Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

XYZ Venture Capital led the round with participation from 8VC, Y Combinator and several individual tech executives. When he joined in 2015, the company was processing hundreds of orders a day, and when he left in 2018 it was processing thousands. Today the company emerged from stealth with a $3.2 million seed investment.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Just like Sequoia with their franchise model, or Accel, or the other larger funs, the top-tier venture capital firms have scaled up and out to grab these opportunities. San Francisco proper was #1, and taken on the whole, the Bay Area, of course, receives more venture capital investment than anywhere else, naturally.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? The Kauffman Foundation analyzed their own investments in venture capital (100 funds) over a 20-year period and found, “Only twenty of the hundred venture funds generated returns that beat a public market equivalent by more than 3% annually….Sixty-two

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

More venture capital is flowing into meal delivery service companies as consumers seek out better-for-you food choices. That has attracted venture capitalists’ attention and led to some recent cash infusions, including Shef and WoodSpoon for homemade items, and Little Spoon and Serenity Kids in the baby food arena.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Fitbit was started in a previous startup era, raised about $65M in venture capital, went public in 2015, and reached heights of over a $4B market cap. 1/ High End And Low End Disruption – Fitbit ended up owning nearly one quarter of the wearables market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Image Credits: Versatile Venture Capital (opens in a new window). As the culture changes, we anticipate that the 2030 “Top 40” wealth creators list will include many more people with diverse backgrounds.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

IgniteXL Ventures, a fund founded by general partner Claire Chang, closed on its first fund of $10 million aimed at backing diverse early-stage founders in the beauty and wellness industry. from Seoul when she was a child and started a global accelerator in 2015. Chang is an angel investor who moved to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

They, along with Sophia Baik, started CodeSignal in 2015 to act as a self-driving interview platform that directly measures skills regardless of a person’s background. When Achadjian moved over to venture capital, she helped Sloyan connect to mentors and angel investors while keeping an eye on the company.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

BHAGs serve as a rallying cry for the company culture, an ambitious target for the future, and a focusing tool for corporate decision-making. As we turn the page to 2015, Uber has a new BHAG, and it’s name is UberPool. UberPool is the natural evolution of this journey, and obvious BHAG candidate for 2015 and beyond. Jeff Bezos.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

California has long been ground zero for the new: new technologies, new frontiers, new arts and culture. From a cultural perspective, I grew up on a diet of Hollywood culture and movies and TV shows. And I think there were two influences. And the ‘90s was an incredibly optimistic time in America. And I kind of soaked it all in.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2021

Click Travel, which is based in Birmingham, was founded all the way back in 1999 — and appears to have raised relatively little venture capital over the years, per Crunchbase. Those shared objectives, combined with the natural cultural fit between our two companies, means we are incredibly excited to bring our teams together.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The funding brings the total amount raised by the Jakarta-based company to $88 million since its 2015. Shortly after, they went through Y Combinator, and launched Xendit in 2015. . Indonesia’s Xendit , a startup focused on building digital payments infrastructure for the region, has just raised $64.6 It also was ranked No.

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OurCrowd

JULY 31, 2019

The number of Israeli companies raising between $10M and $20M has more than doubled since 2015, which is a testament to the country’s buzzing venture capital activity. However, breaking down the numbers even further shows just how much the Israeli innovation ecosystem has matured over the past few years. Making Innovation Work.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

” Immuta was co-founded in 2015 by Steven Touw and Carroll, who began his career as a U.S. Specialists in a recent TechRepublic poll cited corporate culture, lack of knowledge, financial cost, and poor integration with existing tools as some of the top blockers. “We don’t see that slowing down.”

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? The Kauffman Foundation analyzed their own investments in venture capital (100 funds) over a 20-year period and found, “Only twenty of the hundred venture funds generated returns that beat a public market equivalent by more than 3% annually….Sixty-two

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

For me, as a seed investor, I started to feel this struggle back in 2015. Until then, the overwhelming majority of Haystack investments were in the Bay Area.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This is particularly important with remote work becoming the norm , and Pulse was looking to find its niche at a time when workplace culture is rapidly changing. But on top of that, Singh had previously founded a smart calendar app called Tempo AI which he sold to Salesforce for an undisclosed sum in 2015.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2012 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2013; Slack in 2014 (after prematurely saying there wasn’t one); took a break in 2015-16, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; in 2017 it was Coinbase ; and last year, 2018, it was Airtable.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

