Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Venture Capitalists typically have partners’ meetings on Mondays. 2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. August 2011. Venture capital is an industry best served up from 7-year aged casks.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

This has been especially true for angels or seed investors as there is a new thesis that less capital is needed to start Internet companies so more money is being spent at this phase of the funding lifecycle. I’m a venture capital investor so I will still be looking to make investments. In the end.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic disproportionately reduced venture capital funding for female founders last year, despite a greater boom in fundraising thanks to megafunds and the advent of Zoom investing. The result was an uneven landscape in which capital flowed more toward men than was normal historically. billion for U.S.-headquartered,

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Acadian Ventures , an early-stage venture capital firm, announced its 2024 Future of Work 100, an annual list of venture-backed startups impacting how work gets done in the future. Easy access to capital over the preceding decade let startups pursue growth over profitability. billion in total capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. When the show has been processed it will be available here (estimated 8pm PDT). Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I guess that makes USV, Spark Capital, Foundry Group, Accel, Benchmark, Revolution (along with several others) pretty happy right now. source: Capital IQ. In any given year there are about 50 venture-backed companies or so that are bought for $100 million or more. source: Capital IQ. And well they should be. That may be.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

with $15 million to Prove It The venture capital world has started firing up a few cylinders again and looking for businesses that it believes will help us all succeed in ways that resonate with new ways of working as we begin to return to work. Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

HW: Frank is venture backed. Frankly, raising capital to work on this problem is and was privilege. Probably a correlation here with why there was more venture funding for golf tech than women’s fertility until very recently…. Look, socialists hate venture capital, and venture capitalists hate unions.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Today, it’s one of the most valuable companies in the world, with a market capitalization of more than $550 billion, directly employing 47,000 and supporting a far larger economy , from contractors and suppliers to iOS application developers. Granted most startups will never become another Apple or Google.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

OMERS Ventures’ Principal Michelle Killoran has long been looking for a construction tech startup to invest in. Toronto, Ontario-based OMERS Ventures is the VC arm of OMERS, the pension plan for Ontario’s municipal employees. Founded in 2011, the firm presently has about $1.6 Founded in 1902, it notched a reported $14.4

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Long before SoftBank launched its $2 billion Innovation Fund in Latin America, and before Andreessen Horowitz began actively investing in the region , Sao Paulo-based Kaszek has been putting money into promising startups since 2011, helping spawn nine unicorns along the way.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

In 2011, the company launched its first core banking product targeting microfinance institutions. Nigeria is becoming Africa’s unofficial tech capital. CardinalStone Capital Advisers , a Lagos-based investment firm, led the Series A investment. Other investors include V8 Capital , Constant Capital and Itanna Capital Ventures.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2015

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures recently joined Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Crosslink Capital, and KarpReilly in Hungryroot 's $2mm seed round. I first met Ben on January 29th, 2011 at an SLP mentoring session. Just because something appears at your door regularly doesn't make it a service.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 1, 2020

million from Plains Venture Partners I, as well as $1,000,000 from the Accelerate Oklahoma Fund and $500,000 from the Oklahoma Angel Fund II. Plains Venture Partners I, the Accelerate Oklahoma Fund, and the Oklahoma Angel Fund are each managed by iMCI. iMCI currently manages $81 million across five venture funds. Dennis said.

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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. The last time we checked in with Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, was in 2020 when the company raised a $50 million Series B round led by Iconiq Capital.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. One of the most common areas of attention respondents highlighted were startups focused on construction and manufacturing.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

In the past year, syndicates have been emerging as a key force for investing — and for startups seeking capital to get going — on the continent. This is because most of the capital in Africa for promising startups is typically distributed among many investors. So why launch a syndicate given the success of the other funds?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started her on the journey that would lead her to launch Joro , the Sequoia-backed startup that monitors consumer spending to offer tips on how to offset and reduce a user’s carbon footprint. What the company does have now is $2.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

