TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Brett Calhoun Contributor Share on Twitter Brett Calhoun is the managing director and general partner at Redbud VC. Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. Network effects have evolved, moving away from the traditional physical spaces to digital ones. Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x

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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. Forbes reports that while companies with white founders receive 77% of VC dollars, less than 10% go to women founders and less than 1% to Black founders. Venture funding inequity remains a big issue.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Over the years, the angel network has based its infrastructure on syndicates — investment vehicles that allow investors, referred to as backers, to co-invest with prominent investors — known as leaders. Bosun Tijani talks strategy as CEO of Africa’s new largest tech hub.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

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 For context, Turner is one of the largest contractors in the U.S. Founded in 1902, it notched a reported $14.4 billion in revenue in 2020.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

From 2007 to 2011, during which the Great Recession of 2008-09 took place, the construction industry lost approximately 2 million workers. Zach Aarons, MetaProp VC Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics ( Recode ).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

With no connections, network or access to institutional limited partners, Sickmeyer and Brooks launched their first fund last May, and just celebrated Bank of America Corp. The biggest VC firms are managing a lot more moolah than you thought. I realized that the only way to change this space and the metrics was to be the change.”.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I suggest start by looking at the many programs offered by the Fortune 500’s startup networks. And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Pioneer.app. “Get

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Barclays had applied for the contract through its network of Eagle Labs incubators , some of which have physical locations, but most do not. Another VC told me the decision to put Barclays in the front-running for the contact was “like President Bush declaring ‘Mission Accomplished’ after the Gulf War, when the war was far from over.

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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. As in other countries in “COVID 2020”, VC tended to focus on existing portfolio companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2008 I started VC blogging. In 2011 I started using Instagram. My friends said, “I don’t need another network. That’s what happens when you join a network and have kids. Here’s the thing: If you never try new product and new networks you’ll never learn anything. Right now it’s my favorite network.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

For example, activist hedge funds, and most private equity and VC funds. A private equity/VC investor can proactively recruit new team members, win clients, or if necessary change management. . In addition, if an investor impacts the operations of a company, they are playing a positive-sum game. Photo credit: JD Hancock.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. I suggest start by looking at the many programs offered by the Fortune 500’s startup networks. And of course, effectively all venture capitalists are going to require some equity for their investment. Pioneer.app. “Get

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me. Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me. We announced Fund I in 2011.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

In January 2021, Prince Edward Island-based ScreenScape Networks was acquired by Spectrio for an undisclosed fee, then Halifax-based storytelling platform Wattpad was acquired by Naver in a deal worth $600 million. Business writer Gordon Pitts pinpoints 2011 as the game-changing year for the Atlantic startup scene. billion in cash.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 16, 2024

When Marc and I started the firm in 2009, the conventional wisdom in Venture Capital was that in any given year, only 15 companies would ever generate $100M in revenue and those 15 companies would drive almost all of VC returns. At that time, the conventional wisdom was right. Shortly after we started the firm, all that began to change.

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Haystack

JANUARY 14, 2019

When I moved back to the Bay Area in early 2011, the technology and startup sector didn’t feel as big or expansive as it does today. Now, contrast 2011 with 2019, and we have an entirely different situation. Today in 2019, this deal information among the top VC brands is only really moving through smaller, trusted networks.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

It’s a development that’s interesting considering its proximity to Prosus reevaluating investments in other regions, specifically the currently-pariah state of Russia, including a $770 million write-down in March of its investment in social network VK.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Social networks in particular, see faster and faster rates of adoption: Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Pinterest, WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat have reached the $1B mark faster than the other, almost in lock step with their year of founding. B2B companies have taken longer to reach this valuation milestones. 10 years for Docusign.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

I joined Upfront Ventures in 2007 and took over as co-Managing Partner in 2011 along with the founder, Yves Sisteron. I created an accelerator & mentor network (Launchpad LA). In the end, if you’re not developing a deep bench of talented professionals who keep you on your toes, you’re bound to be disrupted. I keynoted.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

lost its perfect AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor in August 2011, prompting the stock market to plunge more than 5%. Last weekend, the network began banning certain parody accounts following a Musk-led rule change, including the accounts of high-profile comedians. Twitter’s losses are rivals’ gains.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. And while this data is from mid-2011 I can assure you that data is not going down. There are 2.9

