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[OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved in Israel21c] Prepare for recession, reinvention and opportunity in post-covid economy

OurCrowd

“Historically, investing in times of economic downturns – such as after the Internet bubble burst in 2001 and 2002, and after the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 — has proved lucrative because you’re buying at a discount. That’s a very good entry point for new investors,” Medved says. Read more here.

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Taking advantage of Latin America’s market downturn

TechCrunch

As a banker covering technology, I thought there was an opportunity to invest in the region and decided to quit my job at J.P. In 2020, I founded a new growth fund to fill the funding gap in the region, giving me the opportunity to see how startups from recent vintages fared in a scenario of bonanza. Morgan and give it a shot.

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After bootstrapping since 2002, Articulate raises $1.5B on $3.75B valuation

TechCrunch

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. Coursera set to roughly double its private valuation in impending IPO.

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Domestika raises $110M on a $1.3B valuation to expand its learning community for creative types

TechCrunch

Domestika has been around for years — it was founded back in 2002 — but its focus and the attention it is getting right now taps into a couple of areas that have proven to be especially popular recently with users, and in turn, investors. We are excited about their opportunities to continue to grow and scale globally”

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

TechCrunch

Site59 was acquired for $43 million in 2002 by Travelocity, where Harris served as SVP of strategy and distribution prior to Expedia’s purchase of Travelocity in 2015. We think this is the next huge opportunity in machine learning and AI — mass-market adoption and mass customization.”

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search. I’m now back & ready for action.

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There’s no single path to entrepreneurial success

Innovation 2 Enterprise

4,371,752 is just one of the more than thirty-three patents issued to Tulsa born and raised inventor and entrepreneur Gordon Matthews (1936 – 2002). The military is an important partner with private industry — in developing human talent and in providing opportunities for service people to enter technical fields.