A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

And within each category, there are so many different investment opportunities. In venture capital, there were something like 30,000 companies that raised venture capital in 2019. How do you make sense out of all of that opportunity? In public stocks, there are something like 5,000 listed stocks in the US. USV TEAM POSTS:

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500

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Alluva at 500 Startups: What it was really like being a part of Batch 25 In March of 2019, Alluva was accepted into Batch 25 of 500 Startups. As part of the founding team at Alluva, my thoughts ranged from excitement at the incredible learning opportunity to worry about how challenging 500’s batches were rumored to be.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 21, 2020

5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the US, most recently as #2,118 on the 2019 list. Opportunities to Innovate: Addressing Challenging B2B Customer Experiences through Digital Products. The next step is to identify the innovation opportunities which exist behind every customer experience challenge on your list.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Planit initiated a deliberate growth push in 2019, acquiring several new clients just prior to the COVID shutdown. Prioritizing communication, flexibility, support, and collaboration has helped to decrease the opportunity for isolation, stress, and anxiety and increased collaboration and innovative workflow improvements.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 23, 2020

The live reads ad market for podcasts was in excess of $700mm in 2019 and seems headed to a multi billion dollar ad market in the coming years. Ad-buying opportunities within podcasts have historically been manual and limited, not unlike the process of purchasing web ads pre-2000. Or so it seems.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

But, I knew I’d be opening a second location the following year, so I used this opportunity to build the desk-less front desk! Growth naturally comes with obstacles and opportunities. Yes, without the struggle, I feel there is no opportunity for growth. Guests wish to have an open and intimate experience.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 22, 2020

First, this is what an Internet Treasure looks like by the numbers: Across Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network, we saw around 10 billion page views from 100+ million unique visitors over the course of 2019. In 2019, Stack Overflow added over 2.8 Over 40,000 jobs were posted on Stack Overflow Jobs in 2019.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 1, 2021

This historic shift is evidenced in a report published by Women Business Collaborative, C200 and Catalyst, which announced that the number of women CEOs has risen from 6 percent in 2019 to a projected 8.2 percent by February 2021.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

YLAI has given me the tremendous opportunity to connect to a global network of entrepreneurs as well as gain firsthand work experience in the United States within my field. Additionally, I was awarded a travel grant in 2019 to attend a major financial conference in the United States. How has YLAI helped you achieve your mission?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In 2019, the program was expanded in each of Ecuador’s provinces, providing “mini master’s degrees” in entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership. With the support of the U.S. Embassy and Consulate in Ecuador, Misión Ecuador was created and 100 Ecuadorian entrepreneurs and small-business owners were selected and awarded scholarships.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

link] — Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) February 18, 2019. The New York City tech community has the opportunity to be seen as a very public and influential champion of fairness and equality within our city—and it’s in the community’s best interest as well. I hope we can take a different path in New York City.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The move to Toronto meant that opportunities for surfing, his favourite pastime, appeared few and far between. Yet, after rescuing people who were unfamiliar with the Great Lakes’ waters, he saw an opportunity to expand and shape this community into one driven by inclusivity, education, and adventure.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2020

Written by Ruchir Punjabi , the co-founder and chief digital officer of Distributed Energy , a company that matches investors with renewable energy projects across Africa, Middle East and India, and the founder of Langoor, which was sold to Havas Group in 2019. He is also a member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) UAE chapter.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2019

On 25–26 June 2019, EO presented a two-day International Entrepreneurial Summit at the United Nations focused on inspiring, educating and connecting business leaders to promote sustainable business practices. Sustainable Development Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

TABLE OF CONTENTS Bits v atoms It’s important to recognize that while the impact that generative AI can have on “bits” is substantial—since generative AI can “manipulate” those bits very easily—we’re probably too early to see a massive opportunity in “atoms” businesses. As technology continues to improve, the answer is an unequivocal “yes.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

According to the 2019 RBC Economics Research report with findings from Statistics Canada, Ranaldi is part of the glaring “1.7% And although they did not go on to compete on the global stage, Ranaldi appreciated the opportunity to be a part of EO GSEA. . That’s a story we will all be sharing with our kids, isn’t it?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

Some of the common best practices to keep in mind when building an inclusive workplace, according to Ideal , include fair treatment and equal access to opportunities; a focus on teamwork and collaboration; representation at all levels; diversity, equity and inclusion training, and education; and effective and consistent communication.

