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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This is a big news day at Upfront Ventures. But as sweet as that success has been (we invested pre-revenue in a small team) today my even more important news was the further expansion of our partner ranks. Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa.

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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. This is just one of the numerous internal programs that the venture capital giant offers to founders.

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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. YC''s best investing days may be behind it.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing. For venture capitalists this isn’t troubling. It was an investment management class.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 13, 2021

In entrepreneurship and venture investing, “what if” is the cornerstone of our industry. Founded in 1998, i2E originated as the nexus of support for advanced technology entrepreneurs and a source of our state’s first organized concept stage venture capital. By Scott Meacham. We all engage in the “what if” game.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Investing is similar. The below analysis outlines an approach to quantify the attractiveness of investing in commercial real estate at a given point. Such hard data can increase investment conviction when either is tempting. This is a positive signal for investing. The highest score ever was 97.6

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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. Even then private market investors can paper over valuation changes by investing at the same price but with more structure so it’s hard to understand the “headline valuation.”

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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 during web 2.0

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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. Our last fund we raised was in 2012 and we began investing it in April of 2012.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Investing is similar. The below analysis outlines an approach to quantify the attractiveness of investing in commercial real estate at a given point. Such hard data can increase investment conviction when either is tempting. This is a positive signal for investing. The highest score ever was 97.6

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Navin Chaddha is managing partner at Mayfield , an inception and early-stage investor with more than 50 years of a people-first investing philosophy. What is happening to risk-taking in venture capital? This will help you ensure that they can continue to support your future capital needs. More posts by this contributor.

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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.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

According to PitchBook , VC investments were down 30% in Q2 2022 compared with 2021, and IPOs hit a 50-year low. While a few iconic brands including Uber, Airbnb, and Square emerged successfully from the last downturn, most venture-backed companies struggled during this period, and many ended up pursuing M&A strategies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

The Tory Burch Foundation, which was launched in 2009 by fashion designer Tory Burch, has a long history of supporting women entrepreneurs. billion in venture capital allocated to U.S. We see ourselves here just as an educator and a navigator.” of the approximate $238.8

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

Martino founded Bullpen in 2010 with a focus on post-seed, pre-Series A startups, and he led the fund’s investments in companies like FanDuel, Namely, Ipsy, SpotHero, Classy, and Airmap. This geographic distinction is now less about actual geography and more about mentality and style of investing of these types of firms.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. of the venture capital investments made at seed, early and late stage” between 2009 and 2019.

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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. As part of Fund III’s close, AppWorks is recruiting new investment associates and analysts, especially ones who will focus on sourcing deals throughout Southeast Asia.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 7, 2023

East Ventures, founded in 2009, has invested in over 300 tech companies across Southeast Asia, including Tokopedia and Traveloka, Indonesia’s unicorn companies. Other notable companies in its portfolio include Ruangguru, SIRCLO, Tech in Asia, and ShopBack.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 31, 2023

The lead investor, East Ventures , is a pioneering and leading sector-agnostic venture capital firm. Founded in 2009, East Ventures has transformed into a holistic platform that provides multi-stage investment, from Seed to Growth stage investments, for over 250 tech companies across Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company, with bases in both Austin and Australia, was started in 2009 and facilitates exits for millions of online business owners, some that operate on e-commerce marketplaces, blogs, SaaS and apps, the newest data integration being for Shopify, Blake Hutchison, CEO of Flippa, told TechCrunch. in 2020, up from 15.8%

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

So when did I really start Brooklyn Bridge Ventures? My godfather got me IBM stock right after that, so that''s how I knew that a stock market and investing existed. I started a company, failed at it, and joined First Round in 2009 to help them open up their NYC office. Venture Capital & Technology'

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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 fintech, the problem is especially prominent: Women-founded fintechs have raised a meager 1% of total fintech investment in the last 10 years. Venture capital is far from a level playing field.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 23, 2021

In venture capital parlance, “unicorn” describes a privately held startup company with a company valuation of over $1 billion. In literature and in most of life, unicorns are a rare mythical breed, more likely imagined than seen—but in the venture capital business, they do sometimes appear. Rising Value.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Venture capital (VC) firm Lifeline Ventures today announced a fresh €150 million ($163 million) fund aimed at early-stage startups across Finland. Lifeline Ventures has also backed unicorns such as open source enterprise infrastructure company Aiven , which hit a valuation of $3 billion last year. when invited to do so.

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Here are the trends in venture capital financings from 2006 through 2010 – the number of seed stage deals funded and total investment by region in millions of dollars. . VCs in NYC invested, on average, only $2.4 US Angel Investment – All Regions. Investment. All Seed-VC. Silicon Valley. New England.

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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). But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc).

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 30, 2021

One of the most challenging aspects of entrepreneurship and venture investing is that it can take a long time to know for certain that something works. Those of us who invest in very early stage advanced technology businesses talk about “patient” capital. First Capital. TBFP was the first capital in.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. At the time I pointed out: “If I had realized exits almost certainly it would be because I invested in a company that failed. I have done 6 VC investments – all within the past 20 months.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Without further ado, here are the five judges who will pick the 2021 Startup Battlefield winner: Kirsten Green is the founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm she formed in 2010. Clicker, which launched at the TechCrunch50 conference in 2009, was acquired by CBS Interactive.

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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. And Jamie hers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

But in terms of influence, speed and number of investments made since 2021, Tiger has led the pack alongside Sequoia. billion for its Private Investment Partners 14 fund. Its lead investment in Flutterwave, which valued the fintech at $1 billion in March 2021, was a return from a long hiatus in investing in Africa.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 20, 2023

million in additional investments to fuel smart retail and cloud drive into the Indonesia market. At the 2022 G20 Summit that was held in Indonesia, President Joko Widodo expressed his intention to focus on the digital transformation of the economy through investments in technology like cloud computing and 5G.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

So why invest in that period of uncertainty unless it’s early-stage and thus valuation matters less. If the next 30 days stays calm then investment will pick up. So, too, investments. It will also mean a certain amount of triage and also some mortality rates amongst investments. So plan your start date accordingly.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Now one hallmark of any trending sector is the amount of investment that one can see going into that site. That’s nearly a fivefold increase and that compares to just $438 million in venture capital funding for the entire decade between 2009 and 2019. So why are drones growing?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic might have upended the global economy, but according to Meagan Crawford at Spacefund and Chris Moran with Lockheed Martin Ventures, it didn’t dampen investment in space startups. Crawford and Moran both agreed that interest and investment in space will increase as more startups have successful exits.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2016

Now, that number will grow to $350k and the firm will be able to do a small amount of follow on investment. 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.

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