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APRIL 20, 2011

If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital. One example is that they introduced a program where their founders can pool together shares from their company and exchange them for a small portfolio of other First Round Capital companies. I'm a huge fan of this innovation. and Half.com. and Half.com.

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JUNE 22, 2011

I guess that makes USV, Spark Capital, Foundry Group, Accel, Benchmark, Revolution (along with several others) pretty happy right now. source: Capital IQ. source: Capital IQ. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture. What gives?

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JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. The Spark Capital website (it’s one of my favorites). Current round: $10mm in Series B by Norwest (lead), Storm Ventures and Adams Capital. Other Deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital. Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started ( today and 2005 ), largely due to the emergence of cloud technologies, no-code tools, and artificial intelligence. has nearly quadrupled in the same time period (investments from 2005 to 2015 and total investments through 2021 ).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. 2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. Venture capital is an industry best served up from 7-year aged casks. tl;dr summary. We did not.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Menlo Park-based Structural Capital among other institutions that also joined in the strategic round totaling $35 million. Founded in 2005, NetEase is now known for its news portal, music streaming app, education products and video games that compete with those of Tencent. It is a natural fit for us to become partners,” he added.

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 27, 2024

.” The Newark small business grant recipients comprised of a variety of types of businesses, gained access to capital important for those in the business sector. The grants may be used for capital improvements, exterior and interior improvements of vacant space or purchasing furniture, fixtures, and equipment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. What is different is that with a larger fund, they can deploy the capital faster than in previous funds, Plauche said.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The UK has had real-time payments since 2005, via the Faster Payments network. You can’t get a license without capital to absorb potential losses and be financially sound. The act provides capital requirements for Stablecoin issuers, defines consumer rights, and gives legal certainty to consumer protections.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Klarna’s first ever transaction took place at 11:06:40 am on April 10, 2005 at a Swedish bookshop called Pocketklubben, according to the abbreviated history published on the company’s website. competitors and sometimes described by Europeans as a Klarna clone. But first, let’s go back to the beginning.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

He didn’t raise any capital for Chaotic Moon. He launched his latest venture, Strangeworks in 2018 and raised $4 million in seed stage capital. In addition, he created Ecliptic Capital, a $100 million evergreen investment fund that could grow to $150 million by the end of the year. But he did raise $3 million for Honest Dollar.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It wasn’t long before venture capital firms started up and major tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Samsung had R&D centers and accelerators located in the country. And in 2020, Israeli companies made 121 funding deals on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and global capital markets, raising a total of $6.55 So how are they doing?

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In his 2005 book, The World Is Flat , Thomas Friedman recognizes that the Internet has the ability to create a “level playing field” for all participants, and one where geographic distances become less relevant. Launched in 2005, Etsy is a leading marketplaces for the exchange of vintage and handmade items. annual GMV.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

billion across 412 deals in 2021, more than double the amount of capital invested in 2020, according to PitchBook data. Today, Austin is more than just the capital of Texas. For years it was known primarily for its software scene — in addition to being the live music capital of the world. VCs invested over $5.5

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Klarna’s first ever transaction took place at 11:06:40 am on April 10, 2005 at a Swedish bookshop called Pocketklubben, according to the abbreviated history published on the company’s website. competitors and sometimes described by Europeans as a Klarna clone. But first, let’s go back to the beginning.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

They were part of the Ycombinator Cambridge class of 2007, after being rejected by YC in 2005 and 2006. I remember the Demo Day in 2007 where DropBox presented to about 30 Boston area Angels and Venture Capital investors. from Sequoia Capital and have gone on to raise over $1 Billion from VC investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

One of the points I tried to make is that as venture capital investors as an industry we seem to have a healthy disdain for public market investors. What is your revenue growth rate and what does this imply about your number of months of capital remaining? I spoke at Michael Kim’s excellent annual Cendana VC/LP conference today.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 13, 2020

About CEVG Formed in 2005, the Clean Energy Venture Group is an investment group with offices in Boston and New York which provides seed capital and management expertise to early stage clean energy companies. We want to leverage the synergies allowed by this unique combination and complementarity across the country.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

Media attention and fresh capital, however, may lead to deep tech becoming a meme, rather than a useful concept. A survey of US-born founders of 502 engineering and technology companies, founded between 1995 and 2005, showed that only 10% of founders had a Ph.D. Investments in European deep tech grew from €0.7B in 2010 to €9.6B

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. It would take 2 years to catch up but believe me they have the capital to do so. That is how great businesses are built. We did the planning work up front.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

In addition to his rich experiences working in the venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) sectors, Joseph has also sharpened his investment acumen through his multiple years in the audit and stock-broking industry before deciding to finally launch his cross-border investment firm, Kairous Capital , in 2015.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 5, 2015

Ten years ago, in 2005, I started working for Union Square Ventures as their first analyst. I was down to the last few weeks of capital at my startup, after almost two years of work. Venture Capital & Technology' Twenty years ago, I got my first job. Things didn''t always match up well.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

I am excited to share the news of First Round Capital 's recent investment in cloud-to-cloud backup service Backupify. We met back in 2005 through our respective blogs—he was writing at Businesspundit at the time. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2011

Back in 2005, when I was with Union Square Ventures, we changed our brochureware homepage into a blog. Last year, First Round Capital , my current firm, updated our page to make it even more interactive, pulling in shared links, Foursquare updates, and linking to our Twitter, LinkedIn, and Honestly.com pages.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. First Round Capital & True Ventures seem to spend as much time cultivated relationships with “second round capital” as they do entrepreneurs. First Round Capital requires Second Round Capital. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

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MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. 9mm – Investor: Sequoia Capital (Michael Moritz) – Read more: TechCrunch , PaymentsViews. 5.3mm – Investors: Madrona, Bain Capital, Khosla Ventures – Read more: TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 The paid had worked together before — founding their first online payments company, MOIP, in 2005.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1. style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005. So get out there and start raising your capital! The iPhone success is more profound than just iPhone apps.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sang Han has extensive experience in venture capital, having started in 2005 as an assistant vice president at Walden International for Singapore and Beijing.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. Tell us about your Series A round and your relationship with Sequoia Capital’s Roelof Botha. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. Series A round.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

In 2005 they realized that this business was going to evaporate over night with the introduction of YouTube. How did the Introduction of YouTube affect your business? It changed everything. JibJab has an ad model that relied on exclusive distribution deals with the big portals.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. But if 2011 & 2012 look more like 2008-2009 than 2010 or 2005-2007 then one of the most important skills of angel investors will be whether they can get their companies financed (or ramen profitable, but this is harder to sustain over a long period of time).

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 26, 2024

Founded in 2005 by a renowned coalition of innovators, including Dr. Finian Tan, Dr. Khalil Binebine, Dr. Jeffrey Chi, Dr. Damian Tan, Linda Li, and Raymond Kong, Vickers Venture Partners has firmly established its presence and influence in the global venture capital space.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Financed by private investors, and media conglomerate Vivendi, the company declined to disclose its total capital raised to date. It’s a chess server, forum and networking site that launched in 2005, with premium subscription that ranges between $5 a month or $29 a year. Moe than 1,000 videos have been recorded to date, Kasparov said.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. The spin-out took a few months to negotiate and didn’t actually close until February 2005.

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