Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Among those testifying were ACA Board Member and the Founder & Managing Partner, Investors of Color Network Eli Velasquez as well as David Olivencia , CEO & Co-Founder, Angeles Investors. 4 This gap highlights the investment opportunities primarily accessible to wealthy accredited investors.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They met and bonded over both having type 1 diabetes — Westermann was diagnosed over 25 years ago — and started the MySugr app for diabetes self-management in 2012 ( they won a TC pitch-off back in 2011 ). Chou O’Keefe has been investing in healthcare her entire VC career, and sat on the board of Livongo for four years.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. While I or other full time partners may sit on the boards of 8-10 companies each Hamet will sit on the board of 4-5. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see the problems in this structure.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 16, 2017

“Much of the growth and success of CoinX was reinforced by a combination of my EO forum, the EO network, and the opportunity to serve other EO members through leadership. When she joined in 2012, her company, CoinX, was in high growth mode, which made support from her EO community an invaluable asset.

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Hunter Walk

JULY 11, 2022

Looking back I wrote something in 2012 about generally getting beyond the interview. Once done, the exec team and board will take a look and make a decision. In similarly titled, Try Before You Buy: Why Smart People & Smart Companies Are Ditching the Interview : Once is a coincidence, twice is a trend?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families. Startups are like families.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

During that process, she was battling Stage 3 breast cancer — doing drafts of the S-1 from a chemo chair and sending it to the board the morning of her double mastectomy. GV Partner Frederique Dame , who has also invested in the likes of Pill Club and Kindbody, has joined Found’s board as part of the Series A.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

He also logged two years with Andreessen Horowitz beginning in 2012.) However, it wasn’t until recently that the market’s needs provided us with the opportunity to successfully create the type of firm we originally wanted to build that led us to [do this]. Patron has been in the works conceptually for many years.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Innovium is selling for around the price that Facebook paid for Instagram in 2012, a deal that at the time was so large that it dominated technology headlines around the world. Perhaps Innovium found itself with more cash than opportunities to spend it; perhaps it simply needed a large partner to help it better sell into its market.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The processes I used to hire our first COO in 2012 and the second one in 2018 were basically the same and are strongly inspired by Topgrading as well as the Who Method. We used the following methods to generate applications: We spread the job description on all the relevant job boards as well as social networks like LinkedIn and XING.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Thank you to Tasha for helping to keep me sane by managing the onslaught of meeting requests, board meetings and constant change. I’m thankful to the associates at Upfront Ventures for helping me to evaluate our new opportunities and for helping me be prepared for issues with our portfolio companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

One day if you’re lucky you’ll be big enough to work with recruiters to hire senior members of your team or your board. And in it he profiles the work of Coach Campbell who was once on the boards of both Google & Apple. EXECUTIVE RECRUITERS. It’s a great read.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Founder Kai Kloepfer said he began looking into the idea after the Aurora mass shooting in 2012. We’ve really gone back to the drawing board,” as he put it. Though the only one joining the board is Lt. “I started to think, what could I possibly do to have an impact on this? General Guy C. Swan (ret.),

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This by far the biggest investment Sendcloud has ever had: the Eindhoven, Netherlands-based startup has been around since 2012 and before now had raised just over $23 million ($23 million, 23,000 customers has a nice ring to it).

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

The opportunity is often worth the investment, but without close contract governance, businesses stand to lose up to 40% of a contract’s value, a KPMG survey found. “In 2012, myself and Claude Marais, the ex-global head of outsourcing in General Motors, began to brainstorm and envision SirionLabs.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Our history with MaxQ began when they competed in the 2012 Governor’s Cup (now the Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup), Oklahoma’s statewide collegiate business plan competition. MaxQ made hard decisions to streamline operations, including across the board salary cuts. We found an opportunity in the COVID-19 vaccine space,” Kumar said. “We

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

It also draws on Golden Gate Ventures’ proprietary database, which dates back to 2012 and tracks information like the time between funding rounds and fundraising success rates, as well as public databases, reports and expert commentary from the New York Stock Exchange. SPAC opportunities. Series B and C deals.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” The morning consisted of a presentation by Mitsue Kurihara, a Board member from the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), who launched the DBJ Women Entrepreneurs Center in November 2011; and a moderated panel with three female entrepreneurs: Donna Fujimoto Cole, Fujiyo Ishiguro and Sachiko Kuno. When asked what motivated her, Ms. .”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

