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Upfront Ventures Raises > $650 Million for Startups and Returns > $600 Million to LPs

Both Sides of the Table

We remain confident in the long-term trend that software enables and the value accrued to disruptive startups; we also recognized that in a strong market it is important to ring the cash register and this doesn’t come without a concentrated effort to do so. In short, In Venture Capital, Size Matters Size matters for a few reasons.

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Ycombinator - Where unicorns are born

Don Dodge

Dropbox is expected to IPO in 2015 at a valuation exceeding $10 Billion. Why do startups join the Ycombinator program? It is like a 3 month boot camp for startups. Ycombinator brings in the most successful startup founders to share their experiences building startups. They got their initial funding of $1.2M

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How Should I Think About My SaaS Startup's Burn Rate

Tomasz Tunguz

On the contrary, burn would be absent from the 2015 list, replaced by unicorn. Starting in the end of 2015, Public companies have markedly shifted the way they manage their businesses pushing toward cash flow positive and net income positive. But it also enables the management team to grow revenues aggressively in a logical way.

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AM Ventures extrudes $100M to support industrial 3D printing

TechCrunch

. “We are convinced that startups will continue to be key in providing the innovation required to finally bring the digital world to the real world, and that they will help produce industrial goods in a sustainable manner and thus strengthen supply chains and tackle climate change.”. We did our first investment in January 2015.

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Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India’s Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung

Y Combinator

I’m excited to have Vidit Aatrey, CEO and co-founder of Meesho, which was founded in 2015, and you went through YC in 2016. Yoday, Meesho is probably one of the hottest startups in India, if not the hottest startup. We have widows who were not able to sustain their family, feed their kids, et cetera.

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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

Capita3 : co-founded by Pamela York and Sara Russick with a focus on early-stage venture capital fund investing in women startup founders in innovative health sectors such as digital health, telehealth, health tech, human health, genomics and bioIT, food-as-medicine, and other health sectors. Secretary of Commerce.