Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. 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 have done 6 VC investments – all within the past 20 months.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Our last fund we raised was in 2012 and we began investing it in April of 2012.

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Paul G. Silva

MAY 29, 2020

In 2014 the great Steve Blank gave the startup world its first widely-respected quantitative assessment system: the Investment Readiness Level (IRL). A few years later Village Capital took the IRL to the next level, creating the Venture Investment and ReAdiness Level (VIRAL). In a Nutshell. Hopefully, so can you.

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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 has also backed unicorns such as open source enterprise infrastructure company Aiven , which hit a valuation of $3 billion last year. when invited to do so.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 29, 2023

It was with this belief that Wu launched Fujin Tree – Taiwanese Cuisine & Champagne in late 2014 in Taipei, aiming to debunk the stereotype that Taiwanese food is limited to braised pork rice and bubble tea. He shared with us three strategies any local restaurant brand should adopt when expanding into an overseas market.

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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

JUNE 8, 2022

Cathay Innovation is hoping to secure the bag in a new investment partnership with a company that secures crypto assets. It’s taken about a year for the fund to come together as an official vehicle after the two companies began conversations about this strategy, he added.

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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

MAY 23, 2021

2014: Alibaba. Investment processes last a few days. Pricing rounds on multiples like public market investing. Index investing and the entrance of hedge funds. The conversation of how long capital will last, which was ubiquitous is mostly debating during seed rounds, if at all. 2012: Facebook.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

AC Ventures (ACV) , a venture firm focused on early-stage startups in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia, has reached the first close of its fifth investment fund (Fund V). The fund is targeting $250 million and has raised 65% of that capital so far, mostly from limited partners who invested in ACV’s previous funds.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

As Latin America attracts record-breaking venture capital totals, education technology startups in the region are given new opportunities to grow. Coderhouse , founded in 2014 by Christian Patiño, is a platform for LatAm professionals to take live, online cohort-based courses in topics such as data, coding, design and marketing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

This January, Germany’s largest vaccine maker BioNTech announced that it had agreed to acquire Tunisian-born and London-headquartered AI startup InstaDeep for up to £562 million, including a performance-tied £200 million tranche investment. First, when completed (at $682 million, adjusted in U.S. In 2019, InstaDeep raised an $8.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

While Duolingo never wanted to look like other edtech companies, as we saw with its product strategy in part two, it turns out that evolving from college pizza vibes meant that it would have to take a page from its peers. She invested because of Duolingo’s growth and engagement numbers, but confronted von Ahn with some direct advice.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

As startups and venture capital grow in tandem, fundraising has gone from a formal affair on Sand Hill Road to a process that can happen anywhere from Twitter to Zoom. Notably, the company has not fundraised since 2014, a year in which it attracted just under $82 million at a valuation of $355 million, per PitchBook data.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

We don’t lay claim to being the only VC to change or think about the future or to having the only or best strategy. Give direct feedback to entrepreneurs on their businesses or if we’re not investing why it’s not a fit for us. We felt nothing embodied these attributes more than the name Upfront Ventures.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Established in September 2023, the DFAB works to increase access to institutional capital for women- and minority-owned startups, providing knowledge, guidance, and insights on ways to best increase capital, access, and investments in New Jersey’s diverse entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

When much of the shopping shifted online during the global pandemic, startups developing software and other products to aid the transition began to garner attention from venture capital firms. The CEO is Guru Hariharan, who you might remember from retail analytics company Boomerang Commerce , a Startup Battlefield finalist in 2014.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Progressive Investment Company Inc., a member of the Progressive Insurance group, led its latest financing, which included participation from existing backers Valar Ventures, Upper90, Contour Venture Partners, Citi Ventures, Third Prime and Parkwood, as well as new investors Gaingels and ALIVE. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2021

Founded in 2014, Dovetail’s success stories include Afterpay , the Melbourne-headquartered unicorn that is one of the highest-profile players in the buy now, play later space, along with Klarna and Affirm. As buy now, pay later startups keep raising capital, a dive into Klarna, Afterpay and Affirm’s earnings. “By

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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. Adopt a “hire slow, fire fast” mentality for your expansion strategy. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Costanoa Ventures is seeing some of its best returns yet as it closed on two new funds, Costanoa Fund IV, a $225 million early-stage fund, and Opportunity Fund II, a $115 million funding investing in later rounds of portfolio companies. Each fund since then has been better than the one before it, he added.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

He launched BlocPower in 2014 with the goal of replacing fossil fuel-burning heating and cooling systems with cleaner, more efficient electric air source heat pumps, water heaters and solar panels. As of January, BlocPower had updated more than 1,200 buildings in 26 cities, and the work continues. Donnel Baird, CEO and founder at BlocPower.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

How they built trust, maintain honesty, and talk strategy are also on the table as part of the discussion. The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 for $390 million and later became Salesforce IQ. Loughlin was an entrepreneur before he was an investor, founding RelateIQ (an Accel-backed company) in 2011.

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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.” Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

CEO Tunde Kara , in an interview with TechCrunch, said Vendease plans to use the investment to deepen operations, consolidate its presence in eight cities across Nigeria and Ghana (the company recently expanded to the latter), move into new markets and build new products to increase customers’ efficiency. And that’s what keeps us going.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

He spends most of his time wrestling with fragmented and imperfect private market data in a never-ending effort to derive market-beating investment signals. A sound investment process analyzes both macro trends and fundamental data to assess the probability of various potential outcomes. Shachi Shah. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The startup targeted working professionals in cities, and raised only around $11 million in known venture capital. Mixer/Beam Interactive (2014-2020). Before giving up, Microsoft made some big investments in Mixer’s success, most notably signing streaming superstars Ninja and Shroud to exclusive deals.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 17, 2019

In this article, Manny shares his strategy for a smooth business exit plan. I’m not sure when I first knew the startup I invested in last year was doomed. Needless to say, this was not one of my more successful investments. A version of this article appeared in Fast Company. Know your exit options…from day 1 .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

How they built trust, maintain honesty and talk strategy are also on the table as part of the discussion. The company was acquired by Salesforce in 2014 for $390 million and later became Salesforce IQ. Loughlin was an entrepreneur before he was an investor, founding RelateIQ (an Accel-backed company) in 2011.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Payson Johnston and Steven Lee started Crowdz in 2014 after working as B2B supply-chain senior managers for global processes at Cisco. With this latest investment, Crowdz and Citi plan to collaborate based on that goal of giving SMEs “rapid and efficient access to the working capital needed to keep their businesses running.”

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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). But this strategy great depends on point 3. Availability of Capital.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Venture capitalists have financed many of those businesses. Over that 20 year period, annual SaaS investment has increased 20x, peaking in 2014 at $7B. Those venture dollars have financed a panoply of competition. Most businesses are competing with the same strategies as their competition.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2022

Friederike Grosse-Holz, a director at impact investment firm Blue Horizon, said lab-grown meat is “a little like a moonshot,” but predicts that 11% of the seafood, meat, eggs and dairy consumed globally in 2035 will come from alternative sources. Brian Heater: Hardware startups should reconsider their media strategies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Carmel previously founded Ethos Lending (which sold to Fenway Summers in 2014 ) and it was that experience that helped him conclude there were serious gaps in the market for automating workflows for lenders. That includes expanding its product and engineering teams and investing in AI and machine learning capabilities. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

million post-money valuation in 2014. “I He found that it was “really hard to track all those debt investments” without software so he built a tool that he says gives founders a way to connect their subscription billing account to his platform. “If “I bootstrapped it to like a million bucks in ARR,” he recalls.

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