A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 18, 2019

When USV invested in Coinbase in early 2013, our rationale was that digital currencies and digital assets (like Bitcoin and beyond) were a breakthrough technology, similar to TCP/IP, HTTP and SMTP. To be clear, we view this as both an ecosystem investment and a financial investment. This has proven to be true.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. Participants have the opportunity to receive prizes reaching $40,000. Right here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As continentally confined Americans look for domestic vacation options that won’t expose them to too much risk of infection from the pandemic that’s still raging across the country, the RV rental company RVshare has raised more than $100 million to capitalize on its historic opportunity. billion in January 2020.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Corelight, a San Francisco-based startup that claims to offer the industry’s first open network detection and response (NDR) platform, has raised $75 million in Series D investment led by Energy Impact Partners. . million Series A in July 2017.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The investment giant, which unveiled $2.85 billion funds earlier this year for India and Southeast Asia , has invested $19.3 Founded in 2013 by IIT alumni Lokesh Anand, Mayur Rustagi and Rahul Kumar Singh, Sigmoid offers analytics and AI solutions to companies around the globe. It works largely with Fortune 500 corporations.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Like so many kinds of automation, Rose says that he has seen things accelerate during the pandemic as software development teams look for ways to eliminate manual processes as they moved to work from home. Vamp launched in 2013 in Amsterdam and raised around €3 million, according to Crunchbase data.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. PhotoniCare has developed a patented imaging platform that provides growth opportunities beyond otology (study of the ear). iMCI) is a private, for profit investment and fund management company operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of i2E, Inc.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

And with that, the opportunity to reach audiences and push messaging. Founded in 2013, Oktopost has only ever registered an $800,000 early-stage funding, and has run on revenues and profit ever since. Founded in 2013, Oktopost has only ever registered an $800,000 early-stage funding, and has run on revenues and profit ever since.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Ascend Money will use the proceeds to grow its e-wallet application – TrueMoney Wallet – and expand its digital financial services ranging from digital lending and digital investment to cross border remittances in Southeast Asia. Indonesian investment platform Ajaib gets $25 million Series A led by Horizons Venture and Alpha JWC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

When combined with the $28 million A investment from December 2018, it brings the total raised to approximately $126 million. What’s attracting this level of investment says Jakob Freund, co-founder and CEO at Camunda is the company is solving a problem that goes beyond pure automation. Camunda is not your typical startup.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 6, 2023

SignalFire, based in San Francisco, led the Series A2 investment with additional participation from Ten Eleven Ventures. This creates a unique opportunity to craft better customer experiences, which increase customer engagement, grow conversion rates and ultimately drive more online revenue.” That’s why we built Strivacity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

With the latest round, HoneyBook has now raised $215 million since its 2013 inception. We’re seeing so much demand for additional services and products, so we definitely want to invest and create better ways for our members to present themselves online,” Alon told TechCrunch. So that’s just a few of the things we plan to invest in.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Nicole Centeno founded the company in 2013. Both Torch and Ohanian invested in previous rounds. Just to show how mighty the small team actually is, for every dollar invested in Splendid Spoon in recent years, the company generated $15 in revenue, Densborn added. Now, 85% of Americans are actually trying to eat healthier.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically accelerated the adoption of e-commerce, which now accounts for 20% of all global retail sales. By building the largest e-commerce operating platform, ChannelEngine is set to capitalize on this opportunity by giving brands and retailers instant access to the global marketplace.” trillion by 2023.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services. This spells ample opportunity for payments infrastructure providers such as Geopagos. The financing marks the company’s first ever institutional funding.

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Gust

JUNE 29, 2014

As I was reading about it a while back, it occurred to me that the concept relates directly to how investors see startup opportunities and potential success as well, at least those with technology in their offerings. Invested Interests' The Hype Cycle was a concept put forward by Gartner, Inc. Investors love this stage.

