This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

I tried to write a book for college kids in 2002-2003, couldn''t get it published, so I started blogging in February of 2004. Venture Capital & Technology' I started a business newspaper in 1998 in college covering the stock market and the economy. I got my first job in venture--at GM--in February 2001. Yeah, so, somewhere in there.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2021

A noticeable trend is that deal sizes are getting larger as early-stage ventures and angel-backed ventures scale and require larger quantums of growth capital.”. This boost in access to capital can be attributed to a few things. Note: All monetary amounts are listed in New Zealand dollars unless otherwise stipulated. .

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

Paul Martino, General Partner at Bullpen Capital. During our recent Dreamit Kickoff week, Bullpen Capital Founder and General Partner Paul Martino ( @ahpah ) spoke with our Spring 2020 cohort about the state of the VC ecosystem in the current economic crisis. Will a financial crisis affect how venture funds deploy capital?

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

CEO Adam Schwartz founded the company with his life savings in 2002 and hasn’t taken a dime of outside investment since. He says that the company started back in 2002 as a plug-in for PowerPoint. With the new capital, that number could triple over the next several years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

” That’s because since 2002, medical nutrition therapy has fallen under the scope of Medicare under certain criteria, a move that led major private insurers to follow suit. The startup’s CEO, Aidan Dewar, told TechCrunch that “94% of our patients are fully covered by insurance and pay nothing out of pocket.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 3, 2014

Last week, we analyzed the fund raising history of billion dollar SaaS companies and determined SaaS startups are raising nearly twice as much capital as 16 years ago before going public. Given that trend, I wondered if there is there any truth to the idea that startups today require less capital than before to succeed.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

It’s far from the only teletherapy company looking to capitalize on a boom in venture capital investment in mental health startups , but it’s operating in a hyper-specific sphere: therapy for kids. . This Series A was led by New Capital Partners — a firm with a history of success in the telemedicine space.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

. “Despite the downturn, strong cash supply and tailwinds for spending on digitization are leading some market participants to believe we’re in a strong investment cycle,” according to Raphael Mukomilow and Pierre Bourdon at Picus Capital. ” Will record levels of dry powder trigger a delayed explosion of startup investment?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

New York-based private investment firm Avenir Growth Capital and U.S. New and existing investors who participated include DST Global, Early Capital Berrywood, Green Visor Capital, Greycroft Capital, Insight Ventures, PayPal, Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Management, Worldpay FIS 9yards Capital. .

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

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. I guess that makes USV, Spark Capital, Foundry Group, Accel, Benchmark, Revolution (along with several others) pretty happy right now. source: Capital IQ.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

“Especially if you consider in that time we exited ROK for close to the total amount of capital we raised for IROKO; we have returned $11 million to early investors and shareholders already. We still have material capital left from the ROK-Canal+ acquisition coming in every 6 months until 2023.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

With a war chest now exceeding $30 million, CEO Richard Harris says that Black Crow will use the capital to “accelerate development of new and accessible machine learning use cases in both digital commerce and adjacent verticals” and expand the team across “product, client service, and commercial.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. If the VC your talking to raised its last fund in 2002 then they likely don’t have much fire power for new investments. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital VC Industry. Why does vintage matter to you?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 15, 2016

In 2002, Michelle and her husband Vernon joined the Charlotte chapter, which counts over 80 members and is the creator of the Global Entrepreneur Indicator (GEI). The survey collects information from both local and global EO members on topics ranging from planned capital expenditures, hiring plans, and overall economic outlook.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

billion in capital commitments. It’s a lot of capital to target, even amid a sea of enormous new venture vehicles. A spokesperson for the firm declined to comment on the letter or Tiger’s broader fundraising strategy when reached this morning. New Enterprise Associates closed its newest fund with $3.6 billion last year.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 6, 2021

In 2018, they granted the Angel Capital Association a no-fee license to their entire library of training materials to help found ACA University. They have created high quality education courses and articles to help investors make better decisions and entrepreneurs to understand the investment process to attract the capital they need.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 8, 2022

Now, instead of boring people over dinner (as I’m prone to do) about how you saw the first dubstep pioneers in Brixton back in 2002, you have an NFT to prove it. NFTs benefit fans too because they accrue value as collectibles. And chances are that NFT would have grown in value along with the artist’s career.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 2, 2014

One of the cloud’s great promise has been cost-reduction and for a while, we’ve chanted a mantra that startups require less capital than before to get started and ultimately succeed. The chart above shows the amount of capital raised in millions of 2014 dollars by each publicly traded SaaS company before going public.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital?

