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. Two things help Emblem stand out from other French VC firms. As many VC firms start raising ever larger funds, everything else starts to look like a micro fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Over the past month a colleague ( Chang Xu ) and I sifted through data on the venture capital industry (as we do every year) and made a bunch of calls to VCs and LPs to confirm our hypotheses. So What Impact Did the Drop in Tech Founding Costs Have on VC?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The dynamics that play into this forecast, aside from the impact of COVID, include a youthful population (the youngest globally), rising smartphone adoption and internet penetration that has led to a burgeoning tech ecosystem backed by local and international VC dollars. Image Credits: Bill Gates Foundation Gallup report (2014)/Endeavor.

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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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 17, 2020

It comes with the territory in VC. Crypto was helpful for me back in 2013 and 2014 when I was going through one of those periods. I met the founders and was happy for them. Then I woke up. Investments that don’t work haunt me. It isn’t the losing money part. I have learned to live with that. The what could have been part.

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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 2014 Opportunity Fund has a higher cash on cash return but a lower IRR than our 2010 Opportunity Fund. Our 2008 vintage early-stage fund has generated about 5x cash on cash but only generated a 22.5% cash on cash but generated a 58.6% cash on cash but only 46.7%

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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. At the dawn of 2022, there were 2,900 active VC firms, marking a 225% increase since 2008. psychedelics or construction).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

. “I think the best VCs help drive exits alongside their entrepreneurs. I have done 6 VC investments – all within the past 20 months. But the truth is only time will tell whether I’m financially a successful VC and I’m comfortable in my skin saying that. None have exited. That’s normal.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 15, 2024

When I joined YC in 2014, I thought I was transitioning from the management role I had as a startup founder to a job where most of my time would be spent doing office hours with YC founders.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Hatch: It’s bringing liquidity back to the investors that invested in those space companies years ago, I think looking back, Skybox, which was one of the first venture backed companies that had an exit was sold to Google for about half a billion dollars in 2014, after it was created in 2010.

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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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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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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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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., Incubate Fund’s investments in ispace stretch back to the company’s seed round in 2014. Ispace’s total funding now stands at $195.5 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Zeitview was founded in 2014 with the goal of bringing a new resource to businesses: the sky. After serving in the military, Burton did a short stint at Goldman Sachs and made the leap in 2014 to launch Zeitview. According to one source , VC investments in drone companies reached $7 billion in 2021 across 199 deals, up from $2.4

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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

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. We didn’t raise an ICO like many projects did, so we’ve been relying on more traditional VC investment,” he added.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

What is a principal at a VC firm and how does it work at Upfront Ventures? ” Associates have different functions at different VCs. VC firm admin. VC firm policy or fund analysis. Helping be the VC “presence” at key events. inside insight into VC decision-making. Industry reviews.

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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. At the time, Flipkart and Snapdeal were the only two e-commerce startups in India that had shown a semblance of scale. Image credits: Accel).

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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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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. The reason is that no VC wants to see the venture debt provider get burned if you become bankrupt.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 27, 2022

The Gotham Gal and I own five EVs and have been driving electric-powered cars since 2014. I don’t drive gas-powered cars and haven’t for a few years now. We have purchased two Chevy Bolts, two Tesla Model Ss, and one Rivian truck.

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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. Register Venture capital firm Goodwater has concluded its latest funding round, raising $1 billion in capital commitments for its fifth early-stage and third opportunity-style funds.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Finch Capital , the early-stage fintech VC with a presence in London and Amsterdam, is acquiring Wirecard Turkey, a subsidiary of Wirecard, the disgraced fintech out of Germany. In 2014, it was wholly acquired by Wirecard Issuing & Acquiring Gmbh, which is a subsidiary of Wirecard AG.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The fund is similar to a corporate venture firm in that it’s partially operated by a company, but Ledger is different from the typical corporate VC because it’s a Series C-stage startup, not a large conglomerate looking to make bets on nascent firms.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Time is another element of VC math that founders don’t always consider — a 3x multiple in six months is not the same as a 3x multiple in three years. In VC Land, 1 > 10. In a 2014 post on TechCrunch , VCs John Backus and Hemant Bhardwaj coined a new term for these fund makers: “dragons.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

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 Not surprisingly, 2021 saw a boom in edtech investment across a spectra of investors. To carry on the initial metaphor, the edtech ecosystem is now a deep, thriving lake.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I wrote about this back in 2014 when I was buying 1.5 This is just a first step in a broader set of payroll products for employers and DAOs. I’ve always been a fan of “averaging into crypto” instead of trying to time the market. Bitcoin every week. That was back when you could buy a bitcoin for several hundred dollars.

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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

MARCH 9, 2021

In fact, among the earliest use cases for the company was helping startups track engagement with their pitch decks at VC firms. million, according to Crunchbase, but Heddleston says that he wanted to build a company that was self-sufficient and raising more VC dollars was never a priority or necessity.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2024

In 2014, 2016, 2020, 2021, these big mergers drove the figures into the tens of billions. Year Share Good Year 2012 18.4% - 2013 25.9% - 2014 65.5% Year Share Good Year 2012 18.4% - 2013 25.9% - 2014 65.5% Multi-billion dollar acquisitions, the blue bars, are the largest contributors to this swing. X 2015 20.1% - 2016 43.0%

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

By the time HubSpot went public in 2014, net revenue retention had jumped to nearly 100% — all without hurting the company’s ability to acquire new customers. Like a VC firm, usage-based companies are making a portfolio of bets. This pricing change allowed HubSpot to share in the success of its customers. HubSpot isn’t an outlier.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me. Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). But by 2014 much had started to change. Between the group of us we were probably helping launch 75-100 companies / year.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2019

In 2014, I published a post called Do Startup Require Less Capital to Succeed than 10 Years Ago ? In other words, at IPO, how much revenue per VC dollar did the company generate. In other words, at IPO, how much revenue per VC dollar did the company generate. It’s been five years and time to see how things have changed.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

“Founders should also evaluate which VC is able to add-value to their growth, rather than just focusing on the amount of money the investor has to offer,” Lou told AsiaTechDaily. I also had the opportunity to learn firsthand how VC firms put together an investment fund and understood the type of LPs coming together to form a fund.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

And then there are those that do want to raise VC money but don’t want to use it for specific things. Former Goldman Sachs investment banker Marc Helwani founded i80 in 2016 after investing in early-stage New York-based fintechs in 2014-2015 via his VC fund, Avenue A Ventures. Not every startup wants to raise venture capital.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 28, 2021

Had you done that in the summer of 2014, you would be looking at roughly 1,000 times your money right now. Whether it is crypto (Coinbase) or day trading (Robinhood), the retail investor now has the tools to get into the game and win the game. The new startup investing is buying into the Ethereum crowdsale.

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