2011 incumbents investing 
Haystack
NOVEMBER 25, 2018
Had I begun this tradition earlier, for those wondering, it would’ve been Airbnb in 2012, and Uber in 2011.). This could also be the signature investment for CRV’s Max Gazor, who joined the firm a bit after 2010 and has quietly been making great enterprise picks.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
Tech City UK, its predecessor, was launched in 2011 by former prime minister David Cameron and concentrated largely on the London ecosystem until 2018 when it merged with Tech North (based in Manchester). Gerard Grech, chief executive of Tech Nation, said the body’s work represented a “£15 return on every £1 invested by the government.”.
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TechCrunch
OCTOBER 21, 2020
Yin Wu has co-founded several companies since graduating from Stanford in 2011, including a computer vision company called Double Labs that sold to Microsoft, where she stayed on for a couple of years as a software engineer. Carta was just valued at $1.7 billion by Andreessen Horowitz, in a deal some see as rich.
WSJ - The Accelerators
JULY 2, 2015
For instance, as I’ve previously written , “In 2011, only 28% of Europe’s venture-backed tech deals were seed stage… [but] in 2013 and 2014, roughly half of all European tech venture deals were seed stage.” Moreover, seed funding was scarcer in 2009, so startups that obtained seed funding at that time had passed a tougher screen to do so.
TechCrunch
APRIL 26, 2022
. “[With the new capital,] we plan to ramp up investment in our customer success team to onboard new customers,” cofounder and CEO Gadi Shamia told TechCrunch via email. We will increase our sales and marketing investment to capture the significant demand we see.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 12, 2022
The antitrust bills, if passed, could significantly restrict the ability of Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and other tech incumbents to acquire and punish rivals to boost their own products and services. lost its perfect AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor in August 2011, prompting the stock market to plunge more than 5%.
Haystack
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
That’s a 9x return on investment for the region, which could’ve used the proceeds to improve infrastructure, services, and other things across the city. I used to live right by Stanford University, starting in 2011. A good number of folks do not want that change. I can empathize a bit here. I lived down there for a while.
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