A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 14, 2021

Dogecoin was initially introduced in late 2013 and 7 1/2 years later it has amassed a market cap of $43bn and is one of the most popular crypto assets in the world. The market capitalizations that these meme assets trade at make no sense on any fundamental analysis. I thought “what is he doing?”

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Today, the Palo Alto-based company announced $12 million in Series A funding in a round led by Headline, with participation from Storm Ventures, Global Founder Capital, Zoom Apps Fund, Operator Partners, Industry Ventures and existing investors K9 Ventures, Dragon Capital and Twin Ventures. CEO Kothadiya was previously with [24]7.ai,

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2023

M&A secures the team greater financial certainty within a more established & better capitalized business. Larger, higher-revenue-multiple combinations face more scrutiny from corporate boards when stock prices fall & equity becomes dearer.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Supernova’s Michael Clifton will join the Rigetti board after the transaction closes. According to CrunchBase, Rigetti has raised just under $200 million in VC capital since it was founded in 2013. Ampere Computing, which is mostly known for its Arm-based servers, is also making a direct investment.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2019

Very little time and effort is spent helping professional, full time investors raise capital for venture funds. I backed that company in 2013 when it was basically a table top science project, but the key was a series of connections that could have only been possible as a full time investor.

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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. Guo joined Greylock in 2013 as the firm’s first woman partner and will now transition into the role of board partner. She also is a board director at Mystery and 0x Labs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

New investors Greenoaks Capital and China’s Tencent co-led the round, which included participation from some existing backers as well. With the extension, the startup has now raised more than $700 million since its 2013 inception. Ribbit Capital led the first tranche of its Series E. “We We did not need the money.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The metal 3D printing company intends to merge with ONE, a special purpose acquisition company created by Kevin Hartz, who will join its board. The company says its technology has been used to print north of 10 million parts since its 2013 founding, with its machines deployed in some 10,000 locations across 70 countries.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

The round was co-led by DCM Ventures, Lavender Hill Capital and returning investor PERSOL Holdings. As part of the investment, Lavender Hill Capital founding partner Xiaoyin Zhang and DCM Ventures general partner Ramon Zeng, will join Glints’ board. This brings Glints’ total raised so far to $80 million. Glints’ team.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Abraaj bought Vine Pharmacy in 2013 when it was the largest pharmacy chain in Uganda. But with Abraaj as its largest shareholder, the business had to resize once there wasn’t any more capital available for growth. and Daniel Vasella, ex-CEO and chairman of Novartis; both are members of the board. “I

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Veteran investor Eric Satz realized this in 2013 when he first tried to deploy money from his IRA into private companies and was met with pushback from his financial advisor, who was concerned about the potential risks, Satz told TechCrunch in an interview. ibnAle is set to join the company’s board of directors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Enza Capital participated, alongside some unnamed angel investors. They began informally with handwritten contracts, but progressed into using technology to scale the solution from 2013 when it rebranded to Tugende. . Because of the nature of its business, Tugende needs a steady influx of debt capital. Image Credits: Tugende.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The Series C round was led by Charoen Pokphand Group , which is a major shareholder of Ascend Money, with participation from Bow Wave Capital Management and returning backer Ant Group.

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Founders Coop

AUGUST 7, 2018

With Aviel’s announcement last week, and a new website up at Founder’s Co-op reflecting our new partnership, I thought it was a good time to revisit the themes from my 2013 keynote at the Geekwire Awards: Turtles and Flywheels. Seattle in 2013 was a different place. Fast forward five years.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

In a 2021 survey from The Conference Board focused specifically on the service industry, 80% of respondents said they were having a hard time finding qualified workers. “Smaller businesses need to focus on growth — not keeping up on HR trends, industry statistics, or job board best practices. Image Credits: WizeHire.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Levin joined Heartcore Capital in 2019 from Global Founders Capital, the billion-dollar VC arm of Rocket Internet, where he was responsible for investments in Canva, Heyjobs, Instarem, Anyfin and others. Levin Bunz. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Adopt a “hire slow, fire fast” mentality for your expansion strategy.

