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.” Why are all of the VC home runs from white men, or Asian men in Asia, plus a few Asian men in the U.S.?

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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. Startups who got accepted participated in cohorts for three months and received up to $30,000 in funding.

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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. Partnering with Elizabeth at Stanford, they addressed the stark gender imbalance and inequity in the VC industry.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Lara Lemann and Monica Saggioro of Sao Paulo–based MAYA Capital take a regional approach to investing, and their strategy is paying off. Lemann and Saggioro met in 2016 when Lemann was an angel investor and Saggioro was testing different business models at Harvard. It’s correction time for Latin American VC activity.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

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. With this round of funding, and its accompanying partners, Serve is already prepping for scale.

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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. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

“To make these improvements, in-home healthcare strategies will need to leverage next-generation technology and value-based care strategies. 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. yourprotagonist.

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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. By 2016, China was shipping 30 billion packages a year , already accounting for 44% of global shipments. The company aims to reach $1.2

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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. FundersClub Portfolio News. Million Amid Expansion Push. and more in " Office Hours with Ali Rowghani.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In December of 2016, Monika and I established two sister companies: Solwey Consulting , focused on technology strategy and execution, UX/UI design and business intelligence; and Callentis Consulting Group , a research and development business focused on translational research and technology transfer from academia to industry practice.

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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. How did you break into entrepreneurship and tech investing?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Michigan is now the state with the highest growth in VC investment. They were founded in 2020 and have solid VC backing, recently raising $2 million, raising their total funding to $4.4 Formerly PrivacyCheck, Hush is a VC-backed digital privacy startup founded by Detroit boomerang Mykolas Rambus. Apply now to Rivet.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

with Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator). As one of the founders of Google’s self-driving car project, which began in 2009 and became Waymo in 2016, he’ll talk us through how far autonomy has come, and how far it still has to go. . How to Land Early-Stage Funding.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

with Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator). As one of the founders of Google’s self-driving car project, which began in 2009 and became Waymo in 2016, he’ll talk us through how far autonomy has come, and how far it still has to go. . How to Land Early-Stage Funding.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. For example, activist hedge funds, and most private equity and VC funds. Rolling ten-year returns have steadily declined across hedge fund strategies.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

Since joining OurCrowd in 2016, he’s been putting that expertise to work to cultivate the innovation leaders of tomorrow. It’s not that private valuations aren’t impacted, but for early stage private companies, execution and technology risk are much more significant—and these can be effectively assessed by engaged VC investors.”.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

with Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator). As one of the founders of Google’s self-driving car project, which began in 2009 and became Waymo in 2016, he’ll talk us through how far autonomy has come, and how far it still has to go. . How to Land Early-Stage Funding.

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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.). A few things have remained true since that time. There are typically 10 or so companies that present and not many more.

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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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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. Catalyst Fund ( Managed b y BFA , founded in 2016 with support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and JPMorgan Chase & Co ). Blue Ridge Labs @ Robin Hood. Higher Ground Labs. Techstars Impact Accelerator.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. But this isn’t likely to be a VC-backable business (which to be clear is totally ok). You can enter either but your strategy must be very different and I can tell you that fragmented markets are easier to disrupt.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

These events aren’t just a chance to review the latest cohort of hopeful entrepreneurs — they also showcase the technology, products and services that will compete for VC and consumer attention over the next few years. Full disclosure: In 2016, I was 500 Startups’ Journalist-in-residence. “So the TAM is massive.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

While we anticipate the VC fundraising environment will become more cautious across the board, we don’t see robotics being uniquely impacted. Murielle Thinard McLane, Intuitive Ventures: Robotics capitalization strategies will shift. Still, diversification and flight to quality will be top of mind, even at the expense of the best rate.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Saswat Panigrahi , who joined Waymo in 2016 and was most recently vice president of strategy, product management and data science, is taking the CPO spot. It appears that Waymo already has a replacement in mind. River , a Bangalore-based startup that makes electric two-wheelers , has closed an $11 million Series A.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

In 2016, we set out to develop a rigorous methodology for tracking progress on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in venture capital, and to measure and benchmark those data through our biennial VC Human Capital Survey. To begin with, as an industry, venture capital can only improve what we measure.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

It is clear that Black, women, Latinx and LGBTQ+ startup founders face an uphill battle when it comes to getting a share of the VC investment pie in Silicon Valley. It’s working with another Indy based VC firm, Allos Ventures , and Paul Ehlinger from Allos will be a venture partner at Sixty8.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Today, “we’re seeing the value of low, mid and high-multiples SaaS companies each find a comfortable trading range after a bull run since early 2016, albeit one with caveats,” he writes. Choices and constraints: How DTC companies decide which strategy to follow. The value of software revenue may have finally stopped rising.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

When Winnie was first founded in 2016 by Sara Mauskopf and Anne Halsall , it was focused on childcare solutions built for parents. The strategy worked well over the pandemic because Winnie experienced a surge in traffic, leading to 8x growth in revenue, Mauskopf says. Winnie raises $4 million to make parents’ lives easier.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

While I don’t have portfolio level stats for them, their new endeavor Foundry Next (to invest in smaller funds and then follow-on into key investments) has built up an LP basket of 23 positions in a variety of new VC funds. Raise here, but deploy elsewhere” is not a crazy strategy in today’s times. Haystack Portfolio Data.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Lori, in a statement, said it has helped thousands of shippers and carriers move over $10 billion worth of cargo across the continent since launching in 2016. The following month, the fund participated in South African games publisher and studio Carry1st’s $20 million Series A extension round led by a16z.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Founded by Eytan Bensoussan and Justin Adler in 2016, the startup was born to serve small business owners such as barbers, mechanics and local restaurant owners. The startup’s go-to-market strategy surprisingly relies less on the internet than one might expect. Then there were those companies that existed well before the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. All companies go through a four-month program but start at different times, thanks to 500 Global’s somewhat new rolling admissions strategy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

.” Laying the groundwork for growth, Manta today announced that it raised $35 million in Series B funding led by Forestay Capital with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, SAP.io, Senovo VC, Credo Ventures, Dan Fougere, and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2022

I don’t want to get into the due diligence conversation yet again, and investors leaning on data to dictate their investment decisions is anything but a new strategy. For my full take on this topic, check out my TechCrunch+ column: Is algorithmic VC investment compatible with due diligence? When will VCs hit the brakes?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Despite the titular “Robinhood for Egypt and the Middle East”, Thndr has had to be ingenious in its strategy based on four pillars, said the founders. So, it has turned to subscriptions — a model Robinhood introduced in 2016, pivoting away from the commission fees it charged users — to make money.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

For decades, there were several blocks where angels and VC partners camped out at café tables, taking pitches between lattes. 5 things first-time founders must remember when working with VCs. DeWitt, who became a VC after selling Drop, Inc. ” 5 things first-time founders must remember when working with VCs.

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