This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2012

In March of 2011, I asked Pat from GroupMe to introduce me to Linden Tibbets of IFTTT. Just a few days ago, he added a monster $10mm raise. It's an ambitious plan with an uphill climb to go up against the likes of Square and existing POS companies, but Jason is tenacious. I'm impressed.

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APRIL 21, 2020

I went to that blog post and clicked on the link and sure enough someone had swapped out my cap table template from 2011 with their own cap table. So I went to my google drive and searched and found the cap table that I had built for that post back in 2011, made a copy, made it public on the web but view only, and fixed the link.

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Revolution

MARCH 1, 2023

VC dollars are at risk, we conducted a historical analysis of top quartile fund managers over the past quarter century (as far back as we could access reliable Cambridge Associates data). We looked at the analysis in two parts: the 1997–2010 time period and the 2011–2020 time period. since 2011. But what could that look like?

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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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MAY 19, 2010

Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011.

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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. Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x growth from 2020 to 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

HubStop introduced usage-based pricing in 2011 to boost its retention rate, then near 70%. “You have to wonder if every VC worth a damn in the future will have their own raft of SPAC offerings,” says Alex. .” A fraction of Robinhood’s users are driving its runaway growth. and Khosla Ventures Acquisition Co.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Our interest in web3 which started back in 2011 was also grounded in the idea that new forms of funding are necessary to finance innovation and creative work. In the last thirteen years, Kickstarter has helped direct $6.2bn towards creative work that would not have been funded by the legacy institutions that support creative work.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Bill Gurley tweeted his blog post from 2011 that “ all revenue is not created equal.” So how you value and how you finance low margin businesses becomes very important. They can’t be valued too highly or you risk a financing crisis. ” That is a great way of saying what I was trying to say.

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MARCH 20, 2022

I told him the story of how I bumped into Rikki Tahta walking through the garment district in NYC in the spring of 2011 and Rikki told me he was working on a Bitcoin startup. My friend Gordon asked me last night how I got into Bitcoin. I replied, “a what coin startup?” ” And Rikki told me to read the Bitcoin White Paper.

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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

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 3, 2023

The region’s startup scene saw a boom, with a large spike of fundraises in 2021 with VC capital deployed totaling $15.9 Since 2011, Kaszek has backed more than 120 companies, which the firm says collectively have raised more than $15.5 billion in 2021, (up from $2 billion in 2018) according to LAVCA. billion in capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

She worked for 5 years as a VC at Battery Ventures and co-headed M&A at IAC working with Barry Diller. Just as Yves mentored me when I became his co-managing partner in 2011, he didn’t seek to ride off into the sunset either. He said to me (only 9 years ago), “I hope you’re not just hiring her because she’s a woman.” (I

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Fubini is a Carnegie Mellon grad who cofounded an enterprise company, CubeTree, that a dozen years later, sold to SuccessFactors, which was itself acquired by SAP the next year, in 2011. Then, like a lot of founders, he started writing checks.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Unagi, which doesn’t yet have its own website, was founded out of Paris by Charlie Guillemot , son of Ubisoft co-founder Yves Guillemot and formerly studio manager at Owlient, a free-to-play game studio acquired by Ubisoft back in 2011; and Remi Pellerin , also formerly of Owlient. Its latest €4.7 Previously, Unagi raised a €1.5

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 13, 2020

I used this title for possibly the most regrettable blog post I have written on AVC back in 2011. Alex starts off his post with this assertion: 2019 was the year when VCs and startup founders soured on paid acquisition. Back in 2011, I wrote: He said “every company needs a marketing budget.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Medicai founder Mircea Popa’s journey in healthcare started in 2011 when, with a friend of his, he co-founded a company that is now called SkinVision, a skin cancer screening app that detects melanoma (skin cancer) through ML algorithms applied on images taken with smartphones. million), among others.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This is where VC comes in and why it’s needed in the industry no matter how much populist sentiment exists against the VC industry. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC. If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investments will look great. So where are we now? It’s hard to say.

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MARCH 6, 2016

In 2008 I started VC blogging. In 2011 I started using Instagram. In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. I went to an industry event where people actually called me self-centered for writing publicly.

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I’ve recently taken a look at seed stage funding by venture capitalists (VCs) and angel investors over the past five years. For VCs, I chose to look at all seed stage VC deals (from MoneyTree©) as well as those in five of the most active regions in the country. All Seed-VC. Will that trend hold in 2011?

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

million in a Series B funding led by Finnish VC fund Evli Growth Partners, alongside previous investors Karma Ventures and LVV Group. Founded in 2011 by 3D designer Marius Kalytis (now COO), CGTrader has become a significant 3D content provider — it even claims to be the world’s largest. 3D model provider CGTrader has raised $9.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In 2011 he co-founded what is often referred to as the “first coding bootcamp,” with The Starter League, acquired by New York’s Fullstack Academy in 2016. In addition to leading the way at Techstars Chicago, he is also a venture partner at MATH Venture Partners, an early/middle-stage VC fund.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

So in 2011, they introduced usage-based pricing. Like a VC firm, usage-based companies are making a portfolio of bets. The company struggled with poor churn and anemic expansion revenue. Net revenue retention was near 70%, a far cry from the 100%+ that most SaaS companies aim to achieve. Something needed to change.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

Will you get the TechCrunch bump, the tier-1 VC anointment, followed by great PR firm support and then the NY Times or WSJ story that follows? So as I get around the country speaking at college campus in 2010 & 2011 I have been preaching the same theme. Not every problem has to be a huge VC-fundable business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Because my role as a VC requires me to take and endless stream of meetings I long ago decided I need to learn as much as I can from the meetings I attend so I often just ask tons of questions and assimilate knowledge. When I think about what defines us as a VC I think: Operationally knowledgeable / strong startup competence.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In 2011, the Apache Software Foundation released Flink, a high-throughput, low-latency engine for streaming various data types. Temme, Immerok’s CEO, said that the proceeds will be put toward expanding the company’s team and further developing its cloud product.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Frumtak , a VC firm in Iceland, first invested in Controlant in 2011. In September Controlant secured $15 million in Series B funding to drive the market expansion of its real-time Cold Chain as a Service platform. It has largely Iceland-based investors, including Sjova and VIS.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 14, 2019

There was a time around 2010 and 2011 when Tumblr was the most engaging social platform that I was on. Tumblr was both a blogging platform and a social media application and while I always loved the versatility of the platform, native mobile applications benefit from simplicity, not complexity.

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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

JUNE 6, 2022

Vayyar , a company developing radar-imaging sensor technologies, today announced that it raised $108 million in a Series E round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation from GLy Capital Management, Atreides Management LP, KDT, Battery Ventures, Bessemer Ventures, More VC, Regal Four and Claltech.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is where VC comes in and why it’s needed in the industry no matter how much populist sentiment exists agains the industry. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC. If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investors will look great. So where are we now? It’s hard to say.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

In 2011 , as Twitter hit the 100 million active users mark, the entrepreneur left to pursue new projects with Obvious Corporation , a startup incubator and investment vehicle that had included fellow Twitter co-founder Evan Williams and former Twitter exec Jason Goldman. . ” Founded in 2021, Stockholm-based Chroma last year raised $5.4

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