Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

I had one of the biggest mental breakthroughs about what I want to do differently at GRP Partners in 2013. I want to make sure that my sixth year as a VC doesn’t just become an automatic continuation of what I’ve done in my first 5 years. My wife and I went down 3 days early and had some chill out time.

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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. It comes with the territory in VC. Then I woke up.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 18, 2019

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. To be clear, we view this as both an ecosystem investment and a financial investment. This has proven to be true.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2012

You're going to miss some stuff, and just because others invested doesn't make any of these companies winners quite yet, but I'm all about continuous improvement. In 2013, I'll be looking for ways to stay in touch better with entrepreneurs whose first rounds may be slow to develop. Three companies most definitely makes a pattern.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” I hear it when I visit LPs (the people who invest in VCs) all across the country, “Yeah, I haven’t been out there for a few years but I keep hearing that something is going on there.” No less than Fred Wilson has credited Carlota’s work with having a major influence on his investment strategy at USV.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. Broaden your view of ‘best’ to make smarter, more inclusive investments. 15 steps to fundraising a new VC or private equity fund. What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? David Teten. Contributor.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

(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.). 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. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Over the past couple of years, there’s been an overlap between tech and art, fueling a growing interest of movie, music and sports stars investing in tech startups. What’s pulling African music artists to tech investment? According to him, powering artists and people in the creative space should be done in a startup/VC manner.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

What do early-stage founders need to know to capture VC interest, and dollars, in a challenging market? 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. . He is also the GP of the 500 Fintech fund.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

But two months into 2020, the pandemic did an excellent job of lowering expectations as investment activities from local and international investors slowed down. Venture capital investment in Africa predicted to reach a record high this year. The European VC also led the pre-seed rounds of Kippa and Edukoya. billion and $2.8

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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. In the early days of “on-demand everything,” a managed marketplace for cleaning services sounded like the next unicorn in the making.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. It’s identical to what’s happening in Africa: Less than 1% of all VC dollars went toward startups with one or more women founders last year, according to The Big Deal , which details investments in Africa.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

MaC Venture Capital led the round while VC firms Luminate, Unicorn Group, Future Africa, and several angel investors participated. BCM was founded by Seyi Taylor and Bankole Oluwafemi in 2013. Last year, only $115 million was invested in digital media startups in the U.S. But not long ago, in the mid-2010s, U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend. Aspect Ventures : co-founded in 2014 by Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad, the early-stage venture firm uniquely focuses on bridging the funding gap between angels and the larger multi-stage VC platforms through collaboration and diversity.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

In light of Women’s History Month, we’re taking a look at the status of gender diversity in investment portfolios because women remain underrepresented in the field of entrepreneurship. Furthermore, women founders receive less than 3% of all VC dollars. Data from Women in VC show that only 5.6% of VC partners in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

In 2011 , as Twitter hit the 100 million active users mark, the entrepreneur left to pursue new projects with Obvious Corporation , a startup incubator and investment vehicle that had included fellow Twitter co-founder Evan Williams and former Twitter exec Jason Goldman. The venture most notably incubated the blogging platform Medium.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Venture capital investing offers different challenges than those associated with tech entrepreneurship, but Alex Mittal, co-founder and CEO of FundersClub, approached the sphere of venture capital the same way he did as a tech founder previously: is there a better way to do this? Many of the questions come directly from viewers.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

But it’s been hard to argue against this position in the last 10 years, as the country powered ahead, famously producing ground-breaking startups like Waze, which was eventually picked up by Google for more than $1 billion in 2013. As in other countries in “COVID 2020”, VC tended to focus on existing portfolio companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Corcuera is no stranger to running companies, having launched a housecleaning marketplace at the age of 23 in 2013. Homebrew Partner Satya Patel said his San Francisco-based VC firm believes there’s a massive opportunity in Latin America given the move to digital payments.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Cross-border investments. Data from FDI Markets * , the Financial Times’ cross-border investment monitoring service, indicates that London has attracted the highest number of foreign direct investments ( FDI ) into tech from international companies for the past few years, ahead of Singapore, Dubai, and New York.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

For example, activist hedge funds, and most private equity and VC funds. A private equity/VC investor can proactively recruit new team members, win clients, or if necessary change management. . Even sophisticated investors like Warren Buffett ask questions about the value of active investing. . The HFRI Index returned 18.3%

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Venture investment in renewables has soared as global investment in energy transition more than doubled from $235 billion in 2010 to $501 billion in 2020, according to Bloomberg NEF. In 2019, venture and private equity investment in cleantech was estimated between $9 and $16 billion, up from less than $500 million in 2013.

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Haystack

MAY 19, 2018

Fast forward to 2013 — we became parents, I started investing, and life as we knew it changed. Before investing, I was always on top of my to-do list, on top of my email inbox. The marine layer of fog that draped Dolores Park shielded us from the world. In those five years, too, my career slowly changed.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. However, to be a great VC you have to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time. That used to be called A-round investing.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

I can't take credit for this meme, even though I've already invested in it.twice. Once with Docracy, once with a super cool company launching in the first quarter of 2013.). It was all there--and you could say that we really didn't get much feature or purpose innovation after that for a long time.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

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). Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. We decided on the latter.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 7, 2023

In 2013, Ed launched Health2Sync in his home country of Taiwan. “Action is data-driven. That’s why when he’s not leading Health2Sync, Ed works with the Verge HealthTech Fund – which he co-founded – the world’s first global scale, early stage VC fund for healthtech companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

These events aren’t just a chance to review the latest cohort of hopeful entrepreneurs — they also showcase the technology, products and services that will compete for VC and consumer attention over the next few years. Best practices as a service is a key investment theme to watch in 2021. Red and white stop sign on the wall.

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OurCrowd

APRIL 25, 2021

2020 was a record investment year for Israeli startups, and OurCrowd cemented its position as a leader of Israel’s venture capital community. The most active Israeli VC in 2020 was OurCrowd with 24 deals, according to PitchBook, followed by Pitango and TLV partners with 13 deals each,” Gill Press reports in Forbes. “The Learn More.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

In addition to the usual story roundup, I’ve asked a small cross section of investors a simple question with a complex answer: How will the SVB events impact robotics investing and startups? Of course, many — or even most — of the firms investing in those companies have strong presences in the South Bay and/or SF.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Top carmaker invests in Connected Energy. OurCrowd is investing in this Series B round alongside energy, banking and equipment manufacturing giants. A PitchBook survey of Israel’s venture investments by deal count over the past five years confirms OurCrowd as the country’s most active startup investor. Learn Mo re. Learn More.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

A separate measure, of total value of paid-in investment, revealed 1.67x returns for other hubs versus 1.60x in the main Silicon Valley and Bay Area tech cities. The data is based on a sample of 2,500 companies that have used AngelList to syndicate deals from 2013 through 2020. per year on syndicated deals elsewhere versus 17.5%

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

Last year was a big year for these leaders—even if the VC funding numbers don’t show it—and we’re excited to see what these entrepreneurs do in 2021. On season 11 of “Shark Tank,” she won a $750,000 investment from Lori Greiner and Mark Cuban. Amany Killawi, Co-Founder and COO. LaunchGood (Detroit).

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

— Brian Alvey (@brianalvey) November 10, 2013. And now that I''m an investor out on my own, one of my best performing companies is an investment that the founder could hardly give the equity away for in the beginning. My story as a "picker" really starts with two deals I didn''t even invest in. Make quick decisions.

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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?” But not a VC or Bill Gurley or myself would have spooked it 2 years ago.

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