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

Then by 2011 or 2012, some of the tech components of the Great Recession had started wearing off and the market started waking up. From late 2011 until maybe 2015, RJMetrics was… the leads were flying in and falling off of our desk more days than not. I’m going to wrap it and I don’t want to get my VC card revoked.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

They do around 7% of the total VC-backed deals in the US per year or just under 40 deals / year on average (present year excluded!). Where I add commentary from myself or my fellow VC colleagues from our discussion after Jamie left I’ll put in red. This time period is usually 10 years (although small extensions are common).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this series because if you better understand how VC firms work you can better target which firms make sense for you to speak with. It in not uncommon to see a VC talk about “total assets under management&# as in “We have $1.5 What is a VC fund? VC’s don’t invest 100% of their own money.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It became clear early in the 2000s that the big opportunity in the web would be to build large networks of engaged users. And the way many/most of those networks were built was by delivering single user utility day-one and then building out network effects around that utility. I could go on and on but you get the idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

While Google and Facebook will buy “acquihires” (at least as of Dec 2011), many acquirers hate the idea of buying companies that aren’t profitable. Do you imagine eventually raising VC and trying to build a faster growing company?” An ad network (the middleman) might sell $500,000 in ads.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

In 2011, the valuation of pre-revenue, start-up companies is typically in the range of $1.5–$2.5 A local network of angels is critical to achieving a diversified portfolio. Earlier this month, I reported on the most current survey of angel groups: 2011 Valuation Survey of North American Angel Groups. million to a high of $3.4

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Controlant — which has a unique real-time supply chain monitoring technology based on GSM networks and is specifically geared to areas like pharmaceuticals and life sciences — has confirmed it is providing its monitoring services to Pfizer as it delivers the mRNA-based Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine globally.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2011, the company acquired Calculeo , a tool that helps you calculate how much you can get in public subsidies for energy renovation work. In 2015, Effy acquired Quelle énergie , a VC-backed startup that could calculate how much money you would save by isolating your roof, changing your windows and more.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Stovell and his wife Sonia Stovell, Octopus Deploy’s chief financial officer, began working on the company as a “nights-and-weekend” project in 2011. Other portfolio companies in its ScaleUp Network include Pluralsight, Shopify, Twitter, Calm and Qualtrics. By the next year, it had reached profitability. Insight closes $9.5B

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

” Matthews, an embedded operating systems engineer by training, started Apkudo in 2011 with Ben Leslie, who he met while a student at the University of New South Wales in Australia. That’s in spite of the fact that VC funding of supply chain startups shows signs of waning. billion in 2025 from $14.3

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

While several marketplace unicorns prepare IPOs, a VC digs into the data (EC). After years of light regulation, the Federal Trade Commission and , separately, 49 state attorneys general are suing to break up social networking company. Wish wants to be the Amazon for the rest of us; will retail investors buy it? DoorDash, C3.ai

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2022

Jill Gunter is no stranger to crypto — she’s seen the market through its ups and downs, conducting research on blockchain protocols, working at multiple crypto startups and co-founding her own , and investing as a crypto VC at Slow Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. Why Shouldn’t Most Services Businesses Raise VC?

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 5, 2015

In 2011, GroupMe seemed to be the winner. You know the only answer VC''s should feel qualified to give on this one? I might even say that the Meerkat funding is peak VC for this cycle. This creates the need for friendly network management. If only I could have pulled that off with my own startup. [ sad trombone ].

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

She serves on the boards of several AI startups and nonprofits, including the KQED Public Media Network and her own organization, Democracy 3.0. SPV-driven funds like Candou face competition from traditional venture capital firms, angel investors, equity crowdfunding platforms, and micro-VC funds. David Teten: What’s your background?

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