Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros.

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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

MARCH 13, 2023

Many feared that the bull market had pushed valuations to unsustainable heights and would result in a windfall of startup down rounds and cash burn, which would have a negative impact on VC fund performance. A recent PitchBook report looked into fund performance across VC funds at all stages regardless of maturity.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Yet as we enter February 2017 the VC funding markets are booming, Snap, Inc has filed for its IPO, AppDynamics was just purchased for $3.7 But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

participated in four of Scale’s financing rounds, which is all of them unless you include the funding from YC the company secured as part of a cohort in 2016. But Levine saw the kernel of something with huge potential, and despite being a relative unknown in VC at the time, didn’t want to let the opportunity pass him, or Wang, by.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In 2016, the VC firm launched its current 12J offering with Knife Capital Fund II. There are currently hardly any South African VC funds, perhaps other than Naspers Foundry, that can write checks of $5 million or more and are willing to deploy them to finance the externalization of South African companies into larger markets.”.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 6, 2016

The startup fundraising market in 2016 has been difficult to characterize. This posts analyses US headquartered information technology companies which VC-led investment rounds, except for the $793M Series C in Magic Leap , which I excluded as an outlier. VCs invested about $2B in January and February 2016.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

“I’ll call it a mid-cap VC fund. Ayeni and the Helios Investment Partners team declined to comment on the VC firm’s overall fund size. and was a principal advisor for early-stage Pan-African fund EchoVC from 2013 to 2016. It’s not early, and it’s not quite growth. Ayeni noted.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

Central, South Eastern, and Eastern Europe have already seen a number of new VCs recognize the talent coming out of those regions (see Inovo, Credo, LauncHub, Vitosha, VentureFriends, Marathon VC etc). As part of this they have bagged a former partner at Shilling VC in Lisbon, Pedro Santos Vieira.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Terra Drone said today it has raised $14 million in Series C funding from Wa’ed Ventures , the venture capital arm of Saudi Aramco , marking the VC firm’s first investment in Asia. It declined to comment on its post-money valuation. Terra Drone-owned Unifly, a UTM provider, also has a presence in Europe and North America.

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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. My journey into start-up ecosystems commenced with scouting bleeding edge technologies in the automotive industry back in 2016/2017.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

That’s why Entocycle is raising another $5 million in a Series A funding round led by Climentum Capital , a European climate-focused VC firm. This new French VC firm is partnering with current and former athletes to invest in tech companies. Lowercarbon Capital and ACE & Company are participating in the round as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2008 I started VC blogging. In 2016 I finally cracked SnapChat with the launch of Discovery. David Tirazona (@TirazonaD) March 7, 2016. They thought it was like MySpace and why did I need a MySpace page? I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. Ironic to be self-centered while you’re trying to offer advice to others.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

How to make a deal with a VC at a tech conference. His previous company, Uhana, launched in 2016, was backed by NEA and had been acquired by VMWare in three years. In 2016, total VC investments in the U.S. Pandemic reset leads investors to focus on resilience, adaptability. were about $80 billion.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

The company, which uses a combination of computer vision and machine learning to create a system that can quickly and accurately inspect vehicles, has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round led by Hanaco VC, a venture capital firm based in New York and Tel Aviv. Existing investors GM Ventures, CarMax, W.R. Berkley Corporation, F.I.T.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

” Without context, $139 million may sound like a lot, but Pony has raised more than a billion dollars since its founding in 2016. The entire autonomous vehicle industry, once a darling in the VC world, has gone through a consolidation that has seen numerous startups wither and disappear, particularly in the United States.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 23, 2024

Business analytics platform CB Insights released their State of Fintech 2023 Report which indicates the fintech sector experienced a greater downturn than the broader venture capital market—which reported that Q4’23 was “the harshest quarter for global VC in 6 years”. Globally, fintech funding was down 50% year over year to $39.2

