2014 founder ventures 
Revolution
MARCH 26, 2025
Post-AOL, I dedicated myself to backing and supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs as Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Revolution. When I started AOL, not far from here in the fields of Northern Virginia, most of our venture dollars came from investors in Silicon Valley and New York. were on the platform.
Hunter Walk
APRIL 21, 2025
I entered venture capital with some beliefs – many of which still hold true (such as ‘your LPs are your business partners, not your customers’). Sometimes we’ve seen founders proactively asking if we want to sell because they have more investor demand than they want to service. VCs increasingly *are* traders.
HPA
JANUARY 8, 2025
Chicago, IL – January 8, 2025 – Hyde Park Angels ( HPA ), a premier early-stage venture capital group specializing in investing through its unique People First model, is pleased to announce that its portfolio company, Simple Mills , has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Flowers Foods , Inc.
Jason Malki
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Top Female Founders in 2023 and 2024. Horners current venture, Lemonlight , is an LA-based company that excels in producing branded video content at scale. We started Lemonlight in 2014 at a time when the industry was inefficient and outdated, and I knew there was a better way. Thank you so much for joiningus!
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 3, 2014
— Charlie O''Donnell (@ceonyc) November 1, 2014. The fact is, it''s just not cool to criticize the investing side of the venture capital market. That doesn''t mean I have anything against the founder or the investors. But in the private markets, we''ve got "Yay, founders! Venture Capital & Technology'
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
Long before that, the company engaged in anti-competitive practices and antagonized critics, especially female journalists like Sarah Lacy, who called out years of the company’s toxic issues as early 2014. Not in the “founder friendly” culture of tech anyway. It’s male founder friendly. Founders have to reckon with that.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
This is the task I set out to answer with the master of analysis at Upfront Ventures Glenn Poppe who deserves the bulk of the credit for our work. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. billion (Upfront Ventures was an early Overture backer). LA By The Numbers.
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