TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

Matt Cohen, founder and managing partner of Ripple Ventures , was the founding investor of Turnstyle Solutions, which was acquired by Yelp in 2017. VCs and university endowments should partner to make venture more diverse. I’ve been recommending that founders plan to have at least two years of runway in the bank (ideally three).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Less than 2% of venture capital funding went to all-female founding teams in 2021, marking a five-year low, new data from Pitchbook shows. So how is it that despite the recent boom in startup funding, the venture capital industry is actually becoming an even tougher place for women to raise money?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

What is happening to risk-taking in venture capital? For founders, especially those starting companies for the first time, the gyrations of the stock market, the resulting correction in public market tech stocks, and the inevitable impact on private company fundraising might seem disheartening. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Jeremy Abelson Contributor Share on Twitter Jeremy Abelson is the founder and lead portfolio manager of Irving Investors. Simply put, equity risk premiums (ERPs) have broken down well below the ranges that were established since 2008. Venture capital activity has declined Deployment of VC capital continues to slow down.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

I am thrilled to announce that we have added Hamet Watt as a Partner at Upfront Ventures. This is a big news day at Upfront Ventures. He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. He will be a venture partner. I’ve known Hamet for 5 years. I stayed close.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Why do they invest in venture capital? We raised $280 million.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Did I mention it only took the founder a month? venture capitalists are now asking tougher questions about start-ups' revenue and profits.". The reality is that, most of the time--like two thirds of the time--the venture market is totally open for good businesses to get fair valuations in reasonable turnaround times.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

Satoshi gave us the playbook to build a decentralized internet stack back in 2008 and I feel quite confident that we will have massive mainstream applications running on this decentralized stack well before 2028. So if we have healthier capital markets and more innovation than ever, what is up with the venture capital ecosystem?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

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. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. What happened?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Money is still available for founders who have storytelling skills and timely ideas, but investors have higher expectations now when it comes to revenue and growth, which could limit the kinds of startups that receive funding. But, as we’ve discussed previously, there is no shortage of venture capital in the markets today.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

AUGUST 15, 2021

ACT Tulsa is very intentional about creating an on-ramp to trust with founders who are Black and Brown. ACT Tulsa, the six-month cohort-driven accelerator program aimed at cultivating underestimated founders located in Tulsa and beyond, is up and running with its inaugural cohort of nine startup companies. By Scott Meacham.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Contributed by Alexi Cashen, an EO San Francisco member who is CEO and co-founder of Elenteny Imports , co-founder of St. As co-founder and CEO of Elenteny Imports, a B2B freight forwarding logistics company, and co-founder and chief revenue officer of St. Hildie’s Botonica, and host of The Alexi Cashen Podcast.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 2, 2022

A founder recently told me he would have built his company differently in another fundraising market. In 2008, tightfistedness dominated the market. Today, a story is sufficient to raise a 2008-sized Series B. In my notebook, I sketched this 2x2. Those constraints imply different trade-offs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

Then, like a gut punch, the financial recession hit in 2008. Out of school, he joined In-Q-Tel, which is the venture arm of the CIA. There]’s also Founders Fund, 8VC, a16z as part of their American dynamism effort. After high school, he headed to Cornell in the U.S., and became an associate at The Carlyle Group.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

We had Farb Nivi , who is the founder & CEO of Grockit , a website that enables online group learning. Farb is the founder & CEO of Grockit.com. Recently raised $7 million from Atlas Ventures out of Boston. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008. Here’s this week’s outline: INTRO to FARB NIVI. Total round was $2.5

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Founders Coop

APRIL 15, 2019

In early 2008 we announced the formation of Founders’ Co-op. million it wasn’t much of one, just some of our own money and some from a few local friends who knew how hard it was to be a founder up in this remote corner of the world. Where does the time go? We called it a fund, but at $2.7 We just weren’t sure exactly how.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

“When you can’t quite make it to product-market fit, there’s a third choice that too many entrepreneurs, and their investors, overlook: selling out,” says Kittu Kolluri, founder and managing director of Neotribe Ventures. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. “How can you choose? .