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 30, 2023

by Joe Wallin , leader of the Angel Capital Association Legal Advisory Council and Pricipal at the law firm of Carney Badley Spellman, P.S. Big Picture The CTA is intended to assist law enforcement in combatting money laundering, tax fraud, financing of terrorism, and other illicit activity through anonymous shell and front companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

” It was meant both as a call to those writing angel checks into other people’s companies that they ought to think about putting that capital toward themselves either by becoming a startup founder or (and this was my real point) by taking an under-market salary in a company where they can learn the right skills to do it in the future.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 16, 2016

There aren't many people who get the chance to analyze venture capital fund return data. Sounds like a huge amount, but only later does he say that only " 476 funds which had known Net IRR values, the overwhelming majority of which were from vintage 2002, or more recently." Companies take a long time to exit--often 5-9 years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Jedox got its start way back in 2002, and in a way is a very typical European startup story. all previous backers) also participating. The company currently works with some 2,500 customers, including big players like Microsoft, McDonald’s and industrial giant ABB.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). What are your predictions for the road ahead.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

market cap provider of SaaS Human Capital Management software. Founded in 1996, the company initially sold licensed software and migrated to multi-tenant SaaS in 2002 with a product called UltiPro. Among publicly traded Human Capital Management software vendors, Ultimate Software is second to Workday.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

is the primary provider of venture capital to itself and the rest of the world, the companies vying for these funds are now more global than ever. Because the U.S. If you don’t think the competition for Series B funding is very global, you need only consider very stale data from Canada.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

While I am extremely proud of that team’s accomplishments (the parent company recombined Nordstrom.com in 2002 and the direct division now has revenue of over $1.25B and is the fastest growing unit inside of Nordstrom ), I built a healthy respect for the complexities and difficulties of managing women’s fashion inventory.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

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. billion in venture capital in 2021 and $70.7 SpaceX , which was founded in 2002, has had 164 total launches and 126 landings of reusable rockets. Startups raised $342.2

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OurCrowd

MAY 11, 2020

Historically, venture investing right after major market downturns – such as after the Internet bubble burst in 2000-2002, and after the financial crisis of 2007-2009 — has proved lucrative because you’re buying at a discount. The post In the News: Coronavirus, industry reinvention & venture capital appeared first on OurCrowd.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Between 1995-2002 I visited often – especially since I founded my first company there. As the world went through its economic shock fueled by the housing boom & cheap capital, Ireland suffered its effects a bit worse. Scenes from my counter-top on my last night in Dublin. The Origins of Web Summit / f.ounders.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The average disclosed sale price in the same period has increased about 10% annually, inflation adjusted[2], each year since 2002, substantiating the hypothesis that big acquisitions are fewer in number, but command higher price points. Or it could be that major tech acquisitions cost much more today than they did a decade ago.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 31, 2016

My first visit to Bangladesh was in 2002, and I had no illusions about this country. These campuses are making it possible for children in the more isolated and rural areas of Bangladesh to receive the same standard of education as those in the capital city, something that had been impossible in the past.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We were now set to close at $46 million in new capital. We found a way to get a round of venture capital closed after all of this. By the time of my wedding in July 2002 I was super fit.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks?

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

By contrast, venture capital and angel investments normally take the form of Preferred Stock with rights and preferences set forth in the company’s Certificate of Incorporation and other governance documents. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Founded in 2002, the Australian software maker Atlassian is an exceptional company in many regards. This cash, in addition to a small amount of venture capital, has provided the wherewithal to fuel the business’s growth. But foremost, Atlassian is one of the best examples of flywheel SaaS companies yet. Atlassian operates at 83.4%

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