TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Plus, you get to hear feedback from some of the smartest folks in the industry, thus learning how to absolutely crush it at your next pitch meeting with a VC. Those startups will pitch their products/businesses to a pair of expert VC judges, who will then give their live feedback. Register here for free!

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

I’m sharing my thought process because perhaps it will nudge some of you to angel invest too! I consider myself a furiously curious person, and angel investing is one of the most rewarding ways I’ve experienced to satisfy this curiosity. MY 2013 ANSWER TO “WHY?” As my portfolio has grown, so has my answer to this question.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 1, 2014

We all have our inherent biases and what I am not arguing here is that the venture capital world is a fair playing field for anyone. I repeat: I AM NOT ARGUING THAT VENTURE CAPITAL IS FAIR TO ANYONE. We really don''t know, because we''re missing some critical information: HOW MANY WOMEN ARE SEEKING 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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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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Haystack

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

We were lucky to invest not only during this time, but also doubled down in an extension. With over 150 customers now, they range from financial institutions such as VC and PE firms, consumer product companies, and media organizations. The company received investment interest for a few years, but took their time to raise the Series A.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2012

It took almost two years for the company to raise their first outside capital from RTP and Greycroft--and honestly, my bad for not staying close to the company. It would be over two years until he took his first round of capital earlier in 2012. Good for him--I'm happy to see him get resourced to built out his vision. I'm impressed.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

As a partner at Wing Venture Capital, Zach Dewitt focuses on early-stage investments in transformative enterprise technologies. After winning the 2013 TechCrunch Meetup and Pitch-off , I decided to drop out of business school to pursue my startup full time. A great VC will do so much more for you than just write a check.

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Haystack

JANUARY 20, 2019

When I started out investing (via a fund — not my money), I was just investing based on a simple schedule: About once a month, invest $25K into one company I liked. That escalation from $25K back in 2013 took a little over four years. Fund investing is easy — fund management is not. Pretty easy.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Iyer, a serial entrepreneur with two successful exits, spent the majority of last year honing in on his interest in web3 as a visiting partner at Pear VC and an instructor teaching a DeFi masterclass to over 2,000 students. The firm expects to make 40 to 50 investments in its first fund, writing checks between $250,000 to $500,000, it says.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

billion and the company expects to receive about $458 million in cash, including a $100 million PIPE (private investment in public equity) deal subscribed to by a group of investors including T. Ampere Computing, which is mostly known for its Arm-based servers, is also making a direct investment.

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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. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

But VC is like congress. “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.” As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. Their data looks at tech VCs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In this piece , I spotlighted what influenced this venture capital growth — which, at the time, was pegged at a little over $4 billion. Briter Bridges : In 2020, the publication reported that fintech companies accounted for 31% of the total VC funding. In 2021, fintech startups got 63% of the continent’s total investments.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

years of investing in the seed stage, I have never seen activity levels like I’m seeing today. Despite that lack of experience, I am fortunate in that I have direct access to many of the greatest VC leaders and franchises for mentorship and guidance. Making angel investments, raising small seed funds. In short, in my 6.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong, contrarian advice for the venture capital industry: don’t sit on your founders’ boards. Khosla, who spoke onstage at the Upfront Summit in Los Angeles this week, spoke about the culture of capital. We don’t — no matter how important an issue.”

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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. Sources confirmed to Axios that Guo is planning to launch her own fund.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

The investment, which, according to the company, was agreed on and structured in 2020, follows the $6.3 million raised in November 2020 and led by Toyota Tsusho investment fund Mobility 54. San Francisco and Paris-based VC firm, Partech led the round. Enza Capital participated, alongside some unnamed angel investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are also investing in other skilled talent like doctors and nurses, professionals that are critical in the work we do,” Rockson told TechCrunch. “??Bloom Other investors include Northstar, Social Capital, Novastar and TO Ventures. Other investors include Northstar, Social Capital, Novastar and TO Ventures.

