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For Course Hero, venture capital was once an unobvious solution

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Launched in 2006, education startup Course Hero started its life away from the attention of venture capital. Then, after going another nearly six years without raising venture capital, Course Hero closed two financings in 2020. After launching, the company waited eight years to raise a $15 million Series A.

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

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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. why the hell has seed financing declined so much in the past 3 years?? So What Impact Did the Drop in Tech Founding Costs Have on VC?

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Course Hero, once an edtech unicorn valued at $3.6 billion, conducts layoffs

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Launched in 2006, Course Hero was somewhat allergic to venture capital until recent. Then, after going another nearly six years without raising venture capital, Course Hero closed two financings in 2020. After launching, the company waited eight years to raise a $15 million Series A. billion valuation.

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Stop sensationalizing the ‘collapse’ of VC: Look at the data

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Brian Walsh is the head of WIND Ventures , the venture capital arm of Copec. What you should know about working with corporate venture investment committees. A recent article on Bloomberg asserts that venture capital activity is on the verge of collapse, but I don’t believe this is the case. In the U.S.

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Joseph Lee, CEO of Kairous Capital, Shares His Cross-Border Investment Philosophy for the Asia Pacific Region

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Register Joseph Lee has a strong track record in the finance industry throughout his career to date. Together with the rest of the Kairous investment team, the firm has collected more than 80 years of investment experience within the private equity and venture capital space across Greater China and the Southeast Asia (SEA) region.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

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Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened?

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Trends in Seed Stage Funding for Entrepreneurs

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Here are the trends in venture capital financings from 2006 through 2010 – the number of seed stage deals funded and total investment by region in millions of dollars. . Then, I looked at angel investment in the US over the past five years, as reported by the Center for Venture Research , in billions of dollars.