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The Changing Venture Landscape
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. Of course we can’t.
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Cision acquires TrendKite (Dreamit 2013) for $225 million
Dream It
JANUARY 23, 2019
According to a recent report , B2B brands’ investments in marketing communications and earned media is now on par with their paid media spend. Founded in 2013 by AJ Bruno, Matt Allison, and Patrick Brannen, TrendKite participated in the 2013 Dreamit program.
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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report
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Investments That Don’t Work
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
AUGUST 17, 2020
I woke up to a dream this morning where I was playing a game that was very similar to Turntable.fm , a failed effort to create a social music experience that had a moment back in 2011 and that I had invested in via USV. Investments that don’t work haunt me. And investments that don’t work are often failures of execution.
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Investing in Blackbird
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 4, 2023
a16z crypto is a venture capital fund that has been investing in crypto and web3 startups — across all stages — since 2013.
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Charting the Path to Success in Tech Investing: An Exclusive Interview with GoAhead Ventures’…
Jason Malki
JANUARY 15, 2024
Charting the Path to Success in Tech Investing: An Exclusive Interview with GoAhead Ventures’ Founding Trio GoAhead Ventures (“GoAhead”) is a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm founded by three Stanford graduates: Takeshi “TK” Mori, Clancey Stahr and Phil Brady (the “Managing Partners”).
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4 essential truths about venture investing
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Alex Iskold is a co-founder and managing partner at 2048 Ventures , an early-stage lead investor in technology and data companies. After making pre-seed investments for seven years, I have observed how different the pre-seed stage is from Series A and later-stage investing. Venture outcomes are driven by a power law.
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20 Years of Investing in Startups
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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Singapore’s TC Ventures invests in German, French startups
AsiaTechDaily
MARCH 6, 2022
Register Transport Capital , a globally-recognised investment management and advisory firm focused on the maritime and aviation industries, has launched its new venture capital arm named TC Ventures. Germany-based Turtle (www.go-turtle.com) turtle.com) is building the leading digital job marketplace for the maritime industry.
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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms
American Entrepreneurship
MARCH 7, 2024
But progress is being made as seen in the rising number of women-led venture funds that focus on funding women entrepreneurs. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups. billion of total venture capital.
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Alto raises $40 million to help individuals make tax-savvy investments in assets like crypto and artwork
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2022
Alternative investments are having a moment. Institutions have fueled a large part of this growth, investing at record pace into alternatives like crypto, private companies and real estate. Institutions have fueled a large part of this growth, investing at record pace into alternatives like crypto, private companies and real estate.
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Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment
TechCrunch
JANUARY 6, 2021
Thomas Rush is founder of Bootstrapp and Head of Investment Platform at ConsenSys Mesh. Revenue-based investing ( RBI), also known as revenue-based financing, or revenue-share investing, 1 is a natural next step for the private equity and early-stage venture investment industry. Share on Twitter.
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Please Help Me Congratulate Jordan Hudson as @UpfrontVC’s Newest Investment Principal
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? Most associates need some entrepreneurial experience before actually making investments. We relaunched our brand name.
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UTEC, one of Asia’s largest deep-tech investment firms, launches new $275M fund
TechCrunch
MAY 18, 2021
The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners (UTEC) , a deep-tech investment firm, announced the first close of its fifth fund, which is expected to total 30 billion JPY (or about $275 million USD) by June 2021. UTEC’s deep-tech investments around the world. So far, 25 of its investments have exited.
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How to Raise First Dollars in a Difficult Market: The Venture Perspective
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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Stacked raises $35M to bring passive investing tools to retail crypto traders
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 5, 2021
Stacked , a web-based platform that provides passive investment tools for retail investors interested in crypto, just announced it raised a $35 million Series A co-led by Alameda Research , a crypto trading firm owned by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Bybit and BitDAO partner Mirana Ventures co-led the round alongside Alameda.
