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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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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. That means that out of nearly $51 billion in funding that startups received over those two years, a comparatively teeny $1.5
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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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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. Headquartered in Singapore, Transport Capital’s core expertise is in Real Assets and Private Capital Markets.
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The Changing Venture Landscape
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how
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Onevest
APRIL 30, 2015
But the data shows a rapidly growing trend in accredited investors investing together. This is something that we have experience at 1000 Angels , the private investor network that connects startups with investors. This is in contrast to going it alone in direct investments or publicly traded REITs and stocks.
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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. “I 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. Annie Case, a partner at Kleiner Perkins, focuses on investments in consumer, healthcare and marketplaces. She helped lead investments in companies like Contra and Landing. .
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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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Reports say African startups raised record-smashing $4.3B to $5B in 2021
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Last year was record-breaking for African startups. In this piece , I spotlighted what influenced this venture capital growth — which, at the time, was pegged at a little over $4 billion. But similarly to years past, the total amount raised by African startups varies among different reports. billion to $1.5
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What SOSV’s Climate Tech 100 tells founders about investors in the space
TechCrunch
JUNE 10, 2021
What every startup founder should know about exits. 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? Meghan Hind.
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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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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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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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Why you have to pay attention to the Indian startup scene
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 24, 2020
Back in August during Y Combinator’s two-day demo extravaganza , TechCrunch noted a number of startups from India that stood out from the batch. Seeing so many India-focused startups in the mix wasn’t a fluke. Data shows that India’s venture capital scene has grown sharply in recent years. Bikayi is one such startup.
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5 things first-time founders must remember when working with VCs
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. Zach DeWitt. Contributor. Share on Twitter.
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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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South African payments startup Yoco raises $83M Series C backed by Dragoneer
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 company’s Series C investment is the largest of its kind in South Africa and one of the largest for any African fintech (third only to Flutterwave and Chipper Cash ).
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Alexa von Tobel will join Disrupt 2021 as a Startup Battlefield judge
TechCrunch
APRIL 22, 2021
Alexa von Tobel, co-founder and managing partner of Inspired Capital, will be joining TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 taking place September 21-23 to help judge the startups competing in Startup Battlefield. After raising $75 million in venture capital and growing the service to 1.5 that highlights entrepreneurs.
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AWS launches new $30M accelerator program aimed at minority founders
TechCrunch
APRIL 20, 2022
Amazon Web Services (AWS) today launched a new program, AWS Impact Accelerator , that will give up to $30 million to early-stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+ and women founders. From a diversity standpoint, the venture capital financing landscape remains incredibly imbalanced.
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How about that $20B Figma-Adobe deal?
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Bloomberg reported this morning that Adobe was getting close to buying Figma , a former startup and private-market unicorn in the design space, for around $20 billion. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Figma is somewhat of a classic startup and venture capital success story.
Dovetail, the venture studio that has worked with startups like Afterpay, is raising a new fund
TechCrunch
JULY 11, 2021
One of Dovetail’s goals is prepare startups to seek funding from other VCs; firms that have invested in Dovetail’s portfolio companies include Blackbird, Qantas and Wavemaker. As buy now, pay later startups keep raising capital, a dive into Klarna, Afterpay and Affirm’s earnings. “By We’re looking for ideas.
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TechCrunch+ roundup: 20 questions VCs ask, crypto compliance tips, Indian investor survey
TechCrunch
MARCH 24, 2023
There are a ton of barriers to launching a startup, but impostor syndrome need not be one of them. In a TC+ post written by three lawyers from law firm Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, the authors share basic information relevant for any crypto startups that operate in the U.S. “By
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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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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. Sources confirmed to Axios that Guo is planning to launch her own fund.
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Blockchain startup XREX gets $17M to make cross-border trade faster
TechCrunch
AUGUST 22, 2021
Blockchain startup XREX was launched to help cross-border businesses in emerging markets perform faster transactions with products like a payment escrow service and crypto-fiat exchange platform. The Taipei-headquartered company announced today it has raised $17 million in pre-Series A funding led by CDIB Capital Group.
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Will Brazil’s Roaring 20s see the rise of early-stage startups?