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Gust

JUNE 29, 2014

As I was reading about it a while back, it occurred to me that the concept relates directly to how investors see startup opportunities and potential success as well, at least those with technology in their offerings. Invested Interests entrepreneur Gartner startup' The Hype Cycle was a concept put forward by Gartner, Inc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

By 2013 it would be bankrupt and one of the many casualties of the first wave of cleantech investing. In 2013, there were 220,000 electric vehicles on roads, according to data from Statista , a number which had grown to 4.8 “You don’t have to invest an insane amount of money to put them in. million by 2019.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

Then I went into banking, specifically investment banking in the early ’90s. A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

With the new financing, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Insurify has now raised a total of $128 million since its 2013 inception. Insurify plans to use its fresh capital to continue to expand its operations and accelerate its growth plans. auto market is huge: even a slow transition to online means a massive opportunity for Insurify.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” No less than Fred Wilson has credited Carlota’s work with having a major influence on his investment strategy at USV.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Your own investment’s value may change because of a change in the value of the underlying asset and/or market preferences. However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. The HFRI Index returned 18.3%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Surely not I, when my family moved here in 2013. I had the opportunity to interview new CEO Simon Khalaf, who shared with me the reasoning behind the purchase. Marqeta’s main goal with the purchase is to expand and “significantly accelerate the capabilities” offered in its credit product. More details here. What does it do?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. Pear, a seed-stage venture firm founded in 2013, has an impressive track record when it comes to identifying promising companies from their earliest stages — including DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar, Vanta, Branch Metrics and Guardant Health. ” Valar Labs.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

Because they’re quickly growing, working at Blumira offers the opportunity for high growth and a fast-paced work environment. They plan to use these investments to help grow their team and scale their product. DaySmart is a software company that’s accelerating small business growth with digital tools. million in 2020.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

From 2003-2022 the River Valley Investors operated as a traditional angel group, investing in nearly 100 startups. For posterity, here are some of the more recent investments… 2022 Hubly Surgical Hubly Surgical has an advanced drill, complete with auto-stop and visual feedback, to make medical drilling safe across underserved settings.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

But two months into 2020, the pandemic did an excellent job of lowering expectations as investment activities from local and international investors slowed down. AfricArena, a tech ecosystem accelerator, pegged deals to close between $2.25 Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Venture investment in renewables has soared as global investment in energy transition more than doubled from $235 billion in 2010 to $501 billion in 2020, according to Bloomberg NEF. In 2019, venture and private equity investment in cleantech was estimated between $9 and $16 billion, up from less than $500 million in 2013.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 5, 2016

If I had more space, I’d add that studying accelerated learning is the Archimedes lever for everything else. From 2007-2009 and again from 2012-2013, I said yes to way too many “cool” things. Invest in a start-up that five of my friends were in? That one’s easy, as it would be the same every year.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

A key pandemic-driven trend is the acceleration of the fertility tech sector, including egg freezing and IVF, with a market predicted to be worth $37+ billion in less than 10 years. million, the second-highest year ever, after 2013, when Waze was sold to Google for some $1 billion. Exit proceeds in 2020 totaled $1.9

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A shift from late-stage pre-IPO investing to renewed emphasis on early stage. From VCs to Investment Advisors… and back again? From VCs to Investment Advisors… and back again? But this will be especially hard to deal with for early-stage investors, given that we expect most of our investments to fail to return capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

based investment firm founded by AOL co-founder CEO Steve Case and former AOL senior exec Ted Leonsis, is raising $500 million for its fourth fund, shows a new SEC filing. The outfit is also investing out of more than one fund at a time. This could be an accelerant. Revolution , the Washington, D.C.-based

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

One obvious solution to this list of issues and opportunities is to leverage technology to better serve the needs of the customer. In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009. Do they conduct surveys? Do they measure waiting time?

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Investments are made in high-growth companies with women leaders, following their successful completion of the firm’s Expert Sift process. Backstage Capital : founded by Arlan Hamilton, Managing Partner, the firm invests in the very best founders who identify as women, People of Color, or LGBTQ.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 25, 2021

OurCrowd is offering investors the opportunity to participate in a new round alongside Pico Venture Partners and Pontifax. 2020 was a record investment year for Israeli startups, and OurCrowd cemented its position as a leader of Israel’s venture capital community. “The Learn More. OurCrowd, Israel’s most active venture investor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Clarifai wants to bring artificial intelligence into the lives of developers, business operators and data scientists so they can automate and accelerate their model development. Matt Zeiler founded the New York-based company in 2013 focused on computer vision. We saw an opportunity and raised the round.”.

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