Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

LivingSocial took in $583 million in capital in 2010 and 2011 with little left in time to show for the investment and tremendous dilution to the founders. There are only a few Uber or AirBnB investments to point to – where the street value of the company may ultimately validate that amount of investment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Ex-Rovio CEO Mikael Hed also invested and joins as board chairman. Founded in 2011 by 3D designer Marius Kalytis (now COO), CGTrader has become a significant 3D content provider — it even claims to be the world’s largest. 3D model provider CGTrader has raised $9.5

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

In marketing materials founders often refer to their customer base as a “community”, but there’s a huge gap between having customers and creating a community. they could invest in entrepreneurial communities and the best founders would then bring in new founders. It’s no wonder they’ve both performed so well. And it would be?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Founders like to create companies around what they know, and Frank Westermann and Anton Kittelberger know diabetes. They met and bonded over both having type 1 diabetes — Westermann was diagnosed over 25 years ago — and started the MySugr app for diabetes self-management in 2012 ( they won a TC pitch-off back in 2011 ).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The new capital infusion gives Miro $476 million in total funding since the company was founded in 2011 by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin. Andrey Khusid, co-founder and CEO of Miro. Individual investors involved include Airtable co-founders Howie Liu and Andrew Ofstad, Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman and DocuSign CEO Dan Springer.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Following the acquisition, BitSight will also create a risk solutions division focused on delivering a suite of critical solutions and analytics serving stakeholders, including chief risk officers, C-suite executives and boards of directors.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 12, 2016

Because I didn't get a screaming yes across the board, I sat on the deal, asking more people, trying to be peripherally helpful, but not jumping in and taking a risk. I even punted on the fundraising by adding them to the Open Angel Forum in February, 2011, giving everyone else an opportunity to do the deal, without leading it myself.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Kate Morgan is an EO Boston member and founder of Boston Human Capital Partners. They are my sounding board, and they fuel my own desire to be better.” ” As Founder and CEO of Boston Human Capital Partners, Kate Morgan started her consulting firm in 2011, on the heels of the recession.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In 2011, the company expanded to build themes for online stores. Even at the board level, we honestly asked if we should even be doing this. Everyone is saying this is a bad idea and you can’t compete with Amazon,” recalls Matt Mullenweg, Automattic’s founder and CEO. WooCommerce logo. Image Credits: Wikimedia.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After 10 years of leading the Impact Hub Network , Gabriela Gandel will move into a new role on our global board of the Impact Hub Association in 2022. When I joined the ‘Hub Network’ back in January 2011, I had no idea I’d still be here 10 years later, but I knew it was the right place for me to be! Here’s her story.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Written by Aaron Lee, founder & CEO at iluma Agency. Aaron graduated from EO Accelerator and went on to become an EO member in 2011. It was a cool morning in April of 2011 when I found myself wandering around this cliff side town of Positano, Italy. But I was also a little sad. That’s why the moment hit me so hard.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Luckily for us, we’re going to have a candid conversation with both parties in the relationship between Ironclad CEO and cofounder Jason Boehmig and his investor and board member Accel partner Steve Loughlin. Loughlin was an entrepreneur before he was an investor, founding RelateIQ (an Accel-backed company) in 2011.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2017

By Ron Lovett, EO Atlantic Canada member and Source Security founder. The year 2011 was financially devastating. Time to go back to the drawing board! The post Back to the Drawing Board appeared first on THE BLOG. I founded Source Security in 2002. I recently sold Source to the largest security company in North America.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

I myself coined the term ENIFA (everyone now is a f **g angel) in 2011 but it didn’t stick as well as the term Unicorn did. Another founder … “When I pitched the idea to Adam, he was super on board,” Mr. Sloyan said. If anything it felt like a public service to founders to me. All of my partners at Upfront do.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Aaron Lee is the CEO and founder of iluma Agency (formerly Illuminati Studios) and joined EO South Florida in 2011. . I joined EO Accelerator in 2009, when I owned a business and my business owned me. I had been bumping up against the growth ceiling for 10 years and needed to understand why I was in business.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In 2011, Shivani Siroya founded Tala after leaving her job as an investment banking analyst. The founder and CEO emphasized that the new product offerings will help customers “use, save, protect and grow their money better.”. The idea came while engaging in some research for the United Nations Population Fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

I started announcing my Twitter thesis back in 2011 (still serves as a useful read today). Tim, my former co-founder and long-time colleague & friend who joined as global head of products. Now can we please do at least one board meeting in LA?!? ” What gives? Why all the fuss about the Twitter firehose? Chris Smart.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Octopus Deploy was launched after founder and chief executive officer Paul Stovell observed that many software teams were able to set up continuous integration (CI) servers, but struggled to achieve full continuous deployment (CD). Insight Partners has taken a minority stake in Octopus Deploy for $172.5