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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. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Adopt a “hire slow, fire fast” mentality for your expansion strategy.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Last night I spoke at the Enterprise Tech VC Panel. We discussed five trends in the seed market and the outlook for 2013. These are the five most important trends for 2013, in my view. Call it micro-VC or mega-seed fund, there’s a new investor class which raises funds between $50 and $100M to invest in seed-stage companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

More venture capital is flowing into meal delivery service companies as consumers seek out better-for-you food choices. Nicole Centeno founded the company in 2013. Both Torch and Ohanian invested in previous rounds. Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets. and the answer has been yes.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Peter Gajdoš is a partner at Fifth Wall , where he co-leads the Climate Technology Investment team. Consumer brands, like Amazon , Microsoft and Unilever , are investing billions to invest in climate technology. That’s where growth capital and eventually infrastructure investments come in. Peter Gajdoš.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Data shows that India’s venture capital scene has grown sharply in recent years. 2019 was the country’s biggest ever in terms of venture dollars invested, with Bain counting $10 billion during the year. In 2020, the third quarter brought the country’s venture capital scene back to form. Bikayi is one such startup. Market Notes.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me. Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). Jamie did, too!

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

This is Part 2 of a two-part examination of the state of the startup capital market during the past two years. From an investor’s perspective, 2022 witnessed a sudden market reversal from an extreme equity seller’s market to an equity buyer’s market, causing dislocations throughout angel, VC, and startup ecosystems.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

What is the True Sentiment of VCs? I recently survey more than 150 VC friends from all stages and geographies what they thought about the market by asking “Which of the following statements best describes your mood heading into 2016?” This is how VCs feel. But let me be even more clear.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

The funding comes just months after São Paulo-based Mercado Bitcoin’s Series A round (of an undisclosed amount) in January of 2021, which was co-led by G2D/GP Investments and Parallax Ventures, with participation from HS Investimentos , Gear Ventures, Évora and Genial. billion, ranking it among the top 10 unicorns in Latin America. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

It’s hard to remember that in 2012 it was still hard for LA VCs to persuade investors into funds that LA was a viable market for great venture capital funds or convince many VCs that LA was a market worth investing dollars into startups. They always ask whether I see this as threatening as Upfront Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

I’ve been meeting with LPs (those who invest in VC funds) over the past year and discussing trends I see in the market and where I think we need to be as a firm to be near to and meet the needs of our customers. And with startups so go VCs. Our lease runs out in 2013. GRP’s offices are near Beverly Hills.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 15, 2017

Bloomberg published a post this weekend called San Francisco’s VC Boom is Over. The article pointed to the seeming collapse in the amount of venture capital raised by San Francisco startups relative to other regions. Note, the levels still exceed 2010-2013. But the 50% decline is real. Series As and Cs are roughly similar.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 30, 2019

What am I preparing for in my little world of technology, startups, and venture capital? The Venture Capital Ecosystem: The public markets are soaring. The entire seed market is wholly different from when I sent the first Haystack wire in March 2013, and with every fund comes a new game to learn to play.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Dataiku is the latest well-financed startup to suffer from macroeconomic headwinds, raising new capital at a significantly reduced valuation. There’s signs VC investments in AI startups are cooling. quarter over quarter in Q2 2022, with overall investments reaching $20.2 Year to date, VCs have funneled $48.2

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2015

The seed stage investment market feels like it’s changing quickly. These firms raised between $5 and $75M to invest in seed stage companies. In addition, VCs have been participating in the seed stage market as well, making 2013 a banner year for seed investment. 2013 1531 1255 820. But what of 2014?

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The venture capital game has become about branding yourself so you can get into a handful of hot deals." -- @Naval on stage with @Jason. — Brian Alvey (@brianalvey) November 10, 2013. My story as a "picker" really starts with two deals I didn''t even invest in. I wasn''t even at a VC fund at the time.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 25, 2023

How is it possible that with Q2 of 2023 being the slowest quarter for funding in AngelLists history since they started recordkeeping in 2013, are people still interested in even playing the game? These assets are often owned by employees who were issued equity, VC funds that invested when a company was private, shareholder stakes, etc.

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