Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

For me Silicon Beach doesn’t quite encapsulate the wonderful, dynamic, creative, large, thriving community that is the 13 million proud Angelinos any more than Silicon Alley captures the bustling 2012 community of New York City. Think about venture capital. So no prizes for guessing what IA Ventures stands for.

communities

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup. It's even more relevant now that I've started the first venture capital fund in Brooklyn-- Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --and invested in four Brooklyn based companies.

communities

TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than we’ve seen for some time. As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , it’s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Venture Capitalists typically have partners’ meetings on Mondays. 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. Right now people seem to be angling more around November 2012. Why is that? Yesterday was a Monday.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

The first time, back in 2012, I joined as part of a mobile gaming company. The product should be live if we hope to raise capital. A program to get your company 'accelerated'- selling faster, moving faster, which does not necessarily translate to capital. I've been an alum of Dreamit twice. The plan-sort of worked.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Dozens of healthcare-focused voice tech startups have popped up in the last few years which are backed by top tier venture funds. Research from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey indicated that about one in twelve children between the ages of three and seventeen had dealt with a communication disorder in the previous year.

hospitality

Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As I write this, days after the 2012 presidential election, I’m probably not alone in feeling relieved that the political jeering and soapboxing that reached a feverish pitch during the seemingly endless campaign season has finally subsided. misses an opportunity. Securities Regulation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

Munich-based AM Ventures just closed a $100 million fund focusing specifically on the early growth stages of industrial and commercial 3D printing applications. AM Ventures’ co-founders and managing partners, Arno Held (left) and Johann Oberhofer (right) Image Credits: AM Ventures. Somehow we just ended up in VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

This has been especially true for angels or seed investors as there is a new thesis that less capital is needed to start Internet companies so more money is being spent at this phase of the funding lifecycle. I’m a venture capital investor so I will still be looking to make investments. In the end.

entrepreneurs

David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe. The CMU Venture Challenge is an international startup competition open to undergraduates from across the United States. Alumni Ventures Group runs a network of VC funds focused on specific universities. .

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2018

Venture capitalists like us are investing in three overlapping models of international startups: Companies founded overseas. When HOF Capital invests abroad, HOF is typically collaborating closely with the local, non-US VCs who are investing in their own backyards. Companies founded by immigrants.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In 2012, Girls Who Code launched, teaching girls computer programming. Balancing motherhood and the creation of the US$2B Stitch Fix, Lake’s journey included convincing male venture capitalists of Stitch Fix’s necessity and navigating the complexities of being the youngest woman ever to take a company public. Lisa Sugar / POPSUGAR.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

Register Kickstart Ventures , one of the most active venture capital firms in the Philippines, celebrates its 10th anniversary with a renewed commitment to invest in startups across the Philippines, and in major innovation hubs in Southeast Asia and beyond.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Thanks to David Bogoslaw for covering our new partnership in today’s Venture Capital Journal. I’m pleased to announce a strategic partnership between Coolwater Capital and Versatile VC. As part of the partnership, I am joining Coolwater as a part-time Venture Partner. Accelerate Coolwater community funds.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Register Singapore’s Jungle Ventures has announced the launch of First Cheque@Jungle , a new program aimed at investing in startups during their pre-seed and seed stages. The First Cheque program plans to leverage the expertise of experienced founders from Jungle Ventures’ current and former portfolio startups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

GoHenry’s investors include Edison Partners, Revaia, Citi Ventures, Muse Capital and Nexi, which are all rolling over their equity in the deal. GoHenry (named after its first child-customer, according to the company) has raised a total of $125 million since it was founded in 2012. France, Italy and Spain.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Register Wavemaker Impact , Southeast Asia’s first climatetech venture builder , has announced the first close of its debut fund to drive decarbonization in the region at scale. The climatetech venture builder also has the support of EDB New Ventures, the venture-building arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

One of the ways that those pots of cash are being invested is through venture capital, which means the money flows to the coasts — New York, Boston, Silicon Valley. ” “Where we invest, there was not a lot of capital yesterday. Midwest generates a lot of wealth and is home to myriad huge corporations.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Originally backed by venture capital, in 2021 Daniel worked with TPG , a large private equity firm, to make them the majority investor. There’s a ton of writing out there about getting *on* the venture curve, but not a lot about getting *off,* so Daniel’s advice below is especially important.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households invest and save responsibly. With that venture, he aimed to challenge traditional banking yet again by bringing personalized financial tools to gamers.

