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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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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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

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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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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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

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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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

But VC is like congress. As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. According to FLAG Capital there are 100 active VCs (as defined by making at least $1 million in VC per quarter for 4 consecutive quarters). Their data looks at tech VCs.

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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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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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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

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. The Big Deal : African fintech startups received 53% of the total VC funding in 2021; it was 49% in 2020. That number doubled to 62%.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

It’s a non-consensus take in a world where VCs are being asked hard questions about their due diligence, but Khosla added that “it isn’t the VC’s job to sit on a board and vote…there’s a hard line you don’t cross, which is don’t make founders or management do things they don’t want to do by voting.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

On Tuesday, Guo announced on Twitter and LinkedIn that she is stepping down from her position as a general partner at enterprise-focused Greylock Partners to continue investing in startups as she works to build something new. Guo joined Greylock in 2013 as the firm’s first woman partner and will now transition into the role of board partner.

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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 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. million in a Series A extension round. Image Credits: Tugende.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 15, 2017

Bloomberg published a post this weekend called San Francisco’s VC Boom is Over. 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. But the 50% decline is real.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 14, 2019

I maintained an active Tumblog from before we invested in 2007 until October 2016, when I stopped posting there. never figured out how to turn Tumblr into a business and ending up losing its shirt on the investment. There was no moment when I decided to stop posting there. I just did. It is absolutely true that Yahoo!

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

It’s the first EIR that we’ve had in the years that I’ve been with the firm and I hope will be the start of our investment in this program. We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. I know Sam.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Mihkel Aamer , Lightyear’s other co-founder and CTO, was an engineering lead at Wise between 2013 and 2019. I believe retail investing in Europe is still very much ‘the ugly’ — we’re talking about sneaky fees, less access and complicated products remaining as the status quo,” Mihkel Aamer said in a statement.

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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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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 ’s development arm CDC Group, Breyer Capital and Golden Palm Investments. It is also rolling out an e-commerce platform for pharmaceuticals. “We

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

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. At that time, she was a busy mom and in a demanding job that impeded her ability to eat as healthy as she would have liked. and the answer has been yes.”.

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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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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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 ” Dataiku, which launched in Paris in 2013, competes with a number of companies for dominance in the AI and big data analytics space.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

2019 was the country’s biggest ever in terms of venture dollars invested, with Bain counting $10 billion during the year. After a somewhat average start to the year, Indian startups saw their venture capital investment fall to just $1.5 billion invested into Indian startups during the three-month period.

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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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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

When venture capitalist Aileen Lee coined the term in 2013, there was a very good reason to call a privately held startup worth more than $1 billion a unicorn: There were only 39 of them. Through the first three quarters of 2021 alone, VC investment jumped by half year-over-year, from $166 billion in 2020 to $240 billion through Sept.

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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. Contributor.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2015

In November of 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures coined the term “ Unicorn Club ” as it relates to billion-dollar startup companies. ” The report also notes that 75% of mega financings are led by non-VCs. That could lead you to conclude that there’s more evidence that VC is being disrupted by outsiders.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 18, 2014

Just a few months ago, Pure Storage raised $150M in the largest ever venture investment in a storage company. Each chart shows the number of rounds raised bucketed by size from $0 to $5M and up to $150M to $200M from 2005 to 2013. 75M investments spiked in 2013. But there are a few outliers.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 1, 2014

So, if you''re going to argue that the process of venture capital is inherently unfair to women, here''s the logic that you *should not* use: "Less than 3 percent of the 6,793 companies that received venture capital from 2011-2013 were headed by a woman, according to a study from Babson College released Tuesday.

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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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