TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Mar Hershenson co-founded and serves as managing partner at Pear VC, a seed-stage investment firm in Palo Alto backing companies like Guardant Health, DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar and Branch. Rich Wong joined Accel as a partner in 2006. Mar Hershenson , co-founder and managing partner at Pear VC.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It needs a couple of successful exits, which in turn drives angel investing as entrepreneurs growing increasingly wealthy look to help new founders building companies reach their own goals. It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 10, 2022

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, the firm has built accelerator programs, corporate innovation services, and an in-house VC to make technological advancement progress faster than ever before. We provide active investments with 200 leading Silicon Valley VCs and host more than 700 networking events per year.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 14, 2014

Last week, we proved SaaS startups are raising more than they have in the past and newer SaaS companies seem to be generating more revenue per dollar invested. Looking at the Median Sales Costs, which shows gross sales dollars in $M, the 2014 cohort does show accelerated spending compared to older cohorts. 1998 34 11.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone. In 2020, the venture industry continued to invest in startups, despite the COVID-19 crisis. Adyen launched in 2006, and in June 2018, it was listed as one of Europe’s largest tech IPOs with a value of €7 billion.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

In 2006, Alonge was a victim of fake pharmaceuticals and almost died after taking medicine that contained lethal levels of diazepam. So far, RxAll has stayed alive by winning grants and prize monies at competitions, with some equity financing from the likes of Africa-focused accelerator Founders Factory Africa.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As the entrepreneurs are hardly making any money to pay their personal bills, they devote a great deal of time and energy in making elaborate pitches for raising investment capital. Tinkering: The tinkering period lasted for almost 2 years from 2006 to 2008, where Andrew Mason first launched ‘The Point’ which eventually became Groupon.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

We have a ton of AI around money movement we do around payables, money movement we do around credit and extending credit, and accelerating and approving loans automatically, etc. So unless there’s some really obvious or transformative thing to do in your business today, it’s worth waiting a little bit to invest heavily in that.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Home to the Internet’s first true “accelerator,” Idealab led by Bill Gross. You could argue that choosing the name “first round” paints them into a corner in case they want to ever do a late stage fund, but I suspect they named it FRC precisely because they wanted to excel at early-stage investing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

And the broader question of whether VC’s will continue to invest in the Twitter ecosystem. Current round: $3mm in Series B by betaworks (lead)(largest investor in company), Ron Conway, Danny Rimer, Accelerator Group, Roger Ehrenberg, Howard Lindzon. Estimated 15mm downloads to date. Estimated 15mm downloads to date. LibreDigital.

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OnStartups

MARCH 24, 2021

An Odd Start To My Angel Investing. So I thought of an idea: Why not invest in startups? Angel investing is like having a niece or nephew. Both were actual companies (not academic exercises), and I decided to make an angel investment in both of them -- mostly because I really respected the two guys: Brian Shin and Mark Roberge.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Angel investing in tech startups is a gut wrenching and risky business. Most of them lose, but sometimes you invest in a “unicorn” and make 100 times your money or even more. Startup incubators and accelerators are everywhere today, but were relatively unknown when Ycombinator started 10 years ago.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2018

Why are more US VCs investing in international startups? But by 2016, US VCs’ share of the pool had dropped 1,200 basis points to 65% of global VC allocation, while more dramatically, only 54% of total VC investment went to the US, a drop of 3,100 basis points. Companies founded by immigrants.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2017

In 2006, we officially launched Punchkick Interactive. EARLY ON IN YOUR ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNEY, YOU RELIED ON EO GSEA AND EO ACCELERATOR TO HELP YOU BUILD YOUR BUSINESS. I remember finding a flyer in my registration bag at the EO GSEA Global Finals, which highlighted the benefits of EO Accelerator. It wasn’t for me.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

2006 was the last time I went out to raise venture capital. Chris writes that early-stage deals should have: Founder vesting w/ acceleration on change of control. The most common way is to grant acceleration on change of control. I tried to argue my views on vesting to a company I tried to invest in 2 years ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. Specifically we talked about what single trigger vs. double trigger acceleration works and “termination without ’cause’ &#. Founded in 2006 by Aaron Finn. Short answer: no.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

I started in 2006, learned garage doors, I was painting them at the time. Bad employees get fired, good employees slow down the company, great employees accelerate. But, it’s an investment. Not those on the front line, clearly, who you invest a lot in. Owning A Job vs a Business. It’s not a cost.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

” It will also use the funding to continue investing in its product, including adding in more integrations alongside the 250 it already has with a variety of big-name and lesser known email, payments, CRM, CMS and document storage services. “About 25% of our customers are already international, so there is huge potential there.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Last week at Web Summit, we were asked to interview outgoing Y Combinator President Geoff Ralston about the past, present, and future of the popular accelerator program. We also discussed where YC’s investing capital comes from and whether, given the market slowdown, YC will be changing its terms to reflect that slowdown.

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