TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

How to Turn Your Startup into a Social Star: From building your audience to creating viral content that moves your business forward, Redpoint’s Josh Machiz and Rashad Assir will tell you how to capitalize on the multiplier effects of genuine online communities. Currently he’s a partner at Pillar VC.

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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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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. When interest rates are too low for too long, capital flows toward riskier assets that offer the promise of higher returns.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 31, 2023

provides a solution to help these businesses and individuals in securing and strengthening their cybersecurity through comprehensive services, such as a bounty platform powered by ethical hackers, ongoing monitoring and protection of networks, systems, and data, as well as incident response and recovery services.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 25, 2023

Over half of early-stage investments typically fail to return any capital, with the top 10% usually returning 85-90% of all the cash proceeds. We all know that investing in startup companies is inherently risky. The game is won on “grand slam home runs," not “singles."

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

AppWorks , the Taipei-based venture capital firm focused on Taiwan and Southeast Asia, announced today it has closed its oversubscribed third fund, raising $150 million. Founded in 2009, AppWorks started its accelerator program before launching a $11 million debut fund in 2012. for the other funds. Want to double your rate of return?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The groundwork was Aadhaar (“foundation” in Hindi), a nationwide database established by the government in 2009 to enable digital identity verification. UPI has since become the world’s fifth largest payment network by volume, and a model for the rest of the globe. Finally, the Indian market has historically been credit-starved.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

When deal-making slows, VC dollars typically favor the perceived market leader, starving other venture-backed businesses in the same space of capital. People join boards for many reasons, but one of them is to leverage their networks. This article originally appeared in Harvard Business Review on September 28, 2022. “

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2019

Once you do distribute the capital, you’re giving it to companies that will need a lot of help. Because I had previously met Jack Dorsey through the Union Square Ventures network, in 2009 I was able to grab coffee with him before he launched Square. Will you be going to the gym at all? Spending any time with family?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Existing investors Durable Capital Partners LP and Vulcan Capital also participated in the round. The company has built out its online sales platform, pre- and post-purchase customer support teams, retail showrooms, service van and a local service partner network. Rowe Price Associates. The funding round — the largest of a U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

The company collects and standardizes metadata from across the network, including DNS queries, network traffic, access logs from perimeter proxies, firewalls and spam box filters, then applies AI to correlate threat intelligence from these disparate data sources to isolate confirmed points of compromise.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Unlike Mastodon , Hive Social , or other existing social networks being flooded with dissatisfied Twitter users, Post News emerged two weeks ago. Post News is trying to capitalize on the “virtual watercooler for journalists” side of Twitter. Bardin previously served as the CEO of Waze between 2009 and 2021.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. So we went for it.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 1, 2022

The company, which works with smallholder farmers and co-operatives across the country to source fresh produce, will use the new funding to grow its sustainable and socially responsible agri-business network, leveraging technology to supply supermarkets, hotels, restaurants, and caterers with local products.

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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

AUGUST 11, 2022

By way of example, back in 2009, a neurosurgeon in Canada used a VR-based simulator to carry out a dry-run of a real brain tumor surgery in what was thought to be a world’s first at the time. and Sana Kliniken, a teaching hospital network in Germany. Other clients include Mayo Clinic, NYU Langone, and UCLA in the U.S.;

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

DIMO based on a network of drivers and fleets to collect and share their vehicle data to learn more about their vehicle, save money, and build better mobility applications.” “Gabriel is the Director of Innovation, focused on mobility and energy, for Elemental Excelerator, a climatetech accelerator founded in 2009 in Hawaii.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

Revolution Ventures led the round and was joined by existing investors Madrona Venture Group, Oregon Venture Fund and Mucker Capital, as well as Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus. CEO Karkal has a long history in the fintech space, co-founding Simple, an app unifying various accounts into one accessible bank card, in 2009.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Year-in, year-out, the gender gap in venture capital investment continues to be a problem women founders face. In the short term, women founders can take action to boost their chances at VC success in the current investment climate, including leveraging their community and support network and building the necessary self-belief to thrive.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

OCTOBER 30, 2019

In 2009, Ricardo Martínez, a young business graduate, faced his first severe ethical challenge at work. This real-life scenario has been fleshed out in a case study I recently wrote with Luis Antonio Orozco, a work colleague, and Martinez himself, entitled “Balance statement reporting at Premium Capital Funds.”. government.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2016

There are some things I learned about running a first fund over and above finding great companies that I think are important for new managers to keep in mind: 1) Venture capital will be humbling. It takes so long to hone your craft in venture capital that, for me, I could never be successful changing up what I do all the time.

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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. As of near the end of September 2009, we’re up 46% since the March 9th nadir (yes, I need to find a way to use one of my SAT words ; – ).

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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. Unemployment continues to rise – Unemployment as of September 2009 is 9.7% Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital.

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This is going to be BIG.

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 ". Perhaps I need to rethink that.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Clicker, which launched at the TechCrunch50 conference in 2009, was acquired by CBS Interactive. 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. He worked at Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves), a division of IAC/InterActiveCorp.,

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 23, 2020

Impact Hub San Francisco has been a driving force in growing both the Impact Hub Network and social innovation movement in North America and beyond. However, after over 10 years of operations we are sad to share Impact Hub San Francisco has had to close.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JULY 21, 2022

Since our inception in 2009, Andreessen Horowitz has been a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Historically, the largest number of great technology companies emerged from Silicon Valley for good reason – the network … The post a16z is Moving to the Cloud appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 17, 2023

USV’s current thesis is: Enabling trusted brands that broaden access to knowledge, capital, and well-being by leveraging networks, platforms, and protocols. With the arrival of Bitcoin back in January 2009, we got a protocol that had monetization built in. In the Ethereum protocol, that is staking to secure the network.

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This is going to be BIG.

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. 4/19/2009 – Still an agency.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

between 2009 and 2019 — providing data on 3,784 entrepreneurs who started 2,002 companies over this period. of the venture capital investments made at seed, early and late-stage over this decade. The report , by the not-for-profit community interest company Extend Ventures , looked at how VC has been invested in the U.K.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs. The people left standing had a compelling vision to build companies and we backed many in 2009. When this period was fresh, in Sept 2009, I wrote a very detailed assessment of what I thought had just happened.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

the first networked database in the U.S. He started working on it in 2007 and developed the business plan in 2009. We launched the first networked database and QR-coded pet ID tags in the United States in 2010. One of the challenges we’ve faced is fundraising for capital, which is a struggle that many start-ups deal with.

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EntreWorks Consulting

MARCH 10, 2020

This effort kicked off in 2009, and, since then, a wide and deep statewide network has been pushing goals of supporting sustainable economic development, improving soil and environmental quality, and ensuring that every Vermont resident has access to healthy local food. It’s definitely worth a read even if you’re not a Vermonter.

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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). Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

An online day will follow on May 20 to give our audience, including those who were unable to attend, a chance to tune in online and catch highlights from the live event, network and watch the full sessions. How Your Startup Should Think About Collaboration, Not Just Capital. How to Unlock Profits in Micromobility.

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