Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on the skills I’ve developed in my career. To some extent Keith Rabois agreed with me about domain knowledge and argued that most of his investments are in the consumer Internet space as a result. Always have been.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

Notably, the 38-year-old Silicon Valley-based venture firm is doubling down on global investing. billion global “Leaders” fund that is focused on later-stage investing that Accel closed in December. Accel expects to invest in about 20 to 30 companies per fund on average, according to Partner Rich Wong.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Stacked , a web-based platform that provides passive investment tools for retail investors interested in crypto, just announced it raised a $35 million Series A co-led by Alameda Research , a crypto trading firm owned by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Bybit and BitDAO partner Mirana Ventures co-led the round alongside Alameda.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

based savings and investing startup Acorns has acquired London-based GoHenry , a startup focused on providing money management and financial education services to 6- to18-year-olds in an all-equity deal, the two companies announced today. Acorns Early lets parents, guardians, family and friends easily invest in a child’s future.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MAY 22, 2018

State College, PA – Salimetrics, a company that is widely regarded as a global leader in salivary bioscience, got its start nearly 20 years ago with an investment from Ben Franklin Technology Partners, and then received additional funding from the program for a buyout of early-stage investors in 2012.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

In 2012, it surpassed Melbourne, Australia; in 2014, it surpassed Osaka, Japan, and Sydney, Australia; in 2016, it overtook Seoul, South Korea; and in 2018, for the first time, it outranked Tokyo, Japan. The hallmark of the festival resides in its prowess to beckon luminaries from finance, technology, academia, and governmental echelons.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. Bigfoot Capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Founded by Sheel Mohnot and Jake Gibson in November of 2019, San Francisco-based Better Tomorrow Ventures ( BTV ) has allocated $150 million to invest in startups at the pre-seed and seed stages. It has also reserved $75 million for an opportunity fund for follow-on investments. The personal finance company went public last year.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on my background. I should say that I agree that naive optimism in entrepreneurs can produce higher beta (upside or flops) and that’s good from an investment standpoint if you’re looking for big returns.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 30, 2021

The time it takes for a dollar to appear in an LP’s pocket, for the LP to wire it to a VC fund, and for the VC fund to invest can be measured in minutes. See that blip in 2012? There are 3-5 financings and M&A every working day. A venture dollar’s velocity has never been faster. Where will the tally end the year?

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 3, 2022

to $360b invested per year. Bay Area startups claimed of 55% total dollars up from 45% in 2012. More financings occur outside San Francisco, but Bay Area companies now raise 2000 to 2500 rounds per year, up from 404. In 2019, US startups raised $126.4b. During this same period, the US venture industry grew 41x from $8.8b

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

How to finance a new seed-stage startup? Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note.” ” Ressi in particular seems to be passionate about removing the “debt” component from convertible debt seed financing transactions. .”

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A consortium of global institutional investors also participated in the funding round that will finance the expansion of Traveloka’s platform and strengthen the company’s capabilities as the world opens up.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Annie Case, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, focuses on investments in consumer, healthcare and marketplaces. Before joining Reach, Herrera served as a principal at Cowboy Ventures, where she focused on investing in consumer internet and marketplace companies. She helped lead investments in companies like Contra and Landing. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In 2012, Girls Who Code launched, teaching girls computer programming. In contrast to her future success in finance, Kelly Peeler’s early start as an entrepreneur began with flipping refurbished furniture at the age of 11. Boys outnumbered girls by a wide margin. Katrina Lake / Stitch Fix. Kelly Peeler / NextGenVest.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

This amount was double the previous year’s investment, and nine times what was raised five years ago, an indication of how much the startup scene has transformed over the last few years. billion investment that fintechs in Africa raised in 2020, and triple the amount in 2019. This amount was also more than double the $1.35

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Andrew Chan is a senior associate at Builders VC , investing in early-stage companies that are transforming pen and paper industries. 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. Andrew Chan. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Droit , a regulatory compliance platform used by finance heavyweights such as Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and UBS, has raised $23 million in a Series B round of funding. Droit, a regulatory compliance platform used by major banks, raises $23M by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

The latest funding, led by South Korean private equity firm DSAsset, brings Tridge’s total financing to $111.7 With this investment, we will accelerate overseas expansion plans.”. Tridge said Thursday it has secured $37.2 million (50 billion won) in a Series D funding round at a postmoney valuation of $2.7 Carrefour and Indofood.

