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How Venture Funding For Early-Stage Startups Will Change During the COVID-19 Crisis

Dream It

In New York, for instance, there are now venture funds with a West Coast mentality and firms with an East Coast mentality; the same is true for firms in San Francisco. Will a financial crisis affect how venture funds deploy capital? The biggest question for a venture firm is whether LPs will fail to make capital calls in a crisis. “It

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When will IPOs return? The past may hold some clues

TechCrunch

Natalia Holgado Sanchez is head of capital markets at Secfi , an equity planning, stock option financing and wealth management platform for startup executives and employees. The crisis of 2002: The dot-com bubble. Natalia Holgado Sanchez. Contributor. It’s usually a version of: “Will my equity ever be worth something?”. What happened?

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Foreign investors, mature startups redraw New Zealand’s VC funding landscape

TechCrunch

Over the last two years, New Zealand’s startup scene has seen record venture and early-stage investment. 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.”. Elevating Kiwi startups into scale stage.

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Adventr uses patented voice-control tech to allow anyone to create interactive videos

TechCrunch

This could become possible with the latest venture from entertainment entrepreneur Devo Harris, a Grammy winner and longtime business collaborator of artists like Kanye West and John Legend. ” Adventr launched with a $1 million seed round, but hasn’t yet announced further financing.

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Black Crow AI raises $25M to predict which products e-commerce customers will buy

TechCrunch

Another relatively new company delivering data analytics to retailers is Black Crow AI , which today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A round led by Imaginary Ventures, with participation from existing investors Primary Venture Partners, Bloomberg Beta, Interlock Partners and Vast Ventures.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

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. In any given year there are about 50 venture-backed companies or so that are bought for $100 million or more. Or worse yet they may never get financed.

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Ed Zimmerman: The Growing Scarcity of Series B Venture Rounds

WSJ - The Accelerators

ED ZIMMERMAN : The funnel for venture funding isn’t cylindrical — it’s shape follows a more Darwinian conical path, as many seed stage companies march into the cone’s wide entrance and far fewer make it to the cone’s narrow end.