Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Blippy (and their competitor Swipely – which was founded by Angus Davis , who has a great track record from both Netscape and TellMe, both aim to capitalize on the era of consumers living more openly ala Twitter, Foursquare and Gowalla. Both companies have attracted a lot of attention – both positive and negative. OpenCandy.

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Dream It

JANUARY 23, 2019

Dreamit invests in startups with demonstrable traction that are looking to rapidly gain customers, initiate new partnerships and raise capital. Startups participate in one of Dreamit's three industry verticals: UrbanTech , HealthTech , or SecureTech.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

Rob messed around with some local video thing in 2008, which everyone but Rob thought was a pretty terrible idea. Later that year, I sent a tweet that inspired a company that initially only Rob thought was a pretty terrible idea: Using FlickrEdit and a JungleDisk network drive to backup all my Flickr photos to S3.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

“It is a significant signal for large South Korean corporates participating as limited partners of environmental and climate tech-focused venture capitals like us,” Han said. The early-stage VC had already set up five social impact funds and backed 81 startups since 2020, after Han acquired the firm in December 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? Well, they did ask David Chao of Doll Capital, who said that the " frothy bubble is over ". In 2008, people weren't sure if we were heading into a complete financial collapse.

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While the University of Michigan has been formally educating students on entrepreneurship for decades, the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem has notably ramped up in the last ten years and has effectively used its powerful alumni network to amplify its growth.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

But, still, every startup, especially those seeking angel and venture capital funding, are conditioned to project this growth curve – because investors love it. To capitalize on this excellent growth opportunity, some entrepreneurs tend to make significant changes in a model that has been working reasonably well for them.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Tribevest founder Travis Smith went on a fishing trip with his brothers in 2008 that he says they couldn’t afford. The brothers had dreams of finding their own financial freedom through investing in real estate, but didn’t have enough individual capital to go into business alone. “On

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

As more data moves to the cloud, it often still lives in multiple places on a business’ network, making it difficult for organizations to understand and access the right data they need and easier for data breaches to occur. His goal with investors was to find those that would continue to partner with the company over the long-term.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Today, the investor is announcing the launch of Voltron Capital , a Pan-African venture capital firm he co-founded with Abe Choi , a U.S.-based I’ve built that network within the startup ecosystem and reputation as an angel always ready to help. The investor believes companies will get capital quicker this way.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 22, 2023

HYUH, that was established in 2008, is the first university-based holding company in Korea that commercialises HYU technologies. He added that cross-border success depends on the strengths of the ecosystem players. FVC is making the first close of its second fund called the FVC Green Future Fund. It also invests on HYU and affiliate startups.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 10, 2022

Institutional capital floods the market fueled by Dramamine and greed. Basel IV will mandate that any stablecoin issuer become a bank and keep a minimum level of tier 1 and 2 capital. The first three Basel Accords set the minimum amount of capital a bank must hold. Money pours into web3.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Sanchali Pal first woke up to the world’s climate crisis after watching the 2008 documentary Food Inc. The app also has a community component, connecting users with sustainability challenges, classes and other educational tools, along with a social network to communicate with peers to track relative progress. Image Credit: Joro.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). 15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

He has been a serial entrepreneur and investor as a co-founder of LaunchTime, an incubator and investor in early-stage tech startups and as a co-founder of Community Connect, which was one of the first social networking companies. Leah Solivan, Fuel Capital. Shardul joined Index in 2008. Image Credits: Leah Solivan.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The new capital brings the startup’s total raised to $19 million, which CEO Yury Selivanov said will be used to boost headcount and launch the previously announced hosted version of EdgeDB’s database solution, EdgeDB Cloud. Image Credits: EdgeDB.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Sarah Tavel is a general partner at Benchmark, where she invests in network effect businesses with a focus on marketplaces and social, as well as cryptocurrency. Tavel is also a founding member of All Raise, the nonprofit organization focused on women in the venture capital and VC-backed startup ecosystem.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. In contrast, entrepreneurs in most other fields risk a more significant portion of their own capital in their new venture , better aligning incentives.

