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. We have never been in a stronger position.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. Thomson One.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Founded in Estonia and now headquartered in New York, the company has taken a majority investment from U.S. When we entered the market in 2010, people asked us, ‘Why build a product in an area where Salesforce is already strong?’ enterprise software focused private equity firm Vista Equity Partners.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

I’m sharing my thought process because perhaps it will nudge some of you to angel invest too! I consider myself a furiously curious person, and angel investing is one of the most rewarding ways I’ve experienced to satisfy this curiosity. My angel investing hobby was making me a better Founder, CEO, and business leader.

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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. Deloitte reported last week that fintech investment decreased to $52.9 million in capital. “Today’s consumers prefer digital-only banking. billion in H1 2021.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

NextView Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital fund, has raised an $89.6 NextView Ventures was launched in 2010 by Rob Go , a former partner at Spark Capital; Dave Beisel , who clocked time at Venrock and Masthead Venture Partners; and Lee Hower, a former investor at Point Judith Capital. A hot Boston VC Summer.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Initialized Capital founder Garry Tan will become president and CEO of Y Combinator next year, the two organizations announced today. YC says that no one else’s role at the accelerator has changed with today’s executive shakeup. Tan will be taking over the role from Geoff Ralston, who has been with YC since 2011.

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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. billion, according to Bloomberg.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

General Atlantic, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Princeville Capital and sovereign wealth funds, ADQ (UAE) and Qatar Investment Authority co-led the round. . It comes just months after strategic — and majority — backer Alibaba invested $350 million in the company at a $9.4 The deal marks SoftBank’s first in the country.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Register Singapore-based venture capital firm Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India (VVSEAI) has successfully concluded its fifth funding round, raising $541 million. VVSEAI’s portfolio witnessed highly successful exits, most notably from investments in companies such as Grab , FirstCry, XpressBees, and Recko.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

” That might sound silly coming from a media outlet focused on technology — and the people investing and building it. Investment activity in aviation — specifically air taxis — continues to ramp up as illustrated by Boeing. The company launched in 2010 as Zee Aero and then merged with Kitty Hawk Corporation.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

SPH Media is on a path to broaden its readership base throughout Southeast Asia and accelerate its ambition of becoming a regional hub for business and tech news and events. With this, the company aims to boost SPH Media’s news offerings, particularly enhancing The Business Times (BT), a financial news publication.

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

At the start of 2010, there was some unwritten VC industry conventions that have been tested, challenged, and upended in the last decade. Acceptance that leading VC franchises can’t just invest in their backyard. I recall many Sand Hill firms stating a preference or requirement to invest only in the Bay Area.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Initialized Capital was venture capitalist Garry Tan’s answer to a need first highlighted by Y Combinator. As a partner at the accelerator from 2010 to 2015, Tan spent time working with companies to better understand what they needed from investors after they graduated. “I Today, Initialized Capital manages over $3.2

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

million in funding led by Tola Capital. . Breyer Capital, General Catalyst, Naval Ravikant and others also put money in the round, which brings B12’s total funding to $28.1 B12 co-founder and CEO Nitesh Banta is a former investor at General Catalyst — having worked at the firm from 2010 to 2015.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

Thoma Bravo, the private equity and growth capital firm, today announced that it would spend $1.8 “Digital evidence is an increasingly critical aspect of investigations and the combined company will be well-positioned to further market expansion, accelerate innovation and provide even greater solutions to its customers.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Interestingly, Assent was bootstrapped for the first five years of its life — from 2010 to 2015. Specifically, it works to help complex manufacturers proactively identify and manage risk, accelerate market access and growth and promote brand reputation. ” Canada’s startup market booms alongside hot global VC investment.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

We hang on just a little bit longer, expecting continued or accelerating growth and value as in previous periods of the same. Companies sometime run out of cash in the midst of their increasing success, and often find that sources of loans or investment are not freely flowing at the moment of need. But there are wolves in the woods.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

