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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

One measure of CincyTech’s overall impact is that in 2013, its portfolio companies represent 80% of total seed and early stage capital invested in Southwest Ohio. We started investing the fund in April 2012 and by early 2013 had closed our fund to new investors. None of us are derivatives of Silicon Valley.

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Why USV is Joining the Libra Association

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

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. We believe Libra has the potential to be the catalyst that brings the entire cryptocurrency and cryptoasset market into the mainstream.

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A Seriously Great Story and Why We Funded Them

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I think this is a Seriously great example of how this process works for at least one VC – Upfront Ventures. I first met Andrew Stalbow , the founder & CEO of Seriously in August of 2013. By September 26th we had submitted a term sheet which was signed on October 4th and financing was closed in less than 30 days.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten VC

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” For funds with an overall return of 3-5x, which is what VC funds aim for, the overall return was 4.6x

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

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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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated.

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African tech took center stage in 2021

TechCrunch

For instance, investors such as Berlin-based VC firm Target Global and renowned investment firm and hedge fund Tiger Global cut checks across early and growth stages. The European VC also led the pre-seed rounds of Kippa and Edukoya. Target invested in both Series A rounds of Kuda and Mono (including the Series B round of the former).