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Angel Capital Association

APRIL 30, 2023

Y Combinator, a leading incubator, invented the original (pre-money) SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) in 2013 to provide an easy, fast and cheap way to fund the dozens of startups comprising a Y/C batch. This has recently and amply been demonstrated by the reappearance of Boards and serious governance as critical deal terms.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Lucid Motors reached an agreement to become a publicly traded company through a merger with special-purpose acquisition company Churchill Capital IV Corp., The hype and speculation that has been rampant for weeks drove up the stock price of Churchill Capital IV Corp. Lucid might have been the most anticipated.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Other investors include Northstar, Social Capital, Novastar and TO Ventures. mPharma was originally founded in 2013 by Rockson , Daniel Shoukimas and James Finucane to manage prescription drug inventory for pharmacies and their suppliers, retail pharmacy operations and provide market intelligence to hospitals, pharmacies and patients.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In 2013, Nico Jaspers, who previously founded market research firm Dalia Research, began noticing a shift in consumer behavior: More people were easily reachable via their smartphones. million) of which was debt — led by Oxx with participation from Balderton Capital and Kreos. We want to accelerate our go-to-market.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

in 2013 after moving to Los Angeles. . Morgan and GGV Capital. Yami uses the strength of global e-commerce to provide the comforts of home or cultures that you love no matter where in the world you are,” said managing partner at GGV Capital Hans Tung, a board member of Yami.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Since launching in 2013, South African fintech Yoco has positioned itself as the go-to platform to access offline payments among merchants in the country. The sector continues to dominate startup venture capital funding in Africa while its heavy hitters bring first-time investors to the continent.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

based VC RedBlue Capital. The startup plans to manufacture vehicles in “Modular Micro Manufacturing” factories, similar to Arrival’s microfactories , which should have smaller carbon footprints and require less capital to produce vehicles than traditional OEMs. Amazon has invested $6.5 ”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The round was co-led by Brazil-based Echo Capital and Oria Capital , with participation from TPG Capital , Argonautic Ventures , and others. Ambar was created in 2013 with the ambition to leverage technology to make the civil construction process more efficient.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A-Frame , a Los Angeles-based developer of personal care brands supported by celebrities, has raised $2 million in a new round of funding led by Initialized Capital. ” Initialized General Partner Alda Leu Dennis took point on the investment for Initialized and will take a seat on the company’s board of directors alongside Emquies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

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.” She is joining the board with this round. “As

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

“This essay is dedicated to the great VC’s on my board who I am lucky to work with: Sameer Gandhi from Accel, Jeremy Liew from Lightspeed, and Kirsten Green from Forerunner. “I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” I rest my case.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 6, 2023

Along with the investment, which is part of SignalFire’s Executive-In-Residence (XIR) program, Chris Scoggins, partner at SignalFire, and Jack Huffard, co-founder of Tenable (Nasdaq: TENB) and Signalfire XIR, will join Strivacity’s board of directors.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Board Meetings. Frankly, I think venture capital is that way, too. How do VCs break out of group think when they are shuttling from one board meeting to the next, from one conference to the other and talking with all the same people? How does the world in Los Angeles intersect differently with venture capital?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

A $6 million venture capital infusion is helping Planetarians , a San Francisco–based company creating whole cuts of plant-based protein, move to its next phase of commercial production. Aleh Manchuliantsau and chef Max Barnthouse founded Planetarians in 2013 as a nutritional drink company. In total, the company raised about $6.7

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

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. Andreata Muforo, partner, TLcom Capital (a generalist fund backing uLesson).

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Founded in 2013 by Rockson , Daniel Shoukimas and James Finucane , mPharma is one of the well-funded startups across Africa raising over $50 million since inception, this includes a Series C round of $17 million, led by UK’s development arm CDC Group, it received last year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Wale Ayeni , one of Africa’s well-known investors, has a new role as the head of Helios Digital Ventures, the venture capital strategy of private equity firm Helios Investment Partners, TechCrunch has learned. Interswitch receives $110M investment from LeapFrog and Tana Africa Capital.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

.” The funding — oversubscribed, the company says — is being led by Steadfast Financial, with SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 also participating, along with previous backers ICONIQ Capital, Tiger Global Management and Meritech Capital. That competition is one reason Sendbird has raised money.

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Haystack

JANUARY 12, 2020

For those following this blog and the seed market over the past decade, you may have noticed that every year, we see increases across the board — more investors, newer funds, and funds that get larger. Rather, this short blog is filled only with my own observations from being in the middle of the evolving seed market since 2013.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

And it was convenient for me because we also held our annual London board meeting of DataSift , who helps companies processes and analyze large volumes of social plus enterprise data in realtime. Final le web london (june 2013) from Mark Suster. Venture capital will be easy and then hard. Will this Trend Last?

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