a historic pace, despite massive economic dislocations like the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000 and the global financial crisis eight years later. We invested in online technologies and continue to do so, to improve communication and its periodicity.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 30, 2021

Using large volumes of data collected by hand in the cocoa markets of Africa for example, econometricians developed models and reshaped investing. George Soros embodied the rise of global-macro investing in the 1980s & 1990s. However, it sparked a new wave of quantitative investing.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Based on his time leading startups through the dotcom implosion in 2000 and the 2008 Great Recession, Alomar said it’s critical for founders to be strategic and not reactive. How to talk to your investors about pivoting. When it’s OK to leave money on the table. What you need to do differently to fundraise during a downturn.

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Jason Calacanis

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Over the past decade, I invested in over 350 startups and watched up close as founders figured out how to do more with less. I've experienced two in my lifetime: the dot-com bubble (~1998-2000) and the ZIRP bubble (~2019-2021). Thanks for reading Jason Calacanis on Startups! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Celonis , the late stage process mining software startup, announced a $1 billion Series D investment this morning on an eye-popping $11 billion valuation, up from $2.5 billion in its Series C in 2019, quadrupling its value in just two years. Durable Capital Partners LP and T.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

EDT , Chan will join me to share his views about why “ Gen Z isn’t a real investment trend. " In a conversation on Tuesday with @yourprotagonist , @chandr3w will share his views about why "Gen Z isn’t a real investment trend." Twitter Space: What can today’s founders learn from the 2000 dotcom bubble burst?

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

“We recently announced investments in downtown Dover, and this expansion will bring even more activity to our state’s capital. FFI Ionix is part of Fortescue, a company that ranks 414th on the Forbes Global 2000 list, but its origins were founded in Delaware as Xergy.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The MOPE investment will help the company accelerate its plans across brand, product and distribution,” said VT Bharadwaj, partner, A91 Partners. Their prior experience of investing and working with category leaders within the food and beverages segment will add significant value,” said Vikas Nahar, Promoter and CEO, Happilo.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. So the people who invest in VC funds have two problems.

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