Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Given the success of her investments she was on the 2017 Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists. The strategy to minimize loss is not the strategy to win. Execute on the strategy to win. Prior to co-founding Floodgate , she worked at Charles River Ventures and McKinsey and Company. Eliminate distractions.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Each had different yet complementary skills — Michael Famoroti , an economist; Bode Ogunlana , a software engineer; Abdul Abdulrahim , a data scientist; and Preston Ideh , a corporate lawyer — and in 2017, they launched a media startup to address the dearth of information and data-driven insights in the West African country. .

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Our findings confirmed a significant shift away from the traditional tech hubs of the Bay Area, New York City, and Boston, with the proportion of seed- and early-stage VC dollars funneling into the Bay Area falling below 30% for the first time in more than a decade. marking its highest level since 2017.

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FundersClub

JULY 13, 2017

" Roseanne Wincek of IVP chats with Harry Stebbings of The 20 Minute VC about the blurring of early & late stage, why your go to market strategy is more important now than ever, and why venture is the academia of tech in " 20VC with Roseanne Wincek, Principal at IVP. " Founder and Operator Thoughts.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Sebastian led Innovation Management in 3 verticals before becoming a corporate intrapreneur in the automotive industry in 2017, where he created numerous in-house startups, going through ideation to scale-up stages. Since 2018, he is investing with an emerging tech VC focused on web3 and managing early-stage deal flow.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startup SG Tech Grant Startup SG Tech, a key initiative for technological firms in Singapore, underwent enhancements in 2017 to facilitate better cash flow for successful applicants. This investment is directed toward seeding corporate venture capital (VC) funds that, in turn, invest in Singapore-based early-stage high-tech companies.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This article offers a rare glimpse into the strategies, philosophies, and milestones that have made SoGal Ventures a driving force behind the next-gen billion-dollar businesses. Partnering with Elizabeth at Stanford, they addressed the stark gender imbalance and inequity in the VC industry.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 31, 2021

When crypto went crazy in 2017 and then blew up, it was mostly a blip in our portfolio values. But the level of risk taking in that strategy is a lot lower. It has been easier for USV to get into new sectors, like crypto and climate for example, knowing that we also have large positions in other parts of the early stage tech sector.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Payments infrastructure company Stronghold has launched a venture capital arm to deploy $100 million of its balance sheet capital in startups and funds in three core strategies — underrepresented founders, fintech, and web3, CEO Tammy Camp told TechCrunch in an interview. It has raised $3.3

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Builders VC led the round, which included participation from Celtic, Newfund and Wish co-founder Danny Zhang. Stella Wu, who formerly worked as a growth product manager at Wish, got firsthand experience of the pain points related to the process when she bought her own house in 2017. “I

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

The venture capital boom of 2021 was not built from merely traditional VC money. CVCs are in the news lately as well, thanks to MongoDB – a NoSQL company that went public in 2017 – putting together its own fund, an event that the technology world took note of.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

A post shared by Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) on Dec 20, 2017 at 8:06am PST When you're Ample Hills Creamery , the #1 rated ice cream shop in the country you can pretty much throw everything you've been told about fundraising out the window. Board meetings at @amplehills are dangerous. 3) Find a flexible lead.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Since its founding in 2017, ZenLedger has managed to secure four contracts with the U.S. government, and it’s been doubling down on that strategy ever since, its CEO and founder Pat Larsen told TechCrunch. The past U.S. The IRS, for its part, turned to Seattle, WA-based startup ZenLedger for help.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Investors should bring a local strategy that makes them an asset to Latin America’s startup ecosystem. The amount of VC capital being funneled into Latin American startups has surged since 2017, with angel investment close behind. Investors should look for younger markets. investors remain shy.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Startups and VC. 9 strategies that will help you overcome your fear of fundraising. “Any change is an opportunity to create leverage, and a downturn is no exception,” writes Masha Bucher, founder and general partner of early-stage VC firm Day One Ventures. million to figure out the rest, Devin reports.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

And now, the early-stage VC firm is announcing its largest fund closures to date: Kaszek Ventures V, a $475 million early-stage fund, believed to be the largest vehicle of its kind ever raised in the region, and Kaszek Ventures Opportunity II, a $525 million for later-stage investments.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

million in a Series A round led by VC heavyweight General Catalyst. A bevy of other investors put money in the round, including Sound Ventures (actor Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary’s VC firm), Scribble VC, Y Combinator, South Park Commons, Instagram founder Mike Krieger, Lee Fixel and others. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

and StartupAmsterdam, there are 1,661 tech companies in Amsterdam, while the city ranked fifteenth in Startup Genome’s 2019 report “Global Startup Ecosystem Report,” moving up four places since 2017. For this survey, we interviewed the following Amsterdam-focused investors: • Janneke Niessen, partner, CapitalT VC.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 28, 2019