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JUNE 19, 2012

6/15/2008 – Application network of its own apps plus agency business plus ad network. Buddy Media builds, promotes and monetizes one of the largest networks of engaging and entertaining social media applications on the web. Buddy Media can build an application and drive 1 million users in just a few months.

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Founders Coop

MARCH 1, 2021

And with over 200 companies in our combined portfolios, we’ve assembled the most powerful founder support network in the region. When we started Founders’ Co-op back in 2008, Seattle was still a company town. What’s different this time is mostly how the world has changed around us.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The seminal application of the collaborative web--Github--was launched in April 2008. That is the very month that Facebook became the largest social network, outpacing MySpace. The collaborative web arrived after the social web hit a tipping point.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

He goes hard out of the gate with his inaugural story on the site, covering how Wheelocity raises $12 million for its supply chain network for fresh commerce in India. And another $430 million for crypto : Crypto-focused Multicoin Capital launches $430 million venture fund by Jacquelyn. That was a lot of new funds all in one day.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Competitors: Playdom , Social Gaming Network. Are “strategic investors&# (e.g.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.” Let’s be honest – the same is true for VC’s.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The startup, founded by a former Palantir engineer and a Freddie Mac exec, is taking a data-integration focused approach inspired by the data giant and applying it to the real estate capital markets, its co-founder and CEO Charles McKinney told TechCrunch. housing crisis.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2019

By Manny Padda, the founder of New Avenue Capital and an EO Vancouver member. After selling Tio Networks, his online bill payment company, to PayPal for $304 million , he started a health technology company called WELL—and multiple employees, investors and contractors followed him there. Take Canadian entrepreneur Hamed Shahbazi.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

’s 2008 Climate Change Act — and is funded by the Quadrature Climate Foundation, a climate-focused corporate social responsibility initiative launched by algorithmic trading tech firm, Quadrature Capital, in 2019. The incubator was founded by Baroness Bryony Worthington, who was the lead author of the U.K.’s

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

Raising capital for a new fund is always hard. A number of firms provide infrastructure for emerging VCs, e.g., Capria , Draper Venture Network , Oper8r , and Recast Capital , and may provide capital or assistance in raising capital. Certain family offices also make these investments on an ad-hoc basis.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The round was led by Pan-African early-stage venture capital firm, TLcom Capital , with participation from nonprofit Women’s World Banking. The raise comes after Pula closed $1 million in seed investment from Rocher Participations with support from Accion Venture Lab, Omidyar Network and several angel investors in 2018. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2021

Before launching Praava Health , a company that combines telemedicine with physical clinics, Sylvana Sinha had a successful career in international law, including serving as a foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and working for the World Bank in Afghanistan.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Since then, the company has created a network of 30 staffed primary care providers (PCPs in industry shorthand), who treat female patients online, without phone or video calls. A 2021 study published in “ The Annals of Internal Medicine” analyzed 142 million primary care visits among people who had insurance between 2008 and 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

And Mike believes that entrepreneurs often need less capital to get started these days. Spun off from Freewebs in 2008, based in Palo Alto. Operates a ‘Voice and Visual Mobile Advertising Network’ called MobileAd Xchange that delivers in-call voice advertisements and follow-up visual engagements (SMS, MMS). Total raised: $30mm.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Founded in August 2008 in Palo Alto, CA, by Sam Christiansen and Keith Lee. When the show has been processed it will be available here (estimated 8pm PDT). Go Boulder! Total Raised: $9.64mm.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

By its nature, sales is one of the most social faces of a business, so it’s no surprise that there are tools being built for sales teams that are tapping into some of the most interesting dynamics of the world of social networking, and that the startups that are doing this most successfully are making a killing.

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Haystack

JUNE 25, 2018

Founded about a decade ago, NYC-based AppNexus went on to raise well over $300M in private capital. AT&T’s logic is that these new generations are mobile-first, so if they buy an AT&T network phone, that is potentially extensible at home into a new service relationship around live and premium television content.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. It’s my job to invest wisely in entrepreneurs who are capital efficient, who innovate in ways that pay off economically in good markets or bad and who plan for worst-case scenarios.

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