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

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Over the last two years, New Zealand’s startup scene has seen record venture and early-stage investment. Despite the pandemic, 2020 saw $158 million invested into 108 deals, representing the third year in a row of over $100 million in investment in startups. This boost in access to capital can be attributed to a few things.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Andre Maciel is the founder of Volpe Capital. Morgan, and was a managing investment partner at SoftBank. Jennifer Queen is the founder of Pina , a PR firm focused on startups and venture capital firms. Latin American venture capital and growth investments through 2018 had averaged less than $2 billion per year.

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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 WHY INTERNAL RATE OF RETURN MATTERS Learn more about the investment IRR and what makes a good internal rate of return.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

My godfather got me IBM stock right after that, so that''s how I knew that a stock market and investing existed. 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' My dad brought home an IBM PS/2 in 1987.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Will record levels of dry powder trigger a delayed explosion of startup investment? “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. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

New York-based private investment firm Avenir Growth Capital and U.S. hedge fund and investment firm Tiger Global led the Series C round. Its second investment came just in time before the COVID-19 pandemic hit Africa, negatively impacting some businesses but not payments companies like Flutterwave.

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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

JULY 1, 2021

Most companies don’t announce their first venture investment after almost 20 years in the business, nor do they announce that round is the equivalent of a good startup’s entire private fundraising history. billion investment on a $3.75 He says that the company started back in 2002 as a plug-in for PowerPoint.

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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

This is part of my series on Understanding Venture Capital. VC’s don’t invest 100% of their own money. They raise money from institutions who want to have some allocation of their investment dollars in a category known as “alternatives,&# which is supposed to mean higher risk, higher returns.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

IROKO , a Nigerian-based media company, could file to go public in the next 12 months on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Alternative Investment Market. This is why the media company is choosing to list on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the LSE. Nigeria’s Interswitch confirms $1B valuation after Visa investment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

According to a recent letter sent to its investors, Tiger Global Management , the New York-based investing powerhouse, is raising a new $3.75 million venture fund called Tiger Private Investment Partners XIV that it expects to close in March. billion in capital commitments. billion in capital commitments. billion.

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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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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 15, 2016

We are used to investing in the business, but as entrepreneurs we don’t about think taking care of ourselves personally – that was a huge lesson.” 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).

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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. If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice).

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.” Maybe they were in their 20s in 2002 when being a startup CEO wasn’t really available to most? At Upfront we invested in such a company.

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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

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). We feature a prominent speaker at every event.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

But he confirmed that Insight took a majority investment, and that this funding comes on the heels of a lot of demand from financial and strategic investors to back the company. Jedox got its start way back in 2002, and in a way is a very typical European startup story. all previous backers) also participating.

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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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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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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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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Having read the majority of Peter Lynch’s investment books, I knew not to ignore the overwhelmingly positive feedback from our team. By building products to order rather than inventory, Dell’s inventory turns, capital efficiency, and ROIC were dramatically better than the competition. This is business model nirvana.

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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. The trend is further reinforced as American venture capitalists continue to chase yield by investing in less value-inflated markets, which includes non-U.S. Because the U.S.

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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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 22, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. Let’s listen to former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke in a 2002 speech he gave before the National Economic Club.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

BeamUP today announced that it raised $15 million in a seed funding round led by StageOne Ventures and Ibex Investments along with participation from angels including Workday CEO Chano Fernandez. “Construction and property management are among the last major industries to digitize. ” Applying AI to building design.

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