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Matheus is a hedge funds investment analyst for a major global investment manager and technology provider. In prior roles, he was an associate at a LatAm-focused venture capital firm and worked in corporate venture with regional banks and the Brazilian stock exchange. Matheus Tavares Dos Santos. Contributor.
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Extra Crunch Live: Join GC’s Peter Boyce and Katherine Boyle for a live Q&A today at 4 pm EST/1 pm PST
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 8, 2020
General Catalyst is widely recognized as one of the top venture capital firms, with portfolio companies that include Snap, Kayak, Airbnb, Stripe, HubSpot and GitLab. Boyce has been with General Catalyst since 2013, leading investments in companies like Ro, Macro, towerIQ and Atom.
Free Money for Student Tech Founders
David Teten VC
JULY 27, 2021
At Versatile VC, we particularly like investing in “dual-PhD” problems, at the intersection of multiple domains. Note we are not including here most of the freebies offered by corporates for founders in general (as opposed to students in particular), which we list in Free Money from the Global 500 for Tech Startups.
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Extra Crunch roundup: 500 Startups’ demo day, smart SaaS pricing and much more
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. 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. Omnitron Sensors. Apothecary.
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The Coming Wave of Venture Capital and What It Means for Your Startup
Tomasz Tunguz
JULY 22, 2014
Through the first six months of 2014, VCs have raised about as much as all of 2013. This new money hasn’t yet hit the startup fundraising market in earnest, as the chart above shows. Nevertheless, we will see a spike in the next six months as firms begin investing from new funds. Which rounds should become easier to raise?
Korean 3D spatial data tool startup Urbanbase closes $11.1M Series B+ round
TechCrunch
AUGUST 29, 2021
Urbanbase, founded in 2013 by chief executive officer and a former architect Jinu Ha, has now raised $20 million (approximately 23 billion won) in total. Construction tech startup Agora raises $33M in Tiger Global-led round amid 760% YoY ARR growth. million (13 billion won) in a Series B+ round as it scales up.
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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. The company also announced a $2.1
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Why Startups Face Increasing Competition In Raising Series As And Bs
Gust
MARCH 11, 2014
By Tomasz Tunguz , Partner at Redpoint Ventures. On one hand, the total dollars invested by VCs is relatively flat at just under $30B per year, according to the NVCA. I’ve divided the companies into cohorts by the year they raised their seed investment. Has it become harder to raise money?
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Argentinian fintech infrastructure startup Geopagos leaves the boot straps behind with $35M funding round
TechCrunch
AUGUST 4, 2022
Geopagos , a payments infrastructure startup based in Buenos Aires, has raised $35 million in a round led by Riverwood Capital. Founded in 2013, the Argentinian startup serves as a white label infrastructure software provider, with the aim of giving businesses the ability to launch financial services.
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mPharma raises $35million in round participated by Tinder co-founder’s JAM fund, Bharti executive
TechCrunch
JANUARY 5, 2022
Ghanaian health tech startup mPharma is building a network of community pharmacies across Africa as it plans to be the go-to primary healthcare service provider for millions of people residing in the region. Other investors include Northstar, Social Capital, Novastar and TO Ventures.
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Vinod Khosla’s advice for top VCs? Don’t sit on your founders’ boards
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. And that is difficult,” he said.
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As the head of Helios’ new VC arm, Wale Ayeni sees value in frontier markets
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. Ayeni and the Helios Investment Partners team declined to comment on the VC firm’s overall fund size.
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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
Founded by Sheel Mohnot and Jake Gibson in November of 2019, San Francisco-based Better Tomorrow Ventures ( BTV ) has allocated $150 million to invest in startups at the pre-seed and seed stages. 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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Bitwise Industries lands $80M to expand its sprawling software dev business
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
In 2013, Irma Olguin Jr. Historically, female founders have received just 12% of venture capital investment for their businesses. The new cash will be used to support Bitwise’s expansion into Chicago and the growth of the startup’s other locations, Olguin told TechCrunch in an email interview.
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Logicbroker taps into $135M to advance cloud-based drop ship software
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Logicbroker , a Connecticut-based e-commerce company focused on cloud fulfillment, secured a $135 million growth round from K1 Investment Management. He founded Logicbroker in 2010, his third startup, and hadn’t raised much in the way of venture capital since 2013, just under $2 million, to get to profitability, Zamani said.
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