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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTĂș

Both Sides of the Table

MiTĂș, based out of Los Angeles, was founded in 2012 by three veterans from the Hispanic media world: Beatriz Acevedo ( recently named on the 25 most important digital media players on The Hollywood Reporter !) , Doug Greiff and Roy Burstin. This was a marked change from the previous leadership of YouTube.

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Celonis secures another $1B to find and fix process problems in enterprise systems

TechCrunch

Lest there be any doubt some startups are riding high even amid the macroeconomic uncertainty, process mining software vendor Celonis today announced that it secured a whopping $1 billion in additional capital at a $13 billion post-money valuation, a mix of equity ($400 million) and debt (a five-year $600 million credit line).

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

Invested Interests. I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. Somewhere in the mix, timing matters a great deal and first isn’t often the most significant mover advantage. Power Pitches.

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Quickly Unpacking Two Recent Acquisitions (of Cylance; of PlanGrid)

Haystack

However, 2018 has other ideas, with the most money ever invested in U.S. 1/ A Pre-Seed Reminder: According to Crunchbase, PlanGrid was founded and went through Y Combinator in 2012. Every time there is a big technology exit (usually via M&A), I attempt to quickly unpack key takeaways from the transaction. 1/ Cash Is King: The $1.4B

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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

We spend time looking at their org savvy, their leadership skills. Who are the best search partners to use, and let then letting you and that search firm run with the execution. Can you just describe the MOC to our audience, what it is, and why you guys are so passionate about using it? The mission is the elevator pitch.

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Data obscures positive trends in VC dollars reaching women-founded startups

TechCrunch

In my view, the correct statistic is about 18%, not 2% — as we should take into account deals that had mixed-gender founding teams. Doing so ascribes all the fundraising success and the leadership work underpinning it to the founders who are men, effectively propagating gender bias. The rest is noise.

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Runa Sandvik’s new startup Granitt secures at-risk people from hackers and nation states

TechCrunch

RS: If you look at a decade ago when I worked for the Tor Project and they got funding, we set out to teach reporters how to use the Tor Browser. It’s something that I’m more excited about and ready to invest in. I think at some point, you do need to invest in having people talk to each other.

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