Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc). But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc).

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 23, 2023

Back in 2014, USV got subpoenaed by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) over our web3 investing activities. In my testimony, I explained to the DFS staff that the difference between the US and China is that the US respects the freedom to innovate: REMINDER: ANYTHING THAT CHINA BANS, INVEST IN!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sopoong , a social impact-focused VC, intends to support environmentally minded tech founders in South Korea and Southeast Asia, while building a bridge between Korean conglomerates and startups in the sector. Sopoong has closed on around $8 million (10.3 Sopoong has closed on around $8 million (10.3

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2014, more than 40% of U.S. VC investment, according to “Beyond Silicon Valley,” a new report co-produced by venture firm Revolution and PitchBook. VC dollars have gone to Bay Area startups. Since launching the platform in 2014, Case and his teams have invested in 194 companies across 89 cities.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Venture capital (VC) firm Lifeline Ventures today announced a fresh €150 million ($163 million) fund aimed at early-stage startups across Finland. Lifeline Ventures typically invests at the “angel” and seed-stage, with some follow-on investments in the Series A realm. billion for a majority stake in 2016.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In March 2019, SoftBank Group International made headlines when it announced the SoftBank Innovation Fund, which started out with a $2 billion commitment to invest in tech startups in Latin America. The Japanese investment conglomerate has dramatically ramped up its investing in the region, and so have a number of other global investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. Some quick highlights include: The Role of a Seed Stage VC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

This isn’t the first time we’ve talked about de Raphélis Soissan, as she used to be an entrepreneur herself and I first covered her startup, Clustree, back in 2014. He has also invested some of his own money as a business angel. Overall, the firm wants to invest in 25 to 30 tech companies with its initial fund.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 27, 2021

And our second Opportunity Fund, raised in 2014, has generated 7.3x Our Opportunity Funds invest in the later stage rounds of our top-performing portfolio companies plus a few later-stage investments in companies that are new to USV. I have found that patience is often rewarded in early-stage investing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Brett Calhoun Contributor Share on Twitter Brett Calhoun is the managing director and general partner at Redbud VC. Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. Angel investments in 2022 equaled those from 2006 to 2011 combined. Crowdfunding witnessed a 2.4x growth from 2020 to 2021.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 15, 2024

 Effective at the end of the w24 batch, I will return to my original role of YC Group Partner and will be able to once again devote all of my time to inspiring, investing, and mentoring early-stage YC startups.  I’ve  I find myself most drawn to the challenges they face building companies during this new wave of AI.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 25, 2023

Founded in 2014 by industry veterans Chi-Hua Chien and Eric Kim, Goodwater is the largest venture capital fund focused on consumer tech investments. Besides its traditional investment approach, Goodwater has further introduced innovation by introducing Genesis, a platform that facilitates global seed-stage startup investments.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

According to PitchBook , VC investments were down 30% in Q2 2022 compared with 2021, and IPOs hit a 50-year low. When deal-making slows, VC dollars typically favor the perceived market leader, starving other venture-backed businesses in the same space of capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

Scott and I agree on nearly everything: The VC structure is changing and there appears to be a bifurcation into small & large VCs with an impact on “traditionally sized” VCs. The only point we didn’t seem totally aligned on was what we happening to the “middle of the VC market.”

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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. I was curious about the drivers of these trends, so I ran my own analysis. But the 50% decline is real.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Investors are excited about the opportunities in the space market that are being unlocked by exit events and continued interest and private investment in the biggest and most successful space companies, including SpaceX.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. If you want the whole deck you can find it on SlideShare but I’ve written up a short summary with commentary below.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

At the time I pointed out: “If I had realized exits almost certainly it would be because I invested in a company that failed. “I think the best VCs help drive exits alongside their entrepreneurs. I have done 6 VC investments – all within the past 20 months. Lemons ripen early, great companies take time.”

