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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

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And to show you just how similar many of these pioneers of the industry went through a similar startup journey to you – Jeff started by investing his own personal money ($250k) for a few years – $25k at a time – until he could persuade a few institutional investors to give him some money. But not many others.

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Lydia raises another $86 million to build a European financial super app

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Lydia first raised $45 million in January 2020 — Tencent led that investment. Interestingly, Amit Jhawar is heading this investment for Accel. Shortly after, Braintree acquired peer-to-peer payment app Venmo. Jhawar believes that peer-to-peer payments represent the beginning of a long-term consumer relationship.

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A $30B Software Company from a $15m Investment

Tomasz Tunguz

A former venture capitalist, Mark Leonard started Constellation in 1995 with $15m of outside investment & a goal of buying vertical software companies with a moat & good unit economics. From 2003 to 2014, Constellation’s revenues compounded from $80m to more than $5b, an average of 25% annually. Growth Source. BU Size. #

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A Deep Dive into What Has Really Changed in Venture Capital

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Every year I try to answer the question of “what has changed in the Venture Capital industry” and this year my colleague Chang Xu and I took a deep dive through the data and called many of our peers for confirmation. Others believe that new business models are emerging that could replace venture capital all together. More on that later.

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Praise Our Lord For Secondary Markets, Because Selling Shares Is Now an Essential Part of (Seed) Venture Capital

Hunter Walk

While I’m going to focus on investor secondary here, I support common share sales as well – for example, back in 2014 writing “ Getting Some Founders Early Liquidity Can Benefit VCs ” during a period where many founders were being shamed for even asking about taking some money off the table.]

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South African payments gateway Ozow raises $48M Series B led by Tencent

TechCrunch

Founder and CEO Thomas Pays started Ozow in 2014 to drive financial inclusion through open banking. What we wanted to address was a central platform that could basically provide solutions to e-commerce, point of sale, e-billing and peer to peer payment.”. Ozow is one such player.

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As edtech evolves, LatAm reskilling platforms raise millions to bring outcomes into the mix

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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. The round was the first LatAm investment for Reach Capital, a U.S.-based Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year.