She also covers consumer packaged goods startups, and medical tech and biotechnology ventures. She launched Silicon Hills News in 2011. He didn’t raise any capital for Chaotic Moon. He launched his latest venture, Strangeworks in 2018 and raised $4 million in seed stage capital. Register here. It’s free.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Had I begun this tradition earlier, for those wondering, it would’ve been Airbnb in 2012, and Uber in 2011.). venture capital deals, a spike in mega-financings where it’s common to see not only $100M private rounds, but companies that raise two or three types of financings like this in the same calendar year!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

There’s been talk of a slowdown in venture funding recently, with TechCrunch looking at it from different angles, including the fintech sector, a PitchBook report and even earlier on how startups should prepare in case it happens. We asked Beezer Clarkson, partner at Sapphire Ventures, and Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. That’s new.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Monique Villa is an investor at Mucker Capital , an early-stage VC fund investing in startups across the U.S. The wave of venture capital interest in geographies other than Silicon Valley has been building momentum over the past 5+ years. Image Credits: PitchBook/NVCA Venture Monitor. and Canada. And yet, here we are.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

That said, a paradigm shift of the broader venture landscape could be on the horizon. Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. 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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StartupNation

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Claira is a new Grand Rapids startup using AI to hire better and make use of human capital. They’re backed by Google for Startups, Connetic Ventures, MassChallenge, ID Ventures of Detroit, and TrendForward Capital, so you know they’re on to something. They currently work with 2,000 partner schools.

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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. At this stage, entrepreneurs may leverage their growth momentum to attract venture capitalists and other investors. Today, disruption is rather slow-paced.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The funding round for MessageGears was led by Long Ridge Equity Partners and participated by Argentum Group and Atlanta Ventures. With the new funds, MessageGears now has investments totaling to $80 million since its founding in 2011. This funding will help bring the company’s vision and platform to benefit more global brands.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Insight Partners provided the equity side of the equation, while Hercules Capital and Bridge Bank supplied the venture debt. Kumolus, which was founded in 2011 and raised $1.7 Cloudbolt , a Bethesda, MD startup that helps companies manage hybrid cloud environments, announced a $35 million Series B investment today.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

He is also the founder and managing partner of HartBeat Ventures, an early-stage VC firm with a focus on lifestyle, media and technology. These are just some of the reasons why we’re thrilled that Kevin Hart; his venture firm’s president and co-founder, Robert Roman; and Michael Elanjian, J.P.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Months after bagging $116 million in an extension of its Series F round, database vendor SingleStore this week announced that it raised an additional $30 million from investors including Prosperity7, the venture arm of Saudi Aramco.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 28, 2024

Leymah Roberta Gbowee , 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate and Liberian peace activist, trained social worker, and women’s rights advocate. Jacinda Ardern , the former prime minister of New Zealand who led with compassion and achieved impact. She is an advocate for climate action and a fierce champion for women.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Columbia Business School Tamer Fund for Social Ventures. Notley Ventures. Thiel Fellowship.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Released in 2011, “Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle” was a book that laid claim to the idea that Israel was an unusual type of country. It wasn’t long before venture capital firms started up and major tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Samsung had R&D centers and accelerators located in the country.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Siemiatkowski also shares what’s next for the company as it ventures further into the world of retail banking after gaining a bank license in 2017. In December 2011, General Atlantic and DST would invest $155 million in a round that gave Klarna the coveted status of a unicorn. People referred to them as the invoicing company.”.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In November 2011, David Rosenblatt took over as CEO and has been scaling the company ever since. Poshmark was founded by Manish Chandra in 2011. Julie Wainwright founded The Real Real in 2011. Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. They controlled distribution to the masses. Seems kinda obvious or am I missing somethign?

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

As Globes reports , our co-investors include Accelmed Partners, Alpha Capital, Maverick Ventures Israel, Mivtach Shamir, Dr. Judith Richter and Dr. Kobi Richter, David and Daniel Arison, and Mark Siegel, an executive at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and XPRIZE Foundation. billion in 2011. Read more here. Watch Online. Watch here.

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