How is it possible that an over $5 trillion industry growing at more than 6% cannot seem to attract investment capital? Enrollment in private Medicare has doubled from 2010 to 2020 and is expected to accelerate further over the next 10 years. So why are we even discussing Medicare as an investment opportunity?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

500 Global, formerly branded under 500 Startups , has an accelerator that competes with YC. Unlike YC, 500 Global has geographic-specific accelerator programs, similar to Techstars, with focus on areas like Aichi, Japan, Cambodia, and Alberta, Canada. The moonshots. Rosetta’s AI algorithm “sees” which attributes (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Logicbroker , a Connecticut-based e-commerce company focused on cloud fulfillment, secured a $135 million growth round from K1 Investment Management. He founded Logicbroker in 2010, his third startup, and hadn’t raised much in the way of venture capital since 2013, just under $2 million, to get to profitability, Zamani said.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Since January of 2010, when I led my first seed investment in Backupify , I have led or committed to 27 investments. You start out at an accelerator or just raising some friends and family and that tends to be small potatoes. Venture Capital & Technology' Yes, it''s going to be a busy fourth quarter.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

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. Raising capital is often a full-time job, which takes away time spent on your business.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Embed that finance : Pezesha, a Kenyan-based fintech startup, is flush with $11 million in new capital as it seeks to bridge the gap between access to financial products and what is a “$330 billion financing deficit for the small enterprises that make up 90% of Africa’s businesses,” Annie reports. Christine and Haje. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

Investments in European deep tech grew from €0.7B in 2010 to €9.6B Media attention and fresh capital, however, may lead to deep tech becoming a meme, rather than a useful concept. Investment trends Surprisingly, the share of startups where at least one founder has a Ph.D. founders?—?challenges

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

We hang on just a little bit longer, expecting continued or accelerating growth and value as in previous periods of the same. Companies sometime run out of cash in the midst of success, and often find that sources of loans or investment are not freely flowing at the moment of need.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Getting behind the empowerment of women stimulates societies, entrepreneurship, job creation, accelerates revenue growth and develops inspiring and motivated leaders.” – Ingrid Vanderveldt. Back in 2010, Ingrid had the vision to empower a billion women by 2020. But, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

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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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Source Link

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Since 2010, populations in rural cities have been falling and according to the United States Census rural America now represents less than 20% of the U.S. New and enduring challenges in accessing capital. Anyone who has started a business knows that access to capital is essential. Population, though 97% of U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

million that was raised in a seed round led by Brick & Mortar Ventures and First Round Capital – to advance on its effort to “reimagine construction finance.” HUBUC, which touts itself as “AWS for financial services” raised a $10 million seed funding round co-led by WndrCo and Runa Capital. The startup emerged from Spain.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

But, still, every startup, especially those seeking angel and venture capital funding, are conditioned to project this growth curve – because investors love it. To capitalize on this excellent growth opportunity, some entrepreneurs tend to make significant changes in a model that has been working reasonably well for them.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The startup was founded in 2010, but it wasn’t until 2012 when it had built this complete stack and went to the market. Koneru, who previously worked at Microsoft and invested in offline spa businesses, said that while the startup is currently not turning a profit, its margin has improved and the revenue growth has accelerated.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

tl;dr + Techstars was once one of the world’s leading accelerator programs, but has steadily been eclipsed by Y combinator. Just two years later, in 2009, we worked out a deal to create the Techstars Seattle program, with our first program running in 2010. Bottom line, Techstars needed cash.

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Founders Coop

APRIL 15, 2019

Some friends in Boulder were experimenting with an idea for a “startup accelerator” they called Techstars. We asked if they’d be willing to let us try a version of it here in Seattle and they agreed, so we launched the first Techstars Seattle class in the summer of 2010. We raised our second fund around the same time, a whopping $7.7

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 30, 2022

( Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. The Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo investment banking scene is very close-knit.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Your own investment’s value may change because of a change in the value of the underlying asset and/or market preferences. However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. The HFRI Index returned 18.3%

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