For a recent episode of TechCrunch Live, Managing Editor Jordan Crook spoke to Guild Education CEO Rachel Carlson, co-founder Brittany Stich, and Aileen Lee, founder and managing partner of Cowboy Ventures, about the education upskilling platform’s origins and growth arc. We tried to fake it a little bit.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

The influence of a founder on their company’s culture cannot be overstated. Everything from their views on the product and business to how they think about people affects how their company’s employees will behave, and since behavior, in turn, informs culture, the consequences of a founder’s early decisions can be far-reaching.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

million since its 2015 inception, meaning that this round alone effectively amounts to nearly $30 million more than what the company has raised over its lifetime. The latest financing brings the San Francisco-based startup’s total raised to $992.4 Varo has previously never disclosed valuation, but it did note that the $2.5

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

We’ve already begun to see the effects of the 2014-2015 bubble in growth investing, and it’s comforting to know we are moving in the other direction, however slowly. This narrative was laced through the event, especially with the founder of Thumbtack, Marco Zappacosta, recounting his company’s financing story.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

venture capital to date (more on this in a separate post), unfortunately relegating billion-dollar exits as “ho-hum” events to the technology crowd. It’s been a few years now since BlackBerry made phones, and this represents its largest purchase to date (by a factor of 3) since its 2015 acquisition of Good Technology.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JULY 2, 2015

Studies show that in the handful of major nations with vibrant venture markets, more than half the deals are “seed rounds” or “Series A” venture rounds (in plain terms, the first or second round of funding for a startup). So more of these companies march into the wide mouth of the funnel. Because the U.S.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Wrecked by war and disrupted by dictators, the ancient Silk and Spice Route between East and West that served for centuries as the world’s thoroughfare had been blocked for decades by a Sand Shutter, barred by politics and a culture of distrust. Co-investors include Peregrine Venture Capital, Accelmed and Shamir Holdings.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? And it changed the culture.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

If one entered between 2009-2015 he or she is no doubt in the “hazard” phase where one need to be careful about thinking he know more about the industry than perhaps he do. I think I’m at the expert stage of venture capital and I mean in the Wardley sense. Your culture suffers. Same as I felt.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In 2015, Dorsey returned to the role after Dick Costolo’s stint, even though he was simultaneously serving as CEO of fintech platform Square. Personally, I’m hoping it starts a trend where mature tech companies do a better job of recognizing and rewarding employees who innately understand their culture, products and services.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” Bird noted that “thanks to our high retention, we’re able to build a company culture that makes up for any of the disadvantages of a smaller labor market.” venture capital.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 “ The Age of the Unicorns ” noting — “Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $1 billion or more by venture capitalists.” Late 2015 also brought the arrival of “mutual fund markdowns.” 2015 was the exact opposite.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Italy’s ecosystem for tech venture capital and startups has been in development for years and has made decent strides in the last decade. However, in June 2020, the Italian government sponsored a €1 billion investment program aimed at the native startup ecosystem, creating a new venture arm: CDP Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify In order to build a startup culture, a city or region needs some key elements in place – like an innovation engine to drive startup ideas. City Spotlight: Boston Register for the free event here!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

A lot has changed in the markets since then, so this feels like a good outcome for the startup, which was founded by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee in 2015. It achieved unicorn status in August 2021 and at the time was eyeing an IPO. Lee (a very nice guy, incidentally) moved on years ago, recently founding another startup, Comprehensive.io

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Two of the main reasons this deck “sings” is the line it draws to the Justworks culture and that the deck isn’t “artificially simple.” ” In 2015, Justworks closed its $13 million Series B, led by Bain Capital Ventures. “The word that really comes to mind is ‘structured.’

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Unvalidated Learnings

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Such is the company’s current scale and standing in popular culture that it’s hard to imagine it once was nothing more than a scrappy upstart with chronic cash shortages. With venture capital out of the equation, and only two business banks in his town, he couldn’t afford to lose one of them. “I

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David Teten VC

OCTOBER 31, 2024

We have over $400 million of capital under management, our current portfolio is around 20 companies, but so far we have invested in over 40 companies since 2015. Since 2015, I’ve been building and leading R136 Ventures, focusing on investing in cutting-edge technology and helping startups scale.

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