David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 19, 2023

Register Singapore-based online used car platform, Carro, has announced its strategic investment in Driven Communications, a digital content agency based in Malaysia. The financial details of the investment have not been disclosed, but the deal is expected to be finalized within two months.

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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. So Why Did We Invest? I first met the Ferris founders ( Paul Boukadakis & Chris Shaheen ) more than a year ago. L1I6RUWYJu.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

In addition to his rich experiences working in the venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) sectors, Joseph has also sharpened his investment acumen through his multiple years in the audit and stock-broking industry before deciding to finally launch his cross-border investment firm, Kairous Capital , in 2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

and of course a relentless pursuit of helping founders succeed. So mostly we just had to listen to customer feedback from founders, VCs and LPs. She made the right decisions not joining back then because that founder empathy is the “++” that makes a difference in this business. So why now? So What Does All This Mean?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

After selling up to Google in 2015, Bank joined Google’s ranks and set about integrating core Timeful technology into Gmail and Google Calendar, before transitioning into various roles at the tech giant — including product lead for Gmail, Calendar, Google Chat, and Google Workspace.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 25, 2024

We are excited to partner with TravelPerk and support the next stage of growth,” stated Stephen Thorne, Investment Director for SoftBank Investment Advisers. TravelPerk was co-founded in 2015 by a highly seasoned entrepreneurial innovation team. Both sides appreciate the savings in time, money, and convenience it brings.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 23, 2024

Back then we had to work hard to introduce ourselves to founders as some hadn’t heard of us, and the operating value add model was still unproven on Sand Hill Road. In the last 5 years I’m so grateful to have partnered with visionary founders who imagine the world to be better. And what an unforgettable ride it’s been.

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HPA

MARCH 24, 2021

Lee Partners (THL), with participation from Qualcomm Ventures, Volvo Group Venture Capital AB and Zebra Technologies, as well as existing investors Hyde Park Angels , August Capital, CEAS Investments, Hyde Park Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, bringing total capital raised to over $200 million.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Valour, a Zug, Switzerland-based issuer of investment products, brought in Biggs, the former Private Banking Global Head of Innovation for HSBC, as CEO after recently launching Bitcoin Zero , a fee-free, digital asset ETP product that trades on the NGM stock exchange. .”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Initialized Capital founder Garry Tan will become president and CEO of Y Combinator next year, the two organizations announced today. Tan, however, will continue to serve as founder and partner at Initialized – a $3.2 Thus entrepreneur is no stranger to early-stage investing – nor the famed accelerator to which he will soon run.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. For RBI, return caps of 1.2x-1.8x

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Eventually though, the majority of early-stage founders will leave their bootstrapping days behind and turn to institutional investors for the capital infusion they need to grow. It’s not easy for inexperienced, first-time founders to attract and secure their first investor. It’s a tough, but not impossible, nut to crack.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Investment experience (5 years a VC at Battery Ventures). Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). For starters we’re an LA-based venture fund who invests nationally (and sometimes internationally, but less so).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history. Green has built her career as a VC by becoming an expert within the fields in which she invests, beginning in the consumer space and expanding to health and wellness, durable supply chains and more.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Pula , a Kenyan insurtech startup that specialises in digital and agricultural insurance to derisk millions of smallholder farmers across Africa, has closed a Series A investment of $6 million. But getting farmers on board has never been easy, Goslinga told TechCrunch. Pula co-founders and Co-CEOs (Rose Goslinga and Thomas Njeru).

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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. Five other investors are joining Welcome to the Jungle’s cap table — blisce/ , Cipio Partners , Groupe ADP , Kostogri (Betclic CEO Nicolas Béraud’s investment company) and RAISE Sherpas.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Founded out of Berlin in 2015, Wefox sells various insurance products through a combination of in-house and external brokers, bypassing the direct-to-consumer model of insurtech competitors which include rival German startup Getsafe. “Our model is unique in the insurtech space, since all others go direct to consumer.”

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

s founder and CEO, told me. 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.

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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. HIPAA legislation in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

African fintechs Chipper Cash and Stitch invested too. Most of these fintechs cater to businesses and consumers, offering different services such as payments, neobanking, lending, investing and trading. After we launched our first product [Send], we went back to the drawing board because there were things we needed to get right.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Board meetings at @amplehills are dangerous. When Ample Hills first raised $4 million in 2015, people asked if it was a seed round. What we found is that while most of the people turned down the invite, most of the people who showed up invested. Here's what I think everyone involved learned in this process.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Founded in 2015, prior to this, OTA Insight had only raised $20 million. “We’re seeing really significant inbound interest in terms of investment in hospitality technology, but we’re seeing hotels also really evaluate their own tech stacks, looking for opportunities to maybe do things differently. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

investment firm Sequoia) and Will Neale (founder of Grabyo and early-stage investor). investment firm Sequoia) and Will Neale (founder of Grabyo and early-stage investor). Patch’s founder Freddie Fforde said: “Where we work and where we live have traditionally be seen as distinct environments. It’s now raised a $1.1

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

In 2015, Rex Salisbury was working as a software engineer at now-defunct mortgage startup Sindeo where he built out the back end for fully automated online mortgage pre-approval. His goal with Cambrian was to cultivate a community focused on founders and builders in fintech. . I wanted to meet these people.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Companies like John Deere are investing a lot in homegrown solutions and acquisitions. Chanje (2015-2021). The company announced plans to add 1,000 electric delivery vehicles from Chanje Energy, a California-based and China-backed startup founded in 2015. Katerra (2015-2021). Image Credits: Chanje.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Notably, the investment values the Denver-based company at nearly 9 times higher than the $150 million valuation it achieved when it raised $16 million in a Series A round in 2019 — its first round of funding after bootstrapping for four years. Image Credits: CEO and Founder Elia Wallen / Hotel Engine. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

The round is led by Coatue and Tiger Global, and values 2015-founded Hinge at $3 billion post-money, people familiar with the investment tell me. I also understand that Hinge’s founders — Daniel Perez and Gabriel Mecklenburg — retain voting control of the board.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Kaiyo , an online marketplace for secondhand furniture, says it has helped the impact by keeping nearly three million pounds out of landfills since its launch in 2015. . Furniture is one of the largest waste categories in the U.S., At Kaiyo, our mission is to make great design accessible to everyone.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Existing investors, including co-founder of Facebook Dustin Moskovitz, Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital and notable sustainable tech investor Capricorn Investment Group also participated in the round. Round-leader Altman has been involved in the company as an investor and chairman since 2015. Image Credits: Helion Energy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

He teamed up with Eddie Lim and Eoin Matthews to start Point in 2015 prior to joining a16z. Rampell is on the company’s board, but is not involved in the day-to-day operations of the company. Once all closing conditions are met, Point says it will fund the investment within four business days. So, what exactly does Point do?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Groundfloor , the first real estate crowdfunding platform to gain regulatory approval, announced today that it raised its first round of institutional capital since 2015. Groundfloor’s platform offers investments in real estate debt to its 150,000+ users, with a minimum investment of $10. in convertible notes.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Under the terms of the agreement Nitin Chopra, managing director at Shasta Ventures, will be joining the company board. Today’s investment brings the total raised to almost $48 million. TrueFort co-founders Nazario Parsacala and Sameer Malhotra. Image Credits: TrueFort.

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Angel Capital Association

MARCH 25, 2021

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director The programming team for ACA 2021 - The Summit of Angel Investing is full of experienced, respected angel investors and ecosystem providers, and they are hard at work creating a virtual experience that will change the way you think about angel investing.

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