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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? However, to be a great VC you have to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time. Of course we can’t.

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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

Both Sides of the Table

Today we’re announcing that my partner Kara Nortman is becoming Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures and I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to welcome her to her new role. She worked for 5 years as a VC at Battery Ventures and co-headed M&A at IAC working with Barry Diller. She had all of the skills and traits we sought?

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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of audiovisual startup Chroma

TechCrunch

Chroma , a startup working to build a new type of audiovisual entertainment specifically for mobile devices, is now adding a Twitter co-founder to its board. The venture most notably incubated the blogging platform Medium. .” ” Founded in 2021, Stockholm-based Chroma last year raised $5.4 million in seed funding (5.1

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Advice to Rising VCs and Founders Navigating The Correction

Revolution

By Revolution Ventures Managing Partner David Golden and VP Alex Shtarkman Given the tumultuous year in tech and overall market uncertainty, a hot topic among institutional investors right now is the magnitude of potential markdowns in the coming year or two. since 2011. So what does this mean for venture capitalists?

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Dealing With Generational Change at VC Firms

Both Sides of the Table

Dan asked Fred about “generational change” at USV and in the VC industry more broadly. 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.

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How a Romanian medtech startup helped US doctors treat refugee Ukrainian cancer patients

TechCrunch

The “Tumor Board” project was initiated by doctors from the U.S., million in venture funding to date, says its web based HIPAA-compliant platform hopes to become a sort of “Miro for health”, allowing healthcare professionals to collaborate over patient documents and records. Meanwhile the Tumor Board project continues.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Optimized SaaS pricing, recruiting growth experts, VC surveys, more

TechCrunch

Shawn Carolan, partner, Menlo Ventures. Abhijit Ganguly, senior manager, Goodyear Ventures. Sebastian Peck, managing director, InMotion Ventures. HubStop introduced usage-based pricing in 2011 to boost its retention rate, then near 70%. and Khosla Ventures Acquisition Co. Dave Clark, partner, Expa. I, II and III.

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