Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. Within 5 years I was on the board of real businesses with meaningful revenue, strong balance sheets, no debt and on the path to a few interesting exits.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Biggs explored the potential for blockchain technology to help solve humanitarian challenges through her venture, Proof of Purpose, in 2017, and her TEDx speech on Blockchain Technology that year is considered by many in the blockchain space to be one of the best in the genre. The move is significant with the news that Tesla has bought $1.5

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow Rondell Hamilton is the founder of Rennie’s Orphanage and Animal Rescue (ROAR) in Trinidad, a nonprofit organization managing the rehabilitation, repopulation, and rescue of wild animals. However, to ensure the success of any venture, one must be willing to leave their comfort zone. By Jewelle Saunders. Take the risk.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rowe Price, Bessemer Venture Partners, Franklin Templeton and In-Q-Tel. Supernova’s Michael Clifton will join the Rigetti board after the transaction closes. Supernova’s Michael Clifton will join the Rigetti board after the transaction closes. Currently, its systems scale to 80 qubits.

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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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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

2013 has proved to be a wild year. Thank you to Tasha for helping to keep me sane by managing the onslaught of meeting requests, board meetings and constant change. 2013 was the year of wearable devices and physical products. So with the wild ride of 2013 I had thoughts about what made me thankful this year.

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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

JULY 13, 2021

The funding round was led by Atlantic Bridge , Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (SAEV) and Gaingels, with existing vendors — including Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and Telstra Ventures — also participating. AttackIQ was founded in 2013 and is based out of San Diego, California.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. This meant: Less capital to start a company thus the rise of “micro VCs” Younger, more technical founders (not as big of a leap to take a risk on a 24-year-old when it’s $250k and not $5 million. And then the world changed. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

“We partner with the investment groups at the agencies,” said company founder and chief executive, Ari Bloom. As part of the round, actor, activist, and author Hill Harper has joined the company as a co-founder and as the company’s chief strategy officer. “Hill is my co-founder. The Honest Co.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

And there’s none that makes me happier than to announce that Jordan Hudson has been promoted to a Principal at Upfront Ventures. What is a principal at a VC firm and how does it work at Upfront Ventures? Smart founders use this extra resource to their advantage. In 2013 we launched many firsts to reinvent our firm.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The company, which was founded in 2013, also plans to strengthen its global operations across six countries — Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, and the Philippines. Indonesian investment platform Ajaib gets $25 million Series A led by Horizons Venture and Alpha JWC.

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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. As a founder, it’s your job to manage financial and operational risks. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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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. Other investors include Kevin Mandia, CEO of Mandiant and Jack Huffard, co-founder of Tenable, who will join Strivacity as Executive Chairman. The online experience is increasingly the primary customer experience.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The new funding, mPharma co-founder and CEO Gregory Rockson told TechCrunch, will be used to build the startup’s data infrastructure, triple its talent pool over the next three years and support expansion plans in its current and new markets. Other investors include Northstar, Social Capital, Novastar and TO Ventures.

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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. 4 strategies for deep tech founders who are fundraising. . That startup was DoorDash, by the way.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Alisee de Tonnac is co-founder and co-CEO of Seedstars , a Swiss-based group with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship. There is an unmet need of $260 billion to $320 billion for women-owned company funding, according to a 2013 study conducted by the International Finance Corporation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

A Thursday filing revealed that nearly two dozen investors have contributed money, including Sequoia Capital, Binance, and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, who had $1 billion he wasn’t doing anything with at the moment. We showed up on a Friday board meeting. We also looked into whether that was a fair acquisition price. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

When Alex Zhou, founder and CEO of Yami, moved to the Midwest for college in 2007, he had limited access to Asian groceries and products. in 2013 after moving to Los Angeles. . in 2013 after moving to Los Angeles. . Zhou had to drive two hours to purchase his favorite Asian products at the nearest local Asian market.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Two years ago, the African tech ecosystem saw newfound attention from global players that translated to the continent’s best year of receiving venture capital. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year. From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

With the extension, the startup has now raised more than $700 million since its 2013 inception. QuintoAndar also plans to explore the possibility of offering a product to perform standalone transactions outside of its marketplace in partnership with other brokers, according to CEO and co-founder Gabriel Braga.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

In the intervening years, the company has worked with various satellite and aerospace companies to bolster its platform with detailed maps incorporating summits, rivers, passes, paths, huts, and more, arming anyone venturing into mountainous terrain the information they need to know exactly what they’ll encounter before they arrive.

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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.

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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.

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OurCrowd

JULY 15, 2020

Established in 2013, ThetaRay has during the past year been recognized by several industry analyst firms and media outlets as a leader in financial cybercrime detection. The company was commended by Frost & Sullivan for its AI-powered advanced analytics platform. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Kano Computing (“Kano”), the venture-backed company best known for its DIY computer kits and software for teaching coding and STEM skills to kids, is spinning out its creative software suite and online community platform as an independent business. The move comes as the U.K. The move comes as the U.K.

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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. C commitment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

It’s almost been neglected,” CEO and co-founder Udayan Umapathi told TechCrunch. In 2013, Illumina acquired Advanced Liquid Logic, a company founded in 2004 that had already been working on applying digital microfluidics to prep work for Next Generation DNA sequencing. He expects to have a commercial product ready in 2023.

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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. It raised $50 million in Series B earlier this month, in a round that marked PayPal Ventures’ first MENA investment.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Every batch, we invite founders and executives to advise YC companies as Visiting Group Partners. After raising $17M in venture funding, completing several clinical trials and obtaining FDA clearance, nVision was purchased by Boston Scientific for $275M in April of 2018. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nantes.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

By now you will likely have read Andy Dunn’s scathing post about Venture Capitalists in which he decries the industry’s masses. “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 rest my case.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

Jason Furtado and Stephan Richter founded Boston-based Shoobx in 2013, according to Crunchbase. No doubt the venture slowdown and practically dead IPO and SPAC markets have contributed to the surge in M&A activity. Investment giant Fidelity acquired Shoobx , marking its first buy in 7 years (!). ” In other news. .”

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

A few new announcements you might have missed includes an interview we’ll have with Sterling Anderson , co-founder and CPO of Aurora, and Rebecca Yeung , corporate VP of operations science and advanced technology at FedEx. million in a seed funding round co-led by Powerhouse Ventures and VoLo Earth Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Brian Dally, a former mobile network exec, and Nick Bhargava, a co-author of the bipartisan JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act, founded Groundfloor in 2013. Groundfloor co-founders Brian Dally and Nick Bhargava Image Credits: Groundfloor.

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