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Gust

MARCH 11, 2014

On one hand, the total dollars invested by VCs is relatively flat at just under $30B per year, according to the NVCA. I’ve divided the companies into cohorts by the year they raised their seed investment. First, the number of seed investments in the Crunchbase data has increased by 4x in 4 years.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding. The concept of Geopagos was actually born in 2012 on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, when one of its founders went into the Apple Store and found out that he could pay for the purchase with his card through a small device.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Companies such as E*TRADE, Rocket Mortgage, and TurboTax began to disrupt the established financial services sector well before 2012, but that year marked the turning point when fintech morphed into a sustained movement that would drastically change how most people manage their money.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 Kaszek led Cora’s $10 million seed round (believed at that time to be one of the largest seed investments in LatAm) in December 2019 with Ribbit then following. million since its 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Bunq founder Ali Niknam is also participating in the round — he’s investing $29.5 million (€25 million) while Pollen Street Capital is financing the rest of the round. Founded in 2012, Ali Niknam has already invested quite a bit of money into his own company.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

Earlier this week, we examined the trends in the major categories of startup investment including eCommerce, Software, Social Networking and Education. Each year, starting in mid-2012 through mid-2015, these sectors have grown their investment dollars by more than 145%, according to Mattermark data.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

“We finished with a diverse base of investors that included 90% from institutional investors and over 40% of investment from new investors.”. Srinivasan and Venu Shamapant started the firm in 2012, and its first two funds both raised $105 million. billion was invested so far, and is poised to eclipse the $15.4 In 2021, $14.2

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Costanoa Ventures is seeing some of its best returns yet as it closed on two new funds, Costanoa Fund IV, a $225 million early-stage fund, and Opportunity Fund II, a $115 million funding investing in later rounds of portfolio companies. One of its first investments into Latin America was leading Plug Pagamentos’s seed round in November.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Vise today announced a $65 million Series C financing round led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from existing investors, including Sequoia. The company’s round fits inside the generally bullish market for fintech investments that TechCrunch has observed globally.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The Kauffman Foundation found 47% of US tech founders held degrees in STEM while 34% held degrees in business, finance, and accounting. At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. Creator Fund is a European firm “investing in Ph.D.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The San Francisco-based operations execution company raised $27 million in Series C financing, led by Golub Capital, to continue developing its application to automate operation procedures like tracking food safety, public health protocols and changing market conditions. When he sees a problem, he works and works to solve it,” Gretsch said.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2016

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. On the surface that sounds unremarkable — fundings happen daily. But this isn’t just any funding.

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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 2019, less than 3% of all VC investment went to women-led companies, and only one-fifth of U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

New Mountain Capital, a New York-based investment firm with more than $30 billion in assets under management, was the only institutional investor to put money in this round alongside company executives. The company was bootstrapped until a 2019 $50 million-plus debt financing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Creditas , the Brazilian lending business, has raised $255 million in new financing as financial services startups across Latin America continue to attract massive amounts of cash. billion thanks to $570 million raised in outside financing over five rounds. The company’s credit portfolio has crossed 1 billion reals ($196.66

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Coinbase’s direct listing was a massive finance, startup and cryptocurrency event that impacted a host of public and private investors, early employees, and crypto-enthusiasts. We’ll wrap by considering what impact Coinbase’s direct listing will have, if any, on non-crypto fintech venture capital investing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

During the program, industry “experts” and past founders in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) space will provide participants with “strategic guidance” on product and go-to-market strategy, “while preparing the company for success and future financing from top-tier venture capital firms,” say the organizers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Ribbit Capital, a venture firm best known for its fintech investments, has raised $1.15 Since its 2012 inception, Ribbit Capital had previously raised about $1.3 It has invested (and seen exits) in what are some of the world’s largest fintechs today, including Coinbase, Nubank, Affirm and Robinhood. billion as well.

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