Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

If you want to see the future of financial services regulation, look to the UK The foundation: UK’s banking market and infrastructure In 2010, the UK was dominated by a small handful of large banks. This enabled them to unlock further funding as VC-backed growth companies over time. or the rest of Europe.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By enabling customers that shopped online to be mailed an invoice with 30 days to pay, online shopping could be made easier and safer for consumers, which in turn helped increase sales for retailers. To attract the kind of tech talent required, Siemiatkowski decided he needed to woo a renowned tech investor.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The judges for this pitch-off will be Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator) on day one; and Sven Strohband (Khosla Ventures), Victoria Beasley (Prelude Ventures) and John Du (GM Ventures) on day two. ” Mar Hershenson — Pear VC. ” Expert panel of judges.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By enabling customers that shopped online to be mailed an invoice with 30 days to pay, online shopping could be made easier and safer for consumers, which in turn helped increase sales for retailers. To attract the kind of tech talent required, Siemiatkowski decided he needed to woo a renowned tech investor.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Venture investment in renewables has soared as global investment in energy transition more than doubled from $235 billion in 2010 to $501 billion in 2020, according to Bloomberg NEF. H2Pro is developing production technology to enable the wide scale adoption of sustainable hydrogen fuel. Exciting Opportunities.

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Unvalidated Learnings

OCTOBER 5, 2016

A VC treating an entrepreneur that way today wouldn’t stay in business for long… 7. Their growth naturally slowed down with scale but maintained a remarkable consistency over time: $3bn of revenues in 91, $9.5bn in 2001, $21bn in 2010 and $32bn in 2015. Miss one quota, he said, by even one day, and, well . . .

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. How do you leverage your VC expertise in politics? Are you politically active?

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. How do you leverage your VC expertise in politics? Are you politically active?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. The solution enables podcasters to edit their recordings with the click of a button, as a sort of digital audio technician in your pocket. Nomono is a software and hardware solution to capture and intelligently process voice recordings and spatial audio.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” They need to be focused on housing cost, transportation crime, and the kind of zoning that enables a critical mass of interesting local businesses to thrive.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to.

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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. When deal-making slows, VC dollars typically favor the perceived market leader, starving other venture-backed businesses in the same space of capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Founded in 2010, Pipedrive’s calling card has always been that it is sales software designed to serve first and foremost the needs of sales people not their managers — built by sales people, for sales people, if you like — but has since matured into a more comprehensive CRM platform play also spanning marketing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Ugandan technology-enabled asset finance company Tugende today announced that it has closed $3.6 San Francisco and Paris-based VC firm, Partech led the round. Between 2006 and 2010, CEO Wilkerson, then a journalist and researcher, spent a great deal of time using motorcycles ( Boda bodas ) for quick and flexible transport.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Interestingly, Assent was bootstrapped for the first five years of its life — from 2010 to 2015. Assent enables deep insight and rapid transparency to help ensure products are made with environmental and human rights standards necessary to compete — and win — in markets of the future.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Philippines-based fintech PayMongo, which enables merchants to accept digital payments, raised $31 million in Series B funding with an eye on regional expansion. Accel and Lightrock India co-led the Bengaluru-headquartered startup’s Series C financing round, reports Manish Singh, our man on the ground in the country. million Series B.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 15, 2014

The startup founded in 2010 that takes 7 years to reach the $1B mark hasn’t yet been granted enough time to achieve it. But for the companies on this list, distribution platforms enable companies to scale much more quickly than ever before. ZenDesk and New Relic are two recent examples. Today, that’s a big Series A.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc). But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. Some quick highlights include: The Role of a Seed Stage VC. Startup Lessons'

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I had finally appeared on the front cover of a magazine (TornadoInsider – then the top European VC magazine) but I felt so fat in the picture I never sent it to anybody. My wife said to me, “I thought you weren’t supposed to work entrepreneur hours when you’re a VC?&#. But now I’m nearly 42.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. Kind of like a law firm (or VC firm) with four partners but shortened to just two, people dropped off his second two words. The titles were: Mobile First, Web Second. Mobile First, Web Second (continued). Use that as a source of competition.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

In fact, Heddleston worked for Dropbox as a summer in intern in 2010. In fact, among the earliest use cases for the company was helping startups track engagement with their pitch decks at VC firms. Houston and DocSend co-founder and CEO Russ Heddleston have known each for other years, and have an established relationship.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

billion last year — up 153% year-over-year in terms of global VC deal value — and include a range of outfits, from payments companies to digital banks to corporate spend players. Cross River Bank gets unconventional validation with a $28M VC round. Financial technology startups raised $121.6 Track record of growth.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The increase is driven both by larger seed round sizes enabling companies to raise later, hence more MRR, and also the greater expectations in the fundraising market given larger check sizes sought by founders. 2014 and 2015 were two of the largest VC investment years in the last 20.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 24, 2014

Seed investment dollars have tripled in 4 years, driven mostly by VCs. When VCs participate in seed rounds, round sizes are on average 3x larger. VC seed round sizes have continued to grow by about 10% each year since 2010 and the number of MegaSeeds, i.e., those seeds greater than $2M, has grown by 5x in 3 years.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

But many of these aren’t integrated with the way that their customers want to communicate with them in 2010. You have hopefully established enough rapport and credibility by this point to enable you to ask a question. VC’s have a crocodile aversion as much as the next guy. So you’ve identified a problem.

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