Revolution

MARCH 26, 2025

We believe great companies can start and scale anywhere, aided by the fact that startups in emerging venture communities are often more capital efficient, offer a lower cost of doing business, and attract talent looking for a better quality oflife. Take Detroit, for example. I have more like them, but not nearlyenough.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 27, 2021

The two most used measures of a venture fund’s performance are the “cash on cash” return and the “internal rate of return” (IRR). 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.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Since first investing in Oklahoma startups in 1999, i2E, and now its independent Venture Capital Fund management partner, Plains Ventures, have managed numerous early-stage debt and equity investment funds, making 452 investments in more than 250 companies. Alkami , Oklahoma’s first unicorn, was valued at $3.1

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 27, 2024

Women-founded startups show measurable positive results compared to those of men Alumni Ventures (AV), the most active venture firm in the U.S. billion from 10,000 individual investors since its founding in 2014, the firm has funded to date over 350 companies founded or led by women of its 1300+ current portfolio companies.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Sadly, in 2014, when I relapsed for the second time since my initial surgery, the board of directors made the decision to terminate my tenure at ESTREC. Since its inception in 2014, ROAR has morphed into a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation organization, together with sanctuary services for nonreleasable animals. Take the risk.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

But progress is being made as seen in the rising number of women-led venture funds that focus on funding women entrepreneurs. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups. billion of total venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

You’ve had a few difficult years outside of work – I feel confident 2014 is going to be a great one! I’m thankful to the associates at Upfront Ventures for helping me to evaluate our new opportunities and for helping me be prepared for issues with our portfolio companies. I feel confident in our 2014 plans.

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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. It makes me want to quit venture capital entirely. I continue to emphasize that as an investor today.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

4- Any startup can raise venture capital I've also seen a misconception on business types, versus their ability to raise venture capital. In mid-2014, Caya started Slidebean. Our ability to relocate to the States depends on our ability to get a permanent resident visa, which is not only hard but expensive.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. The biggest difference from experience is that in bad markets people without venture capital experience or strategies are the first to the exit. Upfront Ventures' The non-conformist oath.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 25, 2023

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. Founded in 2014 by industry veterans Chi-Hua Chien and Eric Kim, Goodwater is the largest venture capital fund focused on consumer tech investments.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2021

Based in Sydney and Auckland, Dovetail is a full-service venture studio that works closely with founders who have a great idea, but may lack technical backgrounds. million USD) fund that will be used for seed, Series A and Series B rounds in 15 of the most promising companies that have gone through its venture studio program.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 5, 2021

What does it mean for venture capital and Startupland? Let’s examine the relationship between total venture capital investment and the 10 year Treasury in some detail. Over time, rates decline and then in the 2012-2014 era, they begin to surge upward culminating 6-8 years later at the top-left of the chart and $200b+ invested.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

And there’s none that makes me happier than to announce that Jordan Hudson has been promoted to a Principal at Upfront Ventures. What is a principal at a VC firm and how does it work at Upfront Ventures? Our theme for 2014 is “teach a firm to fish” where we build more scalable support for portfolio companies.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 17, 2020

Then I found out that the creators of this new game had received venture capital funding and were going to turn it into a business. Crypto was helpful for me back in 2013 and 2014 when I was going through one of those periods. It was as fun to play it as it was to play Turntable back in the day. Then I woke up.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

After a decade-long bull run, many venture capital funds have found themselves holding overvalued shares of companies whose IPO prospects have been either eliminated or significantly delayed. Greater geopolitical tensions around Taiwan The case for US venture capital outperformance by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

What you’ll see if you watch the video is an unscripted and unfiltered look into how Scott Kupor & I see some of the changes and challenges of the venture industry. Venture is a returns based and I believe has different characteristics. tl;dr version. I don’t totally agree with that view. And we ended.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2021

During an online business workshop in December 2020, the presenter asked me whether our venture was a hobby or a business. When I moved to Washington State in 2014, I initially registered my business as Julia L F Goldstein Communications. With a business, the owner is all-in and committed to making it a success.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

Firms like Baseline, Felicis, ff Ventures, Founder Collective, Freestyle, HomeBrew, IA Ventures, K9, Lowercase, NextView, Resolute, Rincon, Crosscut and the countless other great firms we all now know didn’t exist. I think they were all brand new or just forming.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

I’ve spoken before about our desire at Upfront Ventures to fund really big ideas that solve hard problems, are science led and if successful will both have a positive effect on people’s lives as well as make great financial returns. In short, we’re after venture returns. We’re not Pollyannaish about this.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Early-stage fintech-focused venture firm Better Tomorrow Ventures has raised $225 million for its second fund — triple the amount it raised for its debut fund that closed in September of 2020. BTV is a venture firm that boasts two successful fintech founders as its partners.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Sharon Lou, venture partner at Indelible Ventures , considers this as one of the top mistakes that founders commit when raising funds. Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally. Edited excerpts below: What background and domain expertise do you have?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Before starting his own company, Boon’s Computer Repairs , in 2014 in St. Janeel’s latest venture is The Big Ask podcast, where he speaks about leadership and entrepreneurship. Driven by a desire to help people from a young age, YLAI 2018 Fellow Janeel Boon aims to empower others to see their leadership ability within themselves.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

She announced her retirement in the latest issue of Vogue magazine, writing that she will be “evolving” away from the sport to focus on family and her career as a venture capitalist. When Serena Williams steps from away tennis, she’ll be walking into an arena as white as the one she just left.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital. Put it this way – Upfront Ventures spend on PR per year = $0. This is especially true in a booming market (like 2014) where PR firms can charge premiums and be super selective about whom they work with.

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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.

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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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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). Founded in 2014, ACV’s portfolio now has over 120 investments in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. I spent a bunch of time thinking about this position — especially since Beezer is an investor in Upfront Ventures. Beezer did.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In 2014, more than 40% of U.S. seed- and early-stage venture dollars went to Bay Area startups. VC investment, according to “Beyond Silicon Valley,” a new report co-produced by venture firm Revolution and PitchBook. But that was a long time ago. So far in 2021, only about 27% of U.S.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 8, 2017

This is an e-mail I got from Amanda Weeks in February 2014, and the beginning of a two and a half year journey that culminated with Brooklyn Bridge Ventures leading a pre-seed round for Industrial Organic that kicked off about a year ago. "Hi Charlie, I've requested a meeting with you during the first week of March.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 26, 2022

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. of BUs. %. >

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2023

US venture-backed M&A fell from $34.6b This change in the exit market parallels a surge in acquihires in 2014 when corporate development departments began to acquire seed-stage companies for talent rather than waiting for Series A businesses. The US startup M&A market in Q4 2022 was one of the quietest in the last 20 years.

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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. Those thoughts align with Energy Transition Ventures’ Neal Dikeman’s. billion in 2022. .

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Dream It

APRIL 23, 2019

Dozens of healthcare-focused voice tech startups have popped up in the last few years which are backed by top tier venture funds. million adults in the United States experienced a voice problem in 2014. As smart speaker platforms have matured, more entrepreneurs are leveraging the technology to benefit healthcare.

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Revolution

JUNE 3, 2021

The percentage of early-stage venture capital dollars invested into Bay Area startups dropped 15% over the last 10 years, from 39% to 24%. Venture investors pay close attention to the innovation that emerges when startups unbundle the offerings of industry incumbents. And we have since we started our efforts in 2014.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA, who focuses on investments in software and consumer tech, including online marketplaces. Justin Da Rosa is a vice president with Battery Ventures in San Francisco. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. Justin Da Rosa. Justin Da Rosa.

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