Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

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. Creative destruction will continue to create opportunities for people who understand the deflationary economics of the Internet. We did not.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

If you want a very quick primer on all the stuff nobody ever tells you about raising venture capital check out this video where Mark Jeffrey & I break it down on This Week in VC. Do you really still need a Powerpoint deck in 2011? A summary of what we discussed is below: Not 100% in order of the video, but close.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. It is highly dependent upon many factors: experience of the team, type of opportunity (a big biotech or semi-conductor A round is likely to look different from an Internet A round), geography, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

But when it’s all over and they define the era of this mini run up in stock prices I suspect they’ll include 2011 in the “over valued&# category. I see opportunities for disruption all around me and am meeting amazingly talented entrepreneurs. It’s what I love about entrepreneurship and about venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

It allows you many more exit opportunities. 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. Have easy access to capital by investors who are committed to building businesses at Interent scale. Internet scale.

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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. billion in total capital. They represent 17 countries.

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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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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Individual accredited investors in typical angel deals put personal capital at risk for an equity share of growth-oriented, start-up companies. In 2011, the valuation of pre-revenue, start-up companies is typically in the range of $1.5–$2.5 Size of the Opportunity 0-25%.

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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. Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines.

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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. It’s a great opportunity to better explain ideas, problems and design solutions.”. He is also looking at M&A opportunities. However, with statistics showing that 53% of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

At the same time, he added, “high interest rates may also increase the demand for venture capital when bank lending is less attractive to entrepreneurs.” Not only are these groups coming back to market faster, they are often raising bigger funds or additional vehicles, like opportunity funds.”

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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. More money in the ecosystem is searching for these opportunities, or funding competitors.

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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

MARCH 15, 2021

Despite venture capital growing as an asset class, alternative ways to raise are becoming increasingly popular to help founders maintain ownership and to access capital. But today marks what Lavingia views as a long-term shift in how Gumroad raises capital.

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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. According to Bennet, Nichols reached out about the opportunity on Facebook Messenger.

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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. To capitalize on this excellent growth opportunity, some entrepreneurs tend to make significant changes in a model that has been working reasonably well for them.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Dr. Carl Schramm, Kauffman CEO , recently said that startup formation is stagnant or even decreasing in the US in the second half of 2011. We have no measure of the changes in available capital resources from entrepreneurs and their friends and family, but we have no reason to believe they have changed radically over the past few years.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. 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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Two years after launching the African entertainment company in 2011, Njoku and his co-founder Bastian Gotter launched SPARK , a self-described company builder and a $2 million fund. Investzilla is focused on unlocking that opportunity for them.”

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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 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 Founded in 1902, it notched a reported $14.4 billion in revenue in 2020. billion in assets under management.

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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! They will also be offered the opportunity to join a customized 6-month Google Developers Launchpad Accelerator program, including guidance from our nonprofit partner, DataKind, to jumpstart their work.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In 2011, the company expanded to build themes for online stores. WooCommerce began life as WooThemes, a small design firm that didn’t look very different from the many others that created WordPress themes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

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. That makes this a more complicated opportunity, but one that enables a long-term competitive advantage.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We also learn how, under his watch and as the company began to scale, Klarna missed the next big opportunity in fintech, instead being usurped by Adyen and Stripe. 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. . billion and $10.65

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Wall Street Journal: OurCrowd chases the ‘trillion-dollar opportunity’. Job opportunities. . Wall Street Journal: OurCrowd chases the ‘trillion-dollar opportunity’. This is a trillion-dollar opportunity.” billion in 2011. SALT Talks: Pandemic Venture Investment Series, Episode 1. Introductions.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

And because a birthday sounds like a good opportunity to share some metrics, the portfolio companies have reached a valuation of $2 billion together — only 18 months after reaching $1 billion. When we started in 2011, there was an existing model that was Rocket Internet. eFounders says it is focused on building the future of work.

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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. YW: We think there are opportunities to white label the service for accountants and law firms.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

According to CFO Paul Jun: “There were many periods when Pilot turned away new customers and growth capital instead of absolutely maximizing short-term growth…Pilot prioritized building the foundational investments needed for scalability, reliability and high velocity.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

From startups to Starbucks: The embedded API opportunity. ” From startups to Starbucks: The embedded API opportunity. NEW DELHI, INDIA – 2011/12/18: Rice is sold at a night market in Paharganj, the urban suburb opposite New Delhi Railway Station. Just how bad is that hack that hit US government agencies?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Here’s more: Now north of $200 million in revenue, [ Nextiva ] is a quiet giant and, notably, has not taken venture capital funding along its path to scale. We also learn how, under his watch and as the company began to scale, Klarna missed the next big opportunity in fintech, instead being usurped by Adyen and Stripe.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

COVID-19 has spotlighted many of the weakest points in our transportation system, but some of the rapid shifts in consumer behavior are creating opportunities for tech once considered fanciful, like sidewalk delivery robots and eVTOLs (electric vertical and takeoff vehicles). Peter Wagner, founding partner, Wing Ventures.

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Gust

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Closing : A first closing will be held on or before September 30, 2011, or such other date that the Company and the bridge investor(s) participating in such closing mutually decide upon (the “ Initial Closing ”). New investors in a Series A round understandably would rather not have their funds used to pay interest to previous investors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

On a personal level, having lived in Mexico over the past year (and previously having lived in LatAm in 2011), Schwiep told me that it has been “wild” to witness the market for digital commerce essentially transforming overnight. . “I

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Haystack

DECEMBER 25, 2018

In terms of available hours, I am already in a finite territory, and that feels good — to leave those hours open for meeting new founders, and having the best opportunities compete for those limited slots. I am going to preserve energy in the summer for the fall, which is always crazier I anticipate it to be.

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