investing

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2015

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures recently joined Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Crosslink Capital, and KarpReilly in Hungryroot 's $2mm seed round. We stayed in touch and reconnected around a blog post that I wrote in 2012 on falling in love with the problem and not getting attached to the solution.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Savannah Fund , a pan-African venture capital firm, today announced a $25 million fund as it looks to back more early-stage startups on the continent. Since launching in 2012, Savannah Fund — led by Mbwana Alliy and Paul Bragiel — has backed more than 30 startups.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The latest demo day marks its tenth year after SparkLabs launched its accelerator program in December 2012. The accelerator has backed more than 270 startups since its inception in 2012, co-founder and partner of SparkLabs Eugene Kim told TechCrunch. . SparkLabs launches $50M fund for promising early-stage startups in Korea.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Had I begun this tradition earlier, for those wondering, it would’ve been Airbnb in 2012, and Uber in 2011.). venture capital deals, a spike in mega-financings where it’s common to see not only $100M private rounds, but companies that raise two or three types of financings like this in the same calendar year!

incumbents

TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

With the new funding, Apeel has now raised over $635 million since the company was founded in 2012. For example, Shelf Engine , Imperfect Foods , Mori and Phood Solutions are all working to improve the food supply chain and have attracted venture dollars to go after that mission. The company is not alone in tackling food waste.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

AppWorks , the Taipei-based venture capital firm focused on Taiwan and Southeast Asia, announced today it has closed its oversubscribed third fund, raising $150 million. Founded in 2009, AppWorks started its accelerator program before launching a $11 million debut fund in 2012. for the other funds.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

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. Klarna finally took Atomico’s money in 2012, and within two years had grown to over 1,000 employees. competitors and sometimes described by Europeans as a Klarna clone. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

The difference in Europe is that there is opportunity for non-cannabis players to potentially get strategic and attempt to enter the market through an integration of cannabis as a CPG [consumer packaged good] or pharmaceutical-grade option,” said Todd Harrison, founding partner at CB1 Capital Management. will.i.am , investor, Sanity Group.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. So what is Revenue Based Investing? He said, . “[W]e

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

As such, creating a functional clone of Gust (including all the features under the hood, and ones that have not yet been released), using world-class engineers and state-of-the-art, 2012 project management in Ruby on Rails, would take roughly 20 person-years from soup to nuts (figure about 1/3 of that in product/UX/UI and 2/3 in actual coding.)

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Procore and Autodesk are two examples of ventures in the construction space that went from startup to publicly traded companies today worth $6.2 To help them along, one construction tech-focused venture capital firm is eager to fund a new generation of startups in the space. billion and $40.5 billion , respectively.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Insight Partners provided the equity side of the equation, while Hercules Capital and Bridge Bank supplied the venture debt. Cloudbolt was founded in 2012 and has around 200 customers. Cloudbolt , a Bethesda, MD startup that helps companies manage hybrid cloud environments, announced a $35 million Series B investment today.

investing

TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Private equity firm TPG led its Series F, which also included participation from BlackRock, Greycroft, Owl Rock (a division of Blue Owl), Senator Investment Group, Torch Capital, Industry Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Headline and Kevin Durant & Rich Kleiman’s Thirty Five Ventures, among others.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 26, 2023

Register Utu, a Singapore-based travel tech company, has successfully raised $33 million in a Series B funding round, led by SC Ventures. The travel sector has received limited venture funding in recent years, with a focus primarily on short-term rent cardinal hospitality.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

innovation

TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Many, like Calendly, passed through Atlanta Tech Village, which has served as an incubator for the city’s talent ecosystem since it was founded in 2012 by David Cummings. The venture capital opportunity in the South is better than it’s ever been,” Lisa Calhoun, a general partner at Valor Ventures, told TechCrunch+ last year. “A

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 30, 2023

Established in 2012 and headquartered in Singapore , Dymon Asia has built a reputation as a private equity investor focusing on the Southeast Asian region. Singapore-registered Highland Strategic Holdings is the company’s largest shareholder, indicating the company’s international connections and investor base.

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