David Teten VC

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. But, we normally have a clear ceiling on how high we can grow AUM, before hitting practical limits to deploying capital within the traditional VC model. . I suggest there are a number of ways to scale a VC fund.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 5, 2015

Anyway, 2015 marks a couple of big career anniversaries for me. You can''t rise up as fast taking a job at a VC firm in NYC the same way you could 10 years ago--and you can''t get that USV job as easily as you could. Who''s the VC that everyone *isn''t* trying to network with. I had something VC firms were interested in.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Brett Calhoun Contributor Share on Twitter Brett Calhoun is the managing director and general partner at Redbud VC. Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. At the dawn of 2022, there were 2,900 active VC firms, marking a 225% increase since 2008. psychedelics or construction).

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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. Claire Chang, general partner at igniteXL Ventures.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 21, 2024

However, as far as I know, the great majority of private capital raises for funds and companies are still not using general solicitation. The experience of working with stakeholders on all sides of these transactions – companies, VCs, and their LPs – made me realize how fractured the ecosystem is. Read the full letter here.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

VC funding. We love capital efficiency until we love land grabs until we abhor over funding until we get huge payouts and ring the bell for more funding until we attract every non-VC on the planet to invest in startups until it crashes and we start the cycle all over again none the wiser. I see it in many young pups.

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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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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.” VC firms have taken notice: notable investors in Atlantic Canadian startups include Breakthrough Energy Ventures , a fund supported by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me. Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. And Jamie hers. And Adam his.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

” Reuveni founded Gloat in 2015 alongside Amichai Schreiber and Danny Shteinberg. In cases where a worker falls short of requirements, the platform provides guidance on what they need to learn as well as part-time and shadowing opportunities. Gloat is also benefitting from a general rise in VC funding for HR tech startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

You thought media twitter was bad… You thought tech twitter was bad… — Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) August 24, 2015. If markets come back quickly then you’ll see a return to normal 2015 funding timeframes (which I can tell you are much quicker than in times past). And if that’s what he meant he was right.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

According to Statista, the average enterprise uses 110 software-as-a-service apps today, up from eight in 2015. “[With Gapps,] co-founder Antero Hanhirova and I saw a big opportunity to help enterprise companies in the Nordics with their cloud transformation,” Ojansuu told TechCrunch in a recent interview.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 10, 2023

The drop off rate depends on each fund’s specific selection and rejection criteria, brand, team size, deal flow quality, volume, and the stage in a VC fund’s life cycle. The standard venture funnel. Or are they just going through the motions to please a VC? See the public memos by Bessemer Venture Partners.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

123 Baby Box is also working with them to launch new products through its boxes as well as advertising opportunities. Bahadur said the company’s closest competitor is baby subscription box company Lovevery, which has raised $126 million in venture-backed funding since it was founded in 2015.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. Every milestone was an opportunity to tell the biggest possible story. We originally filed to go public in March of 2014, and didn’t actually become a public company until January of 2015. It was also one of the hardest.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Paul, Minnesota-based startup to $25 million since its 2015 inception. Rather than at the point of sale, Upsie gives consumers an opportunity to purchase a warranty for a product via its website or mobile app after the transaction has taken place. Fintech startups set VC records as the 2021 fundraising market continues to impress.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Venture capital investing offers different challenges than those associated with tech entrepreneurship, but Alex Mittal, co-founder and CEO of FundersClub, approached the sphere of venture capital the same way he did as a tech founder previously: is there a better way to do this? Why have you switched to the dark side?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

With a massive increase in companies created and a huge number of sources one trend that we witnessed from 2012–2015 was the rise of the undisciplined round. Non VC Growth Rounds. In Q3/Q4 2015 the market changed noticeably for VC funds and the market started to realize this by Q1 2016. VC Infighting.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

E-commerce, fintechs and the rapid digitization of the region’s SME workforce are a few of the factors reshaping the landscape for Southeast Asia’s startups, but supply chain technology is also a major opportunity, Anand says. “Denver was ready for the Zoom boom, and is reaping the — venture capital — rewards.”

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 4, 2021

American universities, however, decreased their reliance on full-time tenured or tenure-track staff, from 45% in 1975 to 29% in 2015. For instance, an increasing volume of genomics data coming out from large governmental projects creates an opportunity for biotech enthusiasts to launch startups. . % link] only US investors selected.

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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 work caught the attention of venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Salisbury is not the only accidental VC in the fintech space.

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Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

While the term “Pre-Seed” may have been what grabbed the event headline, today’s conference was really about how seed continues to change and presents both opportunities and challenges for investors, founders, and LPs. Below are my brief notes & high-level takeaways from the sessions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Today, BoxGroup is announcing it has beefed up its war chest so that it can be that “first yes” to more companies with the closure of two new funds totaling $255 million of capital. BoxGroup Strive is its second opportunity fund that will back companies in their subsequent follow-on rounds. Each fund amounts to $127.5 in 2010. .”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures (no, Evan is not standing on a box) Last year marked the 25th anniversary for Upfront Ventures and what a year it was. 2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

I remember the Demo Day in 2007 where DropBox presented to about 30 Boston area Angels and Venture Capital investors. None of the local VC firms invested. Seeing little opportunity here, Drew and Arash moved the company to Silicon Valley later that year. Classic VC funding is a well-understood model.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

In 2005, when Y Combinator started, there was already a well developed ecosystem of venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and Boston. But access to those venture capital firms was limited. VCs preferred to fund companies that already seemed like a sure bet – in other words, were far along.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

In 2021, $330 billion in venture capital was deployed, and only 2% of that number went to companies founded only by women and 15.6% for women founders and the overall first-financing market, respectively, for 2015-2020.². Mimi Aboubaker. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Mimi Aboubaker is an entrepreneur and writer. compared to 1.4x

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

What is the True Sentiment of VCs? I recently survey more than 150 VC friends from all stages and geographies what they thought about the market by asking “Which of the following statements best describes your mood heading into 2016?” In 2015 in the US there were $77 billion written into startup tech companies.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Other contributing factors include an over-reliance on venture capital funding for businesses that had yet to figure out a robust business model, while the broader economic downturn has forced companies to cut their costs and safeguard their remaining capital amidst a climate of inflation and rising interest rates. In the U.K.,

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

billion of total venture capital. of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend. List of 60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms The following includes venture funds founded by women or those that have a focus on funding women-founded or gender-mixed startups and early-stage companies.

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2020

“Enterprise expenditure on custom software is on track to double from $250 billion in 2015 to $500 billion in 2020,” so we’ll definitely be diving deeper into this topic in the coming months. For starters: he’s never had an opportunity to pitch at a VC firm where there was another Black person in the room.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

The argument threaded through Fred’s posts above is that significant venture-scale opportunities for VCs existed outside the Bay Area. 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.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

And in recent years there’s been a growing number of startups which aim to give more people access to a wider array of investment opportunities. million since its 2015 inception. Optimism reigns at consumer trading services as fintech VC spikes and Robinhood IPO looms. Yieldstreet is building the future of investing.”.

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