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Fund Investing Versus Fund Management
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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Broaden your view of ‘best’ to make smarter, more inclusive investments
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
Broaden your view of ‘best’ to make smarter, more inclusive investments. What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. Image Credits: Versatile Venture Capital (opens in a new window). Katherine Boe Heuck.
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Startup Investing: The New Trend in Alternative Assets
Onevest
APRIL 30, 2015
But the data shows a rapidly growing trend in accredited investors investing together. Trending Investment Strategies Global investor surveys have shown that since the crises of the early 2000s more affluent and sophisticated investors are choosing to invest in partnership with each other. That means safety in investing.
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Haystack
JANUARY 28, 2019
Over five years ago, as I began to deploy the first Haystack Fund, I was lucky to select HelloSign as my sixth investment ever. I took Joseph out for lunch, told him about me and Haystack, and asked to invest in the company. At that time, back in 2013, Docusign was known to be a well-performing company. price tag.
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The Story Behind Our Investment In SecondMeasure
Haystack
FEBRUARY 17, 2019
We were lucky to invest not only during this time, but also doubled down in an extension. And this week, the company announced it had raised a super-sized $20M Series A financing co-led by Kent Bennett from Bessemer Venture Partners and also Goldman Sachs. The round was completed last fall, but announced this week.).
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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?
David Teten VC
MARCH 5, 2021
What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. . So, why invest in anyone who’s not a white or Asian male? . We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.”
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Better Tomorrow Ventures closes on $225M fintech-focused fund, which is triple the size of its last fund
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Early-stage fintech-focused venture firm Better Tomorrow Ventures has raised $225 million for its second fund — triple the amount it raised for its debut fund that closed in September of 2020. It has also reserved $75 million for an opportunity fund for follow-on investments. It’s committed to three so far.
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How growth investing grew so big so quickly
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
Derek Zanutto is a general partner at CapitalG , Alphabet’s independent growth fund, where he invests in data, security and SaaS-based enterprise software. It was 2013, and I’d been camping out in Uber’s San Francisco offices for weeks. Despite our valuation concerns, we ended up making the investment.
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Nigerian investment platform Chaka secures $1.5M pre-seed after bagging country’s first SEC license
TechCrunch
JULY 19, 2021
When Robinhood raised its $3 million seed round in 2013, it was a couple of months old, with huge ambitions of democratizing securities access to the underserved and unserved. million pre-seed round to power digital investments for individuals and businesses. led by 4DX Ventures. Today, it is announcing the close of its $1.5
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Hear from Oort and.406 Ventures on why cybersecurity companies thrive in Boston
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
406 Ventures. 406 Ventures since 2007 and investing as a partner since 2013. 406 Ventures? Next, legendary roboticist Marc Raibert is speaking to TechCrunch’s Hardware Editor Brian Heater on why he built Boston Dynamics in Boston and explains his latest venture, leading the Hyundai AI Institute.
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Dovetail, the venture studio that has worked with startups like Afterpay, is raising a new fund
TechCrunch
JULY 11, 2021
Based in Sydney and Auckland, Dovetail is a full-service venture studio that works closely with founders who have a great idea, but may lack technical backgrounds. million USD) fund that will be used for seed, Series A and Series B rounds in 15 of the most promising companies that have gone through its venture studio program.
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In the News: Israeli tech companies raise $2.24B in Q3; record since 2013
OurCrowd
NOVEMBER 3, 2019
Israel’s startup funding is climbing at a strong pace as tech companies raise $2.24B in Q3 , the most raised in Israel in any quarter since 2013. Speaking of funding, Ride Vision is an Israeli startup we are currently investing in which provides motorcycles with collision avoidance (think how Mobileye has impacted car safety).
Faulty Logic in the Venture Capital and Female Founder Discussion
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. billion went to women-led ventures.". I AM NOT ARGUING THAT WOMEN AREN''T SEEKING VENTURE CAPITAL. Sounds awful, right?
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Can a private company take investment money from anyone?
