TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

There has been little movement in the amount of VC dollars going to women-founded companies since 2012. Though by no means does this mean that women aren’t doing incredible work in the field and it’s only right that women founders receive their fair share of VC investment. Venture capital is far from a level playing field.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Despite the growth in awarded venture capital (VC) funds, a staggering disparity remains between the amount of total VC funds invested in entrepreneurs and the portion of those funds invested in ventures founded and/or led by women—particularly women of color. I am no stranger to this gender gap within the VC space.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He had joined a young startup in LA called HauteLook and was interested in getting to know the local tech community. 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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

About 30% of its third fund is from global investors including the US, Asia and Europe, and Coral Capital wants to be a bridge between its Japan-based portfolio companies and global venture capital community for reaching international scale, Riney continued. LINE Ventures merges with YJ Capital, launches $271M fund.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

.” That was Lori Coulter, CEO and co-founder of Summersalt, speaking at the State of the Midwest Startup Community 2020. Since 2012, there’s been little increase in venture capital going to women-founded businesses. They’re starting businesses, innovating new technology, leading teams and helping their communities.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me.

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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 ). It is finding patients through digital outreach, community work and hospitals. Four years later, Westermann moved to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

billion), funding to VC-backed cybersecurity startups isn’t on pace to hit last year’s high (over $23 billion). Brian NeSmith and Kim Tremblay co-founded Arctic Wolf in 2012, spurred on by the belief that cybersecurity had an “effectiveness problem.” According to Crunchbase data, VC-backed startups in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

During the pandemic, we’ve charted the massive growth across all sectors of robotics, and while VC money is slowing for nearly every startup category, robotics investments continue at a pace not seen before 2020. Amazon’s huge bet on robotics dates back to its 2012 acquisition of Kiva Systems. Automating Amazon.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Now that he’s become a VC he’s promising me he’ll provide way more public information and discourse so please welcome him by following him on Twitter and better yet welcoming him with a Tweet of your own linking to his Twitter handle or this post. I only wanted one thing in the deal – Hamet. I stayed close.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

The 2012 bipartisan JOBS Act was supposed to empower funds and individuals to raise capital more openly: to publicly advertise their track record and what they’re selling, just like almost every other industry. Every person is kind of speaking their own language and it makes it difficult to communicate and ultimately to transact.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The concentration of returns IPO and M&A markets fuels VC rivals to vie aggressively for the opportunity to invest in hyper-growth startups. One company’s initial public offering, Facebook, provided 77% of returns from venture backed IPOs in 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. She became part of the fabric of her community. That may soon change.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? VC Josh Kopelman makes the analogy of jet fuel vs. motorcycle fuel. VCs sell jet fuel which works well for jets; motorcycles are more common but need a different type of fuel. . Absolutely not. So what is Revenue Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

SVB UK secured a UK banking license in 2012 but became a UK Standalone bank in August 2022 and has 700 full-time employees). — Matt Clifford (@matthewclifford) March 11, 2023 On Friday, TechCrunch understands several VC firms in Europe told LPs not to send money via SVB UK.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Whether they pointed to post-acquisition woes with Skype or Nokia, Microsoft’s troubled history with Linux and the open source community, the news triggered a bit of a backlash ranging from outrage at the fact Microsoft would own this valuable asset to calls for decentralized options. vehicle listed on January 2012 in Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2023

of all VC funds in 2022, a drop from 2021, Dominic-Madori writes. Aside from 2016, the last time all-women-led startups raised such a low percentage of funds was in 2012, another period of funding decline caused by economic uncertainty and an election. International license. That percentage is a notable drop from the 2.4%

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

They seek a VC model where dogma is less of a drag on the enterprise, and investment discovery can come from a wide network of smaller investors—mini LPs, in a way. Founders needn’t have revenue to draw VC investment, but they do need some way to show that they’ve validated the model. These are angels and VCs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

