Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

When we get involved in Seed investments we usually represent 60–80% in one of the first institutional rounds of capital, we almost always take board seats and then we serve these founders over the course of a decade or longer. That was a question I had been asked by LPs in 2015 when we began our Early Growth program.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Steve Baggott is a member and Board Director of Queen City Angels (QCA) in Cincinnati, Ohio. Steve joined QCA in 2015, where he chairs QCA’s marketing committee and co-leads the group’s “Ascent” membership program. Steve chairs the QCA Marketing Committee and is a QCA Board member.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2024

Concurrently, Dr. Ramanathan holds the role of co-founder and Chairman of the Board at Lokyata Inc. Originating from her doctoral research at Case Western Reserve University, she guided CardioInsight through successive growth stages culminating in its acquisition by Medtronic in 2015.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Martin Bell, who sits on Arowana’s advisory board, founded 100tasks.com to democratize entrepreneurship and is an expert in launching and hyper-scaling companies. In 2015, Martin managed the hyper-turnaround of a key market for Delivery Hero, the food delivery platform. People and Culture.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

TravelPerk was co-founded in 2015 by a highly seasoned entrepreneurial innovation team. With booking volumes approaching $2 billion and employees now over 1200, the latest lead funder Softbank has come on board with participation from existing investors, Kinnevik and Felix Capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

With a wealth of experience in traditional finance, as well as fintech, and her vision for bringing digital assets into the mainstream, we feel very lucky to have her on board.” Wattenström created and listed the digital asset ETP on Nasdaq Nordic in 2015.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2023

I believe that “new normal” is more or less where we were in 2015 where seed rounds were done around $10mm, A rounds were done around $15mm to $25mm, B rounds were done around $25mm to $50mm, and growth rounds had a cap at 10x revenues. None of that is good, but the worst of those options is rounds with a lot of structure.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Established in 2015, Carro has expanded its operations across Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, and Taiwan. In preparation for a potential initial public offering (IPO) in the US, Carro has undergone auditing up to the standards set by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 14, 2022

Natalie Portman, Harvard, 2015. Rather than delivering Hollywood glitz, the Academy Award winning actress gave a raw, introspective speech at Harvard commencement in 2015. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”. Watch | Transcript.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

With Things Going So Well for Seed Funds the Winds Shifted in 2015 Seed investors had a good run and all seemed rosy and then in 2015 the momentum seemed to shift. thus the rise of “pre seed” investing). It’s very noticeable in terms of funds raised, dollars invested and deals completed.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x Every VC who’s been the business for a long time realized first hand that the VC markets were changing rapidly as early as Q3 of 2015. forward sales with some as high as 12x sales.

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HPA

MARCH 24, 2021

HPA Member Joe Beatty has been a board member and investor at FourKites since April of 2015 and worked inside the company for a brief period early in its evolution. Joe is the former President and CEO of Telular Corporation.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

WINTER For starters when we conducted our annual VC & LP survey in December of 2016 to prepare our annual Upfront State of the VC Industry report we found that twice as many VCs cut their investments in 2016 relative to 2015 with > 30% of VCs having cut investments. And more than 50% of CVCs said they plan to invest even more in 2017.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

We also spoke about what it takes to be an effective board member. On the one hand I often find that some board members are seemingly reading the board materials on the fly and don’t have a firm grasp of the business fundamentals while on the other hand some board members like to tinker in the running of the business.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The core of the investing job of course is investing dollars into startup companies and helping as a mentor, advisor and board member on the companies in which you’ve invested. For example, we’re now already well into our third growth fund that we started in 2015 (the first returned 2x cash in 3.5 So What Does All This Mean?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Job seekers can then browse job offers and learn more about companies on Welcome to the Jungle’s job board. That’s an impressive revenue metric and it probably explains why the company has managed to raise €79 million since its inception in 2015. There are already more than 300 people working for Welcome to the Jungle. “It’s

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The latest funding gives the San Francisco-based company $40 million in total funding since it was founded in 2015, co-founder and CEO Tim Zheng told TechCrunch. As part of the investment, Sri Pangulur, partner at Tribe Capital, joined Apollo.io’s board. The company also intends to double its employees to 300 in the next 12 months.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded by Rose Goslinga and Thomas Njeru in 2015, Pula delivers agricultural insurance and digital products to help smallholder farmers navigate climate risks, improve their farming practices and bolster their incomes over time. But getting farmers on board has never been easy, Goslinga told TechCrunch. The pair both act as co-CEOs.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 23, 2024

I will keep all my board seats and companies, and I’ll be there to help any of my partners, but I’m going to step back and spend some time forming theses for my next chapter. The broader tech media landscape that started to cover global technology and Asian startups closely starting in 2015. This has always been a highlight for me.