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Dream It

DECEMBER 19, 2019

NeuroFlow ( Healthtech - Fall 2019 ) is a platform for getting patients with behavioral health issues better by supporting clinical teams with collaborative and measurement-based tools in all care settings. This week, the company announced a $7.5 million Series A financing round led by San Francisco-based Builders VC.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In 2019 alone, the robotics space saw roughly 600 venture-backed fundraising rounds, while construction companies successfully raised roughly 200 venture rounds. Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2024

My two favorite patterns are: The right mindset attracts the right network, and creates the right opportunities. They look at opportunities only as “investments” and never, ever as “costs.” I have found, as mindset evolves, so does one’s network, which leads to ever-increasing, awesome opportunities. They live in full abundance.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 8, 2022

They are constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity. In 2019, 2020 and 2021, IFSH was awarded the IREM Workplace Environment Award for exemplary practices in leadership development, employee engagement, corporate culture and wellness programs. Hungry team members are self-motivated and diligent.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 27, 2020

This will create numerous opportunities for investors, and I’m spending most of my time now thinking about what the world will look like after this is over, and what role I would like to play in it. He joined EO UAE in 2019. Abdul Wahab Al-Halabi is a partner at Decker & Halabi , a global advisory firm.

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Dream It

APRIL 26, 2019

Upcoming Events Cyber Investing Summit | May 16 | New York, NY | CISO's, financial analysts, VC's, private equity managers, institutional investors, public companies, startups, and more come together at the Cyber Investing Summit each year to discuss investment trends and opportunities in cybersecurity.

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Source Link

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Geography does not determine success—it may surface some unique challenges, but it also gives unique opportunities. Talent seeks opportunities, and opportunities can (and must) be created. Starting and growing a business can prove to be a daunting endeavor within any market. Heightened vulnerability for minority entrepreneurs.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Traditional seed funds have gotten bigger, many armed with opportunity funds on top. More and more angels will be minted as the 2019 IPO class emerges. The original conventional wisdom was that capital could be a weapon for the winning company as private markets hold longer, but now as 2019 begins, I am not so sure.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Djamo is one of such companies taking advantage of this opportunity to bring affordable and seamless banking to the region. In 2019, Hassan Bourgi , a second-time founder, returned to Ivory Coast after exiting his Latin American-based startup, Busportal, to Naspers-company redBus.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Discord’s doubling in corporate value comes as the persistent, inept, American response to the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate the adoption and growth of businesses creating virtual social networking opportunities. Those opportunities are apparent in Discord’s explosive growth.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

From varying sources, it is estimated up to $2 billion went into African tech startups in 2019. In the end, information from the likes of Maxime Bayen and Briter Bridges made 2019 numbers look like child’s play. In Africa, the first two unicorns were Jumia (in 2016) and fintech giant Interswitch (in 2019). billion and $1.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Founded in 2019, Sunstone is addressing these challenges by offering students a wide-range of additional courses and helping them with securing jobs, its co-founder Piyush Nangru told TechCrunch in an interview. Piyush Nangru (left) and Ashish Munjal co-founded Sunstone in 2019. “The colleges are operating at 40% occupancy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We believe this consistency in leadership and intuition for where the markets were going in the heady days of 2019–2021 helped us to stay sane in a world that momentarily seemed to have lost its mind and since we have new capital to deploy in the years ahead perhaps I can offer some insights into where we think value will be derived.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

But inside the big numbers is a surprising picture of a startup market in the process of maturing while outside money hunts for breakout opportunities. Echoing the point in a recent piece about “the Latin American startup opportunity,” U.S. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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Dream It

MAY 18, 2020

Market Opportunities "Our mission has always been to seek out and support the patient populations that need help the most,” said Wellth CEO and Co-founder Matthew Loper. Moreover, its unique platform is scalable across clinical conditions and brings greater financial security to vulnerable populations when they need it most.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

million as the Bangalore-based startup chases the opportunity to digitize neighborhood stores in the world’s second-largest internet market. The startup told TechCrunch that the new tranche concludes its Series B round, which it kickstarted in 2019 with a tranche of $12.7

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StartupNation

JULY 6, 2021

According to research conducted by iCIMS, from January to May 2019, only six tech positions were filled for every 10 that were open. million people), but as of 2019, this number had plunged to just 12% of private-sector American workers. Where employees feel like everyone is getting a fair opportunity. Trustworthy management.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

In 2019, Africa had fewer than 900,000 new vehicle sales. Moove was founded by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi in 2019. So instead of providing the service for individuals from all spheres of life who cannot guarantee a payback, why not target drivers who would use the opportunity to work and, in turn, generate income to pay back.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

A typical strategy has been for Series A VCs to raise “Opportunity Funds” that double down by taking up the pro rata rights of a firm’s best deals. So here’s a reminder of why 2019 is 10000x better than 20 years ago. “We But there are clear pro’s and con’s.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 8, 2023

in 17 startups since 2019. They learn how to assess startups’ products, management, market opportunities and business models; how to perform due diligence, evaluate an investment pitch, and make informed investment decisions. Accredited investors are invited to nation’s largest angel conference, which has invested $4.8M

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