This is going to be BIG.
MAY 5, 2023
It will also be my last venture capital deal. Venture capital is a pretty opaque industry and if I can shed some light on what it’s like to do this, or to decide to stop doing it, I’m happy to help. I’ve decided that this is long enough for me—especially given the fact that when you’re in venture capital, you don’t just stop.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
SEPTEMBER 15, 2019
This simple and short blog post by the folks at Correlation Ventures contains the key to venture capital returns – the hit rate. Venture capital returns are highly correlated to a fund’s hit rate. In our 2004 fund it was five companies, but that is why that fund was so good. They certainly found it here.
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This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 30, 2015
Sam Altman of YC recently pointed out that pulling back during the downturn in 2008 would result in several big misses: In October of 2008, Sequoia Capital—arguably the best-ever in the business—gave the famous “RIP Good Times” presentation (I was there). These sound fundamentals drive the venture capital market over the long term.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
private equity firm Wavecrest Growth Partners and Canada’s Espresso Capital. Founded in 2004, London-based HICX serves a SaaS-based low-code platform that gives companies a single channel for onboarding new suppliers, replete with tools for capturing all the information that the various departments and systems within a company need.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
Now, the company has a new name, Supplant, and $24 million in venture capital financing to start commercializing its low-cost sugar substitute made from the waste materials of other plants. “Sugar is a massive consumer of water and in contrast, there’s big sustainability pitch for what we do. ” Next steps.
TechCrunch
MAY 26, 2022
Wale Ayeni , one of Africa’s well-known investors, has a new role as the head of Helios Digital Ventures, the venture capital strategy of private equity firm Helios Investment Partners, TechCrunch has learned. Interswitch receives $110M investment from LeapFrog and Tana Africa Capital. The firm manages funds totaling $3.6
David Teten VC
APRIL 30, 2018
According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. This initiative accelerates international opportunities for high growth, export-ready Canadian companies in Information and Communications Technology, Sustainable Technologies, and Life Sciences.
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