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. Firms like Baseline, Felicis, ff Ventures, Founder Collective, Freestyle, HomeBrew, IA Ventures, K9, Lowercase, NextView, Resolute, Rincon, Crosscut and the countless other great firms we all now know didn’t exist.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Cora , a São Paulo-based technology-enabled lender to small-and-medium-sized businesses, has raised $26.7 Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 This isn’t the first venture for Cora co-founders Igor Senra and Leo Mendes.

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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. based incorporation management company that has incorporated more than 450,000 companies since its foundation in 2005. It brings Sleek’s total raised to $24 million. As it enters the U.K. based SMEs. and the Philippines.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

million seed round led by Black Ops Ventures. Launched in 2018, the company’s software lets enterprises plan programs for their employee resource groups (ERGs), which enable employees who share characteristics or experiences to come together, share resources and connect. Last year, less than an estimated 0.5%

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

million seed round led by Black Ops Ventures. Launched in 2018, the company’s software lets enterprises plan programs for their employee resource groups (ERGs), which enable employees who share characteristics or experiences to come together, share resources and connect. Last year, less than an estimated 0.5%

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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. Make no mistake, however!

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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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Impact Hub

MAY 20, 2021

Annual food inflation in Nigeria reached 22.95% in March 2021 – the highest reading since October 2005 – according to a recent report by the Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics. Alt Foods and Farmspeak Technology, two of the ventures that participated in our New Economy Booster program, are working to tackle this problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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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. You will present in front of hundreds of the most successful Angel investors and Venture Capital investors.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 18, 2014

Just a few months ago, Pure Storage raised $150M in the largest ever venture investment in a storage company. Each chart shows the number of rounds raised bucketed by size from $0 to $5M and up to $150M to $200M from 2005 to 2013. Each morning’s news seems to bring another fund-raising announcement of ever larger scale.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 2005, Daniil and David co-founded Sibilant Interactive, which developed massively multiplayer RPG games. Together with Anna and Maria, David and Daniil launched the Libermans Company , a holding company in which each sibling has a 25% stake, and started Product Science as a venture under the holding company.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

What we’re doing at Meebo is trying to socially enable websites by allowing them to immediately get not only the social graph information but to do useful stuff with it. He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

According to figures from Crunchbase , Q3 venture capital dropped a mind-boggling 33% from last quarter and 53% from the same time last year. Haus, a direct-to-consumer aperitif business backed by the likes of Casey Neistat, Homebrew Ventures and Coatue, shuttered earlier this year. Now it’s the economy, stupid. Image Credits: Haus.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

A single platform isn’t likely to solve all the data problems hamstringing the enterprise, but entrepreneur Brett Hurt believes his latest venture — Data.World — can affect at least some change. In 2005, he helped to launch the startup Bazaarvoice, which provides data about retail customers’ shopping habits. .

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 18, 2015

Publicly-traded SaaS companies founded from 2008 through 2014 needed 50% less time to reach $50M than their counterparts founded between 1998 and 2005. SaaS startups are growing faster than ever before. SaaS companies are growing faster at every step in their path.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Siemiatkowski also shares what’s next for the company as it ventures further into the world of retail banking after gaining a bank license in 2017. We also learn how, under his watch and as the company began to scale, Klarna missed the next big opportunity in fintech, instead being usurped by Adyen and Stripe.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Every workman has a great quantity of his own work to dispose of beyond what he himself has occasion for; and every other workman being exactly in the same situation, he is enabled to exchange a great quantity of his own goods for a great quantity, or, what comes to the same thing, for the price of a great quantity of theirs. annual GMV.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Siemiatkowski also shares what’s next for the company as it ventures further into the world of retail banking after gaining a bank license in 2017. We also learn how, under his watch and as the company began to scale, Klarna missed the next big opportunity in fintech, instead being usurped by Adyen and Stripe.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

million Series E announced in April 2020, which was led by Riverwood Capital alongside Accenture Ventures. ForgeRock was founded in 2010, but its roots go back even further to an open-source single sign-on project known as OpenSSO that was created by Sun Microsystems in 2005. The company’s last round was a $93.5

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2011

I had a flip screen Toshiba at USV back in 2005, where I found myself to be as equally poor at note taking as I am now. It has some downloadable plugins that really improve the functionality around browsing, including Readability, which enabled me to grab text. I'd venture to say that it's the single best app available for the iPad.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Today Factual announced that it raised $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz & Index Ventures. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Currencies only began in earnest about 2,500 years ago and ever since have been a great enabler of democracy and social mobility, not the other way around. We’ll have to see how it all plays out.

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