Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Because of the interest in the 2010 survey, I decided to survey a larger number of North American angel groups this summer (2011). 2011 Angel Group Valuation Survey. Bill Payne October 2011. Here is a summary comparison of the 2011 results to last year’s survey of only 13 groups: The average valuation increased from $1.7

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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.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 1, 2020

(iMCI), recently led an $11.535 million go-to-market investment in Oklahoma City-based Linear Health Sciences. The investment comes on the heels of continued successes for the Orchid SRV, the company’s flagship medical device designed to reduce accidental IV catheter dislodgement in a novel way. million Seed round in 2016 and a $1.54

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Revolution

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Investing is similar. The below analysis outlines an approach to quantify the attractiveness of investing in commercial real estate at a given point. Howard Marks — the co-chairman of Oaktree — released a book in 2011 called The Most Important Thing. Such hard data can increase investment conviction when either is tempting.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Investing is similar. The below analysis outlines an approach to quantify the attractiveness of investing in commercial real estate at a given point. Howard Marks — the co-chairman of Oaktree — released a book in 2011 called The Most Important Thing. Such hard data can increase investment conviction when either is tempting.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

In addition, we saw Voyager Ventures launch its first fund , which will pump $100 million into climate technology startups in North America and Europe. We asked Beezer Clarkson, partner at Sapphire Ventures, and Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Overlooked Ventures co-founders Janine Sickmeyer and Brandon Brooks. That’s new.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Business writer Gordon Pitts pinpoints 2011 as the game-changing year for the Atlantic startup scene. In his book “Unicorn in the Woods: How East Coast Geeks and Dreamers are Changing the Game , ” Pitts recounts how in March 2011 Salesforce purchased New Brunswick-based social media monitoring company Radian6 for approximately $300 million.

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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. Iconiq Growth is back for the Series C round and is joined by Accel, Atlassian, Dragoneer, GIC, Salesforce Ventures and TCV. Miro lands $50M Series B for digital whiteboard as demand surges.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The MaC Venture Capital founding managing partner hadn’t actually seen Wonderschool’s original pitch deck before investing in the remote education startup. That was happening when I first moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2011. Before our conversation on Extra Crunch Live, Marlon Nichols dropped a bomb on me.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Initialized Capital founder Garry Tan will become president and CEO of Y Combinator next year, the two organizations announced today. Tan will be taking over the role from Geoff Ralston, who has been with YC since 2011. YC itself says it was founded in 2005 as “an antidote to the classic venture capital firm.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

billion in 2011. To continue developing its technology, the company announced Tuesday $71 million in Series C investment led by Accel, Insight Partners and Tiger Global, with participation from Wing Venture Capital and other existing investors. The latest round comes a year after it raised $31.5

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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. . VCs in NYC invested, on average, only $2.4 Will that trend hold in 2011? US Angel Investment – All Regions. Investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Union Square Ventures (USV) has been one of the most successful venture capital firms of the past 10–15 years and continues to be a leader in our industry. Lindel is no stranger to thorny venture capital issues — he was arguably amongst the most successful LPs of his generation.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. We formed a partnership with some of our favorite early stage investors and friends including Jim Andelman at Rincon Ventures and Peter Lee at Baroda. We announced Fund I in 2011. And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs.

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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

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. America is the opportunity and we are worthy of investment, aren’t we? “We”

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

“Pre-Seed” is somewhat of a controversial term in the investing world, triggering reactions questions its validity, its effectiveness, and even its contribution. About 150 people showed up, a healthy mix of founders, seed-stage investors and big fund VCs, and a bunch of LPs of various sizes. Some press showed up, too.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Next week I’m virtually sitting down with Jai Das , a well-known managing director at Sapphire Ventures. Das as invested in companies like MuleSoft ( sold for $6.5 Sapphire was itself originally SAP’s corporate venture capital arm, but it split off from its parent in 2011, rebranded, and kept on raising funds.).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1.

