A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

I have not seen a better articulation of “native” than my partner Albert’s post from 2009 on native mobile applications. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Feb 16, 2023 Building Out the Climate Capital Stack What is a “native” AI application? What is a “native” Web3 application?

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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. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? They were a way to gather cheap capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

A portion of the capital — $10 million — was debt, while the rest was a Series A equity tranche led by Georgian Capital Partners. Savana was founded in 2009 by Sanchez, who previously served as the president of the international division of FIS. million in capital. ” To date, Savana has raised $54.2

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. So it’s unsurprising that typical “A rounds&# of venture capital were $5-10 million.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Mental health startup Ksana Health has received $2 million in seed funding led by re:Mind Capital, the mental health VC arm of Christian Angermayer and Apeiron Investment Group. to 13.1%) between 2009 and 2017. The answer Vira seems to offer is extremely detailed data on well-being that will be funneled to a therapist.

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Dream It

APRIL 3, 2020

In addition to his books, Geoffrey Moore assisted in writing “In a Downturn, Provoke Your Customers” for the Harvard Business Review in 2009. His strategy for selling in 2009 is relevant to any economic downturn. The challenge in adopting this approach is that it requires the role of your marketing and sales teams to change.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2019

In 2014, I published a post called Do Startup Require Less Capital to Succeed than 10 Years Ago ? In the analysis, I created a metric, the return on invested capital (ROIC). Startups going public from 2006-2009 showed a median ROIC of 0.42. First, availability of capital. The chart above updates that analysis.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Register Indonesia-based venture capital firm East Ventures and Seoul-based venture capital firm SV Investment have joined forces to establish a new fund targeted at $100 million. East Ventures, established in 2009, has an impressive track record of supporting more than 300 technology companies.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 12, 2020

We kicked things off with an event we called Hacking Education back in March 2009. Another interesting thing about this portfolio is that none of these companies have spent a lot of capital building their businesses. They have all been very capital efficient and most are cash flow positive at this point.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In general, periods in which capital is scarce, investors are cautious, and returns and asset values are weak offer the best times to take risks. Capital  — Measured by the lender tightening survey from the Federal Reserve. In it, he included the below table on various market signals to help investors calibrate their risk appetite.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2012

With the ascension of Kent Goldman and Phin Barnes to Partner, Christine Herron leaving to join Intel Capital and me starting Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , there are no longer any people at the Principal level. When I first sat down with Josh back in September of 2009 to talk about joining First Round.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 13, 2023

The move should restore confidence and keep startups solvent and their employees employed, but there likely will be some longer-lasting psychological effects relating to capital risk that we should all be on the lookout for. Look for future analysis of these points as more information becomes available.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

In the venture capital industry, “unicorn” is a term used to describe a privately held startup company with a company valuation of over $1 billion. Alkami, which provides cloud-based digital banking solutions for banks and credit unions, raised subsequent rounds of growth capital. Now major names in venture capital are involved.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In general, periods in which capital is scarce, investors are cautious, and returns and asset values are weak offer the best times to take risks. Capital  — Measured by the lender tightening survey from the Federal Reserve. In it, he included the below table on various market signals to help investors calibrate their risk appetite.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

MoveinSync: Revolutionizing Corporate Commutes with Diverse Solutions Established in 2009 by Deepesh Agarwal and Akash Maheshwari, MoveinSync has developed various solutions to streamline employee commutes for large corporations. Among the interested investors is Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Dream It

MARCH 19, 2019

Stephens has been involved in advising over a million square feet of tenant and landlord representation transactions within Manhattan and across the country since 2009. He has worked with clients such as Conde Nast, ING, Ernst and Young, and many more.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

Paul Martino, General Partner at Bullpen Capital. During our recent Dreamit Kickoff week, Bullpen Capital Founder and General Partner Paul Martino ( @ahpah ) spoke with our Spring 2020 cohort about the state of the VC ecosystem in the current economic crisis. Will a financial crisis affect how venture funds deploy capital?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 5, 2021

This study was based on a large sample of VC fund level returns from 2009 to 2017 and does not include the last few years which have been particularly strong for the VC sector. And I suspect it is getting more profitable, not less, as the capital markets and M&A markets are providing robust liquidity options for managers.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 7, 2019

With limited capital — financial and human — for the first few years of a startup’s life, it’s a perpetual challenge of either/or. However, there is one budgetary trade-off that Oklahoma absolutely should not make: When it comes to innovation and capital, it is not an either/or. Another engineer or an expanded website?

