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.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 43 U.S. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Stephen Deng, the co-founder and partner of DFS Lab, a firm that invests in digital commerce startups, serially compared the 2016 Southeast Asia funding landscape to where Africa might be in 2021, at $3 billion. In Africa, the first two unicorns were Jumia (in 2016) and fintech giant Interswitch (in 2019). billion and $2.8

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The company was founded in 2016 by Femi Kuti , Opeyemi Olumekun and Matthew Mayaki. In 2015, the three co-founders launched Kangpe, a telemedicine-focused startup in Nigeria with a “doctor in your pocket” slogan. year-over-year revenue growth from 2016. Image Credits: Reliance Health. It is the first investment made by the U.S.-based

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

It’s 2022 and already local VCs, angel investors, startup founders, incubators and accelerators, and more are pushing hard to make their startups go. It’s a VC-backed startup whose mission is to connect people looking to hire in-home chore, help from local young people ready to serve. WJR Business Beat Transcript.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Indy VC firm Sixty8 Capital launches $20M fund aimed at underrepresented founders. Brent Leary, founder and principal analyst at CRM Essentials, says that it’s a smart move to take advantage of the changing events landscape and that this acquisition helps make Cisco a serious player in this space.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Before becoming a VC firm, Savannah Fund started as an accelerator program in Kenya. However , in 2016, Savannah transitioned into venture capital investing, focusing on seed and Series A stages within $25,000 to $500,000 checks. We’re proud to partner with WeFi to further expand and encourage female founders on the continent.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2018

Why are more US VCs investing in international startups? Take a look at The Fortune Unicorn List : of the top 100 most valuable unicorns in 2016, 39 are currently based outside of the United States. This implies that the US is still the center of the VC industry, even while there is more opportunity for US VCs to invest abroad. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 24, 2019

Written for EO by Manny Padda an entrepreneur, angel investor and philanthropist who won the 2016 Canadian Angel of the Year Award. How do you compete against those VC-backed behemoths in Silicon Valley? Manny Padda is the founder and chief people connector at New Avenue Capital. How do you find investors and partners abroad?

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Female-founded venture firms have shown strong support for female-founded startups accounting for 28% of their deal counts from 2016 to October 2021 in startups with at least one female founder. of all VC funds raised in 2022 to 17.2%—seen as part of a decade-long trend. In contrast, male-only founded U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. TechCrunch Live is a free weekly event featuring investors, founders, and startups with the goal of helping entrepreneurs build better venture-backed businesses. It’s a city of unicorns and tech giants. Register here.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Register Established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, SoGal Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated to early-stage investments in diverse founding teams, operating in both the United States and Asia. The firm actively seeks out underrepresented founders from undercapitalized geographies to tackle underserved problems.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

“My work with startups and the ecosystem began in 2016 when I founded Startupmedia to help startups and the ecosystem tell their stories and school myself in starting/scaling businesses. In the early stages, it’s really all about the founder/founding team.”

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The First Cheque program plans to leverage the expertise of experienced founders from Jungle Ventures’ current and former portfolio startups. The firm secured $100 million for its second fund in 2016 and then raised $240 million for its third fund in 2019. billion in follow-on capital raised.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Linda Greub Contributor Share on Twitter Linda Greub is the co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures. But when you’re running a VC firm, especially as an emerging manager, how do you know which investors and limited partners (LPs) to target? But that image is only one part of venture capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Aditi Shekar, the co-founder, gave me some notes about why the ongoing popularity of Venmo is validation for the company, instead of competition. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos announced weeks ago that he was shifting into an executive chairman role and AWS CEO Andy Jassy would take over as chief executive. You can stay anonymous.

startup

TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

This doesn’t take anything away from the brilliant white male entrepreneurs that have built incredible companies, but it has made an equivalent crowd of Black founders almost nonexistent. By 2016, without capital, I had bootstrapped the company to eight digits in revenue. Joseph Heller is CEO and founder of Supplied.

entrepreneurship

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. 15 steps to fundraising a new VC or private equity fund. Katherine Boe Heuck is a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022), a past intern at Versatile VC and a current intern at Metaprop NYC. David Teten. Contributor. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Investors who participated in the round include Johnson & Johnson Foundation , Newton Partners (via the Imperial Venture Fund), and Founders Factory Africa. During his time at Accra in 2016, he met Quao, a trained pharmacist in Ghana at a hackathon whereupon talking found out that their interests in medical testing overlapped.