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

LivingSocial took in $583 million in capital in 2010 and 2011 with little left in time to show for the investment and tremendous dilution to the founders. There are only a few Uber or AirBnB investments to point to – where the street value of the company may ultimately validate that amount of investment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Luckily for us, we’re going to have a candid conversation with both parties in the relationship between Ironclad CEO and co-founder Jason Boehmig and his investor and board member Accel partner Steve Loughlin. Loughlin was an entrepreneur before he was an investor, founding RelateIQ (an Accel-backed company) in 2011.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Yet it’s already managing $3 billion in assets through a process that founder Mitchell Green half-kiddingly refers to as “rinse and repeat.” ” That’s true even with two partners: Brian Neider, who first crossed paths with Green at Bessemer, and Nimay Mehta, who joined the firm in 2011.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2021

She co-founded the Portland Seed Fund in 2011, but also serves as the Director of Portland State University’s Center for Entrepreneurship and manager of the Portland State University Business Accelerator, allowing her to monitor prospective and existing portfolio companies that originate from the university.

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Y Combinator

MAY 24, 2023

I first met Tom in 2011 when he went through YC with GoCardless , an online payments processor for the Direct Debit system and Tom’s first billion-dollar company. I was a YC partner at the time, and office hours with Tom quickly proved that he was an extremely smart, direct, yet empathetic founder.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

And honestly it was the single biggest roadblock at Upfront when we raised out fourth fund in 2011. The founding partner of Upfront, Yves Sisteron, has been a mentor for me since 1999 and was on the board of my first company. Many potential investors asked me, “Aren’t you just going to leave and form your own fund?”

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In 2011, under the leadership of Public Policy Chairman Dan Rosen (Seattle, Washington), ACA decided to engage Washington, DC counsel to navigate public policy on Capitol Hill, the executive branch and the Securities and Exchange Commission. ACA continues to follow the SBA’s lead in recruiting more diverse investors and founders.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Before launching Goodwater, co-founder Eric Kim was managing director at Maverick, an early investor in Coupang, and served on the company’s board from 2011 to 2017. Neither he nor Goodwater have holdings in Coupang, however, and are releasing the teardown as third-party research.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

.” Here’s who she interviewed: Clara Brenner, co-founder and managing partner, Urban Innovation Fund. Rachel Holt, co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital. David Lawee, founder and general partner, CapitalG. HubStop introduced usage-based pricing in 2011 to boost its retention rate, then near 70%.

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StartupNation

APRIL 20, 2021

Since I first invested in his prior company back in 2011, we’ve shared meals and wine, successes and frustrations. “At I met Greg in the spring of 2011 when he approached me to invest in his new idea. Greg and his wife, Nikki, are dear friends of ours, so I’ve had a front-row seat to his incredible ascent.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

CEO and co-founder Eugene Danilkis said it will be using the money to expand deeper in the 50 markets where it is already active, as well as focus more on specific regions like South America and Asia. The funding gives Mambu a post-money valuation of €1.7 billion (just over $2 billion at today’s rates), the company has confirmed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2013

first world problems and all] But I did feel like 2012 was particularly tough for me having closed out 2011 losing a close family member and dealing with cancer with both family members and close friends. After all, you’d have to be a really big baby to complain about being a VC. Some responded very well and are in recovery.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” The morning consisted of a presentation by Mitsue Kurihara, a Board member from the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), who launched the DBJ Women Entrepreneurs Center in November 2011; and a moderated panel with three female entrepreneurs: Donna Fujimoto Cole, Fujiyo Ishiguro and Sachiko Kuno.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

Bob’s founder history Sarah Wang: Yeah, I could not agree more. This is a little bit of moving away from the book directly: Bob, you’re a three-time founder. And the reason for even starting Crossbeam, I think, came from your own scar tissue as a founder. And that’s the ELG playbook: it unlocks precisely that.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

A week after the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase staged a direct listing, much of the focus remains on the wealth that the listing generated for executives at the company, its board members, and its private investors. One early investor who sold some of those shares is Garry Tan of the venture firm Initialized Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

2/ Transforming Old Industries: It’s almost cliche to hear founders and investors talking about their love of “unsexy markets” and using technology to transform old industries, and now in PlanGrid, we have a very large and notable example which should give other players hope in thinking this type of event can happen in their industry, too.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Talkdesk , a provider of cloud-based contact center software, announced $230 million in new Series D funding that more than triples the company’s valuation to $10 billion, Talkdesk founder CEO Tiago Paiva confirmed to TechCrunch. San Francisco-based Talkdesk now has $498 million in total funding since its inception in 2011.

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