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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Back in 2005 Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called Blink that was about how our subconscious allows us to make fast decisions that are often as good or better than slow considered decisions. That work, which we call thesis building, helps us make rapid decisions in the absence of time and information.

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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.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 14, 2023

Register Immersive entertainment group NEON is reportedly considering a fresh capital injection of approximately US$200 million in its expansion plans. According to industry experts, NEON’s move to seek additional capital is its strategic intent to develop further and diversify its business operations.

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Jason Calacanis

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Unlimited venture capital for any winning startup (defined as a startup that can get to $500,000 in revenue), with reasonable gross margins and burn. ” “If only I had started a company at the start of the internet!” ” “If only I had started an app or cloud company during the ZIRP run up from 2009 to 2021!”

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. At the time almost nobody had heard of the following funds: FirstRound Capital, TrueVentures, Floodgate and SoftTech. I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

From 2005 to 2009, I was fortunate enough to be part of a small group of New York City innovation community leaders that sowed some of the seeds of the thriving tech hub we have today. Honestly, it was a fair bit of hand waving and maybe a little smoke and mirrors--saying in 2005 that we had a ton of startup-ready tech talent.

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Initialized Capital founder Garry Tan will become president and CEO of Y Combinator next year, the two organizations announced today. YC itself says it was founded in 2005 as “an antidote to the classic venture capital firm.” Tan will be taking over the role from Geoff Ralston, who has been with YC since 2011.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

If you want to raise venture capital more easily the advice could be quite practical and counter-intuitive. Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. They often have “dead&# or “tired&# investors who have stranded capital. It is 2010.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Ribbit Capital led the financing, which also included participation from DST Global, NFX and Zigg Capital. Flint co- founded another online real estate giant, Trulia and was its CEO and chairman from its 2005 inception until it was acquired by Zillow for $2.5 They were once rivals. billion in 2015. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

Upon thoroughly analyzing the data, we’ve been able to identify the total number of investment firms and amount of capital that comprise the RBI industry, the specific verticals and business models that are most actively leveraging RBI, and the typical profile of companies that access this form of capital. billion in capital.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 28, 2014

There’s a rule of thumb batted around the valley that the worst times to raise capital are in the dog-days of summer and after Thanksgiving. I’m using Crunchbase data since 2005 for tech companies in the US. As it turns out, this aphorism is only a half-truth. There are a few notable trends in the data.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The company is claiming this is the “world’s first” technology of its kind, and Daniel Russek, founder and CEO of Atarraya, told TechCrunch that Shrimpbox was an idea he got after college in 2005 when he started with a non-government organization working with fishing communities. For example, South Korea-based CellMEAT raised $8.1

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

financing back in 2005, “climate change” was some future event. That’s where growth capital and eventually infrastructure investments come in. That’s where government, national labs, universities, angel investors and venture capital come in. I know it is a capital-intensive sector. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Other investors in the round include Slack Fund and Cleveland Avenue , with Mike Gamson , Sterling Road , and Concrete Rose Capital as repeat investors. The raise makes Shells and Umubyeyi two of the fewer than 250 Black women who’ve raised more than $1 million in venture capital. Last year, less than an estimated 0.5%

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Sleek has announced today it has secured a $14 million Series A round led by White Star Capital and Jungle Ventures. The new capital will be used to bolster technology and product development, ramp up its headcount, expand its presence in existing markets and enter new markets, including Australia and the U.K. As it enters the U.K.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 31, 2021

Oakes is the CEO and co-founder of i4cp , the leading HR research firm, and has been a pioneer in the human capital field for the last 25 years. At the height of its growth in 2005, the company underwent some changes. We found a great example in Culture Renovation: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company by Kevin Oakes.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Other investors in the round include Slack Fund and Cleveland Avenue , with Mike Gamson , Sterling Road and Concrete Rose Capital as repeat investors. The raise makes Shells and Umubyeyi two of the fewer than 250 Black women who’ve raised more than $1 million in venture capital. Last year, less than an estimated 0.5%

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

In the same period, the amount of seed capital invested in the US has increased about 10x from $200M per year to $2B. That’s not to say there’s a Series A crunch, where a surfeit of seed companies are vying for a small pool of Series A capital. Today, 70% of startups in the US that raise a Series A have raised a seed round.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In 2005, three entrepreneurs — Vadim Vladimirskiy, Stuart Gabel and Niall Keegan — co-founded Adar, a Chicago-based company providing “streaming IT” and IT-as-a-service products mainly to small- and medium-sized businesses. ” It likely helps that Nerdio has a close working relationship with Microsoft.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The startup was founded in 2005 by a 15-year-old, Andrew Sutherland. Quizlet has raised a majority of its $62 million in venture capital under Glotzbach. It was fully bootstrapped until 2015. Glotzbach, who was previously an executive at YouTube, then joined in 2016.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

I don''t remember when I started talking to Rob, but I know it was before February of 2005, because I found "rob@businesspundit.com" in the contacts I ported over when I left GM and went to USV. Venture Capital & Technology' It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

Magenta aims to use its latest capital infusion to expand into eight new cities in the next two years, and grow its fleet to 4,000 three- and four-wheeled EVs in the next year. The company partners with local and global OEMs to supply its fleet, such as Tata Motors, Mahindra, Piago, Omega Seiki and Euler, among others.

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MARCH 15, 2012

So what would have happened had Sean met Joshua Schachter in 2005--would Josh have still sold out early to Yahoo! I'm not surprised, because New Yorkers have more of a trading/investment mentality--thinking that it's better to take a sure $100 million than go for a home run with a lot more capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Cloudsmith , a cloud platform for software supply chain management, has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global, which it claims is the largest-ever Series A funding round in Northern Ireland since 2005 (according to PitchBook data). The company plans to use the new funding to hire 60 new employees and expand its U.S.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Back in 2005, I was a lowly analyst at Union Square Ventures with a million product ideas that I'd blog about all the time. I'm so excited to hear that Indeed.com, a company that Union Square Ventures invested in while I worked there, just exited for a reported billion dollars.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

But do the locations of startups affect their ability to raise follow on capital? Using Crunchbase data , I charted the financing follow-on rates across the 12 US cities in which at least 10 seeds, 3 Series As and 3 Series Bs have occured in the Crunchbase data set from 2005-2014. Great entrepreneurs can come from anywhere.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

billion , it begged an obvious question: If the original idea didn’t work, why not adjust its model or do something completely different while it still had capital? Box launched in 2005 as a consumer storage product before deciding to take on content management in the enterprise in 2008.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. There are many times when being overly capitalized before you’re ready is a negative. Availability of Capital.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

YC was founded in 2005 as an antidote to the classic venture capital firm. PG, Jessica, Trevor, and Robert decided to fund hackers and thereby enable the next generation of startup founders who would understand technology and its capabilities.

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Y Combinator

JUNE 25, 2021

Last week, we launched our Summer 2021 batch here at Y Combinator, the 33rd batch since our founding in 2005. It is also certainly correct that raising capital is extremely important to early-stage startup companies as they finance their product development and the growth they plan and hope for. This is the real secret to YC’s success.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. 49:30 Steve: When’s the last time venture capital actually led an innovation? After a recent discussion I had with Steve Blank it made me remember that I had left off one of the most critical factors – a culture of failure.

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