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. More than 35 percent of startups in VVSEAI Fund IV boasted at least one woman founder.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I obviously don’t have a crystal ball so the economy could fare better than my gut, but here’s why I’m cautious for some time in 2010 or early 2011: Why is the future still so unpredictable? Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Register Venture capital firm 500 Global has successfully closed its 500 Southeast Asia III fund, amassing $143 million in capital. It serves as its primary investment vehicle for startups throughout the region’s growth journey, from pre-seed stages to the cusp of initial public offerings (IPOs).

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

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. Startup founders can start positioning themselves now to be acquired in that wave. How can you avoid this unnecessary fate?

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500

APRIL 28, 2020

Long before diversity and inclusion became buzzwords, we decided to make venture capital inclusive from day one at 500 Startups. Since 2010, we have expressed our commitment to those values in multiple ways. The post Why Investing in Female Founders Matters Now More Than Ever appeared first on 500 Startups.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 20, 2023

The post-Covid surge in venture capital pushed valuations & activity to record breaking heights. The red is a linear model based on data from 2010 to 2018 that predicts activity rates for each financing series of US & Canadian software companies. [1] Since then, investing activity dropped precipitously.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In addition to the P2P deals covered below, on the show we also talked about some of my favorite financing startups ( Wonga in the UK run by Errol Damelin , who is a superstar) and Affordit.com run by serial (and I mean serial!) They have done 3 startups in the customer support space and one that wasn’t. LendingClub.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. Concentration in consumer/branded products startups. Why is that?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 25, 2010

8AM Regulatory Scrutiny of Social Media: The Impact on PR Communicators in 2010 and Beyond. We're kicking off 2010 with demos from four exciting new local startups. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. RSVP: [link]. Tuesday, January 26th. RSVP: [link] Wednesday, January 27th. RSVP: [link]. RSVP: [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

If you want to raise venture capital more easily the advice could be quite practical and counter-intuitive. It is 2010. Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. But pass they will. Brain damage. Reputation.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Even in a non-hell year, running a successful startup is a tremendous lift. It’s not a fun task, but it seems worthwhile to commemorate the startups that have closed up shop over the past 12 months. The startup even returned some of its $75.5 We’ve put this list together for several years now. Atrium (2017-2020).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

NextView Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital fund, has raised an $89.6 The NextView Ventures team did not immediately respond to request for comment. The fund, which has offices in New York as well as Boston, invests in consumer and software-as-a-service enterprise startups at the pre-seed and seed stage.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. As a result of the IPO window shifting we saw a massive inflow of public-market capital into the latest stages of venture.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Dozens of healthcare-focused voice tech startups have popped up in the last few years which are backed by top tier venture funds. That’s why in this article, you’ll get a comprehensive look at the startups using voice technology to make healthcare better, along with some of the VC’s and accelerators that are backing them.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. Concentration in consumer/branded products startups. Why is that?

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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. Meanwhile, Sequoia’s business unit, Sequoia Heritage, was formed in 2010 and currently manages $16.4 billion, according to Bloomberg.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Written by : Regina Beach Propel(x) curated a list of five startup-led tech trends in the 21st century that transformed industries. This list primarily looks at deep tech sectors, with many of the mentioned startups having grown into household names and multibillion-dollar companies today. Startups raised $342.2 since 2010.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

During our recent Dreamit Kickoff week, Bullpen Capital Founder and General Partner Paul Martino ( @ahpah ) spoke with our Spring 2020 cohort about the state of the VC ecosystem in the current economic crisis. Will a financial crisis affect how venture funds deploy capital? Startups should know how VCs work.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history. Von Tobel joined the management team of Northwestern Mutual as the company’s first chief digital officer.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 4, 2023

Register Materials technology startup Alterpacks closed its pre-seed funding round with $1 million in investments to further its commercialization drive. The funding round was led by Plug and Play APAC and SEEDS Capital and was also participated by Earth Venture Capital and angel investor Alice Foo, the company said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

the free YC Startup School courses). Concurrently, the number of funds raised in the eight-year period up to 2022 was 2,700 , up from 883 in 2010. Family office investments increased by 5x , and corporate venture investments rose 6x , thus opening new capital avenues for founders who found it difficult to raise capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

As a result, there are a number of legal tech startups eager to not only help lawyers, but automate some of the processes bogged down by pen and paper. In February, Ex Parte , a SaaS startup using AI to predict litigation outcomes, raised $7.5 million in Series A funding. Also, contract platform Common Paper secured $4.5

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The silver lining to the horrors wrought by Covid is that the pandemic opened the venture capital community’s eyes to the world of opportunity beyond the traditional tech startup hubs of California, New York, and Massachusetts. Today, cities around the country are entering a period not unlike early-stage Detroit.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Register Singapore’s largest news publisher, SPH Media , announced its acquisition of homegrown startup and tech news outlet Tech in Asia (TIA) on November 1. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Willis Wee, the founder of TIA, also serves as its CEO.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In March 2019, SoftBank Group International made headlines when it announced the SoftBank Innovation Fund, which started out with a $2 billion commitment to invest in tech startups in Latin America. In fact, venture capitalists poured an estimated $6.2 billion into Latin American startups in the first half of 2021.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Between 2010 and 2015, Evernote raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital from investors including Sequoia, Meritech Capital and Japanese media company Nikkei. This proved to be a winning strategy — at least at first.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

from 2010 to 2019. The report first highlights the growth of venture capital on the continent over the past six years; within this period, investments in African startups have grown 18x. From 2020 to 2021, it grew 2x faster than global startup funding, it said. and Latin America’s 2.8%. Sectoral transformation.

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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. . In 2010, MoneyTree© reports that only 138 seed stage VC deals were done outside of California, New England, NYC Metro and the Pacific Northwest.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

What does data from the leading investors suggest Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash The current context supports research-heavy startups, there is even a special term for them?—?the the ‘deep tech startup’ search query is reaching one peak after another on Google Trends. in 2010 to €9.6B

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

My interest dates back to my 2010 investment in chloe + isabel back when I was with First Round. I''ve also run about 30 Kitchensurfing dinners across NYC for tech and startup folks in the last two years. Venture Capital & Technology' Otherwise, the land of the 5-15% cut is just really tough to make a lot of money on.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

But unlike the others, Juven is not a venture capital fund; the evergreen investment company is a spinoff from Goldman Sachs’ Africa principal team responsible for making several high-growth investments in the tech scene since 2014. South African fintech startup Jumo raises second $50M+ VC round.

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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. Venture Capital & Technology'

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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). The overall trends in our industry have breathed a new life into the venture capital industry. The iPhone was released.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Tan was a YC founder in the summer of 2008 and served as a partner there from December 2010 to November 2015. YC itself says it was founded in 2005 as “an antidote to the classic venture capital firm.” During his time as a partner, he advised and funded 700 companies and more than a thousand founders, YC says. .

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Despite the economic backdrop, startups continue to plow ahead. If the government lends at a low rate, then the cost of capital is less, so companies should be able to invest more at the same cost, and grow faster. We should expect four outcomes: More money should enter venture capital funds.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

She set up shop in 2010 with her personal savings and contributions from family and friends, and the business has grown. As with all businesses, these firms have two major sources of capital: equity and debt. Equity capital. The alternative lending industry is said to be a “gold mine” for venture capital investments.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

For the first time since 2014, venture capital funding to European edtech startups saw a decline year-over-year, with startups raking in $1.8 Optimism ebbed away, and European edtech startups raised only about $400 million in the latter six months compared to $1.4 billion in 2022 compared to $2.5 billion in 2021.

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