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HPA

JANUARY 25, 2021

Previously, Gladwin founded cloud storage company Cleversafe, which sold to IBM in 2015 for $1.3B. He serves on advisory boards for various data-driven technology companies and organizations, and is the current head of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. Read more about the round on Crain’s Chicago Business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

That knowledge will help you find the right investor and, with any luck, get them on board. One excited investor on board can — more often than not — set more investment wheels in motion. Focus on building your network, in a non-transactional way, by getting to know investors and what they care about most.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman).

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2023

Her involvement in JA over the past 15 years includes serving as Board Chair, classroom volunteer, and speaker for the female-focused STEM initiative. “At She was honored as an entrepreneur and for her range of work in 2015 when she was inducted into the JA Space Coast Business Hall of Fame as Laureate.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Tan was a YC founder in the summer of 2008 and served as a partner there from December 2010 to November 2015. Months after the departure, Tan said that Ohanian isn’t leaving the firm altogether but is instead stepping into a board partner role at Initialized.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

today closed a $30 million additional investment from Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from Lip-Bu Tan (who’s joining the board) and previous investors, concluding the startup’s Series B. After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai It brings Sima.ia’s total capital raised to $150 million.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The Lack of a Legitimate Board. Delaware law requires a board of directors, and these directors are tasked with a “fiduciary duty” to look after the best interest of the corporation. As such, the task of governance falls squarely on the shoulders of the board of directors. Filling a board with friends is one way to do this.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Green, who has collected a series of accolades, including being honored in Time’s 100 Most Influential People and named a Top 20 Venture Capitalists by The New York Times, currently serves as a board member on several portfolio companies, including Glossier, Faire, Hims-Hers, Curated, Ritual and Modern Fertility.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2017

Time to go back to the drawing board! We had 60% growth in 2015 and our EBIDA more than doubled, from 5% to 11%. The post Back to the Drawing Board appeared first on THE BLOG. Operating more efficiently than the competition was simply not going to cut it. We finally had our own exciting story to tell, and the results followed.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The round was led by Unusual Ventures, with Unusual’s John Vrionis joining the board. While Arrikto has stayed off the radar since it launched out of Athens, Greece in 2015, the founding team of Venetsanopoulos and CTO Vangelis Koukis already managed to get a number of large enterprises to adopt its platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2015

We recently released the video sharing app Ferris and announced that Upfront Ventures led the funding in the company in our seed round of $2 million and I personally joined the board. Imagine if your friends could all contribute the Burning Man 2015 album and create a group story. Mark Suster (@msuster) April 23, 2015.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 22, 2019

He didn’t win the global competition that year, but Carlos went on to participate in GSEA in a variety of roles—first as a special guest in the 2013 finals, then as a jury member in the 2015 semi-finals in Thailand and, most recently, as a jury member in the 2017 semifinals in Germany. In this way, we started a new industry in El Salvador.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It’s been a few years since we dug into what the company was doing , but to bring you up to speed, it was founded in 2015 and offers over 10,000 locally sourced and hard-to-find Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Indian and Latin offerings for customers. s board of directors. s founder and CEO, told me.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 3, 2015

Scott Belsky (@scottbelsky) April 29, 2015. I went as far as to call it the best Tweet of 2015 so far because it encapsulated my advice so succinctly. I watch founders who want to get “air cover” for hard decisions by getting too much input from their teams or boards. conviction > consensus.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

and moved to San Francisco in 2020, was co-founded by Andrew Butt and Denys Shortt in 2015 but launched fully in 2016. It was also over the past year that Butt met Sean Jacobsohn, partner at Norwest Venture Partners, who, as part of the investment, joined Enable’s board of directors. The company, which started in the U.K.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

since 2015, and in 2020, women make $0.81 Our board — which is packed with studs from the Bay Area — is expecting that to soar within two years! Get your board on board: Educate your board as to why this matters. If your board doesn’t value this, it ultimately won’t matter. Asian women made 77.1%

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Since being founded in 2015, the company has amassed a customer list that includes AppFolio, HotDoc, Pitch, Kumospace and Teamflow, and its customers report seeing up to 80% fewer video call errors after using Daily, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, co-founder and CEO of Daily, told TechCrunch via email.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

Since Etsy went public in 2015, companies like Poshmark, The RealReal and thredUP followed suit, attracting even more investors to the sector. Meanwhile, Rita reports on a promotion over at Tesla China , and Kirsten reports that JB Straubel could return to Tesla as a board member.

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