TechCrunch
AUGUST 15, 2023
Brett Calhoun Contributor Share on Twitter Brett Calhoun is the managing director and general partner at Redbud VC. Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. the free YC Startup School courses). That said, a paradigm shift of the broader venture landscape could be on the horizon.
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. When I took the job, the New York startup ecosystem was nascent. You can''t rise up as fast taking a job at a VC firm in NYC the same way you could 10 years ago--and you can''t get that USV job as easily as you could.
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TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Plenty of good funding rounds, a highly skilled workforce and a strong entrepreneurial culture have given Amsterdam a booming startup ecosystem. The median seed round is $500,000 (above the global average of $494,000) and a median Series A round for a startup is $2.4 Janneke Niessen, partner, CapitalT VC.
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2022
Earlier in the month, S3 Ventures raised $250 million for its Fund VII, touting itself as “the largest venture capital fund focused on Texas-based startups.” S3 Ventures founder and managing director Brian Smith notes that when he started the firm in 2005, venture capital in Texas was finally starting to recover from the dot.com bust.
Don Dodge
APRIL 6, 2015
They were part of the Ycombinator Cambridge class of 2007, after being rejected by YC in 2005 and 2006. None of the local VC firms invested. from Sequoia Capital and have gone on to raise over $1 Billion from VC investors. Back in 2005 no one anticipated the success of YCombinator, not even its founders.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 21, 2021
2020 was a record year for Israel’s security startup ecosystem. As in other countries in “COVID 2020”, VC tended to focus on existing portfolio companies. COVID brought unexpected upsides: Israeli startups, usually facing longs flight to Europe or the U.S. And in 2019, Bay Area investors put $1.4
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 5, 2011
I’m inspired by the enthusiasm of the young, emerging startup ecosystem that is here. I need to take some VC meetings. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. Him: “I know, I know. Me: “Bullshit.
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