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. However, Coolwater is one of the few firms taking this model and applying it in venture capital.

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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. ” The team’s first program was in Milwaukee in 2012, and for a while they alternated running annual programs in Milwaukee and Madison.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

Since 2012, there’s been little increase in venture capital going to women-founded businesses. In the third quarter of 2020, venture capital funding for female founders dropped to a three-year low. In the third quarter of 2020, venture capital funding for female founders dropped to a three-year low.

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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. . and Asia. .

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The GitHub Student Developer Pack offers more than $200k in developer tools/training for student entrepreneurs or any students. LawCloud offers free legal documents through the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. The Emerging Entrepreneur Scholarship Grant is “to help entrepreneurial students who have innovative business ideas.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

In the last couple of years, a large group of “Gen Z VCs” have come to the forefront of what one might consider “hip” venture capital investing. There’s a drastic difference in views and experiences between someone born in 1997 and someone born in 2012. ” Web3 received $27 billion last year alone.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2016

GOAT just announced it raised $5 million in venture capital led by our friends at Matrix Partners. GOAT (“Greatest of All Time) is a sneakerhead marketplace that is en fuego, but we led the company’s last financing round in 2012 (yes, four years ago) when they were an application for letting people join group dinners.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The funding round was anchored by Singapore’s Insignia Ventures Partners. Konvy was launched in 2012 by Chinese entrepreneur QingGui Huang, who had previously managed fashion e-commerce platforms in China. Previously, Konvy had raised seed funding from Alpha Founders Capital and ECG Ventures Capital.

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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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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. HW: Greenhouse, which powers the hiring process from sourcing to onboarding for thousands of companies, will soon be a teenager, having been founded in 2012.

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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. Paul Bragiel (Generap Partner, Savannah Fund).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Union Square Ventures (USV) has been one of the most successful venture capital firms of the past 10–15 years and continues to be a leader in our industry. Lindel is no stranger to thorny venture capital issues — he was arguably amongst the most successful LPs of his generation.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2022

Beyond co-founding Initialized, which raised a $700 million fund (its sixth) last year and has over $1 billion in known assets under management, Tan was also co-founder of YC-backed blog platform Posterous, which was acquired by Twitter in 2012. YC itself says it was founded in 2005 as “an antidote to the classic venture capital firm.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It’s a critical appointment — while brief — that can have a lasting impact on the founders who win, as well as help maintain TechCrunch’s reputation as an outlet that finds innovative tech and entrepreneurs behind it. Lanzone has a long history in media and as an entrepreneur.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Year-in, year-out, the gender gap in venture capital investment continues to be a problem women founders face. There has been little movement in the amount of VC dollars going to women-founded companies since 2012. In the long term, there needs to be foundational change to level the playing field for women entrepreneurs.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The venture capital game has become about branding yourself so you can get into a handful of hot deals." -- @Naval on stage with @Jason. It''s more often the case that founders are repeat entrepreneurs on the west coast. Venture Capital & Technology' Yesterday, I saw this tweet come across my screen.

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

As smart speaker platforms have matured, more entrepreneurs are leveraging the technology to benefit healthcare. Dozens of healthcare-focused voice tech startups have popped up in the last few years which are backed by top tier venture funds. Other problems experienced by seniors include loneliness (more than 11.3

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The involvement of prominent entrepreneurs like Ramakant Sharma of Livspace, Sayali Karanjkar of PaySense, and Cameron Priest of TradeGecko is being highlighted for nurturing exceptional teams with bold ideas. Jungle Ventures’ First Cheque@Jungle stands out with its two fundamental principles.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

It plans to accelerate its omnichannel and international distribution with a new Series A of $10 million from Insignia Ventures Partners. Konvy was launched in 2012 by Chinese entrepreneur QingGui Huang, who previously managed fashion e-commerce platforms in China.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

While we’d nearly always cover a notable acquisition in a relevant tech sector, the extra interesting bit here is a personnel one: both companies were co-founded by the same entrepreneur, David Blake. It feels rare to see serial entrepreneurs have one of their startups acquire another one of their startups.

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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 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. So we went for it.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Bybit and BitDAO partner Mirana Ventures co-led the round alongside Alameda. Fidelity International Strategic Ventures , DRW Venture Capital , Alumni Ventures , and Jump Capital also participated. . The Chicago-based company, which launched in April 2020, raised a $1 million seed round in September 2020.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

But a couple of people replied with responses of such lack of comprehension that I thought it was worth expanding on for first-time entrepreneurs. Successful entrepreneurs achieve much through their personal leadership traits that inspire others to do great things with them – sure. VENTURE CAPITAL. Not possible.

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Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 6, 2020

Over the next eight years, Facebook would attract half a billion users and nearly $7 billion in venture capital investment, on its way to a May 2012 IPO that valued the company at more than $81 billion. By that summer, Zuckerberg moved himself and the company to Silicon Valley and never looked back.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 29, 2023

In 2012, by which time Wu was already cooperating with multiple Japanese fashion companies, he founded the Fujin Tree Group. Strategy 3: Niche markets have massive potential when targeted correctly Jay Wu is an entrepreneur who believes in the power of niche markets. This article is part of a partnership with Cherubic Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

My partner Greg Bettinelli (worth following on Twitter) was recently named by The LA Business Journal as the “ Top deal maker in Los Angeles in Venture Capital.” From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. Greg truly is a prolific deal maker and is amongst the most helpful people to entrepreneurs in our ecosystem.

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JANUARY 1, 2013

In 2012, I started my second company--a venture capital firm called B rooklyn Bridge Ventures. Becoming an entrepreneur again has been a ton of work, but incredibly rewarding. 2) Get to sleep. More accidents and injuries are traceable to lack of sleep than any other cause.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Today is amongst the proudest days I’ve had at Upfront Ventures — getting the chance to announce that Kevin Zhang has been promoted to Partner. years at Upfront has been both a pleasure and also has taught me a lot about venture capital. Kevin joined Upfront in 2012 as an Associate. Watching him develop over the past 4.5

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This was what serial entrepreneur Ian Mendiola is trying to achieve with his GenAI-powered news summary app, Gem. He had been ahead of the market when he launched the English reading app Umano in 2012. This article is part of a partnership with Cherubic Ventures. But what if it also held the solution to this problem?

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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. Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see the problems in this structure.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

As of today, TechCrunch understands an influential group of UK entrepreneurs and investors, aided by industry body Coadec , is now making hasty representations this weekend to HM Treasury over the implications of SVB UK’s shut down. One entrepreneur I spoke to did not mince their words: “It’s totally f *d up.

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StartupNation

MARCH 16, 2021

Are you an entrepreneur with a great story to share? We know all too well that funding for a startup company is one of the most critical resources a startup entrepreneur must secure in order to launch and grow. But in 2012, in the U.S. Listeners outside of the Detroit area can listen live HERE. WJR Business Beat Transcript.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 16, 2014

For example, while I closed on the seed investment in Tinybop on November 19, 2012, I met Raul two years earlier at the first Brooklyn Beta in 2010, even before he was working on the company. It''s also a function of meeting the entrepreneur before they''ve really decided what they want to raise, or before they have a deck.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Scott’s relationships with founders like Kayvon embody Benchmark’s approach of working shoulder-to-shoulder in support of the entrepreneurs we back. Scott never sought credit, fame, or anything that would put him in front of his clear purpose to help the entrepreneur.

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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. Like they truly understood entrepreneurs.

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