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

About 150 people showed up, a healthy mix of founders, seed-stage investors and big fund VCs, and a bunch of LPs of various sizes. “Pre-Seed” is somewhat of a controversial term in the investing world, triggering reactions questions its validity, its effectiveness, and even its contribution. Some press showed up, too.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The Series C was led by Japanese VC firm Incubate Fund, with additional investment from partnerships managed by Innovation Engine, funds managed by SBI Investment Co., Katsunori Sago, Aizawa Investments and funds managed by HiJoJo Partners and Aizawa Asset Management. Ispace’s total funding now stands at $195.5

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The speaks to the continued confidence in the venture capital markets and as I had predicted some time ago the VC markets right now are a great place to invest – especially relative to other places to put one’s money. If you want to understand how the VC industry is changing there is a great primer in the link.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Cathay Innovation is hoping to secure the bag in a new investment partnership with a company that secures crypto assets. He wanted the fund to be able to move quickly like a traditional VC while providing long-term support and expertise for portfolio companies akin to a corporate venture arm, Barrier explained.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In 2014, Prayank Swaroop made a pitch to the storied venture firm Accel, where he worked as an associate, about future marketplaces in India. Swaroop’s presentation from 2014. The vast majority of Indian investors were too late to make investments in the web3 space. Image credits: Accel).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

I think investment into crypto kind of peaked early last year,” Svenson said on TechCrunch’s Chain Reaction podcast this week. Founded in 2014, Blockstream focuses on its own sidechain technology, dubbed Liquid Network, and it has bitcoin mining operations and provides hardware wallets for bitcoin and other assets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

Morgan, Gaingels, BMO Technology & Innovation Banking Group and Manulife also participated in the equity investment, along with platform partner and new backer Barclays. As insiders, we have better context for how the company is scaling and how the market is growing, and this is why FreshBooks is our largest investment to date.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

I think the reasoning goes something like: “What’s good enough for me might not be good enough for my backers,” or a life-changing amount of cash for a founder might be too small an investment multiple for an investor. In VC Land, 1 > 10. However, they also know that it won’t happen.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

based investment company Juven went live today with plans to fund growth-stage technology and consumer companies in Africa. The one-year-old firm is looking to invest large checks in companies “that have proven business models, strong revenue traction and large addressable markets,” it said in a statement. ” . .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

But in terms of influence, speed and number of investments made since 2021, Tiger has led the pack alongside Sequoia. billion for its Private Investment Partners 14 fund. Its lead investment in Flutterwave, which valued the fintech at $1 billion in March 2021, was a return from a long hiatus in investing in Africa.

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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. But what of 2014? 2014 1265 1272 1006.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Not surprisingly, 2021 saw a boom in edtech investment across a spectra of investors. Indeed, edtech investment in 2020 and 2021 equaled the amount raised during the entire 2014-2019 period. Firstly, European edtech VC investments tripled to $2.5 A year of records. billion in 2021 from $15 billion in 2020.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 28, 2021

Only rich people can invest in startups. The new startup investing is buying into the Ethereum crowdsale. Had you done that in the summer of 2014, you would be looking at roughly 1,000 times your money right now. Only big institutions can get into hot IPOs. And that crowdsale was launched by a team led by a 20 year old.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 5, 2021

Let’s examine the relationship between total venture capital investment and the 10 year Treasury in some detail. The y-axis tracks enture capital investment by year and the year of the data point resides in the reddish circle. The x-axis plots yield of the 10 year Treasury (average for the year).

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Bootstrapping a startup is one of the effective means of building a self-sustaining and successful business, especially as VC investments slow down. Since our founding in 2014, we’ve reached $40 million in ARR through bootstrapping. Since our founding in 2014, we’ve reached $40 million in ARR through bootstrapping.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

It’s a VC-backed startup whose mission is to connect people looking to hire in-home chore, help from local young people ready to serve. Now this company raised over $40 million in funding since they launched in 2014. We’ve got a few of them to highlight here on the Business Beat. First, an app called ToDoolie. 2, Guardhat.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I knew the organization primary through its consumer hardware companies — a primary focus when it was founded, back in 2014. In addition to the Series B participation, Animoca will also be investing $100 million directly into startups through Brinc, in a manner similar to a VC fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less). (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Long before SoftBank launched its $2 billion Innovation Fund in Latin America, and before Andreessen Horowitz began actively investing in the region , Sao Paulo-based Kaszek has been putting money into promising startups since 2011, helping spawn nine unicorns along the way.

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