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

When they were ready to scale their commercial operations in 2016, Udesh Jadanansing and his team decided to raise a seed round. They’re acquiring more users, but need more employees to grow, but can’t expand the team until they generate more revenue, but can’t close the sales without more people…it seems like a catch-22.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It’s now raised $16 million in new funds led by Founders Fund, the San Francisco-based VC, whose portfolio boasts names such as Airbnb, Spotify and SpaceX. It was founded in 2016 in Riga, Latvia by two brothers, Mikus Opelts and Madars Opelts, and is headquartered in London, U.K.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 1, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Timothy Chen, the General Partner of Essence VC , which is an early stage developer + infrastructure focused fund. Therefore, I decided to continue investing in more startups by raising a VC fund in 2019 with a small fund size, and was able to continue to evolve from there. and Jasper.ai.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

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? In order to make those investments, venture firms must first have the money, which means they’re not only just the funders, they’re fundraisers, too.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Honeycomb was founded in 2016 by two former Facebook engineers to create a new way of looking at application monitoring based on the internal tooling they had seen at Facebook. Today the company announced a $50 million investment, a large sum in today’s tightening VC landscape.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 17, 2023

Register Singapore-based venture capital firm Jungle Ventures has announced its merger with HealthXCapital , an early-stage VC firm specializing in healthcare investments. This momentum continued as they raised $100 million for their second fund in 2016, followed by a substantial $240 million for their third fund in 2019.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The firm secured $100 million for its second fund in 2016 and then raised $240 million for its third fund in 2019. Additionally, in August, the firm expanded its influence in the healthcare sector across India and Southeast Asia by absorbing the early-stage VC firm HealthXCapital.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The company was founded in 2016 by Femi Kuti , Opeyemi Olumekun and Matthew Mayaki. year-over-year revenue growth from 2016. In 2020, healthtech startups across the continent raised less than $100 million , but that number increased to $370 million last year, according to reports on the African VC landscape.

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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. For founders opting for VC funding, swift closure of funding rounds is advised to maintain focus on product development.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

AMF, ATP, Baillie Gifford, Baron Capital Group, Bridford Investments Limited, Compagnia di San Paolo through Fondaco Growth, Cristina Stenbeck, Daniel Ek, IMAS Foundation, EIT InnoEnergy, Norrsken VC, PCS Holding, Scania and Stena Metall Finans also participated in the raise. billion since the company was founded in 2016.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2022

From 2007 to 2016, $1.5b marked the upside case for most VC software and infrastructure investment memos. Fewer than 15 SaaS companies traded on public exchanges then. With at least 20 firms and several partners per firm chasing unicorns, upstarts faced stiff odds. 2015 Return Multiple by Round. Return Multiple at $1.5b.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Other notable players in the space include Ÿnsect , a Paris-based startup that has received substantial VC-backing for bug farms , while U.K.-based On top of that, InnovaFood creates organic fertilizers out of insect poop to boost plant and crop growth. Growth industry.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

At first glance, one might think that the WeWork rival, which had raised about $560 million since its 2016 inception, was another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. . Virgin Mobile co-founder Amol Sarva and former VC Edward Shenderovich founded Knotel, essentially reversing the WeWork model.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In 2011 he co-founded what is often referred to as the “first coding bootcamp,” with The Starter League, acquired by New York’s Fullstack Academy in 2016. In addition to leading the way at Techstars Chicago, he is also a venture partner at MATH Venture Partners, an early/middle-stage VC fund.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Existing investors Base10 Partners and Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused VC) also participated. Launched in 2016, Chili Piper’s software for B2B revenue teams is designed to convert leads into attended meetings. This brings the company’s total financing to $54 million.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 4, 2022

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. And last but not least, InvestNext launched in 2016, a Detroit-based fintech startup whose mission is to transform the process in which investment firms raise and manage capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

The raise includes existing investor Metropolis VC, along with new additions Liquid 2 Ventures, GEM Capital, GPS Ventures and Andrew Filev. We first noted the company back in 2016 , when it pitched a method for using drones to spot construction errors before they become too expense.

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