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction. What is happening to risk-taking in venture capital? I have looked at tech from both sides now (h/t Joni Mitchell ), as a three-time entrepreneur and as a venture investor through two downturns. More posts by this contributor.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

Gil Dibner, the general partner at Angular Ventures noticed : “… we live in an era where there are tremendous short-term benefits to successful pseudo entrepreneurship. founders could build startups for the long term, based on these trends. founders?—?challenges In other words, you have a Ph.D. Chart 1. %

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Dream It

JANUARY 23, 2019

Between that time and now, TrendKite raised approximately $46 million in venture funding. The founders of Trendkite came into Dreamit six years ago with just an idea on a napkin,” said Steve Welch, Dreamit Co-Founder and Chairman. “It

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

I had an hour to interview Mike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures. Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Venture Financings we Discussed. Spun off from Freewebs in 2008, based in Palo Alto.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong is obviously doing something right since they are now the preferred mobile payment platform for Facebook’s mobile credit offering but will compete against some serious guns – Boku has raised nearly $40 million from Benchmark, Index, DAG and Khosla Ventures – the A list of who’s who VCs. 15mm in Series A.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 6, 2020

Like the downturns in 2008 and 2001, this has been a very trying time for entrepreneurs running startups. Many entrepreneurs are reliant on outside funding, whether angel investors, venture capitalists or strategic investors , to keep the venture going. The pandemic of 2020 has tested most sectors of the economy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Though some businesses may never be truly sustainable, a venture firm in Seoul argues that emerging climate-tech startups will help big manufacturers do better overall. Sopoong was launched in 2008 by Jaewoong Lee , who co-founded South Korea’s largest internet portal operator Daum Communication, which merged with Kakao in 2014. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

That said, a paradigm shift of the broader venture landscape could be on the horizon. There is an unprecedented amount of information or knowledge that is now freely available to guide founders (e.g., Digital communities and social platforms such as Twitter, Signal NFX, YC’s co-founder matching, and Slack communities (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

The companies that took their first venture capital during the craze decided to join forces with other well-capitalized competitors. To give TechCrunch+ readers a better understanding of what education investors are looking for today, seven leading venture capitalists in the category answered a series of questions about the sector’s future.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The US venture capital ecosystem has grown 40x in dollars from $8b to $320b invested in 10 years. I remember joining in 2008, a green product manager out of Google who had just landed his dream job. The Redpoint founders & partners shared their expertise generously & taught me the craft. This era will be no exception.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

This year brought the first signs of skepticism and pressure on venture. I have experienced two major financial disruptions in my career: the bubble burst in 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008. It is more important than ever for founders to remain calm and be strategic. Valuations and dilution.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Oren Netzer and his co-founder Alex Liverant started DoubleVerify in the heady Web 2.0 days of 2008. TechCrunch Live is all about helping startups build better venture-backed businesses. Blumberg Capital was the company’s first institutional investor. Click here to register for free!

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 3, 2023

Partech Partners, M Venture Partners, AC Ventures, iSeed, and Orvel Ventures. We are thrilled to have the support of our investors and to have the opportunity to make quality healthcare services and elective surgeries more accessible and affordable in emerging Southeast Asia,” said Sheji Ho, CEO and Co-Founder of HD. “As

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

They sold 2 years later for $16 million In the financial crisis of 2008 we had a company that had jointly hired lawyers to consider a bankruptcy and also pursued (and achieved!) Almost every successful company is a mixture of very hard work by the founders mixed with a pinch of luck, good fortune and perseverance.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Oren Netzer and his co-founder Alex Liverant started DoubleVerify in the heady Web 2.0 days of 2008. TechCrunch Live is all about helping startups build better venture-backed businesses. Blumberg Capital was the company’s first institutional investor. Click here to register for free!

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Everyone loves an underdog, which is why investors and tech journalists are so fond of discussing startups that launched during the Great Recession of 2008, like Airbnb, Uber, WhatsApp, Mailchimp, Square and Venmo. Once a key driver of global venture activity, fintech investment slows around the world. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

You could even say some are bullish: “If anything, I expect our investment pace to increase this year as early-stage fintech companies prioritize operational discipline and product differentiation,” said Emmalynn Shaw, managing partner of Flourish Ventures. Gone are the days of investing on a whim.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

More specifically, an SEC filing from Sound Ventures , actor and entrepreneur Ashton Kutcher’s venture firm, confirmed plans to raise an artificial intelligence-focused venture firm. Are we going to see more celebrity-led venture firms jump onto the AI bandwagon? Ok, now onto the aforementioned essay!

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

This brings the company’s total funding to $85 million, Paystand co-founder and CEO Jeremy Almond told TechCrunch. During the 2008 economic downturn, Almond’s family lost their home. She told TechCrunch that while the venture firm is a generalist, it is rooted in fintech and fintech infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

Alexa von Tobel, co-founder and managing partner of Inspired Capital, will be joining TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 taking place September 21-23 to help judge the startups competing in Startup Battlefield. After raising $75 million in venture capital and growing the service to 1.5 that highlights entrepreneurs.

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