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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

The round was led by Tiger Global, with participation from returning investors like ICONIQ Growth, CapitalG, FirstMark Capital, Battery Ventures, Snowflake Ventures and Dawn Capital. Founded in 2013, Dataiku is used by data scientists, but also designed for business analysts and other people with less technical backgrounds.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Figma is somewhat of a classic startup and venture capital success story. Following a seed round back in 2013, Figma attracted regular external investments through a mid-2021 Series E worth $200 million that valued the software upstart at around $10 billion, per Crunchbase data. How about that $20B Figma-Adobe deal?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

Investment giant Fidelity announced today that it has acquired Shoobx, a venture-backed fintech startup, for an undisclosed amount. Jason Furtado and Stephan Richter founded Boston-based Shoobx in 2013, according to Crunchbase. Atlas Ventures is also a backer, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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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. Zach DeWitt. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Now, the blockchain aficionado who got his start in trading Bitcoin in 2013 is joining the ranks of a growing group of solo GPs raising venture funds built on their own name and reputation. Canonical has already made 16 investments in seed and pre-seed startups spanning the developer infrastructure landscape, Iyer said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Chrissy Meyer and Root Ventures invested in the last two rounds. After leaving Apple in 2013, she spent a year as an engineering program manager at Square before joining up with Pearl Automation, where she was a founding team member at the ambitious startup. Founded by Gurjeet Singh in 2020, the company raised $71.5

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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. Rowe Price, Bessemer Venture Partners, Franklin Templeton and In-Q-Tel. .” The transaction values Rigetti at about $1.5

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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.

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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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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

There’s Outdoorsy , a peer-to-peer RV rental company that was founded in 2015; bootstrapped by its founders for a couple of years, it has more recently attracted $88 million in venture funding. Founded in 2013, RVshare connects RV owners with people who want to rent an RV. billion in January 2020. billion in January 2020.

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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. You really won’t want to miss it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2023

Chrissy Meyer and Root Ventures invested in the last two rounds. After leaving Apple in 2013, she spent a year as an engineering program manager at Square before joining up with Pearl Automation, where she was a founding team member at the ambitious startup. Founded by Gurjeet Singh in 2020, the company raised $71.5

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Founder Bounty

JANUARY 27, 2023

 Andrew started by buying some apartments, before moving on to investing in tech startups. In 2006, Andrew Wilkinson dropped out of Ryerson and immediately launched into his first venture, MetaLab. In 2013 they shifted focus from starting businesses to buying them – which proved remarkably successful.

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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. Onstage, he pointed to a TechCrunch piece he wrote in 2013, titled: “70-80% Of VCs Add Negative Value To Startups.” The advice comes at a reflective time for the industry.

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