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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

To think, I almost didn’t take that 2004 meeting because it was a NYC-based fund. I’ll also continue to work within the NYC tech community—now thriving at a level I could hardly have imagined when I first got the pitch deck for USV’s first fund as a Limited Partner at the GM pension fund.

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The Hit Rate

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

In our 2004 fund it was five companies, but that is why that fund was so good. In the last 15 years, VC has become an institutional asset class with the permanence and stature that brings seemingly endless amounts of capital to it. over ten years number, which produces high teens/low 20s IRRs, which is enough to sustain the sector.

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As the head of Helios’ new VC arm, Wale Ayeni sees value in frontier markets

TechCrunch

“I’ll call it a mid-cap VC fund. There are five broad sectors Ayeni said Helios Digital Ventures would be targeting: financial services, food security, talent and human capital, healthcare and sustainability. . Ayeni and the Helios Investment Partners team declined to comment on the VC firm’s overall fund size.

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The Characteristics of a Billion Dollar Consumer Hardware Startup

Tomasz Tunguz

Founded in 2004, GoPro is about 10 years old and during the past few years has witnessed spectacular growth. In other words, how many revenue dollars did one invested VC dollar create. First, to understand GoPro’s business better. Third, to draw conclusions for other hardware startups.

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Why venture capitalists are investing in international startups

David Teten VC

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 implies that the US is still the center of the VC industry, even while there is more opportunity for US VCs to invest abroad. . Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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Green Energy Makes Business Sense

OurCrowd

Musk, whose 2004 bet on electric cars looked risky at the time and now seems prophetic. H2Pro is developing production technology to enable the wide scale adoption of sustainable hydrogen fuel. It is not by chance that governments and corporations that grew wealthy from carbon are looking to a fossil-fuel free future. Just ask Elon.

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