Over the last year, the SEC has been investigating a significant number of token offerings that took place in 2017. The SEC is regulating by enforcement, not new rulemaking, and worse, they have taken a divide and conquer strategy. It is time for the crypto industry to come together and fight back.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

The TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa winner in 2017 is currently present in Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria. The following month, the fund participated in South African games publisher and studio Carry1st’s $20 million Series A extension round led by a16z. Google’s Africa Investment Fund makes first investment in Uganda’s SafeBoda.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It’s been incredibly difficult for both professional and personal reasons—and if I hadn’t met my wife Aja in late 2017, this would have all been a pretty dismal time, to be honest. I was there for the first Etsy VC pitch meeting in a Fort Greene apartment. I’ve had to start muting libertarian VC Twitter.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

He talked about how the hundreds of new VC firms will either decide to merge with each other to “build a more enduring franchise,” saying some will leave the VC profession and others will lose senior partners to retirement and have tp figure out what the future of their firms will look like. Same time, same web page, next week?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Startups and VC. PenguinFaceplant.gif : Club Penguin was shut down in 2017 , but fans rebooted it — without authorization from Disney. Something is up in VC land, observes Hans Swildens, as VC distributions are down 90% in Q1 this year. Lots of movement in mobility (if there wasn’t, would it be called immobility?)

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Atlassian today announced that it has acquired Percept.AI , an AI company from Y Combinator’s summer 2017 batch that offers an automated virtual agent support solution — a chatbot, basically — based on a proprietary AI engine for natural language understanding.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 24, 2019

As an EO Vancouver member, he was the 2017 Entrepreneurs’ Organization Global Citizen of the Year Award. . How do you compete against those VC-backed behemoths in Silicon Valley? It might sound obvious, but there should be a strategy for your travel. How do you find investors and partners abroad?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 17, 2019

In 2017, just 2.2% Last year, the largest VC deal cut by a team of female founders was Moda Operandi’s $165 million Series G, contrasting starkly with the largest round of their male counterparts: WeWork’s Series G at $3 billion.”. of all venture capital in the US went to companies founded solely by women.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As an early-stage VC I love this phase. This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Naspers’ acquisition of Takealot for a little over $200 million across two transactions in 2017 guaranteed almost a 2x return for Tiger Global. But the deal, coupled with an increase in VC investments across Africa in subsequent years, wasn’t enough for the hedge fund to revisit the region. Fintech brings the Tiger back.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Dorilton Ventures and Molten Ventures (the VC that rebranded from Draper Esprit) led the round, with previous backers Generation Ventures and IQ Capital, and new backer GP Bullhound also participating. Hedge funds, meanwhile, use causaLens to gain better understandings how a market trend might develop to inform their investment strategies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

San Francisco and Paris-based VC firm, Partech led the round. The pivot to using technology in 2013 allowed Tugende to move fully to digital payments, build its own interoperable payment gateway in 2017 and launch an in-house credit score in 2019 to allow clients to see how they are performing. . Image Credits: Tugende.

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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. The opportunity that the company sees has really forced us to reallocate resources and strategy,” said Brown.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Solivan has ample experience on both sides of the fence, as she founded TaskRabbit and led it to exit through an acquisition by Ikea in 2017. Four strategies for getting attention from investors. Four strategies for getting attention from investors. Oh, and how to spend $350 million. Image Credits: MaC Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Earlier today, we talked with Phil Haslett, the cofounder and now chief strategy officer of EquityZen , a 10-year-old, New York-based secondary marketplace that connects accredited buyers with privately held company shares that their owners — including founders, employees, and VCs — are looking to sell.

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FundersClub

JULY 6, 2017

" Satya Patel of Homebrew writes about how the best investor and founder relationships are built on trust and mutual problem-solving, not surprises in " No surprises: The key to the founder/VC relationship and avoiding the “Oh s**t” board meeting. " Investor Thoughts. part 2 of 2).

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. The VC landscape has gotten much more competitive and crowded over the past several years, and if investors are not using software tools?—?they But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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FundersClub

JUNE 22, 2017

" Elad Gil , Angel Investor chats with Harry Stebbings of The 20 Minute VC on becoming one of silicon valleys top angels, why most people get market sizing wrong and whether VC services should always be bundled together in " 20VC with Elad Gil, Angel Investor and founder of Color Genomics.

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