I could spend hours discussing early-stage startup operations and community-based marketing, but deal flow is my blind spot. Pre-pandemic, VCs were notoriously reluctant to invest in education-related companies. But when investment banking firm UBS picked up financial robot-advisor Wealthfront for $1.4

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code. 55 Washington Street. via Brownstoner.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). We don’t seem to get credit as a community for SpaceX or recognition as one of the fastest growing communities for commerce: Honest Company & JustFab.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Moreover, the local investor community is quite dynamic. We seek to have our investor landscape as diverse as possible, so we are working toward gender equality in VC and other important diversity causes to accomplish that. VC investors: Rokas Peciulaitis (Contrarian Ventures). Dalia Lašaite (CGTrader). Martynas Gudonavi?ius

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Scott is also known as the founder and CEO of Behance, an online design community that became the essential showcase for design work around the world. Scott remained at Adobe, managing the deep integration of Behance into the Adobe Creative Cloud and leading Adobe’s innovative mobile product efforts.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. Which VCs are comfortable using this approach? This structure offers some of the benefits of traditional equity VC, without some of the negatives of equity VC. 10% of Feenix’s portfolio companies have received VC equity prior to their financing.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

When women have more money, not only is there gender equality and economic growth, but there’s also stronger and healthier communities for our children and generations to come. What I’ve learned from other women is that they’re community-oriented, values-based and brilliant at supporting each other in the good times and the bad.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

I know because I went back a second time with 75 or so tech executives and VCs and my inbox is flooded this morning. Catherine (Cat) Hoke founded the program in 2010 and launched the business plan competition in 2012. You can read more about her here but let me give you my take.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. The Funding Problem. The Exit Problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. It really only needs a few community leaders to kick things off and land a community on a map. Co-Working Space.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I think it’s probably about 40% with the portfolio, about 40% with the executive community, and then about 20% on work with the veterans community, which we can get into later. We do these workshops where we have folks that are interested in technology and VC who are coming in. Matt Oberhardt: It’s a great question.

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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. We have a dedicated team to support our portfolio companies for business development, media relations, and community engagement.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Zapier , a well-known no-code automation tool, has purchased Makerpad , a no-code education service and community. million round back in 2012 that tapped Bessemer, DFJ and others. Five VCs discuss how no-code is going horizontal across the world’s industries. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. This one , in fact.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Amazon’s unending drive to outflank the rest of the world birthed an industry with its 2012 acquisition of Kiva. Robotics was in a nice little bubble when the VC slowdown began, as well, though not even it was immune. What many outside the sector perhaps didn’t recognize is that the solutions were already here.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Sean Lane co-founded Olive in 2012, and signed on Chris Olsen from Drive Capital as the company’s first investors. Natasha spent a good chunk of last week at the All Raise VC summit, an annual off-the-record event that brings together some of the best and brightest in the investment community.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

” Here is what they told me: Peter Barrett, Playground Global: Why the venture community decided to call in an airstrike on their portfolio companies is quite beyond me. While we anticipate the VC fundraising environment will become more cautious across the board, we don’t see robotics being uniquely impacted.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

You believe in your community, you believe in your friends, and you believe in someone that everyone believes in, right? But when you’re buying from someone in your community who you know very well, that trust deficit goes away. The community helps each other out. It’s not just us, this is 2008 to 2012.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 3, 2022

Freightos , one of the first OurCrowd investments back in 2012, announced a merger agreement with Gesher I Acquisition Corp. We were the first Israeli VC to open offices in the UAE for direct investment in Emirati companies. Take your OurCrowd investments with you, wherever you go. Download Now.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

Other people were convinced including Kleiner Perkins who lead their $30 million fund raising in 2012 (they had previously also invested in 2011). From this debate about Klout John and I have had a series of in person meetings and debates about our industry (both VC & tech) and what is changing. 500px is in Toronto. SHOW NOTES.

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