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Launched out of Betaworks in 2009 , the service offered real-time analytics back when Google Analytics made you wait 24 hours to see who was clicking around your site. Eons later, private equity firm Cuadrilla Capital has swooped in to buy it, Chartbeat chief executive John Saroff said on Twitter today.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Andreessen Horowitz’s recent hire of former Jordan Park Group Chief Investment Officer Michel Del Buono suggests the venture capital firm is getting into startup founder wealth management. Both Iconiq Capital and Sequoia Capital offer money management services. Andreessen Horowitz is not the first to dip its toe in this arena.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

What is happening to risk-taking in venture capital? As a venture investor, I have invested in over 60 companies, and while many have gone public or been acquired, the journey has included pivots, near-death experiences and navigating through the 2008/2009 downturn. More posts by this contributor. Be creative when tightening the belt.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality.

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Jason Calacanis

DECEMBER 10, 2023

” “If only I had started an app or cloud company during the ZIRP run up from 2009 to 2021!” Unlimited venture capital for any winning startup (defined as a startup that can get to $500,000 in revenue), with reasonable gross margins and burn. ” “If only I had started a company at the start of the internet!”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Andy Stinnes , general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners , leads early-stage investments in cloud businesses and serves as active board member and adviser for portfolio companies. Raising the right amount of capital after a correction. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. Here is why: The party is over.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

However, in this moment, I think one''s career in venture capital depends on changing your perspective. If you are a venture capital investor and you''re not preparing yourself to succeed in a more diverse ecosystem of entrepreneurs, you''re just going to get left behind. Venture Capital & Technology' Stop--AND think.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 20, 2023

In a statement, FunP said that it will use the recent capital injection to develop and roll out smart retail and cloud services solutions for the Indonesian market and other Asia Pacific (APAC) countries, under its business unit cacaFly and in a partnership with Ennoconn.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Imagine if, say, Autodesk had purchased it in 2009 for $100 million? Of the first four investments I made as a VC in 2009, two have exited and two (Invoca & GumGum) still are independent and likely to produce $billion++ outcomes . The abundance of late-stage capital is good for us all. Maker Studios?—?sold

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 8, 2023

Nguyen Xuan Giao, Investment Director at the Vietnam-Oman Investment Fund (VOI), said that as an impact investor, VOI’s investment thesis is to provide growth capital for companies that generate beneficial socio-economical and environmental impact on the community.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

Of course a nice chunk is primary capital, i.e. for the company balance sheet, to invest in growth initiatives, security and quality, and advancing our existing strategic priorities through acceleration and de-risking. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2022

It’s been a brutal year for many in the capital markets and certainly for Amazon.com shareholders. A remarkable accomplishment in the most unforgiving capital markets environment the company had seen. All this took patience: Amazon’s share price exceeded the dot-com high Oct 23, 2009, a decade later.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

And with the crash of Sept 2009 – March 2009 the market cleared out created an open field in which to invest, go slowly, learn and let companies mature before they felt the need to be “hyped.” It’s true that my job requires more travel than I’d like.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 7, 2023

Register Indonesia-based hyperlocal online F&B startup, UENA , has secured new funding from existing investor East Ventures and new investor Trihill Capital in a round that closed in Q1 2023. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? The amount raised was not disclosed.

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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. Will our strategy change now that we have 40% more capital? . Why do they invest in venture capital?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2015

As an active investor in the Los Angeles technology market we’re always seeking to better understand the data and trends of why our market has grown so rapidly since 2009. There are so many great, young funds in the market and many of them are attracting LP capital.

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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. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

“We looked back historically over the last decade and a little bit more, and it turns out that even during the 2008-2009 economic downturn, the space industry continued to grow at 7% per year,” Crawford said, adding that they saw almost no correlation between the performance of the Global S&P 1200 and the space industry.

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