Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 19, 2024

When you invest in your business with your own money rather than investment dollars, you pay attention to every penny. The so-called J-curve of business growth — a period marked by initial investment losses before the eventual upturn — was a dark and isolating time.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 7, 2012

It can't and won't be market scale or, in the near term, investment capital. I don't think the Valley really took New York seriously until Foursquare rose up in 2009. Despite a handful of investments from outside firms, I think you need an ecosystem capable of originality before outsiders seriously think about rooting here.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The last closed market we had was from about September 2008 until June 2009--10 months. We're seeing, for the first time, investment and some disruption in huge areas like education, food, healthcare, government and even hardware based startups. After that, we were pretty much back on track, growing every year.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 14, 2013

There was no strategic goal to build venture backed startup companies, but yet at least three companies in her community got VC investment last year. It was a happy accident when I got back into NYC VC in 2009 that I just happened to find the Ace Hotel--a space that was really conducive to meetings and founders working on projects.

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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. Roderick Purwana, Managing Partner of East Ventures, expressed his satisfaction with the SV Investment partnership.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The VC industry has different segments in it that have different fund sizes, different investment amounts and different risk / return expectations. If you’re an angel you invest your own money and you have nobody to answer to except your spouse. If you invest it in startups you’re a VC professional money manager.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. New research looking into how U.K. population.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on the skills I’ve developed in my career. To some extent Keith Rabois agreed with me about domain knowledge and argued that most of his investments are in the consumer Internet space as a result. Always have been.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Back in March 2009, USV hosted an event called Hacking Education. It was the beginning of our effort to invest in the transformation of the education sector. A few weeks ago, USV held its annual meeting, roughly 15 years after we closed our first fund.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

In 2009 he went to Silicon Valley to find seed investors. It was enough to secure a formal meeting with Thiel, who went on to invest US$1.85 We maintain that there is every bit as much scope for originality at this stage as there is in trying to find a breakthrough idea in the first place. 2 for his age group at 12.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The tech community has been having a long-overdue conversation about mental health and work/life balance and it’s something I’ve been talking up as far back as 2006 , 2009 , and 2014 on my blog and in public. I want every company I invest in to be a great working environment, and if it isn’t, tell me what I can do about it.

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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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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. From the beginning, we were deeply committed to Techstars’ “give first” ethos and mentorship-driven approach to startup investing. Bottom line, Techstars needed cash.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

YC''s best investing days may be behind it. YCombinator had a great run from 2007 through early 2009 investing at a time when there weren''t nearly as many seed funds and accelerators as there are now. Considering the myopia at the top, it''s not surprising that turning point may have already happened for YCombinator.

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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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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 13, 2021

In entrepreneurship and venture investing, “what if” is the cornerstone of our industry. What if that fund invested at such an early stage that there were virtually no other sources of capital for these companies? i2E now manages a continuation of $87 million in investment capital. By Scott Meacham. million in 179 companies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

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. 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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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

According to a recent Crunchbase study , the number of companies founded by women doubled from 10 percent of global startups in 2009 to 20 percent in 2019. There’s also been tremendous growth when it comes to dollars invested in female-founded companies. Myth 3: Startup founders don’t have kids.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 12, 2020

USV has invested in the education sector for a bit more than ten years. We kicked things off with an event we called Hacking Education back in March 2009. We have focused on “direct to learner” businesses and have mostly avoided investing in companies that sell to the established education system.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 13, 2023

As the situation is analyzed, lessons will be learned on everything from levered banking investment models and the impact of interest rate fluctuations on long term bonds to the allocation to cyrptocurrency investments.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

The funding brings the total investment to date for Portland, Oregon-based Sila to $20 million. 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. It was acquired by BBVA in 2014 for $117 million and shuttered earlier this year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

Stein, who began her career as a holistic nutrition counselor, started the company in 2009 after going back to school and learning about superfood ingredients and food as medicine, a concept that wasn’t as popular then as it is now. “It which led Purely Elizabeth’s initial investment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

A month later, the startup closed a $500,000 pre-seed investment from early-stage investors like Lateral Capital , Ventures Platform , Golden Palm Investments and Rally Cap. How fintech and serial founders drove African pre-seed investing to new heights in 2020.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 15, 2024

He also co-founded ParkMe in 2009 achieving the world’s most comprehensive parking database. He was a senior business development professional at Winton Group, a computer-driven global investment management and data science company. Joining Israel are two executives who held positions at BlackRock Alternative Advisor s.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

In 2009, he sold reCAPTCHA to Google , a transaction conducted just a year after the internet giant had purchased a license to one of his other research projects , a game focused on image labeling. Users would complete the security test while also helping to digitize books for the Internet Archive. The early design of reCAPTCHA.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 20, 2024

The two category-winning companies were honored live during the annual awards ceremony at ACA’s 2024 Summit of Angel Investing , the leading annual event for angel investors. supported by the TCA Venture Group’s LA chapter, have been engaged with this angel investing group for more than five years. “We

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 23, 2021

i2E made an initial concept investment through the OCAST Technology Business Finance Program (which iThryv repaid) early in the company’s life, and then in June of 2009, we made another investment in the form of a convertible note from the Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund (OSCF). We sold part of our investment and held the rest.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 30, 2020

In fact, according to a 2009 study by Dane Stangler for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation , more than half of Fortune 500 companies were started during a recession. They offer better investment opportunities. Since 1900, the U.S. economy has averaged one recession about every four years.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Yoon founded a seed fund, Forest Ventures focusing in automotive sector and was an investment director at SAIC capital, one of the leaders in China’s automotive industry. Before SAIC, she led the Corporate Venture Group at Maxim Integrated, where she led multiple strategic technology acquisitions and venture investments.

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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. The company was founded as iThryv in 2009 in Oklahoma City. First Capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

I distinctly remember being impressed by the possibilities of D&D on an original Microsoft Surface… back in 2009. If the experience is as good as they hope to make it, this is an investment many a player will not hesitate (much, anyway) to make. And I played with another at PAX many years ago.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The round is led by Warburg Pincus, but also includes investment from Qiming Venture Partners, Pavilion Capital, Eight Roads Ventures, Lilly Asia Ventures, Sinovation Ventures, BOLD Capital Partners, Formic Ventures, Baidu Ventures and new investors. In 2020, investment in AI companies pursuing drug development increased to $13.9

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Today, Muck Rack is making another kind of connection, with investors: it’s raised $180 million in what it’s describing as its first outside funding, having been bootstrapped since being founded back in 2009. Founders Gregory Galant (the CEO) and Lee Semel (the CTO) will continue to control the company post the deal.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

This was 2009 and his understanding of audience engagement was far beyond anything I was hearing from most people at that time. In a perfect world they would just hang out in our offices, work on tech ideas, help us evaluate opportunities, attend our investment meetings and be thoughtful advising tech companies that come to meet us.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Green has built her career as a VC by becoming an expert within the fields in which she invests, beginning in the consumer space and expanding to health and wellness, durable supply chains and more. Clicker, which launched at the TechCrunch50 conference in 2009, was acquired by CBS Interactive.

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