TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

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. But what if you told the guy on screen to steer clear of the house, and he actually listened?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

million venture fund called Tiger Private Investment Partners XIV that it expects to close in March. The fund is Tiger’s 13th venture fund, despite its title — the partners might be superstitious — and it comes hot on the heels of the firm’s 12th venture fund, closed exactly a year ago, also with $3.75

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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. That’s a very good entry point for new venture investors. Director of Operations for Rewire (Israel).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

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. . Rising African venture investment powers fintech, clean tech bets in 2020.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 23, 2014

After graduating from Stanford in mathematical and computer science when he was just 19, Eric joined the newly-formed enterprise software company Loudcloud (which became Opsware in 2002). We believe that successful early-stage venture investing is just that: a craft. He stayed briefly at HP as a vice president.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

billion in venture capital in 2021 and $70.7 billion in the first quarter of 2022 alone, according to PitchBook’s Venture Monitor report. 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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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. . New Capital Partners were early investors in Teladoc, a virtual healthcare company founded in 2002.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

A lot has changed since Iyuno was started in 2002 by executive chairman David Lee while he was an undergraduate in Seoul. Iyuno Media Group is one of the largest media localization companies, and works with clients including Netflix, Apple iTunes, DreamWorks, HBO and Entertainment One.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

Register The once futuristic scene of iris recognition for identification, seen in the 2002 film Minority Report, has become a reality in 2023. I’ve spent a significant part of my life dedicated to a single job, and this experience has also benefited me in this venture. ” placed undue pressure on the team members.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

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.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2019

” Once they identified the steps, they started using the formula with senior leaders from across the Fortune 500, governments, and not-for-profit organizations in 2002. David Komlos and David Benjamin answer more questions about their new book and what makes their formula uniquely applicable in today’s business world.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

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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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 18, 2015

The chart above shows the company’s revenue growth since its founding in 2002, according to press reports. Atlassian raised its first venture round of $60M after being in business for 8 years and growing to $59M in revenue. Additionally, this flywheel model is incredibly capital efficient.

SaaS

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." Analyzing venture returns without even looking at the 90's?

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

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

ventures

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

It''s kind of a funny answer to "When did you start Brooklyn Bridge Ventures?". So when did I really start Brooklyn Bridge Ventures? I got my first job in venture--at GM--in February 2001. 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.

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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. I wouldn’t say the have NO firepower but it’s not likely a lot left.

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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). 2009 has been the worst year for M&A in a decade.

VC

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 found a way to make our venture capital last when it shouldn’t have, at around the same time one of my all time favorite New Yorker cartoons was published on this topic. We were based in London.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2019

Adi Zuk is an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Cape Town, South Africa, and co-founder of Oya Venture , which aims to broaden the imprint of women entrepreneurs in Africa by facilitating the growth of women-owned businesses that empower others. Oya Venture. I want to change the world to benefit more women.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

SoftBank Group first invested in Iyuno Media Group through SoftBank Ventures Asia , its venture capital arm, in 2018. SoftBank Vision 2 will join Lee and investors Altor, Shamrock Capital Advisors and SoftBank Ventures Asia Corporation on Iyuno-SDI Group’s board of directors. Streaming services face their real test in 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Rex Salisbury, founding partner of Cambrian Ventures and formerly on the fintech investment team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), believes that early-stage fintech founders, particularly at the pre-seed and seed stages, “are the big winners in the current job market and are pulling in top talent that would have been inaccessible 6 months ago.

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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. 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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

The crisis of 2002: The dot-com bubble. When the market started to collapse, prices were dragged down even further by accounting scandals, such as Enron in 2001 , Arthur Andersen in 2002 and WorldCom in 2002. After all, at the end of the day, we’re all searching for the same answer: When will my paper wealth become liquid?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

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. I started my career in private equity in 2002, but my first job at J.P. Jennifer Queen. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Jack Selby, a former PayPal exec and the longtime managing director of Thiel Capital who attracted some attention years back for his low-key largesse , has a new, $110 million venture fund that he intends to invest mostly in his adopted state of Arizona, where Selby has lived since 2002.

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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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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. Nate Meir, for one, a partner at StageOne Ventures, expressed confidence in BeamUP’s trajectory. Image Credits: BeamUP.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 3, 2014

The revenue-on-invested-capital is the revenue at IPO divided by the venture dollars raised pre-IPO, inflation adjusted and measured in 2014 dollars. In other words, the efficiency score marks the number of venture dollars invested to generate one revenue dollar at IPO-time.*. Before 2002, the median ROIC never exceeded 0.9.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Natalia Holgado Sanchez, head of capital markets at Secfi, studied the impact of five downturns since 2002 to see how well privately held startups held up, “and, most importantly, how long it took the IPO market to reopen.”. The past may hold some clues. Image Credits: Rezus (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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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. Insight Partners, Precursor Ventures join Hustle Fund in raising new fund money. In any case, there are no plans for an exit anytime soon with growth going strong.

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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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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 30, 2023

xi) Venture capital fund adviser. Any public accounting firm registered in accordance with section 102 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ( 15 U.S.C. Any entity that is: (A) An investment company as defined in section 3 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 ( 15 U.S.C. 80a–1 et seq.) or the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 ( 15 U.S.C.

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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. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital? Venture Financing. million from Trinity Ventures, Founder Collective, Highline Ventures, NextNew Ventures. . Watch the show! My-Wardrobe.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Today Factual announced that it raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz & Index Ventures. I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. Let me explain.

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