Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 30, 2021

A venture dollar’s velocity has never been faster. 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? VC fundraising will achieve a record. VC fundraising will achieve a record.

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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 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. Mbwana Ally (Managing Partner, Savannah Fund).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Still, Sheel Mohnot, who was formerly a general partner at the fintech fund of 500 Startups, and Jake Gibson, co-founder of personal finance startup NerdWallet, were a little taken aback by investor interest in their fintech-focused early-stage venture firm, Better Tomorrow Ventures , or BTV. And all we do is fintech.

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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. VC funds must look at ways they can bring in more women decision-makers, all the way up to the top.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

million in a Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Ribbit Capital. Kaszek Ventures, QED Investors and Greenoaks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the startup’s total raised to $36.7 This isn’t the first venture for Cora co-founders Igor Senra and Leo Mendes. million since its 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Without further ado, here are the five judges who will pick the 2021 Startup Battlefield winner: Kirsten Green is the founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm she formed in 2010. While at Pinterest she helped it expand internationally, close its Series C financing and led three acquisitions.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me. Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). So we went for it.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This is where VC comes in and why it’s needed in the industry no matter how much populist sentiment exists against the VC industry. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC. If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investments will look great. So where are we now? It’s hard to say.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

Even still, it’s hard to completely extract bias from any financial deal, particularly one as tangly as this — the two companies have shared investors including GSV, Firework Ventures and Album VC. Blake started Degreed in 2012 to give individuals a platform to turn to for open access educational content.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In a sign that pure equity financing is getting harder to come by, cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf , which last July raised $150 million at triple its previous valuation ($4.3 billion), funding to VC-backed cybersecurity startups isn’t on pace to hit last year’s high (over $23 billion). raised close to $15.9 billion of debt.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She hasn’t raised any venture capital. It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. She found non-traditional financing. Without this money she wouldn’t have been able to finance operations. That may soon change.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The company had raised $43 million in funding from investors such as Foundation Capital, QED Investors and Maverick Ventures, according to Silicon Hills. The company has raised over $550 million since its 2012 inception, according to Crunchbase. Other backers include Greyhound Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund and Point72 Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

KSD Capital, Haystack VC, Commerce Ventures, Clocktower Ventures and others also participated. Tsai describes Affirm founder Max Levchin as a “friend” with whom he has been working in a variety of capacities since 2012. Initialized Capital led the round — the company’s first funding since its 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

Additionally, a group of VCs released the following statement, which reads: “SVB-UK is a trusted and valued partner of the entire innovation ecosystem powering founders and the venture capital industry. It plays a pivotal role in supporting and financing Britain’s startups.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The venture capital fund of the future will perform the same tasks as the venture funds of today: help portfolio companies, evaluate new investment opportunities and build networks of other investors, potential hires, and founders. To triumph in this market, I believe venture capitalists must do three things.

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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. I’ve listed below all of the major RBI venture capitalists I’ve identified.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is where VC comes in and why it’s needed in the industry no matter how much populist sentiment exists agains the industry. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC. If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investors will look great. So where are we now? It’s hard to say.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Martin Sokk , co-founder and CEO of Lightyear, worked at Wise between 2012 and 2017. This is their first investment through this new venture. Wise’s Taavet Hinrikus and Teleport’s Sten Tamkivi partner in new investment firm — just don’t call it a VC fund. Lightyear has raised a $1.5

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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. I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. They are, in fact, great news for traditional venture capitalists. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6-month training program. Defy Ventures graduates have a 3.2% And they didn’t want pity.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Pre-pandemic, VCs were notoriously reluctant to invest in education-related companies. Today, edtech startups are seeing higher average deal sizes, more seed and pre-seed funding from non-VC investors, and an influx of generalists. ” Here’s how far VCs have lowered revenue expectations for seed through Series B.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 14, 2014

And as DeCambre points out, so far through 2014, the ten largest startup financings have yielded about twice as much capital as the ten largest IPOs. Note, I’m excluding Facebook’s IPO in 2012 as an outlier and I’ve adjusted for inflation. In 2012, there were 3 MegaRounds for every 4 IPOs.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This is the task I set out to answer with the master of analysis at Upfront Ventures Glenn Poppe who deserves the bulk of the credit for our work. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. billion (Upfront Ventures was an early Overture backer). LA By The Numbers.

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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. Investing internationally, the firm went from a de facto family office to a multi-LP VC firm. Somehow we just ended up in VC. The firm led the $9.5

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 25, 2015

These billions of dollars, which amount to about half of all venture investment, skew substantially towards consumer investments. Software companies collect 40%, then 7% for Infrastructure and 4% for Finance. Let’s contrast these figures with the total US venture investment market. median market cap ($2.2B

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 31, 2015

In contrast to the frenetic private market, there were 15 US IT venture-backed IPOs with offerings greater than $40M last year, slightly more one IPO per month in 2014. Private market rounds were 14x as common as IPOs in 2014, compared to the 2004-2007 era, when IPOs were about as equally common as large private financings.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As an early-stage VC I love this phase. 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 a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Conductive Ventures raised a $200 million Fund III to continue its focus on investing in founders where other venture capital firms did not see the potential. His approach was so different from those I pitched in 2012,” Aderinkomi said. Conductive Ventures launches $100 million enterprise fund. Then he met Lai.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. They feel very confident they can hit $18 – 20 million in 2012. This team is talented.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

I remember when seed funds first started (they were being incorrectly called “super angels” and then Micro VCs before Seed Funds stuck) and every LP (who invest in VCs) told me they weren’t convinced about Seed Funds (too small, too hard to pick winners, would they be able to follow on?). Non VC Growth Rounds. VC Infighting.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Starting with where the world is today: talk to us a little bit about venture’s lens on talent and how does a venture talent partner assess talent? And I think the way that we’re structured over here is somewhat different and unique relative to a lot of the other venture talent partners that are out there.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

In 2021, $330 billion in venture capital was deployed, and only 2% of that number went to companies founded only by women and 15.6% Eighteen percent of $330 billion translates to $59 billion, or 25% of all venture transactions (e.g., The data supports this, as the numbers for women founders and the overall first-financing growth are 1.6x

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2015

Crosscut Ventures has just announced their 3rd fund and clocking in at $75 million , which will be focused heavily on Los Angeles – FTW. And this is following mega financings at Honest Company ($75 million), JustFab ($85 million), Victorious ($25 million) as well as the obviously known standouts like Tinder and SnapChat.

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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. It’s just a financing question. Most warehouses aren’t automated, so there’s tremendous room for growth.

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