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Hunter Walk

JUNE 26, 2023

Chris Neumann (of Canada’s Panache Ventures ) checks these boxes so I asked him to come on my blog (currently less consistent, hopefully still the other two) for Five Questions. Hunter Walk: So why venture capital, why early stage, and why Canada? After DataHero was acquired, I felt like it was time to try something new.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

My partner Greg Bettinelli (worth following on Twitter) was recently named by The LA Business Journal as the “ Top deal maker in Los Angeles in Venture Capital.” I joined Upfront Ventures in 2007 and took over as co-Managing Partner in 2011 along with the founder, Yves Sisteron. ” Numero uno.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

When Zola Electric was launched in 2011 by Erica Mackey, Xavier Helgesen and Joshua Pierce, the company provided solar home solutions to off-grid rural communities in Tanzania. The debt financing features top energy lenders FMO and SunFunder, two firms known to provide debt capital to solar companies in emerging markets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

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. Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x growth from 2020 to 2021.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

In 2011 the company was sold to Nordstrom for $270 million in a deal that has been widely seen as a success for both buyer and seller. We both wanted to build a practice that would make Los Angeles proud but where we would travel tirelessly to other locations to make investments in the best entrepreneurs wherever they were.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You might not know yet of XYZ Venture Capital , a four-year-old, San Francisco-based seed-stage venture firm, but many veterans of Palantir are surely aware of it. First, Fubini linked up with Mitch Kapor, another software mogul turned investor and a friend of Fubini who bought him into his venture firm and taught him the ropes.

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Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Venture Capital. $20 It is clear from this table that Friends and Family, Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists provide 95% of the capital for new ventures. Friends and Family typically invest a few thousand to perhaps $10,000, and only a small number of investors provide more than $50,000. 20 billion.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

A recent speech by the chancellor saw him imploring entrepreneurs to move to the UK: “If anyone is thinking of starting or investing in an innovation or technology-centred business, I want them to do it here. Tech Nation has long been embedded in the U.K. tech startup scene. and abroad.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

On October 21, 2011 at 10:20 a.m. In this normalizing market, Alomar said investors are searching for startups making “incremental” improvements so they can reduce their risk from previous investments. I joined more than 8.5 million other Californians for the Great Shake Out, an annual earthquake preparedness drill.

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Gust

MARCH 11, 2014

By Tomasz Tunguz , Partner at Redpoint Ventures. On one hand, the total dollars invested by VCs is relatively flat at just under $30B per year, according to the NVCA. I’ve divided the companies into cohorts by the year they raised their seed investment. Has it become harder to raise money?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 1, 2013

In 2012, I started my second company--a venture capital firm called B rooklyn Bridge Ventures. In the middle of 2011, I started following the Four Hour Body diet and exercise routine. More sleep in 2013 will have mental health effects beyond the time investment. 3) Invest in your real friends. 1) Run faster.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

In 2011, I heard a speech by Mark Zandi [chief economist of Moody’s Analytics] revealing that entrepreneurship in the U.S. The most impactful solution, among many, will be enacting public policies at the federal level that encourage diversity in the startup landscape and minimize regulations while incentivizing investment in startups.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Note: I led First Round's investment in Docracy in 2011, but I do not have any financial ties to the company and will not benefit or suffer, other than emotionally, based on the outcome of that investment.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Dear Sophie, I’ve been on an H-1B since 2011. It’s not your imagination: After a deluge, it has stopped raining venture capital. According to CB Insights’ State of Venture Q2 2022 Report, global venture funding decreased by 23% quarter over quarter, the second-largest drop in a decade.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). We feature a prominent speaker at every event.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Per Bittner, Splitwise has attracted tens of millions of registered user who have shared or managed what it calculates to be $90 billion since 2011. We can infer, however, that as Insight Partners was willing to lead a $20 million investment into the company, its paid subscriber base is growing at at least a reasonable clip.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Accel has been investing in e-commerce for a very long time. So we pre-emptively asked them to let us invest.”. ThornTree Capital and returning backers Kaszek, Qualcomm Ventures and others also put money in the round, which brings Nuvemshop’s total funding raised since its 2011 inception to nearly $130 million.

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Revolution

APRIL 4, 2019

By Ted Leonsis, Founder and Partner, Revolution Growth I joined the Revolution team as a cofounder of the Revolution Growth fund in 2011 and our goal was, and still is, to make investments in great businesses that give customers more choice, convenience and control in their lives.

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