health

TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

This new fund triples the firm’s assets under management and will enable the pair to invest in another 25 to 30 companies, with 50% reserved for follow-in funding, Lemann, co-founder and managing partner, told TechCrunch. We have directly diversified access to deal flow, and a large majority of our deal flow is female founders,” Lemann added.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A couple of local and foreign firms invested in the round — co-lead investors P1 Ventures, GFC, and Anim Fund (Founders Fund scout fund), with Costanoa VC, Liquid2 Ventures, Cliff Angels and other angel investors participating. Y Combinator Summer 2021 graduate Amenli is taking its operations up north and is announcing a $2.3

B2B marketing

TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Startups and VC Many apps today assume that data lives in only one location, typically a single cloud database. This is the first time that has happened since the end of 2016. “Software investors’ founder-first mantra is simply wrong in the world of deep tech,” writes Suthipongchai. You can sign up here.

culture

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

DECEMBER 6, 2021

city in the next two to three years,” Ali Kashani, co-founder and CEO of Serve, told TechCrunch. This round extends Serve’s previous seed funding from March and includes participation from existing investors like VC firms Neo and Western Technology Investment, as well as entrepreneur and angel investor Scott Banister.

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FundersClub

JUNE 15, 2017

Jerrod Engelberg of FundersClub hosted a Q&A on FC Live with Brayton Williams of Boost VC , and the full video can now be watched here: Q&A with Brayton Williams of Boost VC — FundersClub Live Series. " Founder and Operator Thoughts. What are the most common mistakes you have seen growth stage founders make?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Tomorrow’s episode of Extra Crunch Live will feature guests VC Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures and Rachel Carlson, CEO and co-founder of Guild Education. But he hadn’t quite figured out why until he chatted with Pie Insurance co-founder and CEO John Swigart, who had an interesting hypothesis. yourprotagonist. Since then, Z?m

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Since 2018, he is investing with an emerging tech VC focused on web3 and managing early-stage deal flow. Currently he is mentoring founders at Santa Clara University and the Blockchain Founders Group on fundraising, go-to-market and scaling strategies. The most exciting part is shaping the future by supporting great founders.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

It recently completed its fourth VC round that values it at a whopping $6 billion , triple the price it fetched a year earlier, and it has so far raised at least half a billion dollars. The bottled beverage industry wasn’t what Genki Forest’s founder, Binsen Tang, initially set out to tackle. The company aims to reach $1.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Join TechCrunch reporter Ron Miller and Patrik Liu Tran, co-founder and CEO of automated real-time data validation and quality monitoring platform Validio, on Thursday, May 27 at 9 a.m. When to walk away from a VC who wants to invest in your startup. When to walk away from a VC who wants to invest in your startup.

data validation

TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility is back, and this year we are bringing together the best and brightest founders, investors, engineers and experts on the future of transportation for a two-day, in-person event May 18 and May 19 in San Mateo, California. How to Land Early-Stage Funding. Spoiler alert: Uber for X is no longer a differentiator.

micromobility

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They include EQT Ventures, Atomico, strategic backer Volvo Car Tech Fund, Lifeline Ventures and Tesi, the Finnish government VC and PE fund; with new backers Mirabaud and Foxconn also participating. ” With founder Urho Konttori, another Nokia alum, on board as Varjo’s CTO, the startup also owns 69 patents related to XR.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility is back, and this year we are bringing together the best and brightest founders, investors, engineers and experts on the future of transportation for a two-day, in-person event May 18 and May 19 in San Mateo, California. How to Land Early-Stage Funding. Spoiler alert: Uber for X is no longer a differentiator.

micromobility

David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

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. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Michigan is now the state with the highest growth in VC investment. Pocketnest was founded by a woman, Jessica Willis, who is a fantastic mentor to local founders. They were founded in 2020 and have solid VC backing, recently raising $2 million, raising their total funding to $4.4 Next year is looking even better.

startup

TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility is back, and this year we are bringing together the best and brightest founders, investors, engineers and experts on the future of transportation for a two-day, in-person event May 18 and May 19 in San Mateo, California. How to Land Early-Stage Funding. Spoiler alert: Uber for X is no longer a differentiator.

micromobility

TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

TechCrunch has been covering the demo days of the seed-stage venture firm Pear VC since 2015. There we are in the front row in 2016 , surrounded by investors, typing away.). Pear lets the founders choose the check size. Founders: Pol Hevia (CEO), Joaquim Tresserra (CTO). A few things have remained true since that time.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Monika was a perfect co-founder with complementary experience and skill set. On the other side of the spectrum, we have had great success establishing partnerships with VC funds and marketing agencies. Other approaches (social media, paid ads, content marketing, networking) also provided interesting results.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

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. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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