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. 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. That is not the case today.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In this piece , I spotlighted what influenced this venture capital growth — which, at the time, was pegged at a little over $4 billion. 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.

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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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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. We don’t — no matter how important an issue.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Data shows that India’s venture capital scene has grown sharply in recent years. 2019 was the country’s biggest ever in terms of venture dollars invested, with Bain counting $10 billion during the year. In 2020, the third quarter brought the country’s venture capital scene back to form. Market Notes.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

But VC is like congress. “I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. 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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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 Other investors include Northstar, Social Capital, Novastar and TO Ventures. Other investors include Northstar, Social Capital, Novastar and TO Ventures.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 22, 2014

Through the first six months of 2014, VCs have raised about as much as all of 2013. If this pace of fund raising continues, 2014 would mark the biggest year for VCs since 2001, when the industry raised about $38B. Nevertheless, we will see a spike in the next six months as firms begin investing from new funds.

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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. And Jamie hers. And Adam his.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The venture capital game has become about branding yourself so you can get into a handful of hot deals." -- @Naval on stage with @Jason. — Brian Alvey (@brianalvey) November 10, 2013. My story as a "picker" really starts with two deals I didn''t even invest in. I wasn''t even at a VC fund at the time.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

More venture capital is flowing into meal delivery service companies as consumers seek out better-for-you food choices. That has attracted venture capitalists’ attention and led to some recent cash infusions, including Shef and WoodSpoon for homemade items, and Little Spoon and Serenity Kids in the baby food arena.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 15, 2017

Bloomberg published a post this weekend called San Francisco’s VC Boom is Over. The article pointed to the seeming collapse in the amount of venture capital raised by San Francisco startups relative to other regions. Note, the levels still exceed 2010-2013. But the 50% decline is real.

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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.

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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

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. JPMorgan and DealMake. Image Credits: Mercado Bitcoin.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Your own investment’s value may change because of a change in the value of the underlying asset and/or market preferences. However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. The HFRI Index returned 18.3%

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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.

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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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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Frankly, I think venture capital is that way, too. How do VCs break out of group think when they are shuttling from one board meeting to the next, from one conference to the other and talking with all the same people? I had one of the biggest mental breakthroughs about what I want to do differently at GRP Partners in 2013.

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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?

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

Since 2012, there’s been little increase in venture capital going to women-founded businesses. In the third quarter of 2020, venture capital funding for female founders dropped to a three-year low. On season 11 of “Shark Tank,” she won a $750,000 investment from Lori Greiner and Mark Cuban.

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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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Haystack

JANUARY 12, 2020

Rather, this short blog is filled only with my own observations from being in the middle of the evolving seed market since 2013. Some are gone now, and some caught fire and the creators decided they wanted to grow into an investment firm, not just a fund. 2/ Financial Consideration s – When investment firms grow, so do fees.

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MAY 16, 2016

There aren't many people who get the chance to analyze venture capital fund return data. Mattermark just posted a short report full of such statements and the former 21 year old institutional LP analyst in me (the job I got my VC start in over 15 years ago) flipped his s**t upon close review. The only really way to know?

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Startups and VC. Olsen spent six years with Sequoia Capital in California before co-founding Drive Capital in Columbus, Ohio, in 2013. Here, have a fresh battery : Magna enters the micromobility and battery swapping market with a $77 million investment in Yulu, Rebecca reports. million in new funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Since its founding in 2013, NS1 has raised more than $100 million to build an engineering team and robust product portfolio that’s expanded to include DDI, which helps companies manage internal networks. “The venture capital market is racing ahead, foot on the gas, middle finger out the window, hair on fire.”

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Haystack

JUNE 29, 2018

PillPack raised a bit over $100M and, if the rumors are true, getting purchased for $1B (or close to it) for a company formed in 2013 is a fantastic outcome in a relatively short period of time.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. In the Early Days.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Existing backers Viola FinTech, MassMutual Ventures, Nationwide, Hearst Ventures and Moneta VC also put money in the round, as well as new investors Viola Growth and Fort Ross Ventures. With the new financing, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Insurify has now raised a total of $128 million since its 2013 inception.

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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.” billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Those hints included the revelation that the startup had generated just $600,000 in revenue for all of 2021 despite raising $120 million in venture capital earlier in the year (in a round led by Stripe) and rumors that the company was having trouble raising more funds, and as a result, might be seeking a buyer.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 14, 2014

The chart above compares the total number of MegaRounds, those VC investments of $50M or more, from 2001 through 2013. In short, MegaRounds are increasingly common, while the number of VC-backed IPOs is relatively constant. Last year, there was 1 MegaRound for every 2 IPOs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. But notably you had the following changes: Horizontally scalable computing & storage systems, which meant you required less capital up front for hardware. We have invested $17.3 Venture Capital. And then the world changed. Welcome to the future.

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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? based and Africa-focused mobile payments company through Zagadat Capital. Europe and globally. .

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