TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The Family co-founder and CEO Alice Zagury announced in a blog post that the French startup accelerator is suing Oussama Ammar for multiple claims — breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery. According to her, other people working for The Family have asked several times to see documents that proved that investments went through.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

And now, an increasing number of companies are raising money at lower valuations than their last investment. Down rounds carry a negative connotation and are often interpreted as the fault of the company or founder. The social media company had raised a down round in 2009 before it went public in 2012 at a $104 billion valuation.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 29, 2023

What connects these two brands is that they were both elevated to overseas success by the same person, Fujin Tree Group Founder Jay Wu. In 2012, by which time Wu was already cooperating with multiple Japanese fashion companies, he founded the Fujin Tree Group.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Since launching in 2012, Savannah Fund — led by Mbwana Alliy and Paul Bragiel — has backed more than 30 startups. Some of its well-known investments include South African car subscription company, FlexClub; Kenyan on-demand logistics company, Sendy; and Nigerian fintech company, Lidya. Mbwana Ally (Managing Partner, Savannah Fund).

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500

MARCH 26, 2020

When I moved to San Francisco in 2012, I was working on my fourth startup and looking to join an accelerator. But from a young age, going against the grain was in my DNA. It’s what led me to San Francisco, and, ultimately, what drew me to 500 Startups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

How to Run a Company With Two 10-Minute Weekly Meetings and Post-It Notes Barry Raber (EO Portland), a serial entrepreneur and CEO of real estate investment firm Business Property Trust , shared his insights on how to keep team meetings short and sweet with an effective system that fosters collaboration and engagement.

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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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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 24, 2024

Jessica Kinsey Represented the University of Tulsa in 2012 Governor’s Cup 2012 High Growth Graduate Winner Currently CEO/Founder of Prodigy & Co Please provide a few details on your winning Entrepreneur’s Cup business idea. Our business was SpectrumFX. Prodigy & Co exists to make work better for everyone.

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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. Below is the average founder age along these dimensions: All companies (with at least one employee): 42 years Fastest growing 0.1%

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But as sweet as that success has been (we invested pre-revenue in a small team) today my even more important news was the further expansion of our partner ranks. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. This is a big news day at Upfront Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Chris Dixon made the point that he thinks investors should look for the founders to have the domain knowledge rather than them having domain knowledge themselves. 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.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2023

Register Singapore-based venture capital firm Jungle Ventures has announced its merger with HealthXCapital , an early-stage VC firm specializing in healthcare investments. HealthXCapital is an early-stage investment platform that infuses smart and connected financial resources into burgeoning healthcare enterprises.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Most of USV’s big wins have been in companies where we were the first institutional VC to talk to the company or where we had way more conviction about the opportunity than other investors at the time of our investment. You can call it negative social proof.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , it’s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach. What do early-stage founders need to know to capture VC interest, and dollars, in a challenging market?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The company, with bases in Tel Aviv, New York and London, raised a $75 million growth investment led by Summit Partners. Pini Yakuel, founder and CEO of Optimove, Image Credits: Optimove. Prior to this investment, Optimove was bootstrapped for the first four years until raising $20 million.

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Hunter Walk

JUNE 26, 2023

500 Startups was looking to add someone with an enterprise background to their investing team, so I made the leap into venture at the start of 2017. At 500, I had the opportunity to work with early-stage founders from around the world and quickly realized that this was where I wanted to spend my time. As to “why Canada?”,

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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. We spoke with the Gener8tor founders about why they are passionate about thinking about the startup ecosystem a little differently. It’s a hell of an operation, too.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

How the Accredited Investor Definition Unfairly Limits Investment Access for the Non-wealthy and the Need for Reform * WATCH THE HEARING NOW, BEGINNING AT MIN 10 * Early this morning, the Subcommittee on Capital Markets held a hearing entitled “Sophistication or Discrimination? 2022), available at FY22 OASB Annual Report (sec.gov) 4 Id.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Our last fund was $200 million but as you may already know since we raised that fund we added new partners Greg Bettinelli and Kara Nortman and Venture Partner Hamet Watt – all of whom are busy looking at new deals for the firm in addition to Yves Sisteron (the founder), Steven Dietz (also part of founding team) and myself.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Many, like Calendly, passed through Atlanta Tech Village, which has served as an incubator for the city’s talent ecosystem since it was founded in 2012 by David Cummings. Even the Atlanta Hawks launched their own investment firm to back early-stage talent. Last year, Atlanta startups raised around $1.65

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

Blake started Degreed in 2012 to give individuals a platform to turn to for open access educational content. By raising venture funding, Learn In was selling investors on an outsized-return on their investment. “I was closer and more involved in operations than the rest of the directors but it was in a board member capacity,” he added.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Coolwater has built an investment community of 300+ founder VCs and over 5,000 technology companies. Versatile VC is the first VC focused on backing “investment tech” companies which help investors generate alpha and grow. I run a leading blog for emerging investment managers at Teten.com. Generate “operational alpha”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Fund IV totals $600 million, with $450 million for new investments and $150 million earmarked for follow-up investments in its portfolio companies. Jungle Ventures was founded in 2012 by Amit Anand and Anurag Srivastava, launching with a $10 million debut fund. It’s driven by two major factors that influenced our thinking.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 22, 2020

Duolingo’s co-founder and CEO, Luis von Ahn , told me this in an email yesterday: 1. I’m betting on Duolingo (and have been since we made our seed investment in the company in 2012). The number of tests we administer per day has gone up 10x! So now the market is open to competition and the best product can win.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The round was led by returning investors Seek Investments with participation from OneVentures, AirTree Ventures and other shareholders. Employment Hero’s co-founder and CEO Ben Thompson was a seed investor in KeyPay in 2012. Employment Hero’s co-founder and CEO Ben Thompson, was a seed investors in KeyPay in 2012.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Chris Dixon made the point that he thinks investors should look for the founders to have the domain knowledge rather than them having domain knowledge themselves. I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on my background. That’s what he knows best.

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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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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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Dream It

AUGUST 29, 2019

Investors are giving you capital to make 10x, 20x, or 100x their investment. For this reason, it would be ridiculous for a founder to ever tell a venture investor that they want to keep the company private. In other words, the exit strategy is a way of “cashing out” an investment.” To realize this, there must be an exit.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

LiveOak Venture Partners raised its largest fund to date, $210 million for Fund III, which will enable the Austin-based, early-stage venture capital firm to double down on Texas founders. We finished with a diverse base of investors that included 90% from institutional investors and over 40% of investment from new investors.”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2024

How to Run a Company With Two 10-Minute Weekly Meetings and Post-It Notes Barry Raber (EO Portland), a serial entrepreneur and CEO of real estate investment firm Business Property Trust , shared his insights on how to keep team meetings short and sweet with an effective system that fosters collaboration and engagement.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Chih-Han Yu, chief executive officer and co-founder of Appier Group Inc., Founded in Taiwan, Appier was the fund’s first investment outside of India, and is now also the first company in its portfolio outside of India to go public. Photographer: Billy H.C. Kwok/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

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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. It’s committed to three so far.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Ximena Aleman is co-founder and chief business development officer at Prometeo , an open banking platform that serves Latin America. Year-in, year-out, the gender gap in venture capital investment continues to be a problem women founders face. VC went to startups with at least one woman on the founder team.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Limited partners in the vehicle include Mizuho Bank, Mitsubishi Estate, Shinsei Bank, Pavilion Capital, Founders Found, Dai-ichi Life Insurance, GREE, and undisclosed domestic and international institutional investors. We have made a few large follow-on investments – $20 million into SmartHR and $17 million into Graffer.

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