StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

Since 2012, there’s been little increase in venture capital going to women-founded businesses. Last year was a big year for these leaders—even if the VC funding numbers don’t show it—and we’re excited to see what these entrepreneurs do in 2021. The Lip Bar (Detroit).

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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 VC has their own fund model which has to be supported by a service-driven fund administrator.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Some of my greatest assets were qualities like willpower, curiosity, creativity and impatience. My curiosity and creativity made it hard to predict my behavior. That was about a half year after we raised the first million in VC. I learned the hard way that starting a company and managing one require a different set of skills.

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Hunter Walk

JUNE 26, 2023

Chris Neumann: I’ve been lucky to have been a part of 5 startups going back to the late-90s, including two that were VC-backed (DataHero and Aster Data). For example, we had a hybrid work schedule starting in 2012. Hunter Walk: So why venture capital, why early stage, and why Canada? We didn’t overthink things. M/W/F in the office.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2023

Dungeons & Dragons: After weeks of backlash and protests from fans , Wizards of the Coast — the Hasbro-owned publisher of Dungeons & Dragons — announced it will now license Dungeons & Dragons’ core mechanics under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. all-women teams raised in 2021.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

He bootstrapped the company in New York for five years before raising venture capital from high-quality investors like Jeff Bezos and Union Square Ventures, then managed the business to a successful sale to Adobe in 2012. In 2007 he founded 99U, an annual conference attended by thousands of design leaders and creative professionals.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

He became a VC at London-based Benchmark Europe (now Balderton) and then CEO of Endemol, a large multibillion media company best known for creating & owning global franchises for Big Brother, Deal or No Deal and other unscripted television. Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. billion deal to Disney.

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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%). Around $400 billion of imports & exports pass through the LA ports each year, which set the national high-water mark in 2012. But what about tech talent?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As an early-stage VC I love this phase. 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.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

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. In addition, Vilnius has made headlines worldwide with its creative solutions to tackle the pandemic challenges. VC investors: Rokas Peciulaitis (Contrarian Ventures).

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

Not only did I want it to include people working on the future of digital media at ABC, but I also had in mind the roll that other types of creative people have in the inspiration of a city. Three companies from the Studiomates community-- Sherpaa , Tinybop , and Editorially --received VC dollars in 2012. 33 Flatbush.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Furthermore, women founders receive less than 3% of all VC dollars. Data show that men were four times as likely as women to access equity financing from angel investors or VCs (14.4% Data from Women in VC show that only 5.6% VC firms are women-led and only 4.9% of VC partners in the U.S. against 3.6%).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Here Cincinnati was really creative to its approach to attracting more venture capital to the region – including this author. In 2012 Upfront Ventures raised its 4th venture capital fund – this one was $200 million. We started investing the fund in April 2012 and by early 2013 had closed our fund to new investors.

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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. We do these workshops where we have folks that are interested in technology and VC who are coming in.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

But I guess you could say the same about VC. Stock market declines would bring back dog days of VC. If you want a comprehensive summary of the industry in this era it’s worth a read: VC Ice Age Part 1 – What Happens When a Market Comes to a Standstill? VC Ice Age Part 2 – Why the Market Started Moving Again?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. Our team has been involved and invested in crypto since 2012, so we’ve been excited about the industry for a long time. Skyfall focuses on software companies, marketplaces and hardware companies with a recurring software revenue bundle.

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