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’s maiden fund of $20 million, launched in 2018, has had Jungle Ventures as a limited partner.

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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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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

JULY 6, 2022

Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than we’ve seen for some time. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Our last fund we raised was in 2012 and we began investing it in April of 2012.

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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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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

MARCH 6, 2017

Mayor Eric Garcetti at Upfront Summit, February 2017 I first sat down with then councilman Eric Garcetti on the Ides of March 2012 — almost 5 years ago exactly. He was running to be the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles and he outlined his vision to “open up the city government to technology and innovation” if he were elected.

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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. Srinivasan and Venu Shamapant started the firm in 2012, and its first two funds both raised $105 million.

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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. The venture capital opportunity in the South is better than it’s ever been,” Lisa Calhoun, a general partner at Valor Ventures, told TechCrunch+ last year. “A

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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. . SparkLabs launches $50M fund for promising early-stage startups in Korea.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Coral Capital , a Tokyo-based venture capital firm, announced today that it has closed its third fund, Coral Capital III, raising $128 million (14 billion yen). Coral Capital’s total assets under management (AUM) is now $275 million. LINE Ventures merges with YJ Capital, launches $271M fund.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

At this point, it’s common knowledge that the cost of capital has declined in recent years. Source: PitchBook data from 2012-2022. Image Credits: Neotribe Ventures. Put another way, over the last three years, a company could raise the same amount of capital for less dilution. Source: PitchBook data from 2012-2022.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Since its 2012 inception, Ribbit Capital had previously raised about $1.3 billion in capital, according to Crunchbase. In addition to this fund, Ribbit’s managing partner Meyer “Micky” Malka is listed as director of an entity called Bullfrog Capital LP. billion as well.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

It won’t be the last venture group to pull back from an expansion of its traditional investing remit. During the COVID-19 pandemic’s first years, the pace at which venture capital firms could raise money expanded. venture capitalists saw their capital inflows more than double from $23.5 billion in 2016.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Despite shrinking investment into startups in 2022, venture capital funds of all sizes are still being raised. However, not many of these are led by solo general partners (GPs), and although that trend is on the rise, even fewer are led by women or people who don’t come from venture capital, Anna writes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. But notably you had the following changes: Horizontally scalable computing & storage systems, which meant you required less capital up front for hardware. Venture Capital. And then the world changed. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. We have invested $17.3

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Sarah Guo is the latest woman to depart their position at a venture capital firm with plans to launch one of their own. billion for Haun Ventures’ debut crypto fund. Sources confirmed to Axios that Guo is planning to launch her own fund. In March, Kathryn Haun (formerly Andreessen Horowitz) raised $1.5

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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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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

MARCH 30, 2022

Register Kickstart Ventures , one of the most active venture capital firms in the Philippines, celebrates its 10th anniversary with a renewed commitment to invest in startups across the Philippines, and in major innovation hubs in Southeast Asia and beyond.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

The Mountain View-based business, founded in 2012, was last valued at $2.4 GSV, a venture capital firm that exclusively backs edtech companies, had its largest position of its first fund in Coursera. The company has been talking to underwriters since last year, but tomorrow could mark its first legal step in the process to IPO.

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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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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Dorm Room Fund is an American venture capital firm run by students that invests in student founders in the US and Canada using a $20,000 SAFE. The firm has made 326 investments since 2012. Front Row Ventures “is a Canada-based, university-focused venture capital firm operating on more than 20 campuses in Canada.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

And while it is somewhat clear that most folks expect more capital to be available for crypto projects, it’s not clear where it may end up inside the market. 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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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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Chang Xu for her tireless effort in helping me prepare and analyze the data) If you met with LPs to raise a fund in 2009–2012 the most common refrain was, “We have too many managers and too many dollars in venture. link] So here are some details (please thank & follow!

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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

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.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 23, 2021

2012: Facebook. The data is a lagging indicator, but it does show how quickly and how significantly pricing has skyrocketed, the effect of evolution in both supply and demand in the venture capital marketplace. 3 of the 11 years recorded 40%+ growth. 3 of the years saw declining prices. 2014: Alibaba.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them. Technology riches yield bumper crops in venture capital with new firms and new largesses – the rewards of LPs rediscovering our asset class. Are LPs to blame?

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Also participating were VNV Global, RDIF, Flashpoint Venture Capital and others. Founded in 2012, Borzo says it now has a customer base of 2 million users, 2.5 Now the Amsterdam HQ-d startup is rebranding as “ Borzo ” to bring its operation in 10 different countries under one.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

The new valuation represents about 440%, or 5.4x, increase over Tridge’s postmoney valuation of $500 million in July 2021 when it raised $60 million in its Series C from Korean venture capital firm Forest Partners. Now there are a lot of actual transactions [on Tridge’s platform] occurring in many countries, including the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

After graduating from Harvard with a degree in philosophy, Tavel was a consultant at The Kerden Group and then vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners. She joined Pinterest in 2012 as one of the company’s first 35 employees after co-leading the Series A investment while at Bessemer.

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