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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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

The firm’s two flagship vehicles, Greycroft Partners VII and Greycroft Growth IV, closed on more than $980 million, according to co-founder and managing partner Dana Settle — cash that’ll be put toward investing in both early- and growth-stage enterprise and consumer businesses.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 14, 2023

With this investment, Croptix will accelerate the development and use of its patented in-field sensing technology. AEA invested in Croptix because of our confidence in the current capabilities and future potential of its innovative technology and its highly committed and talented team,” said AEA Executive Chair Paul Bergman.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 31, 2023

an innovative biopharmaceutical company, has listed on Nasdaq through a SPAC merger with Maxpro Capital Acquisition Corp. ” Nisa Leung, Managing Partner of Qiming Venture Partners, said, “Apollomics’ team has been working diligently to develop innovative cancer therapies and has built an extensive pipeline.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 26, 2023

The firm’s two flagship vehicles, Greycroft Partners VII and Greycroft Growth IV, closed on over $980 million, enabling the firm to continue to invest in early and growth-stage enterprise and consumer businesses. and 17 countries.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 11, 2022

Committed capital includes the Qiming Venture Partners Fund VIII main fund that focuses on early and growth stage Technology and Consumer (T&C) and Healthcare investments and the Qiming Venture Partners Fund VIII-HC parallel healthcare fund that invests alongside the main fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2006 I started using Facebook and most of my friends & colleagues thought I was strange. Sometimes they take off and they reward the early innovators. But how can you invest in technology unless you’re going to use the tools and understand them? They thought it was like MySpace and why did I need a MySpace page?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 19, 2022

eCommerce platforms such as eBay (founded in 1995), Shopify (founded in 2006), , Big Commerce (founded in 2009) and more have been around for years. Hard Times Bring Innovation. The pandemic and wars bring new challenges for businesses AND for leaders to constantly innovate and evolve. Selling online is not new.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 10, 2022

GK Plug and Play, the lead investor in this funding round, is is a global innovation platform. 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.

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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. In combination with the chart above, these data points imply that greater sales investments generate more revenue than in the past. 1998 34 11.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify In order to build a startup culture, a city or region needs some key elements in place – like an innovation engine to drive startup ideas. It also has a long history of innovation and a rich tech legacy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

The investment, which, according to the company, was agreed on and structured in 2020, follows the $6.3 million raised in November 2020 and led by Toyota Tsusho investment fund Mobility 54. That’s the purpose of the new investment — to provide supply for growing demand. million in a Series A extension round.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. A 90% disruption in cost spawns innovation – believe me.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 22, 2022

We have a mission at i2E to invest in entrepreneurs and help them build successful high growth companies right here in Oklahoma. Our most recent cohort of entrepreneurs brought their innovative ideas across diverse areas of software development, biotechnology and agriculture to the program.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

AT&T small business is providing innovative and business-changing solutions. Should I invest to get ahead during this time? From entrepreneurs to emerging businesses to small businesses — this is where innovation comes from. You're going to see some amazing technological innovations that come out during this timeframe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” million USD) through its Atlantic Innovation Fund (AIF). Each province tends to have a godfather/cheerleader who has championed local startups through investment, advice and connections.

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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. Despite the company’s innovation, funding has been few and far between, as with many deep tech platforms with a significant focus on Africa. He went into a coma for three weeks.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Though this stage poses the least amount of pressure on an entrepreneur, some mistakes can still upend an innovative startup idea. 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. million.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. This outer borough community is fueled by the creativity of an even wider assortment of innovators--and what I find most interesting is where they do what they do.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Are you thematic in your investing or entrepreneur focused? (11:40-14:15). In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. Highland has been around for 22 years currently investing the 8 th fund which is $400 million. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare). 11:40-14:15).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

VCs invested over $5.5 billion across 412 deals in 2021, more than double the amount of capital invested in 2020, according to PitchBook data. While they are not primarily focused on Texas, they are starting to invest locally, as well.”. Notably, S3’s investment thesis is focused on Texas. Comparisons to Silicon Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. Because you have multiple forces at work.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

An innovator in technology, especially monetization. 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. I know that I call them often to co-invest.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

” Senkut and Felicis invested in Cambridge Glycosciences almost immediately after seeing the company’s presentation at Y Combinator. customers until it doubles production in 2006. “The European FDA is even stricter than the U.S. FDA,” Senkut said. “[And] they got pre-approval for this.”

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Increasing the associated risk would have a chilling effect on the entrepreneurs who found these companies and the investors who fund them, diverting startup activity (and value creation) away from what might otherwise be some of the most innovative new businesses in the “Web 3.0” (See this blog post for a full discussion.).

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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. But if you invest smartly, and spread your risk over a large portfolio, the winners will pay for all the losers and return a nice overall profit.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Nancy Pfund is founder and managing partner of DBL Partners , a venture capital firm whose goal is to combine top-tier financial returns with meaningful social, environmental and economic returns in the regions and sectors in which it invests. This approach is a smart investment for agriculture players looking to reduce their climate impact.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

Back in 2006/07 when I sold my company and then worked at Salesforce.com there were very few options in SF for technology folk to build their careers at big, growing companies. Technology innovation doesn’t occur in a vacuum. It is adjacent to Mountain View, home to Google. Juniper and countless others. Today there’s many.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

I build an investable asset out of code. You pay me cash to invest in that asset. It’s just the age-old problem of innovation without regulation is very real in the crypto world. Example: I Bought Bitcoin in 2006. It’s rife with hackery and new takes on Ponzi schemes. That asset turns out to be worthless. I’m a user.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

That only changed in 2019, when it decided to incur losses in favor of investing millions trying to conquer the U.S. Angel investment from a former Erlang Systems sales manager, Jane Walerud, followed and she put Klarna’s founders in contact with a team of developers who helped build the first version of the platform. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2017

In this special interview, Zak and Ryan offer insights into their EO journey, the decision to adopt a new business model, and how a flat focus has led to a surge in productivity and innovation. In 2006, we officially launched Punchkick Interactive. We’re constantly innovating as a business because if we don’t, we’ll get left behind.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

So Fox ludicrously set up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs. The goal was to create innovations outside of MySpace and then MySpace would acquire them at pre-agreed prices based on how well they performed. This was Politburo-style innovation and was laughable. Enter Facebook.

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