Gust
AUGUST 30, 2014
Unfortunately, a private company in the US may not take investment money from “anyone” The only people who are legally eligible to purchase an equity interest in a private company without a great deal of special paperwork are, as you noted, Accredited Investors. Invested Interests'
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Sarah Guo joins the wave of women leaving venture jobs to launch their own funds
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. billion for Haun Ventures’ debut crypto fund.
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i2E Management Co. Inc. leads $5.2 million investment in PhotoniCare Inc.
Innovation 2 Enterprise
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
with co-investment from OSF Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, and Dreampact Ventures. The company was also a member of the 2016 Dreamit Ventures accelerator program and recently took first place at the 7th Annual Insight Product Development 2019 HealthTECH Startup Competition. . – September 3, 2020 – PhotoniCare, Inc.,
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Watershed Health Secures $13.6M in Funding to Fuel Adoption by the Industry’s Largest Health Plans and Meet Provider Demand for Real-Time, Seamless Patient Care Coordination
American Entrepreneurship
MAY 22, 2024
million funding round led by an investment from First Trust Capital Partners with participation from FCA Venture Partners, Create Health Ventures, Impact Engine, 450 Ventures, LDH Ventures II/Launchpad Digital Health, MassMutual Ventures, Capstar Partners and Wanxiang Healthcare Investments.
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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?
David Teten VC
MARCH 5, 2021
What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. . So, why invest in anyone who’s not a white or Asian male? . We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.”
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How a Company Becomes a Pillar of Its Local Community
Revolution
OCTOBER 4, 2022
At the turn of the 20th century, any number of American municipalities with similar access to talent, materials, investment, and transportation might have emerged as the beating heart of the automobile industry. In 2013, Indianapolis-based ExactTarget was acquired by Salesforce for $2.5 as do manufacturing workers.
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Sequoia Capital India on its early investment in Appier, the fund’s latest exit
TechCrunch
MARCH 31, 2021
Founded in Taiwan, Appier was the fund’s first investment outside of India, and is now also the first company in its portfolio outside of India to go public. Anand met them in 2013, soon after their pivot to big data and marketing, and Sequoia Capital India invested in Appier’s Series A a few months later.
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Welcoming New Partner and Global Digital Transformation Expert Flavio Dias as We Step Up Our Presence in Brazil
500
MARCH 18, 2020
I first met Flavio in 2013, when he co-invested alongside 500 Startups in Olist, one of Brazil’s largest online marketplaces–which recently raised a Series C round. He became instrumental in building Olist’s name.
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The Decline of Investment in San Francisco Startups
Tomasz Tunguz
JULY 15, 2017
The article pointed to the seeming collapse in the amount of venture capital raised by San Francisco startups relative to other regions. The slowing of venture investment more broadly across the US serves as a backdrop to San Francisco’s particularly strong correction. Note, the levels still exceed 2010-2013.
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What SOSV’s Climate Tech 100 tells founders about investors in the space
TechCrunch
JUNE 10, 2021
Her role includes gathering and analysing data on SOSV portfolio companies and syndicate investors, managing the funds’ databases and CRM, and reporting SOSV’s quarterly investments to external data providers. In other words, who invested in the Climate Tech 100? There are always valuable insights embedded in a list like the 100.
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The Achilles Heel of Startup Ecosystems
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. Accelerators can be great, but they’re not giving companies enough money to achieve the kind of escape velocity needed to get on the radar of national Series A firms that will invest anywhere.
The Geographic Concentration of Venture Capital(ists)
Ian Hathaway
APRIL 28, 2020
Last week, The New York Times published an article arguing that a “wave of venture capitalists is heading to quieter, less-expensive locales, where they are helping fund start-ups.” The article supported this claim by pointing to three venture capitalists who left Silicon Valley and launched funds in other places.
TechCrunch+ roundup: 20 questions VCs ask, crypto compliance tips, Indian investor survey
TechCrunch
MARCH 24, 2023
There’s no simple test to determine which aspiring founder can turn their idea into a billion-dollar business, but VCs who know which questions to ask can uncover the right mindset, says Sanjay Reddy, a co-founding partner at Unlock Venture Partners. Thanks very much for reading TC+, and have a great weekend.
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