TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Ajay has been an instrumental investor since joining Bain Capital Ventures in 2003. He spends most of his time investing in early-stage application software companies, so if that’s you, you’re not going to want to miss this roundtable. Ajay is coming to Early Stage just weeks after Bain Capital Ventures announced two new funds.

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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. Lightspeed Venture Partners soon after announced $4 billion across three funds.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s been talk of a slowdown in venture funding recently, with TechCrunch looking at it from different angles, including the fintech sector, a PitchBook report and even earlier on how startups should prepare in case it happens. We asked Beezer Clarkson, partner at Sapphire Ventures, and Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. That’s new.”.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

It''s kind of a funny answer to "When did you start Brooklyn Bridge Ventures?". Henry told me that I should start a fund--me, a 27 year old former VC analyst turned product manager with no MBA at a startup that wasn''t really headed in any particular direction. So when did I really start Brooklyn Bridge Ventures?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

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. Andre Maciel is the founder of Volpe Capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Morgan, Gaingels, BMO Technology & Innovation Banking Group and Manulife also participated in the equity investment, along with platform partner and new backer Barclays. As in the case of many startups, FreshBooks was started to solve a pain point for one of its founders. 1Password first became a unicorn in 2019.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

LMS365: Tracking and reporting Image Credits : LMS365 The story so far LMS365’s history can be traced back to 2003, when dentist Bjarne Mortensen founded a company called Elearningforce that was focused squarely on on-premise deployments of Microsoft Sharepoint. Germany, and Australia.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

After interviewing several active investors in cannabis-related startups, we learned that the regulatory and functional landscape in Europe is just as fragmented as it is in North America. Investments and M&A in the sector are also being spurred by Germany’s promised legislation. Will Gibbs , principal, Octopus Ventures.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 17, 2021

By: Emily Angold, ACA Marketing Manager As an entrepreneur and seasoned angel investor, Bill Payne understands the critical importance of education to make well-informed decisions that determine the success or failure of a startup. The higher the valuation at investment time the lower your equity stake (and return) will be upon exit.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

So, there’s been this huge conundrum in the investment community. The second one is probably the most important in nuance, which is a lot of the use cases that we apply it to, correctness is really important, like robotics, but getting something absolutely correct is very, very hard and requires a tremendous amount of investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

Upfront Ventures has a deep-seated commitment to equality in funding & building diverse teams across all ethnicities, nationalities and genders. If you’re an entrepreneur who would like to see this clause in more startups please ask your VC to include it in future term sheets and link to it from their home page. “We

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. I acknowledged this in the article.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

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. I am not sure about you, but lately I’ve been hearing the same chatter from friends and colleagues at startups. That spurred investments in riskier assets.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

She is also principal of Broadway Realty, investing in, and repurposing, historic properties. She served as the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, (2003/2004), one of the largest Rotary Club in the world. McGee Award and was the 2003 Journal Record Woman of the Year. Get started!

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 2, 2012

It was June of 2003. Similarly, picking seed investors for your first startup in and around the craziness of an accelerator demo day can be just as scarring over the long term. Trivia question: What active startup investor has the most tats? Trivia question: What active startup investor has the most tats? ).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The startup, which finances electric vehicles and has plans to build, own and operating the corresponding charging infrastructure, came out of stealth on Wednesday with an initial $200 million in capital commitment. The funding comes from ArcLight Capital Partners, a venture fund that invests in energy infrastructure.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. Are you thematic in your investing or entrepreneur focused? (11:40-14:15).

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Fred Wilson’s perspectives on trends in consumer web investment created a big brouhaha over the weekend. Commenting on a WSJ article , Wilson offered his confirmatory observations that follow-on investments in the consumer web have become more challenging as momentum investors have shifted toward enterprise. of VC dollars.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 9, 2018

He looked at his resume, and asked just one question: “ What’s your edge? ” My friend got the job because his answer was differentiated, credible, and backed up by a history of investing success. Traditional venture investing is challenging. It seems reasonable to assume that USV’s investment strategy (i.e.,

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

In brief, a cap acts to place a limit on the conversion price of a convertible note such that investors are guaranteed a minimum number of shares for their bridge loans if the startup does a priced equity round at a high pre-money valuation – “high” meaning above the cap, which is often a heavily negotiated term. (The

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. The company pitched to River Valley Investors in April 2022 and RVI invested one week later. KNOX Knox created Frictionless Ownership to make owning investment property as simple as owning a share of stock.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Roccia joined straight from Georgetown the same year, 2003, and left as the magazine’s accessories editor in 2008. Yet they also have some other powerful advocates, including NEA investor Tony Florence, a kind of e-commerce whisperer who has also led previous investments on behalf of his firm in Jet, Goop, and Casper.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Written by : Regina Beach Propel(x) curated a list of five startup-led tech trends in the 21st century that transformed industries. This list primarily looks at deep tech sectors, with many of the mentioned startups having grown into household names and multibillion-dollar companies today. Startups raised $342.2

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Startups and founders need to come to terms with the stark reality that the rules of the game may be changed mid-play. Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion. In 2011, virtually every new consumer Internet startup incorporates a social/UGC element.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. They recently exited their investment in Gaikai for $380 million while their rival OnLive (who had raised > $200 million) just went through bankruptcy. I’ve laid out my policy on seed investing pretty clearly and publicly.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Back in 2003, Stérin co-founded Smartbox Group , the company behind many popular experience gift boxes. With Otium Capital, the family office has a broad investment strategy from leveraged buy-outs to real estate — and it has done quite a few startup investments over the years. It is Pierre-Edouard Stérin’s family office.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

.” Ibex Investors , which is based in Denver with offices in New York and Tel Aviv, was founded in 2003 with a “multi-stage” and “multi-strategy” investment strategy. What this translates to is a firm that invests in private and public companies from the seed stage all the way through to IPO.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Partners make investment decisions. ” In VC terms that means the key questions you need to answer are, is this investor: Geographically focused and have they invested in my geography before? Meet in person.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. Thank you, John.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

The new investment gives the company total funding of $32 million. He was also head of capital markets at SoFi and began his career at Deutsche Bank in 2003. Previously, Jain most recently served as senior vice president of C2FO, overseeing capital markets, card products and corporate development.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

So, I sort of grew up as a product manager at Google in the early days of the company working on Google AdWords, when we just launched AdWords, I think back in 2003. Again, kind of worked, I was actually the product director for Facebook ads, did that as well in the early days, and then also did a startup that was acquired by Yahoo.

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