They wanted opportunity. Catherine (Cat) Hoke founded the program in 2010 and launched the business plan competition in 2012. They are Chinese immigrants and as he said directly, “They gave me every opportunity to succeed. Grown men, prisoners, with huge muscles and tattoos everywhere cried and told me stories.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Sometimes, you’ll have to turn down a seemingly great opportunity in order to stick to your company’s core goals, make sure the lights stay on and keep customers coming down the line. Ari was named among the Top 20 Most Influential People in VoIP 2012 and currently serves on several boards, including the New Jersey Tech Council.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

percent employment growth for software developers between 2012 and 2022, and it’s clear wage inflation in the industry will continue to rise if more qualified software developers don’t enter the field. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the national unemployment rate among software developers and engineers was just 2.5

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Gust

JULY 12, 2012

Philippe Gluntz, President of France Angels , was honoured as the 2012 EBAN Angel of the Year, while the Finnish Business Angel Network ( FiBAN ) was recognized as Business Angel Network of 2012. After formal presentations, I had an opportunity to meet many of the fine teams there at a casual BBQ.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 29, 2013

I lept at the opportunity to work with Peter. In parallel, the Redpoint deal team researched the market opportunity heavily. Peter negotiated terms aggressively and we shook hands on a partnership between AxialMarket and Redpoint in April 2012. Sometimes those conversations occur in the board room instead of Cafe Habana.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 30, 2021

But where there is a gap, there is an opportunity. Gusto launched in 2012 to tackle this opportunity, and more. Gusto saw an opportunity to upend the way payroll was done. When a new hire joins, employees can post welcome messages on Gusto’s internal message board. Act 3: New Ways to Empower Teams.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Army and led the product management team at Quest Software (which was acquired by Dell in 2012). But he emphasized the lucrativeness of the opportunity. Eilon said it’s because the board “didn’t want to dilute themselves if not needed.” He also co-founded S.E.T. billion in 2029 — up from $11.94

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 4, 2021

Ralph was co-founder and CTO of PlanGrid, which was funded by YC in 2012, Series A led by Sequoia and acquired by Autodesk in 2018 for $900M. Surbhi founded nVision Medical in 2012 after her own healthcare scare. He is still very involved in the success of Algolia as Board Director. Ralph Gootee. Surbhi Sarna.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

He teamed up with Codacy’s other co-founder, João Caxaria, to launch the startup in 2012. But what is verifiable is that Codacy sees a strong business opportunity beyond code reviews in the area of engineering performance monitoring. ” Surely not every developer will be on board with the idea of close watch over their work.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

So, for example, when I first started here back in 2012, there was a ton of energy being put towards building a network of executive relationships that is now somewhat more about sustaining those relationships. I’ve been on the board of Commit Foundation now for probably about 7 or 8 years. We do back channels.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This was in 2012, and we were based in New York City. And in 2012, if you’ll remember, that was when they kicked all the Zuccotti Park protestors outta Zuccotti Park. The 2012 New York startup community was very small, and it was very tight. And then, one day we went into a board meeting, and the revenue finally came in.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

Committing to enabling startups When Kickstart was established in 2012, the Philippine startup ecosystem was at its nascent stage. This inspired its founders Minette Navarrete, Dan Siazon, and Christian Besler to pitch for a pioneering evergreen fund to the Globe board, starting with $2.5M on its first year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

The round comes less than six months after the company raised $35 million in a round led by Sorenson Ventures, and brings the New York-based company’s total raised to $196 million since its 2012 inception. Accel partner Amit Jhawar will join Socure’s board as part of the funding round. Which neobanks will rise or fall?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

A 2012 study of company performance showed that more than 150 listed German firms excelled when they had at least 30% women representation on their executive boards. Even more interesting, another study argues that women make better board directors than men.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2012

This is consistent with data I see from RingRevenue , a company in which I invested and sit on the board. RingRevenue grew it’s revenue 3x 2010 over 2011 and is on track to grow more than 3x again in 2012 with no signs of slowing. Here are some data provided by a BIA / Kelsey report (2012). We have ridden the mobile wave.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Ajua, formerly mSurvey , was founded in 2012 by Kenfield Griffith. However , the company chose an acquisition and Griffith gave two reasons why — building a similar product would have taken a long time and Ogallo seemed to know Janja’s business and operations so well, it just made sense to get him on board. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The financings bring the San Francisco-based company’s total raised since its 2012 inception to $530 million. Fifth Wall’s Brendan Wallace and Hippo’s Assaf Wand discuss proptech’s biggest opportunities. In June of 2021, HomeLight appointed Lyft chairman and former Trulia CFO Sean Aggarwal to its board.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Word travels at light speed amongst this small network of people who all know each other and even though they’re rivals they also sit on boards together and many probably went to business school together. The Invoca board and Mark gathered and discussed how our process was going.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 26, 2023

FIGURE 1: National CEO Transition Experience Source: The Founders Dilemma, Noam Wasserman Academic and author Noam Wasserman, perhaps best known for his 2012 book The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup, offers some data on the prevalence of founder transitions. How Prevalent Are CEO Changes?

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